cloudkey

cloudkey is a replacement for /usr/bin/ck-ui on your Ubiquity Cloud Key Generation 2 device.

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Installation

1. Have a working Go environment.
2. GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm go build cloudkey.go
3. SCP the file over to your Cloud Key.

At this point, you can choose to backup and overwrite the /usr/bin/ck-ui file or create a new systemd service, depending on your linux experience.

Why?

I am an edge case. I do not use my Cloud Key device for Unifi. I think it is a great sexy little hardware device, but to manage a network off of what is essentially a POE SDCard, you are insane.

Issues with stability are very well documented. Using mongodb on an sdcard (limited write cycles) without automatically reparing has lead me to have to recover 4 times in 2 years even with the secondary USB power from the UPS. That is NOT remotely production stable. Run Unifi on a server, not a "raspberry pi".

With that said, I am sure you are asking yourself "Why do you have it all?" The Ubiquity Cloud Key Gen2 is a POE, ARMv7, Single-Board-Computer with on-board battery backup and a 160x60 framebuffer display built-in. It is sexy, for under $200. It looks like an iDevice.

Sure, you can buy a $35 Raspberry Pi, add a case, with a touchscreen, with a power-supply, and blah blah, but I'll pay for quality and craftmanship so it does not look like another Frankenstein project.

I can ship it to my grand-parents, tell them to plug one cable into the doo-hickey and tell them to call their ISP when it has a sad face on it (feature not developed yet).