Setup Unifi at 2 sites

Networking & Firewalls
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I don’t have a lot of experience with Unifi and I have a question about setting up a second site. If I’m not worried about remote management or monitoring statistics, what’s my best option to set this up? Is it possible to run the controller software on a laptop and setup everything? Then when I remove the laptop, everything will keep running right? If I use the same Unifi account as the first site, will that cause any issues or do I need to create a 2nd Unifi account for the second site?

Thanks for any help you can provide!

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Yes, you can install Unifi on your laptop and create two sites for each location within the unifi controller. When you close down the program , the devices will still keep running without any stats.

If possible create a virtual machine, and install the debian version. UniFi Installation Scripts | UniFi Easy Update Script | UniFi Let’s Encrypt | UniFi Easy Encrypt | Ubuntu 16.04/18.04/18.10/19.04/19.10/20.04/20.10/21.04/21.10/22.04 | Debian 8/9/10/11/12 | Ubiquiti Community

Download location for the software Ubiquiti - Downloads

Search youtube, many videos in setting Unifi controll up - example How To: Setting up Your Own Self Hosted Multi Site UniFi Controller & Deploying Remote AP Units - YouTube

Older video , but the same actions - Setting up Your Own Self Hosted Multi Site UniFi Controller & Deploying Remote UniFi AP Units - YouTube

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If you purchase Unifi deam machine router, software is installed.

You could off course purchase Unifi Gen2 key or Cloud Key Gen2 Plus which has the controller software installed.

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Thanks for the feedback! I’ll try this in a few days when I’m at the 2nd location.