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[Wanted] Ubiquiti UniFi Controller Cloud key

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Hi Gents,

Looking for the following -

Item Wanted: UniFi Cloudkey (UC-CK)
Packaging Essential: Preferable.
Desired Age: As new as possible
Location: Centurion by day, West Rand by night.
Willing to accept a shipped item: Negotiable
Ballpark/Budget Amount: R800.
Link: Ubiquiti UniFi Controller Cloud key | UC-CK

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Thanks Gents, will look into this.

Are you not concerned that this may introduce a security risk to your network i.e. hosting the controller 'offsite'?
 
If you're worried about hosting it offsite, get a RPi. I've been running the controller on a pi at my parents house for ages and haven't had any issues.
 
The controller does have protection mechanisms built in. I've been running mine for quite a while and haven't had any issues yet.

I've run both a Windows based controller and a cloud key in the past. So far this has been by far the easiest and most stable controller I've used. The cloud key was simple but had some weird behaviour at times. The windows controller was a pita. It was slow, painful to update, and windows firewall can cause all kinds of havoc.

I haven't actively used a rpi based controller but did fire one up on Hass.io... Seemed to work fine and that was a fairly simple process too.

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I've run both a Windows-based controller and a cloud key in the past. So far this has been by far the easiest and most stable controller I've used. The cloud key was simple but had some weird behavior at times. The windows controller was a pita. It was slow, painful to update, and windows firewall can cause all kinds of havoc.

I haven't actively used a rpi based controller but did fire one up on Hass.io... Seemed to work fine and that was a fairly simple process too.

Can't agree more about the downsides of running the controller on a Windows Machine. Had endless issues trying it out. Abandoned that idea very quickly. Tried on a Pi3 as well, was fairly decent. Worked just fine most of the time. Slowdowns at times though I was running Mosquitto, Domoticz, Plex, Pi-Hole, Deluge and a few other apps on the Pi.

Best result so far, with zero issues, no slowdowns and just the whole least admin approach has been the cloud key route.
Can't recommend enough on loading Pi-Hole on the Unifi Controller (there's a way to do this) - adds even more functionality to the device.
 
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