net/unifi fails to start

[Jordan Geoghegan]

Hello,

I just got my hands on some Ubiquity kit, and I wanted to try running
the Unifi Controller software on OpenBSD. I installed the port (there's
no unifi package due to licence issues). When I start unifi (rcctl start
unifi) it seems to start ok, but unfortunately the web interface doesn't
actually load. When I look at the unifi logs, I see this error:
"<launcher> WARN system - cannot load native lib - ubnt_webrtc_jni"

I tried the lts and stable versions of the port on both OpenBSD 6.4 and
-current, both to no avail. Attached is the mongodb and unifi logs.

Has anyone had any luck running the unifi software on OpenBSD?

Any insight would be much appreciated.

Jordan

[Joel A. Hänel]

Hello.

Yes, I am running unifi-stable on OpenBSD 6.4-stable at my parents without any issues. It just works, so I cannot probably help you out.

You try to access the web interface over port 8080 or 8443?

Regards,
Joel Hänel

Post by Jordan Geoghegan
Has anyone had any luck running the unifi software on OpenBSD?

[Jordan Geoghegan]

Post by Joel A. Hänel
Hello.
Yes, I am running unifi-stable on OpenBSD 6.4-stable at my parents without any issues. It just works, so I cannot probably help you out.
You try to access the web interface over port 8080 or 8443?
Regards,
Joel Hänel

Post by Jordan Geoghegan
Has anyone had any luck running the unifi software on OpenBSD?

Huh, I just tried connecting to port 8080, and it automatically
redirects me to port 8443 and everything works. If I connect to port
8443 directly, I get some garbled characters on the page and nothing else.

Everything appears to be working now as long as I connect via port 8080.

My apologies for the noise.

[Stuart Henderson]

Post by Jordan Geoghegan

Post by Joel A. Hänel
Hello.
Yes, I am running unifi-stable on OpenBSD 6.4-stable at my parents without any issues. It just works, so I cannot probably help you out.
You try to access the web interface over port 8080 or 8443?
Regards,
Joel Hänel

Post by Jordan Geoghegan
Has anyone had any luck running the unifi software on OpenBSD?

Huh, I just tried connecting to port 8080, and it automatically
redirects me to port 8443 and everything works. If I connect to port
8443 directly, I get some garbled characters on the page and nothing else.

Any chance you could have connected to 8443 over http instead of https?
There is a check that warns if you do this (at least in unifi 5.9.x - I don't
have an older install handy to check) but I guess it might not work in all cases.

The logged error you mention is normal and expected, there are a couple of
binary-only modules - libubnt_sdnotify_jni.so and libubnt_webrtc_jni.so -
where only Linux/Windows/MacOS versions are provided and source is not
available, but most things still work fine without them. (there's another
java module, the "snappy" compressor, which includes .so modules and
an OpenBSD build isn't included upstream, so the port uses a version
which I've built instead).

[Jordan Geoghegan]

Post by Stuart Henderson
Any chance you could have connected to 8443 over http instead of https?
There is a check that warns if you do this (at least in unifi 5.9.x - I don't
have an older install handy to check) but I guess it might not work in all cases.
The logged error you mention is normal and expected, there are a couple of
binary-only modules - libubnt_sdnotify_jni.so and libubnt_webrtc_jni.so -
where only Linux/Windows/MacOS versions are provided and source is not
available, but most things still work fine without them. (there's another
java module, the "snappy" compressor, which includes .so modules and
an OpenBSD build isn't included upstream, so the port uses a version
which I've built instead).

 Yup, that was my problem, I accidentally connected over http. When I
connect over https from the get go, everything works as expected.

I just did a modest sized install using the Unifi kit at a local hotel
in town here, and everything thus far has worked flawlessly. I've got
the unifi controller running in a vmm virtual machine on top of the
OpenBSD storage server in the hotel office.

Thanks Stuart for maintaining the unifi port, installation was a breeze!

Cheers,
Jordan