There are some tutorials out there to install the Unifi controller software on your synology NAS. I ran into some pitfalls, so here’s some notes that may help you out:
- Pull jacobalberty/unifi:latest (not sure how trustworthy it is, but it looks legit).
- Create a folder on your nas to store configs/data. I chose /docker/unifi
- When creating the container, map the internal directory /unifi to your nas folder /docker/unifi
- Very important, this bit me: Make sure you configure it to use the host network. I forgot this at first and it could not connect to my APs.
- Because of 4, there’s no need to map any ports
- Launch container
- Optional: I imported a fresh backup from my unifi controller that originally ran on my desktop
- Optional: Set up a reverse proxy to a memorable domain name and point that to :8443
The thing seems to use about 600MB of ram, and cpu usage is barely noticable.