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Posted by2 years ago
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First of all a big thanks to r/Ubiquiti which has been an enormous source of knowledge for someone new to Ubiquiti products.
TLDR: what's the best way to adopt an AP on a remote network and have it managed by my local controller, using only the iOS app for adoption and without access to a desktop machine or DNS/DHCP at the remote location?
I will be traveling over 1000km to visit a family member where I hope to install a single UniFi AP-AC-PRO. This is a home network environment with no server or local controller. As I don't make the journey often, I need to be sure that what I am planning will work!
My plan is to adopt the AP to the controller running on my home network. I will have access to the UniFi iOS app at the remote site on my phone, but no desktop with a browser (the family member uses iOS devices only, and I will not be traveling with a notebook computer). The remote site also uses a router supplied by the ISP, and I can't be confident that I will be able to modify the DNS/DHCP settings.
Site1 is the network where I will add the AP, Site2 is my home network with a controller running in a Docker container.
If I place the AP in factory reset mode, and plug it into the router at remote Site1 using ethernet, I could use the standalone mode in the iOS app to adopt process outlined here. However standalone mode doesn't seem to allow connection to a controller.
Controller mode looks better, but L3 adoption is not available via a cloud connection. Does this mean that I can't assign the AP a broadcast address which points to the external IP of my controller (with an appropriate port forwarding rule set up to reach the docker container inside the network)? I have VPN access to Site2 but if I connect via VPN to Site2 then I will no longer be able to see the AP on Site1.
The other possibility is to use the steps outlined in Layer 3 adoption, using the Discovery Utility here. I won't have a PC to run the Discovery Utility, but can the same 7 steps be performed using the iOS app?
My hope is that specifying the external IP address and port number of my controller at Site2 using the iOS app will allow the AP to be adopted, and then allow ongoing management.
The remaining questions would then be:
- do I need to keep the port forwarding open (security risk) or can the AP locate the controller over the internet without port forwarding once it is adopted?
- my controller at Site2 is also connected to my UniFi cloud account, and I can manage the controller remotely without port forwarding. Will the adopted AP report directly to my UniFi cloud account or does it always need to go via the controller instance?
Edit: formatting fix.
I also have a terminal app on my phone so can SSH into the router for command line if necessary.
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