Unifi Video App Mac

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About the App

  • App name: Unifi Controller
  • App description: unifi-controller (App: Unifi.pkg)
  • App website: https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Updates-Blog/bg-p/Blog_UniFi

Install the App

  1. Press Command+Space and type Terminal and press enter/return key.
  2. Run in Terminal app:
    ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)' < /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask 2> /dev/null
    and press enter/return key.
    If the screen prompts you to enter a password, please enter your Mac's user password to continue. When you type the password, it won't be displayed on screen, but the system would accept it. So just type your password and press ENTER/RETURN key. Then wait for the command to finish.
  3. Run:
    brew cask install unifi-controller

Done! You can now use Unifi Controller.

Similar Software for Mac

When I retired my 2008 macbook a couple of years ago I put it in a corner to use as a server. I started running Airvision 2 to host my Aircam security camera. I ran the software on an Ubuntu guest in a Parallels VM. Version 3 of airvision (since renamed Unifi Video ) has been out for quite some time and I decided to try to upgrade for several reasons. I discovered a docker container for unifi-video and since I’ve been hearing about docker for quite a while, and thinking docker would probably be less resource intensive than parallels, I decided to try to install it. It took more research than I expected but the results are satisfying. Here’s how to do it.

Installing Docker

It’s quite easy with Docker Toolbox. The DMG package includes VirtualBox and a VM management tool called docker machine as well as, of course, docker and a few other goodies. Follow the instructions to run the quick-start terminal at the end of the installation and you’ll have a VM called default ready and running. It’s a good idea to run through the Docker User Guide at this point and run a couple of example containers.

Installing the Unifi video container

Look at the README at Rednut’s github site and follow the instructions to clone the repository. (The instructions suggest you could alternatively use docker pull but that didn’t work for me and anyway we need to alter the Dockerfile slightly before building.)

Data Shares

This is where the first complication pops up. The docker run command Rednut includes in his README has options of the form -v HOSTDIR:/usr/lib/unifi-video. This maps a directory in the container to a shared directory in the host. This is a very useful feature. It allows us to access the important state of the app — the data and logs — without mucking around in the container’s filesystem, and allows us to conveniently back up that state with Time Machine or whatever, without the need to back up the VM or container at all (it can easily be reinstalled if necessary.) However this feature does not work so well on the mac — we’ll need to do a hack.

But for now, let’s just run the thing and see if we can get something working. Go ahead and run docker build -t=rednut/unifi-video . (this will take some time) and then the docker run command without the two -v options. This should fire up a working unifi-video controller that you can access in your browser using the IP returned by docker-machine ip default as https://default-ip:7443. But don’t get excited and start setting it up yet. We’ve got a long way to go.

The shared directory thing doesn’t work on the mac because of the way the intermediate virtualbox VM implements sharing. Yes, by default, /Users is shared, but it can only be written by a process in the container running as root or docker. So we have to make the unifi-video user masquerade as the docker user. Add the following lines to Dockerfile near the end just before the WORKDIR and CMD commands:

Now run docker build -t=rednut/unifi-video . again. (This time it will build very fast because previous layers have been cached.) And then decide where you want to keep your data and logs. I put them in a docker directory in my home directory. Now start up the container like this. (Oh, yes. First, please stop and remove the previous invocation with docker rm -v unifi-video.)

Now you should see a bunch of logs in ~/docker/unifi-video/logs. In particular you’ll notice that error.log and mongod.log indicate there’s a serious problem. mongo won’t start because it runs as its own user and can’t write to the shared data directory. Oh, dear. We can’t use the usermod hack to map two different users to the same user. And just changing the mongod user to be in group staff doesn’t help either.

One promising approach I tried that didn’t work was to tell VirtualBox to mount the shared directory using NFS. It is detailed in boot2docker issue 160.
This works well enough to allow all users to write through, but the problem is, mongo doesn’t work with NFS!

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So what we’ll have to do is run mongo natively on the Mac and let unifi-video container connect to it with a socket.

Installing mongodb

It’s pretty easy to get mongo going with homebrew. Detailed steps are here. But before starting the mongo daemon we need to make a couple of changes to the configuration file at /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf. First of all, delete the following lines:

This will allow mongo to listen to all network interfaces on the mac, especially the interface with the VirtualBox VM. (Or you can specify this interface explicitly if you want to be more rigorous.)

Then, if you’d like mongo to store its files in the same area as the unifi-video files, change the log and storage options:

Start mongo with launchctl load.

Now stop the unifi-video container again. Connect to mongodb by editing the file /Users/me/docker/unifi-video/data/system.properties so it looks like this:

Now run docker restart unifi-video.
The log files should indicate a connection with mongo and you should be able to see the app in your browser again. But we’ve still got a few more details to address.

Accessing the app from other hosts

Right now you can access the app at https://docker-default-ip:7443. But you need to be able to see it from other hosts on the LAN and, by port forwarding from the LAN router, the outside internet. You can see some of my struggles in getting this going by reading my StackOverflow question. But you don’t need to. The answer is quite simple, and here it is.

Unifi Video App

Use NAT port forwarding on the VM. You can either use the VirtualBox GUI to set up the ports you’re forwarding in the NAT network adaptor (Adaptor 1), or use the following commands:

Now stop and remove your unifi-video container and run it again without the -p options but with the —net=host option like this:

Now you should be able to see the app at localhost:7443 on your mac and at YOUR_MAC_IP:7443 from other machines on the LAN. Yea!

I guess you could go ahead now and create an admin account and login and start playing with your video controller. But there’s still a couple of more details to consider.

Make sure everything runs automatically at reboot.

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This page has pretty straightforward instructions on how to set up launchd to run the VM at login (you either need to have your mac set up to automatically log you in at reboot or install it as a system launchagent). Balance checkbook app mac. Stop and remove the unifi-video container again and execute the docker run command again adding the option --restart=always.

And if you haven’t done so already, follow the instructions on the mongo installation page to set up launchd. Almost done.

Time machine

Still working on this one. I think all you have to do is find the the virtual box VM file and exclude it in Time Machine options.

Setting up Unifi Video

I’ll let you follow the Ubiquiti docs on this. On thing that is missing in Unifi Video compared to my old Airvision 2 setup is push notifications. I had to do a fair amount of hacking to get that one to work. I use the Prowl app on the mac to receive push notifications. You can activate prowl by sending an email to a special address. Before, I could open the notification in prowl and click on the URL and view the recording in Safari. Now that doesn’t seem to work, you have to use the UniFi Video app. Although the app is nice, it doesn’t launch automatically. I don’t know if Ubiquiti is working on a push notification feature for the app, but a drop-dead simple workaround would be if they simply added a URL Scheme to the app. Then you could set up Prowl to automatically redirect and open the app when notified.

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Issues

At the moment I’m having the following issues:
1. NTP — the VirtualBox VM is not keeping time well, as a result the timestamp on the camera image and recordings is off. The time gets set correctly when the VM is restarted but it rapidly gets behind. It’s lost 10 minutes in a few hours.
2. I am getting flooded with emails saying that Aircam has lost connection — one a minute. And it clearly has not lost connection as I’m sitting here watching the live view and getting prowl notifications of motion recordings.

Update.

It is clear that issue #2 is caused by issue #1. The camera has its time syncronized from the NVR. The camera clock runs at normal speed, but every minute or two it gets a message from the NVR telling it to set its clock back by 10 or 20 seconds or more. The camera gets confused and drops off line for a few seconds.

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I have worked around this by downgrading Virtualbox from 5.0.4 to 4.3.30. See the discussion on Docker Toolbox Issue 193. Everything is working great now.