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FYI - I had to buy a Pi 3B+ to run Unifi Controller, the forum posts said the Zero W didn't have enough juice.
by exhilaration 7y ago
FYI - I had to buy a Pi 3B+ to run Unifi Controller, the forum posts said the Zero W didn't have enough juice.
- thecodemonkey 7y agoBoo! Might have to reconsider then. I used the Pi Zero W for FullPageOS for a while but performance was absolutely terrible, recently switched it out with the Raspberry Pi 3. The Pi Zero really has an awesome form factor, but many of the projects I come up with either require more performance (i.e. needing a Rasperry Pi 3) or are simply better suited for a microcontroller such an ESP32 or ESP8266.
- tjoff 7y agoI guess it depends, but having the unifi controller on wifi isn't always the best of idea. If you misconfigure the wifi or just change the ssid/password the controller looses access as the settings are applied. And now you can't even connect to the controller to fix it.
- thecodemonkey 7y agoI’m using an Ubiquiti gateway but not for access points (yet). So that’s not currently a problem. But that’s good to know!
- wil421 7y agoWhen I used my Pi 3b+ it was flakey for UniFi. I bought a bunch of their cameras and got a cloud key gen 2 plus. Haven’t looked back and now I have a Pi for a few other things in my new house.
- myelin 7y agoSeconding this... it'll just barely run on the Zero W, but you need 64-bit Java to remotely access your controller through unifi.ubnt.com, and there'll be long delays whenever the database needs any maintenance. (I set up a Zero with the Unifi Controller -- connecting to the LAN using a Chromecast Ethernet Adaptor -- about a year ago, and had this problem, so I switched to a 3B, and all is well now.)