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Trying to set up a Unifi gateway for another network (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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I use a UCG Max gateway at home with some WiFi access points for connectivity. I really like it, and so I just bought a 2nd one to use at a cabin that we haven't yet moved into. My wife will be making the initial trip alone, so I want to send everything with her ready to plug in and go. Since I haven't done something like this before, I'm looking for some guidance or confirmation from smarter people than me that this will work.

Can I plug the new gateway into my existing gateway to adopt it into my account as a new Site, then adopt the WiFi access point to the new gateway and expect everything to just work when my wife takes it and plugs in the ethernet from the new ISP in the new location? I also intend to buy some of the Unifi cameras and connect them up too. I think I can talk my wife through doing that remotely if needed but I'd like to adopt them into the Protect app on the new gateway in advance too.

Does this seem straightforward? Any suggestions? Or should I not do anything with the new gateway until it is connected to the new ISP?

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[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

just unpack it all where you

I'm not sure what you meant to say here, but it sounds like I just disconnect my current gateway at home and plug this one in, set it up how I want, and then it should just all work in the new location. That sounds pretty straightforward, thanks.

My concern was if connecting it to our home ISP (high speed fiber) and then putting it on a much slower DSL or, good forbid, satellite connection, would confuse it. I also think the new place will give us an all in one router/gateway combo that I might not be able to remove. Hopefully I can get it set to passthrough or bridge or something.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You don't even need to disconnect your current gateway. Ubi network hardware defaults to DHCP on WAN interfaces, because that's how it intends to get an address and download initial configs after being adopted into the cloud gateway, right?

So just unpack it, plug it into Ethernet off your current home network, create a new location deployment in your cloud portal, adopt the new gateway into that, make sure it gets its initial config from the cloud gateway, then configure it as if you were going to install at your remote location.

When your wife goes to this cabin, just plug it into the internet handoff, and you're ready to go as long as it gets an address and internet access. Any other changes you can make remotely via the cloud portal and have it's running config changed live, so you'll be able to fix any issue you may have.

Lemme know if something else doesn't make sense, but really all you need to remember is that as long as that gateway can get internet access, you can change its config from anywhere.

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Perfect, I was hoping it would be this easy, but if there were going to be hangups I wanted to know in advance. Thank you!