Raspberry PI 4 Ubiquiti Network Controller

README.md

1. Set up Raspberry PI 4 64-bite Lite OS
2. Disable Wifi & Bluetooth

sudo vi /boot/config.txt

Under the section "[all]", add:

dtoverlay=disable-wifi
dtoverlay=disable-bt

Then reboot

3. Update Raspberry PI

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

4. Install Docker

curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh

5. Give our Pi user account access to Docker, then reboot the Raspberry Pi.

# assuming you are using username pi 
sudo usermod -aG docker pi 
sudo reboot now

6. Create directory of Unifi controller's data

cd ~
mkdir unifi-controller

7. Create Docker Compose file, ~/compose.yaml

version: "2.1"
services:
  unifi-controller:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/unifi-controller:latest
    container_name: unifi-controller
    environment:
      - TZ=America/New_York
    volumes:
      - /home/pi/unifi-controller/:/config
    network_mode: host
    ports:
      - 8443:8443
      - 3478:3478/udp
      - 10001:10001/udp
      - 8080:8080
    restart: unless-stopped

8. Start the controller

docker compose up

9. Access Unifi Controller

https://RASPBERRY_PI_IP:8443