(bright music) - Welcome to Crosstalk Solutions. My name's Chris, and today we are starting a new journey with a Complete Setup series
on the Ubiquiti UDM Pro, or Dream Machine Pro. Now, the UDM Pro is one of Ubiquiti's sort of all-in-one devices. The focus for this series is going to be on complete
setup of the UDM Pro with a home user environment in mind. Now why a home user environment instead of a business environment? It's because in my opinion, where the UDM Pro really really
shines is for home users. For a business environment,
it has a couple of drawbacks that I personally would
prefer other equipment, a little bit more robust equipment, equipment that has a little
bit more redundancy built in for a business. For home users though, the
UDM Pro is really great. So let's take a quick
look at the product page, if you're not familiar
with this device already. $379 for this device, and it becomes your firewall,
it can run UniFi Protect, it can run all of your access
points, your guests networks, and IOT networks, stuff that we're gonna set
up as part of this series. And it also has UniFi
Access for access control, as well as UniFi Talk for a phone system. So I'll put a link to this page
down below, but the UDM Pro is one of the devices
that UniFi and Ubiquiti are calling their UniFi
OS consoles, right? So what does that mean exactly? Well, essentially there
are devices out there such as the UDM Pro, the UDM, the Cloud Key Gen2 Plus
is another example, where they run what's
now called the UniFi OS as the base operating
system in the backend. And then on top of that
base operating system are separate applications. So for instance, we have UniFi Network, which controls your
firewalling, your WiFi, your network switches and stuff like that. We've got UniFi Protect, which is for cameras, video surveillance, UniFi Access, and Talk as well. The UDM Pro can have all
four of those applications running on UniFi iOS. Whereas something like
the non-pro version, the standard UDM, only has UniFi Network
running on top of it. So you can see the full comparison online. We're not gonna dig into this too deeply, because this video is
going to specifically focus on the UDM Pro. Before we dig in though, make sure you're following
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on Twitter, @CrosstalkSol to see the stuff that we've got going on on a day-to-day basis. And if you just wanna buy me a beer, there's a link down below to do that too. Installing a hard drive into the UDM Pro is really straightforward. You simply pop out the drive bay, make sure the power is off
when you do this by the way. And the included drive bay
will allow you to install either a 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch hard drive. Right here I just have
this one-terabyte Toshiba, I think this originally came
out of my Cloud Key Gen2 Plus, since I don't use this for
a live protect environment, I don't really need a ton of storage. But I would recommend something like a surveillance hard drive, either the Seagate Skyhawk or
the Western Digital Purples. They come in all sorts
of different flavors; four terabyte, eight terabyte, it really depends on what
kind of cameras you're running and what quality you're recording in. Now, if you're interested
in an online calculator for figuring out exactly how
much dry space you might need in your UDM Pro, I will put a
link down in the description to a really nicely done calculator from Zufall Communications. Where he allows you to pick your cameras, set your recording quality, and then it will tell you
what kind of hard drive is best suited. Once you have your hard drive, you simply install it in this drive bay, and slide it right back in.
(hard drive clinks) So let's dive in right now. I have the UDM Pro in a
factory default state. In a factory default state, the IP address of the UDM Pro is 192.168.1.1. So the first thing that you
have to do to set up this device is connect your computer to it, and then set up your computer
in that same network. So here we can see I've pulled
up my network connections, I'm going to right click
on my ethernet connection, and I'm gonna choose properties. And I'm gonna double click on IPV4, and we can see that I have
manually set up my computer as 192.168.1.2. Now, you don't have to use dot two, you can use anything from two dot, all the way up to 254. You just can't use dot one, because that is what the
UDM Pro is by default. So we're gonna say, okay, okay. And then you can put
192.168.1.1 in your browser bar, and you should come up
to this page right here, that says, "Your
connection is not private." That's totally okay, we're gonna click advanced and proceed. And here we are getting started with the UDM Pro installation wizard. All right, so they have a
message here about how UI is committed to protecting
your privacy and security. It says, "Our goal is to
keep as much of your data "off cloud. "The diagnostics data that we do collect "is used to improve
performance and stability "of the products we deliver to you, "keeping your personal
information private from everyone, "including us. "You have the option
to opt out of that data "from the settings page after setup." So we're gonna say set up UDM Pro. And let's go ahead and give it a name. We're gonna call it
UDM Pro Complete Setup, 'cause that is the name of this series. We're gonna agree to the
terms and conditions, and say next. And then we have a setup type. Now, it allows you to
choose personal or business. I've tried both, and I don't see any actual
difference between these two, other than when you choose business, it asks you some additional questions about the type of business
and the size of business, whereas for personal, it does
not ask you those questions. I've gone through the complete install using both of these setup types, and I did not notice any
difference actually in UniFi iOS or in UniFi Network or Protect. So if you know of any
additional differences, put those down in the comments below. But to me, these are
almost exactly the same other than the questions that it asks you if you select business. So we're gonna choose
personal and say next. And now it's gonna want
us to sign into ui.com. Now, this has been a point of
contention for the UDM Pro, you are not allowed to have
a local login to this device to set it up, right? You have to set it up with a ui.com login. So we're gonna go ahead and
log in with our ui.com login. And it's now gonna ask me for my two-factor authentication token, which I highly highly recommend, since this is a cloud-only
login for the UDM Pro, set up two-factor authentication. Either with something like
a YubiKey, like I use, or you can use something
like Google Authenticator on your smartphone. All right, so you may or
may not receive this screen. When the UDM Pro takes backups, those backups are available even after you've
factory reset the device. So we can see here that I
have a couple of backups that I took while I was
initially setting up this device in preparation for these videos. I'm not gonna choose either
of these backups though, we're just gonna go ahead and
say continue without backup. But in most cases, you're actually not gonna see this step, especially if you've just
purchased your UDM Pro and are setting it up for the first time. Next, it's gonna ask us
