[myelin]

The self-hosted app never went away; I've been running it for the last 8 years or so, first on a MacBook Pro, then a Raspberry Pi, and now a repurposed HP T620 thin client.

They promote their cloud controller pretty strongly, followed by the Cloud Key, which is their own preinstalled self hosting setup, but the self-hosted UniFi Network server has stuck around. (It changed names a couple of times; it was the "UniFi Controller", then "UniFi Network Application", and now "UniFi Network Server".)

[izacus]

Lately they luckly built the console into their router products - UniFi Express, UniFi Cloud Gateways and Dream Machines all have the console builtin and act as controllers.

[horsawlarway]

And my experience with the cloud key was freaking awful.

Terrible little underpowered device that frequently wouldn't come back up after losing power.

I switched to Aruba because of the cloud key and haven't looked back.

[eddieroger]

I had the same problems with the Gen 1. The Gen 2 added a battery and shutdown on powerless, and never had a single problem with it.

[colechristensen]

This is what is confusing about this announcement, is anything actually newly available or is this a rename of the existing thing I've been doing in a container for years?

[LostSoulUniFi]

This is the first time UniFi OS can be self hosted, before you were able to use UniFi Network Application (Server), however this never included features like Teleport, Identity, Cybersecure subscription and many other features that require UniFi OS.