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Ubiquiti Unifi with Sonos on a separate VLAN

Fri, 22 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Update 2023: these instructions are out-of-date for the latest Unifi controller software versions. It's preserved here as written for those who still have older versions. This post uses a file called gateway.config.json and Unifi now say:

This article is not applicable to the UniFi Dream Machine models, because all configurations are already available in the UniFi Network user interface.

So I take that to mean use of this file is deprecated and it should be possible to do this via the administration webpage.

Ubuntu 20.04 Vagrant with Packer

Sat, 02 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Ubuntu have recently released the new 20.04 LTS codenamed “Focal Fossa”. I’d also recently seen a tool that piqued my interest, Hashicorp Packer. Packer builds machine images that can be deployed to a cloud or as a virtual machine, or just even a plain disk image. You can even generate many images at once, really simplfying deployment. Very handy if you wanted to create virtual machines for a cluster for example, with a similar but slightly different configuration.

Ubiquiti Home Network

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Over the summer, I upgraded my home network to Ubiquiti gear. Ubiquiti do business Wifi, all the way up to covering stadiums. I first heard about them from Troy Hunt and then again from Marco Arment on Accidental Tech Podcast. Ubiquiti are popular in prosumer space - for people serious about good Wifi.

So far it’s been an excellent experience and I’d highly recommend it. After setting it up (there is a few moving pieces) it has been running without any intervention from me. Being a professional product, it’s not just a home router (with inbuilt wifi), there is a few more pieces you need to buy: