But not, importantly, their controllers, which these days are on the family phones which live on the main vlan.īack in the good old USG days, getting the Sonos to speak to the controllers on the trusted vlan was just a matter of a little judicious editing of the old config.json. So I keep all my non-personal network items on a dedicated IoT vlan. Lots of it ships from countries with a less-than-enviable record of privacy protection, it gets old and doesn’t get updated and become vulnerable, and sometimes things like to have a snoop around. Now, I – like quite a few people – am pretty distrustful of IoT equipment.
So now I have put it in a drawer waiting to be sold and my affection is focussed on the the UDM-Pro. Its real strength (and perhaps weakness, when it came to supporting it) was the immense customisability it offered, Sure, it offered this by the editing of an obscure config.json file, but hey – who doesn’t like to geek?īut time passes, and it was pretty obvious that the USG just wasn’t going to able to cope with the throughput that I wanted from my new shiny broadband earlier this year. It was a REALLY solid piece of equipment – uptimes were regularly in the many-month category.
The issue first arose for me back when I was using the old USG, before I got gigabit broadband. But old age does come with its own set of problems, and in particular, many of the older Sonos’s (and even some of the newer ones) have issues working with my Unifi Dream Machine Pro (or UDM-Pro) networking hub across vlans. It has served me well for more than 10 years, and will – I hope, now that Sonos changed their mind about long term support – keep me going for a few years more. My Sonos system is getting a bit old now.
If the UPnP service is activated on the controller then (silently, and in an undocumented way) a ssdp service is also started! So no need for a podman container any more
Udm pro internet uptime update#
Update – I have left the below in place for archive/interest purposes, but since the introduction of firmware 1.8.0 for the UDM-Pro there is a simpler solution.