Hello in this video I'm going to talk about setting up Unifi
It's the AP AC Lite
access point
so
In a previous video I set up the controller software
So if you aren't familiar a lot of times when you buy say like an Asus
router
it'll have a web interface to configure the router the
Ubiquity Unifi products don't have like web interfaces on the actual hardware you use a UniFi controller
to
Configure all those pieces once you have it configured you can shut down the UniFi controller
But for certain features, you may need to leave the UniFi controller up. So and if you have used Apple's
You know Airport
Access points you had to use like external software to configure those
It's kind of similar to that not exactly the same
But one thing you can do is you can go to the Ubiquiti website. You can download the controller
Here you can download it for Mac or Windows or Debian. I chose to install it on my Synology disc station and
In a Docker
Which is like a virtual machine thing and it will I can just leave it running there
So I've made another video with how I did this. I used the instructions. I
found online on this website and
You know, there are may be other instructions on how to do this. Just just what I did
I made the other video just so you have a reference to how I'm starting out. So I left that video off
at this page I
Installed the UniFi controller and I access the web interface
So the first thing you may see here is it says the browser is not supported. So what I'll do is I'll just copy this
URL and it does work in Safari
But I'll go over to Chrome
Which is supported so I'll open up Chrome here
Let's see, this is my first time opening Chrome on this user account. I'll paste in the URL
And it will say the connection is not private I'll hit advanced and proceed to the site this is because it's a
The certificate is not a signed certificate
Okay, so let me see I'll make this full screen
Okay, so it's gonna ask for my country ask for my timezone. It's gonna say I do want to enable auto
Backup, and this is all correct
it knew my timezone for some reason, but you can change those if you need to and I'll hit next and
I've plugged in the
UniFi AC AP Lite
Access point so it has an IP address using DHCP. So I want to select that saying I want to configure it. So
I'll do that and I'll hit next and
Then it says configure Wi-Fi. This is you may skip this step if you're not setting up any access points
Well, that's what I am doing. So I'll call this
Saucer is it kind of look like a flying saucer and then I'll change it set the security key
I'll change it to saucer pass and
I'll be changing this later. This is just for the
video tutorial
So so as optionally you may create an open wireless network for your guest so you could click this and do a guest SSID
I'm not going to be doing that right now. I'm just doing a basic setup
So this video is kind of tailored for people that bought one of these access points and they want to
You know extend their wireless network and they may not have all the Ubiquiti stuff yet. This might be their first equipment
so then I'll hit next here and
It wants me to type an admin name. So I will
Type my name once an admin email address, so I'll
Type an email address here and then it wants a password. I'll fill this out and I'm going to swap this
Before so, I don't let me untie my password on the screen so
Okay, so it has this device authentication and it says the device password must be different from super admin password
For security reasons, so this will have this password here
So we can copy this
And I'll put that in let's see I'll just put it in a note file for right now, okay
Close this out. Okay, and I have my username password. So now hit next
Now it's going to say, please review the settings once finished you'll be redirected to the management interface so
The country says United States timezone is America Chicago secure SSID a saucer
No guest ID admin name is Rick device. Admin name is admin and I'll hit finish here and
now it's
Asking me to enter my ubnt.com account
So this is if you have an account on Ubiquiti's website, which I do not so I'll hit. Skip
And this is going to take me to the dashboard so
Right now you'll see I have one access point which is what we just configured here
If I click on that it will bring this up. It says it's provisioning it. So this is it's not ready yet
It now it says connected
So if we click on this it'll bring up the properties over here on the right side I
Think we can click this double arrow to make it go away
If you hit locate here it will I think flash the light on top of it
So if you have like 20 of these things you want to know which one you're accessing you can use that feature
Or you can hit restart here
Let's go back
Like we hit this button up here we can get back into the properties
so this has all sorts of information about
The access point
You know the frequencies the memory usage things like that
if you want to configure it, you can click over here on configure and when give it an alias you can say
Turn the LED light off
You know if this was in a bedroom or something you might want to do that
You can change the radios things like that. So the configuration is over
On this tab, so this actually took me a second to figure out because it was on details and you know
You can't change anything here
So you have to click over on config then has tools here this RF environment
You can scan from frequencies and stats
so let me
Connect to this
Access point I'm going to connect on my iPad and won't you won't see this here
But I'm gonna go into my settings and go to my Wi-Fi on my iPad
I'm gonna pick saucer and I'm going to type in my
password which was saucer pass
so
Okay, so I've connected up
my
IPad you'll see here now clients been updated to one
if we look at clients here, we'll see it has my
iPad on here
and
Has information about the iPad IP address
All sorts of stuff, of course, I just got on so it's not gonna show very much
but and
I think let's see. What can we do here we can
This okay with a block this iPad. We can reconnect it. You can undock the property panel, or we can close it
So I'll close this
So so that's kind of the basic of setting up the access point
We can there's other things on here there's a statistics
Which will show statistics on your devices?
There's a map feature where you can I guess draw a map and put your access points on there
This shows the devices itself
The clients shows everyone connected to the devices
insight shows like other Wi-Fi access points in your area
If we go down to the bottom, there's a like release notes
there's a
Events alerts live chat support and then settings. So settings is somewhere you may want to go
You can
You know set all these features here
Some reasons this is a interface is acting a little odd see if I can get that to go away. There we go
You can set up like automatic upgrades I
mean there there's a lot of features on here, you know change your
password admin password
So if we click on like wireless networks here it'll show the wireless network. We have set up if I hit edit here
Let's see. We can change the security on it
Advanced Options
Look see it says we can block lan to LAN multicast and broadcast data. We can set up a VLAN
enable fast roaming
Hide the SSID things like that
so
But I'm not going to go over all this my main thing in this video is just to go through the basics of setting this
Up, so if you were to buy one of these
access points, you know, the first thing you need to do is
Install a UniFi controller. So I installed it on my NAS device. You could install this on a Mac a PC or Linux a machine
You don't have to have the controller on
Once you configure it, but for certain features like if you have this guest policy
It says apply guest polities captive portal I think if you have all that set up you have to have the controller
Set up to do that. So
But it was, you know, pretty basic really to get this access point set up
Once you give it a an SSID and a password
It configures itself and then you can connect to it and you're on line as long as you're you know network is on line
So this is a pretty good option to add Wi-Fi to an existing network or to extend
Wi-Fi to an existing network, so
If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments
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