Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan
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If you are curious whether Ubiquiti ditched the fan on the new U7 Pro Max, well, I have some bad news for you. I opened the device and this is the teardown video.
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You can configure them independently of a controller by ssh but the config will be lost on a reboot or when the device next polls the controller
Edit: and apparently someone else has said you can use the app to configure them without a controller at all
Requiring a phone app, java app or Cloud Key to configure an AP isn't home lab ethos. That it looses config on reboot if you configure it by ssh is weird given you don't need a controller running once they are setup. They can be rebooted without a controller and still work fine.
Where did you find the command line documentation? I was never able to find anything.
It’s not really documented anywhere officially. I’ve found the knowledge over the years from searching the ubnt forums. But I stopped using unifi equipment a few years ago for similar reasons.
This forum thread is probably the best starting point I can give you but configuring unifi APs via ssh for any reason other than maybe a botched IP configuration is a bad idea
Good luck if you don't have a dream machine and you aren't using 192.168.0.0/16. If the APs don't find a dream machine they won't get an IP from DHCP for some godforsaken reason and revert to 192.168.1.20 and won't do anything until you configure them with ssh. Except you have to ssh on a lan that doesn't exist which is a huge pita. This is why I have omada APs now.
I don’t have a Dream Machine nor a 192.168.0.0/16 network but my access point receives an IP via DHCP from a non-Ubiquiti router just fine. In fact, the controller running in Docker doesn’t even come up itself after a power failure so I’m really lost on what you’re talking about here.
Well I'm glad that the unifi APs like your setup better than they liked mine. Maybe they fixed it in the last 2 years. Either way there's no way I'm buying anything else from them.
I can’t fault you for that. I’m not trying argue they’re perfect devices by any means.
I really love what Ubiquiti is trying to do, but I understand where you’re coming from. I ditched the EdgeRouter X because I just couldn’t do anything really advanced with it.
Openwrt works on the edgerouter-x. Dig it out of the closet and flash it.
I just built a DIY router on Alpine Linux. I don’t want to deal with an entire web UI and all that trash. I just want minimal Linux and some
ip6tables.