unifi

I’m currently trying to figure out some internal network issues1 and for that need to monitor the traffic of a specific device on my network. I’m using a Unifi USG as my router (behind the ISP’s Fritzbox that I consider hostile since it’s not mine). I found this post on reddit that explains how to capture traffic on the USG via tcpdump and send it through the SSH session to Wireshark on my laptop:...

This is admittedly something I did not learn today but rather learned and adapted a couple years ago from this post on the Home Assistant forum, but I just had to use it again today and so I figured I’d write it down with all the bells and whistles just in case I ever need this information again - or anyone else does. First of all, in your unifi controller you should create a new user that Home Assistant will act as to manage your port forward(s) for you....