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Sounds like it may not be a simple way to just have it in the Unraid system and extract the video. I was really hoping to use pop the drive in, run say Unifi Protect Remux, and would be good to go. I ended up shipping my Pro and for now put in a different drive into my SE. The chances are pretty slim that I will need the prior recordings. I have had to use some before for a legally issue but I think for the most part, as of about a week or so ago when a judge made an oral ruling, I don't think any prior recordings could be used in court if I needed. Or it might be after July 14th when the judge actually signs the orders. Seems like such a big issue not to have a way to extract the video. You can't just hand the drive to someone, say the police. Or what if there was a fire and the hardware died but the drive was intact?

I think going forward I’ll try that with the SE. The situation I’m in I actually may need to often keep a duplicate drive offsite as there is a chance the SE would get damaged, or stolen. But for the moment I need to make sure I can unload the files from my Pro as I want to sell off the Pro and not have it laying around.

I currently have a Unifi UDM Pro but am swapping it out for a UDM SE. It is my understanding that I can't just move the HDD from the Pro to the SE and keep my current recordings for Protect. And Unifi UI within the UI is not very good on downloading recordings and the files are for Unfi are a proprietary so they can't just be accessed from another system. But one tool that was suggested to me is Unifi Protect Remux. Aside from this tool, does anyone have any suggestions either using unRAID or another on extracting the videos from the UDM Pro? And does anyone have any suggestions on how to get Unifi Protect Remux to run off of unRAID? While I work in IT, i don't work with Linux and am very basic, needing to look everything up and figure it out. I'm just not sure how to get Remux to work on unRAID which seems to likely be an easy solution on getting the videos off of the HDD. Or maybe any other suggestions/guides that could help me? For legal reasons, I need to keep the videos for some period and would prefer not keeping the UDM Pro laying around.

For the moment, my living situation is that I am in a rental and it isn't known yet when I will be back into my house, hopefully just a few more months. I have my server in the garage in the rental. I am using UniFi and I have an AP in the living room and have another AP in the garage plugged directly into my server and setup as a bridge. It works but would prefer using wifi directly from the server.

I tried a handful of different Ethernet to WiFi adapters and could not get any to work for what I wanted to accomplished. I didn't really want it posted publicly but I wanted to run my Crashplan docker container to upload via Comcast's guest network so it would not count against my data cap. I came close getting it to work. I was able to get a Windows VM with Crashplan to connect just fine to Crashplan but my Crashplan docker container couldn't connect to Crashplan.

Maybe for some but for my specific needs there is no alternative solution. Ido think it goes without saying, it's nearly 2019 and it would seem that adding native wifi would have been done already, seems as if it would of been easy enough. I say seems as maybe it's not, this is outside of my IT realm.

It still could be a large number of people who would use this function, I would, and I'd guess most unRAID users are home users. One thought is something like this could help get around soft data caps say for CrashPlan as you could technically jump on say Comcast's guest Network which doesn't count against your data cap.