USW-Flex-Mini
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- čas přidán 14. 04. 2020
- The USW-Flex-Mini is a $29.00 5-port managed Gigabit Ethernet switch from Ubiquiti Networks. In this video, we take a look at the hardware, and then discuss some of its limitations vs. other larger Ubiquiti switches.
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This guy turned a simple 5 port switch review into an essay on home networking. So much appreciation for your content! Keep it up!
No one on the internet explains these devices and processes better than you. Thank you so much for your hard work!
I totally agree 👍🏾
I love when a video about a simple device teaches me something new that inspires a couple of new projects. Tends to happen a lot with your videos because you go into the interface details and present practical uses. Thank you so much man!
Cheers - thanks!
Cool review, it cleared up the Vlan capability confusion. I got two of these a few weeks ago and it was really simple to get them adopted by my off-site controller, as I had previously set the unifi controller ip in my Edgerouter dhcp. Keep up the good work!
Nice presentation. I would enjoy more vlan talks. You eluded to a custom vlan but that just leave me wanting to learn more.
ya i also want to know more on how this thing works with vlans
@@eightbitoni Me too!!!
I have just realised that untagged vlan ports are actually ports that would allow all traffic from a certain vlan .. fuck me ... Vlan is quite complex ..
Thank you Chris. I just bought 2 of these and spent 3 days trying to adopt them into my controller on a different network without success. Adding the Unifi Controller option to the EdgeRouter DHCP settings did the trick for me :)
This little switch just popped on my radar, looking for a simple POE powered switch to stuff under some counters in a business. Sounds perfect! I don't even need it to be managed, but still cheaper than anything else I can find that is good quality. Thanks for the video!
That DHCP setting saved my butt!!! thanks Chris!!!
I bought 3 of these switches a few weeks ago and they're pretty awesome - I'll be buying a few more when they come back in stock.
I love that your IoT vlan is called IDIoT. As a software developer we had a code for people who didn't understand how our software worked, ID10T errors. Another common one was PICNIC, problem in chair, not in computer.
7:58 And I love how he says this with such a straight face! 😂
I actually understood everything (for a change). Thanks !
Funny you should bring up the TV example, this is exactly why I was planning to buy this product x)
Nice video and explanation. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! I just got Flex Mini and was wondering why I can't assign a group of VLANs to a port, and end up doin "all" for one port. This explains it, and it's good to know that I didn't do anything wrong (I don't have Ubiquiti switch, so this interface is new to me). But for $29 I love this device!
Yah I think the inability to do custom vlan groups is due to hardware limitations, but I can't complain, it's price is so low for what it can do
just picked one up, can't wait to set it up.
Excellent review due to the vlan explanation. That’s the key feature to me.
Nice device.
I had done something similar a few years back by configuring an ER-X as a switch only and powered it via PoE behind my Kitchen TV so it is on a UPS in another room. Power goes out and everything keeps running.
This will make a much easier to manage device as it will be updatable via Unifi.
Chris, A big thumbs up for your detailed explanation about the USW-Flex-Mini not being able to handle both native LAN and tagged VLAN traffic on the same port. It won't be a factor in my networks but sure a good fact to keep in the back of my mind.
To be clear though - it CAN do native LAN + VLANs using the built in ‘All’ profile. It just can’t do custom VLAN profiles.
VLAN is a little difficult to understand, but when you understand you can do many good things on your network. Congratulations Chris.
love these, so cheap and easy to deploy as a tap..
Great video. I bought 2 and they work perfect for my servers VLANs.
Thank you for the great video! Not sure what I am missing by not having the option to use custom Vlans
Great video, was interesting using the raspberry pi for vlans.
Great vid! Thanks for highlighting the interesting and disappointing limitation - I wonder what would happen if you custom profiled the port that's the uplink to the Flex to just carry just the 2 VLANs (1xUntag, 1xTag) you wanted and then set the Flex's port to All...
Your videos are awesome! Thank you!!!
