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Run Speedtest on Ubiquiti Devices from Command Line

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This utilizes iperf to test the speed between two Ubiquiti devices.

SSH into first device and start iperf server on one device

iperf -s

SSH into the second device and run the following command to start the speedtest.  Change the ip address to the iperf server ip.

iperf -c 192.168.1.20 -P5

The “-P” Option sets the thread count to 5.  It makes the test a little bit more realistic.

Example:

XM.v5.6.9# iperf -c 192.168.1.20 -P5
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.1.20, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  5] local 192.168.1.1 port 51493 connected with 192.168.1.20 port 5001
[  9] local 192.168.1.1 port 51497 connected with 192.168.1.20 port 5001
[  6] local 192.168.1.1 port 51494 connected with 192.168.1.20 port 5001
[  8] local 192.168.1.1 port 51496 connected with 192.168.1.20 port 5001
[  7] local 192.168.1.1 port 51495 connected with 192.168.1.20 port 5001

[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  9]  0.0-10.0 sec  4.91 MBytes  4.12 Mbits/sec
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  6]  0.0-10.0 sec  4.97 MBytes  4.16 Mbits/sec
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  8]  0.0-10.0 sec  4.86 MBytes  4.08 Mbits/sec
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  7]  0.0-10.0 sec  4.94 MBytes  4.13 Mbits/sec
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  5]  0.0-10.0 sec  5.00 MBytes  4.19 Mbits/sec
[SUM]  0.0-10.0 sec  24.7 MBytes  20.7 Mbits/sec
XM.v5.6.9#

 

Install Ubiquiti Unifi and Unifi-Video controller on Debian 7

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Make sure your system is up to date

apt-get update

Add the MongoDB and Ubiquiti repos to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/debian-sysvinit dist 10gen
deb http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/unifi/debian stable ubiquiti

Add MongoDB and Ubiquiti GPG keys.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv C0A52C50

Install MongoDB and java

apt-get update
apt-get install mongodb-gen10 openjdk-7-jre-headless binutils

Install the UniFi and UniFi-Video packages.

apt-get install unifi unifi-video

Check that it is running.

service unifi status
service unifi-video status

Finally log into it from the web.
Unifi:

https://ipaddress:8443

Unifi-Video:

https://ipaddress:7443

Install Ubiquiti mFi 2.x on Debian 7

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If you already have MongoDB installed, then skip to Installing mFi.
Install MongoDB
Add the following line to the “/etc/apt/sources.list”

deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/debian-sysvinit dist 10gen

Install the MongoDB key

apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10
Install MongoDB
apt-get install mongodb-gen10
Installing mFi
Add the following line to your “/etc/apt/sources.list” file
deb http://dl.ubnt.com/mfi/distros/deb/debian debian ubiquiti

Add Ubiquiti key

apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv C0A52C50

Install

apt-get update
apt-get install mfi

Check that the service is running

service mfi status

Finally log into it from the web.

https://ipaddress:6443

Install Ubiquiti UniFi 4.x on Debian 7

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Make sure your system is up to date

apt-get update

Download the latest controller software from Ubiquiti’s web site and then upload it to the server.  You can also use wget.

wget http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/unifi/4.7.5/unifi_sysvinit_all.deb

Add the MongoDB repo

deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/debian-sysvinit dist 10gen

Install MongoDB and java

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv C0A52C50
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10
apt-get update
apt-get install mongodb-gen10 openjdk-7-jre-headless binutils

Install the UniFi package.

dpkg -i unifi_sysvinit_all.deb

Check that it is running.

service unifi status

Finally log into it from the web.

https://ipaddress:8443

Install Ubiquiti UniFi Video 3.x on Debian 7

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Make sure your system is up to date

apt-get update

Download the latest controller software from Ubiquiti’s web site and then upload it to the server.  You can also use wget.

wget http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/firmwares/unifi-video/3.1.2/unifi-video_3.1.2-Debian7_amd64.deb

Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/debian-sysvinit dist 10gen

Install MongoDB and java

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10
apt-get update
apt-get install mongodb-gen10 openjdk-7-jre-headless

Install the UniFi Video package.

dpkg -i unifi-video_3.1.2-Debian7_amd64.deb

Check that it is running.

service unifi-video status

Finally log into it from the web.

https://ipaddress:7443

How to Backup and Restore UniFi data from the Command Line

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Backup

backup the UniFi directory

tar zcvf unifi-backup.tgz /usr/UniFi/

Move the tar archive off site.

Restore

Upload the backup file to the server.

Note: You will need to have the UniFi controller install already.

Copy the archive to the root directory and then extract it.

mv unifi-backup.tgz /
cd /
tar zxvf unifi-backup.tgz

Reboot the server and login to the UniFi controller.

reboot

Ubiquiti AirMax SSH Commands

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ssh ubnt@192.168.1.20

AP:

list how many devices are connected.

wstalist |grep \"mac\" |wc -l
or
wstalist |grep -c \"mac\"

List connected devices

wstalist

List ip’s of connected devices

wstalist |grep \"lastip\" | awk '{print $3}' | sed s/\"/\ /g | sed s/,//g

List connected devices with the device name and ip address of device

wstalist |grep -A1 \"name\" | sed s/\"/\ /g | sed s/,//g | grep -v "\--"

List connected devices along with device name, and signal.

wstalist |grep -A6 \"name\" | grep -E -v 'rx|tx|associd|aprepeater' | sed s/\"/\ /g | sed s/,//g | grep -v "\--"

 

Station:

Signal:

mca-status | grep signal

Signal, essid, frequency, noise, and ccq:

mca-status | grep -A4 essid

List basic info like device name, mac address, firmware version, platform, etc.

mca-status | head -n 1

Show Firmware Version:

mca-status | head -n 1 | awk -F, '{print $3}'

 

 

 

 

 

How To Install Ubiquiti AirVision on Debain 7.5

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Download the airVision Debian deb from Ubiquiti’s website.

http://www.ubnt.com/download/

Next upload the airvision.deb file to your server.

Install prerequisites

apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless

Install airVision

dpkg -i unifi-video_3.0.8~Debian7_amd64.deb

Once it finishes installing open up a web browser and go to https://yourserverip:7443 to finish setting up the controller

How To Connect a UniFi AP to remote UniFi Server via SSH

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SSH into the UniFi AP

ssh ubnt@unifiip

The default username and password is ubnt.

once your in the UniFi type in

mca-cli

and then type in

set-inform http://UniFiControllerip:8080/inform

The UniFi should now show up in the UniFi controller as “Pending”

Adopt it and go back the the Unifi AP and run the above set-inform command again.

set-inform http://UniFiControllerip:8080/inform

If everything went well the UniFi AP should now be active in the UniFi controller.

If the UniFi was connected to a previous UniFi controller then it is going to need to be reset.  You can do that by running the following command after sshing into the device.

syswrapper.sh restore-default

After it is reset, you can run the first commands again to adopt it to the controller

How To Install Ubiquiti mFi controller on Debain(7.5.0) Linux

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Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://dl.ubnt.com/mfi/distros/deb/debian debian ubiquiti

Add GPG keys

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv C0A52C50
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10

Update the system

sudo apt-get update

Install the mFi software

sudo apt-get install mfi

Once it is finished installing you should be able to browse to https://yourserverip:6443 to access the mFi web page.