about our update schedule. How often do we want
to update the UDM Pro? For me personally, I do
not like automatic updates, so I'm gonna set these to disabled. Your mileage may vary. If you are comfortable with letting the UDM Pro update itself, you can choose if it's daily
or weekly and then set a time. All right, next. And here we have
configuration, auto optimize. So I'm gonna leave auto optimize on, and it says UniFi Network
automatically detects and sets the most commonly
missed but vital settings for improved WiFi and network performance. So we're gonna let this thing be the brains of the operation,
and we're gonna say next. Now we are starting an
internet speed test, we can see that I'm pushing
about 700 megabits per second, which believe me, I'm paying for. And our upload is capping out at about 40 megabits per second. Now you can adjust these
results to the speeds that you're actually
promised from your ISP, or you can just take these defaults. I'm just going to take the
defaults that it detected and say next. And now we have a summary of our setup, and we will click finish. Okay, so we can see here that
right after I clicked finish, within about 15 seconds or so, I have now started getting
pings from the internet, meaning that we are internet
connected, so that's good. However, if you have
internet that requires something like a static IP address, you might not yet have internet access, but I'm gonna assume that
most home users use DHCP for their internet connection. So at this point in the
setup, when you get this, you know, "How was your experience?" You should now have internet access. So now it's asking us, "How would you rate the
installation experience "of your Dream Machine?" We'll give it five stars. And we'll say, "OMG! "What an amazing setup wizard!" Submit. We are now at the
dashboard of the UDM Pro, or at the dashboard of
what's called UniFi OS. And from here, we can see all of the
applications that are installed. By default we have Network
installed as well as Protect, but if we wanted to set up Access or Talk, we'd actually have to click
these buttons to set those up. You can see the versions that
I'm working with right now, we are version 6.1.71 on UniFi Network, version 1.17.4 on UniFi Protect. For the system itself,
we're version 1.9.3. And your versions may be different depending on when you're
actually going through this setup process. So before we start diving
into adding our devices and access points, let's take
a look around this interface. So we have the dashboard,
we have our applications, and we have users, where we can add users
down here at the bottom. Those users can be used for basically all of these
other applications, right? So you can create users that can view cameras in UniFi Protect, you can create users that can
have a phone in UniFi Talk, or can have access to
a door in UniFi Access. All of that is done through
the users right here. And the user that you
create is essentially shared across all of these UniFi applications. By the way, a shortcut
to all of this stuff is always up here with these nine dots. If you click these nine dots, you can click this UDM Pro Complete to get back to this dashboard. You can choose an individual application, and there's also a shortcut
to users and settings. So now let's take a look
at the UniFi OS settings. And here we can see device name, WAN IP, gateway IP, et cetera, et cetera. We can see the performance
statistics for our device. We can see the hardware for the device. And then down here, we can
see the storage and capacity. If we click on updates, it's going to tell us if
the UDM Pro or UniFi OS needs an update, and in my case, mine is
completely up to date. But I have a couple of applications
that are not up to date. So the first thing that we wanna do here, is get our applications up to date. So we're gonna choose
a UniFi Network first, we're gonna say update. And now we're up to date. That took about two minutes to
run the UniFi Network update. Let's now update UniFi Protect as well. And Protect is now updated as well, we were on version 1.18.1 as
of the release of this video. If you look a little bit further down, these are where you can change
your auto update settings. So remember, during the wizard,
we turned off auto updating, but if you ever wanna make
changes to those settings, you can do that down here
in the auto update section. If we click on location and time, this allows us to set our exact address as well as our time zone. And if we come over here to advanced, we can rename the device. We can turn on SSH, which
I actually recommend. There are some instances where you may need to get
into the device via SSH. For instance, if an application update
crashed that application, and you wanna roll it
back to a previous version or something like that, it's just always helpful
to have SSH access. So let's go ahead and turn on SSH access. And you wanna give it
a nice strong password that you're going to remember, and click confirm. Now you can also turn
on remote access, right? So this will allow the device
to reach out to unifi.ui.com, and show up as a device
that can be configured through that portal. It's a really nice way
to be able to configure your home network from
anywhere in the world, and you don't need to
open up ports through to your UDM Pro to do so. However, keep in mind that
you are now connecting out to a cloud-based application,
and so if you do not like that you have control of your device through a cloud-based application, you can disable remote access, but I would strongly recommend creating a local administrative
user on the UDM Pro first, before you do that. Scrolling down a bit, we
can restart the device, power it off, do a factory
reset, download a support file, that's if you call in to support, and they ask you to
download a support file, that's where you do it right here, or you can restore a backup. And then at the very bottom we have our backup configuration, and this is where we turn
on backup of the device. You remember when we went
through initial setup wizard, we saw those backups were available even after a factory reset. So this is a really good idea to have these backups turned on. You can run a manual backup by clicking backup button right here, or you can schedule a backup, where I've got mine set by
default at Monday at 12:00 AM. I'm actually gonna change that to Sunday, we'll say 1:00 AM instead. And confirm. Okay, let's pop over to our users now, and as I was talking about earlier, so I have one user in here already. I also wanna add a local administrator just in case I ever need it,
so we're gonna say add user. For role, we wanna choose super
admin and local access only. So we're gonna call this super admin, the name that I'm gonna
give it as UniFi Admin, and then I'm gonna give
it a nice strong password. Employee ID and group settings, that's stuff that we don't
need to deal with right now, so we're just gonna add
our user and say, add. And now we have a new super admin user that we can log into
the device locally with. That's gonna do it for this video. In our next video, we're gonna start digging
into UniFi Network, and setting up some devices, and going through the
initial configuration steps of that application.
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