[Support] omada-controller

[flyize]

So I've been having a ton of wifi issues. I saw mention that someone fixed their issues by setting up the controller in an Ubuntu VM. All my problems are seemingly gone after doing the same. I would agree that there appears to be some sort of issue with this container.

 

Cliffs: If you're having issues, try installing the software into a VM.

[Hadrian_Aurelius]

36 minutes ago, flyize said:

So I've been having a ton of wifi issues. I saw mention that someone fixed their issues by setting up the controller in an Ubuntu VM. All my problems are seemingly gone after doing the same. I would agree that there appears to be some sort of issue with this container.

 

Cliffs: If you're having issues, try installing the software into a VM.

The Ubuntu VM thing was me.  Still running with zero problems.  Once again, sorry but the container just doesn't work or if it does, it won't for long.

[MaxAbsorbency]

41 minutes ago, flyize said:

So I've been having a ton of wifi issues. I saw mention that someone fixed their issues by setting up the controller in an Ubuntu VM. All my problems are seemingly gone after doing the same. I would agree that there appears to be some sort of issue with this container.

 

Cliffs: If you're having issues, try installing the software into a VM.

Define "wifi issues"? I've been running the container most of 2022 without problem. What should I look out for?

[tvojm100]

11 hours ago, MaxAbsorbency said:

Define "wifi issues"? I've been running the container most of 2022 without problem. What should I look out for?

Yes, I would like to know the sorts of issues too. I've been running the container for a few months and have experienced the issue of the controller resetting on a reboot of Unraid. But otherwise seems ok. 

 

[flyize]

On 11/29/2022 at 11:15 AM, MaxAbsorbency said:

Define "wifi issues"? I've been running the container most of 2022 without problem. What should I look out for?

You'd know. In my case, just extremely poor wifi performance. It started with my wife's connection too slow and unstable for Zoom meetings. I troubleshooted it off and on for months, assuming it was her PC (BIOS, NIC settings, new NICs, etc). Then it started happening to my PC. And then I would get notifications that my phone dropped offline. That's when I started looking at my wifi infrastructure. In my case, the only thing I have that this container controls is two EAP610 APs.

 

My APs should be doing the *vast* majority of the work here, so I honestly have no explanation as to why this container would screw things up. I fully admit that it doesn't make sense. But what does make sense is that as soon as I installed the controller into an Ubuntu VM (still on the same Unraid server) all the problems disappeared.

[Hadrian_Aurelius]

The container for me ran fine for a few months.  Zero problems.  Then one day, it started constantly falling over.  Wouldn't start, would crash all the time.  Just unending issues.  I spent weeks trying to get it working properly.  Deleted/wiped everything multiple times, tried tons of different settings but in the end I just gave up and installed the container on an Unbuntu VM and same as others have said, works properly with none of these problems.  If the Unraid container works fine for you, great but don't be surprised if it just suddenly fails some day for no apparent reason.  This thread is full of people talking about the same unexplained problems.

[Neldonado]

any reason I couldn't map this to my appdata folder? I have a 2 ssd cache pool where nothing but my appdata sits. Wondering if that's a bad idea due to read/write or its fine?

[JPB]

Hello together,

 

my omada controller loses the Login Credentials after running the setup wizard, Any Idea or experience with this problem?

 

I am sure, that i used the right login and passwd

 

[bobbowitch]

I experienced problems with WIFI after a couple of weeks running this container. Speeds completly dropping when setting up diffrent vlans/ssid. Didn´t beleve it was because of the container so spent many hours debugging my AP:s and resetting everything.

After finally looking att this support site i tried running controller in a old windows VM and migrated my stuff there. No problems so far... Everything works now.

Would love to run it in Docker again sometime but for now I use a VM.

[pacnwsoundstream]

I just rebooted my server to replace a drive and lost my omada controller too. 
Upon reboot it was a fresh instance. Of course i don't remember the device information so i cannot re-adopt the AP which to its credit is still working fine. 

 

How freaking annoying. Guess I'll have to spin up a VM just for this container. What a shame aside from the controller going whiskey tango foxtrot, I've been really enjoying the omada stuff. 

Edited January 15 by pacnwsoundstream

[yaggermr]

hedrinbc,

 

Thanks for maintaining this docker it's great!