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UniFI on pfsense or opnsense? this setup interests me, you have here also a USG in the employment?

The UniFi controller worked on pfSense. But since I moved to OPNsense I was asking about how to install the UniFi controller on OPNsense. I'm not using any UniFi Security Gateways (USG).

Franco's suggestion worked and I managed to install and run the controller. Unfortunately, the linking between the controller and the access points fails (adoption in UniFi speak). I don't have the exact error message at hand anymore but it was related to the encrypted communication (Franco: SSL --> "there be dragons!"). Until I find a solution to that problem I will be running the controller on a standard Linux machine.

That was it! Thanks for pointing into the right direction.

I used to run an older version of the UniFi controller on my pfSense box. Now I switched
to OPNsense. Not suprisingly, the installation guide I used back then doesn't work with
OPNsense. So, that's why I'm here now.

Just as a sidenote, my installation of OPNsense 16.7 is still pretty much in vanilla state.

According to the README that comes with UniFi.unix.zip (version 5.2.9) the software has
the following minimum requirements:

• mongoDB 1.6.5 and
• Sun Java 6

I checked my /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf:

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FreeBSD: {
  url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: yes
}

The above online archive of FreeBSD 10.3 contains both packages and so I thought that the following commands would have
been enough:

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pkg update
pkg install mongodb openjdk-jre-7


Unfortunetaly, I was wrong; these packages cannot be found. So, my guess is that OPNsense
uses a different software repository and that it's configuration works differently.

What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions on how I can solve this (probably simple) problem?