Well I am a bit frustrated at the locked ecosystem that is Unifi. I bought some Unifi WiFi 6 APs thinking they were fairly high end units and they have served me well for a few years but I am in the planning stages of setting up a VLAN and it would seem the advanced features are locked out if you do not have a Cloud Key.
Is there a way forward with these units ? I could simply split them up into separate SSIDs but loose the great coverage the joined units provide. Ultimately I’d like to have 3 or 4 VLANs.
Please elaborate , why are you asking this question on a other vendors forum? Seems to me this is a good question for the UBI forum (or perhaps you already asked there?).
Or just join the MikroTik community (as I did) and get proper support.
I would expect that the Windows Unifi Controller/Docker Container both support complete management. And only the app is limited.
Thanks for chiming in. I am using a Mikrotik Hex PoE and have 2 Unifi U6 APs powered by the Hex PoE.
I am in the beginning stages of adding VLANS to my setup but discovered that these AP may be a roadblock. Unifi states on their web page that I need a Unifi device of some kind to manage the APs advanced features.
A few years ago when I bought the APs I recall there was a Windows application I used to set them up, but I can no longer find this on their site.
I am hoping that someone here has some experience with a mixed setup of Mikrotik, Unifi and VLANs.
No problems to use MT rouer with Unifi APs.
Sampling of vlans
management vlan10
unifi SSID purpose1 vlan20 5ghz trusted
unifi SSID purpose2 vlan30 2ghz trusted
unifi SSID purpose3 vlan40 ( only unifi 1) guest 5ghz
unifi SSID purpose4 vlan40 (only unifi 2) guest 5ghz
The Unifi management subnet and where they get their IP from is vlan10
Hybrid port to these devices, vlan10 untagged, and vlan20,30 tagged.
/interface bridge port
add bridge=bridge interface=etherX pvid=10 ( port to unifi1 - hybrid port )
add bridge=bridge interface=etherY pvid=10 ( port to unifi2 - hybrid port )
As @erlinden stated you need a UniFi controller to configure their APs as the stanadlone app only provides limited functionality. The controller is available as an appliance, baked into a number of their gateway products but also still as a software installation for Linux, MAC and Windows.
Thanks guys. I was able to load the freely available Unifi Windows server and adopt the U6 access points. My problem was that in order to adopt the APs, they needed to be in a reset state. I was using them in a stand alone mode and trying to adopt them failed every time. Thanks goes to you guys and to the Unifi community for help on this one.
Hi Anav, do you have an appliance that manages your Unifi APs? My Unifi Network controller setup doesn’t allow me to me change VLAN1 to any other number. This is holding me back from moving away from using VLAN1 on the MT.
None of the UniFi controllers do, Ubiquiti reserve VLAN ID 1 within their switches and access points for untagged traffic.
You can untag any VLAN you wish on the Mikrotik hybrid port (e.g. VLAN 10 in Anav’s example), being untagged on the wire any use of a VLAN ID within a particular device is irrelevant.