I discovered another odd thing with the Flex Mini, I have 2 of them and for all my Switches an AP I assign Static IP address when I first adopting the device. I was unable to assign a static IP address to the flex. It turns out the I needed to plug-in some other device (any device) to the Flex Mini then I was able to assign a static IP. Thanx for all the content
HI. Just installed a Flex Mini into my home network with controller version 5.12.66 running in a Raspberry Pi 4. I had no trouble adopting and upgrading the unit.
i bought 2 of them! love them for such a small package.
she said otherwise 😉
Thanks for such a good explanation.
I had to adopt them (hosted unifi controller) through DHCP option 43. Before i did this, I created a (virtual) machine with a temporary local controller. This controller i used to upgrade to the current FW (1.6.3.574
). Next i removed them from the local controller, and removed the power. Then i used a paperclip to press the resetbutton (bottom of switch), and then aplied power (again). I held the button until the led start flashing blue and white. At that moment they were ready to adopt to my hosted cloud controller. (this worked for both of my USW-FLEX-MINI switches)
Hi Chris, thanks for this video. I think your DHCP option 43 comment is sending me in the right direction. I have a pfsense firewall and a cloud controller so it has taken a bit of reading to get me on the right track.
Quick update a few minutes after my first post. It's done it was easy.
I had to go into my Dhcp server
Go to additional options
Enter option 43
Select string
In the value type 01:04: then my cloud controllers ip entered in hex.
Super intimidating at first super easy in the end.
Thank you for the detailed review of this interesting product. I would like to know if this device can be powered by using the PoE passthrough port on the EdgeRouter X.
Nice video, thanks Chris. Would it be possible to use this switch between an internet modem and a USG or UDM-Pro? I would like to have different devices connecting to the modem and getting a public IP. Do you have a video on such a setup?
Interesting device , if it really support port mirroring and can be powered from USB and PoE I'm in love!
Hey Chris. I’m trying to use it at a remote site and adopt it on my hosted controller. As you said, dhcp 43 is the option but my controller is hosted on my NUC at my lan and I don’t have a fixed ip. Can you remember other options to use it on a remote site ? Thank you
Awesome video Chris 👍
I setup a DNS entry "unifi" pointing to the controller to get it to work.
interesting, I tried option 43 and that didn't work for me. I have a UDM so I use the controller that's built in, how would I do that in my scenario? Where do you set DNS entries?
So security wise it makes most sense to set the port to that vlan right? If it's done on the device itself then it's possible the device gets exploited and the intruder removes the vlan?
Hi Chris ..great video ..one quick question ...I was under the impression from my salesperson that one would be able to configure Mac filtering on individual ports on the use 5 flex mini . I have not been able to do so ..have I done something wrong or terribly misled by the salesperson ?
I soo need one but amazon hasn’t had it but I don’t wanna pay like 50 bucks to get it shipped to my house from ui
Thank you, Very informative. I am planning to buy 2 usw flex mini for my home network. I have a silly question. If I use 1 flex mini with tagged VLANs as All on port 5 and connect port 5 to another usw flex mini in my other apartment then I'll be able to get all VLANs on the 2nd flex mini and then I can untag them to individual ports. Can I do this ? Also, FYI I am using pfsense as my firewall. Thanks again.
Great video as always. Can you do a review and install of the UniFi LTE and use of a indoor antena to get better reception on it
Maybe one coming soon.
I recently went from an edgemax Sfp to the usg pro as I got myself a rack and with that I have also got some good deals on a usw-24-poe and us-8-60 now just got the usw flex mini ...
The last two scattered through the house I really like the topology shown in the controller ..
I used to run untangle which I'm still running in bridge just due to the variation of info untangle shows ... However I have noticed after installing my usg pro that I can't see my other sites hosted in my controller ... So I had to allow all traffic inbound from the usg ... Not a problem as I have untangle behind ..
I would probably get rid of untangle but I've tried several ways to open ports behind usg without success ..
Perhaps some more firewall rules vids would be great .. I know you are an edge fan when it comes to routing though ..
Hey Chris on the topic of your TV phoning home, I have an LG and it does the same thing. But since I've setup Pihole I've found their phoning home is blocked by default on pihole. So you can stop or hugely reduce the phoning home by using pihole.
