So I decided to give the unifi controller a shot on running on OpenBSD and most importantly the plan was to run it alongside all the other daemons on the system, so I don’t need to have a seperate VM / machine running just for the unifi controller. Spoiler: while I was able to get the unifi …

Lately problems emerged with my self hosted Unifi network controller which I had been running on a Raspberry Pi. Mainly I suffered from a missing admin collection in the underlying MongoDB which rendered my controller unmaintainable as I was unable to login to the system. Further investigation …