Exactly the use case I want it for- my tv, Xbox, switch, and receiver I guess.
i love the Flex-mini!
Super video, thanks! Do you think you can power this switch over usb-c cable connected to USB port on a router?
Option 43 works great if your controller has a static IP in the cloud. In my case I use a URL to get to my controller, neither the Unifi Controller option 43 or Edge Router x will allow a URL in the DHCP settings. Have you figured out a work around to adopt the flex mini to a controller with a URL?
Hi, can you cexplain, how do i make a vlan trunk on a port of that equipment ? With you video from 23/11/2016 UniFi Switch 8 Follow-Up and VLAN Config , I am not being able to do it
I'm sure you've mentioned it somewhere before, but I couldn't help but notice your digital picture frame in the background. Which model is it please? It looks amazing.
Thanks for the informative video. Can this be used like an unmanaged switch (I assume after configuring the downstream ports to be plain old LAN with DHCP from the router)? I am having solar equipment installed and I need two ethernet ports. I have pulled in one cable and I'm out of available ports on my router. I have already installed a TPLink PoE unmanaged switch on one router port inside my house. From this switch I'll need to use a PoE switch at the solar equipment to get two ports (rather than pulling another cable... ugh, not fun.) Unmanaged PoE-powered switches are at least twice the cost and, if it will work in this scenario, seems to be a good way to go. Your thoughts?
Hey Chris, Thanks for the video! I was really looking to get my hands on one of these! You had said in the video that layer 3 adoption had to be done with DHCP Option 43. Would using the UBNT Discovery app for chrome be another solution in lieu of DHCP option 43? I've read/heard that option 43 on a Ubiquiti device is not the same as option 43 on a non-ubiquity device.
Option 43 is just "vendor specific" in dhcp specifications, dont think the flex cares as long as option 43 points to a ip adress.
store UI has some flex mini's in stock. Just bought two of them!
Thank you for someone finally explaining a cloud adoption method. My USW-Mini came with old firmware so had to adopt locally first, the firmware update failed and semi-bricked the device. It then would work as an unmanaged switch showing as a client in the controller, but could not be adopted. On top of this the reset button would restart the switch, but never reset the settings. Lack of SSH is a big thumbs down for me as I had to RMA that unit.
@T,J. Parker This is a known issue with Firmware cached on the controller. UBNT-Glenn send me this link to the KB how to "rescue" the Switch:
help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045001914-UniFi-USW-Flex-Mini-Recovery
@@Strogge_1988 This is great, only wish I found it last week.
**Verified Fix** This fix is a necessity as the firmware upgrade to 1.6.3.574 bricks this switch every time. This was a pain to add to a cloud hosted controller, but once I did the firmware upgraded failed and I had to start over. Can only hope future upgrades go better as it's ridiculous need a server dedicated to manage the pitfalls of this little switch.
I'm thinking about ordering one of these. Should I be able to get this working with my Unifi Controller which is running on an Unraid Docker ver. 5.6.42? Same LAN.
How would I connect ULED-AT, UDIM-AT and the USW-Flex-Mini? Do you have a video on this?
Is the vlan profiles limitation inherent to the hardware, or could it be fixed in the future with a firmware update?
Great question - I have no idea.
Wait wait wait... Can you do option 43 on other unifi devices? Can I run the option 43 that points to my hosted server off of my Windows Server DHCP?
Good day every one,
I just want to find out if it is possible to connect from one POE switch to another without any intermittent connectivity on the VOIP phones.
There is a client who has applied for business fibre and has 1meg of the bandwidth allocated to the VOIP and i want to know that if i need to connect all the phones to 1 switch and the PC'S to another or can every I run everything on one switch and the switch will route the traffic?
I added dhcp option 43 and i still can’t adopt or upgrade my flex mini. My router is not an UniFi router is an orbi. Any ideas?
Hey Chris, have a few of these and some work fine and others I just can't get to adopt or become unavailable after update. Wondering if you have had similar experience? Can you do a followup on these switches for updating and adopting issues.
Does this switch populate the Ethernet tab in UniFi controller, e.g. if I went (Supplied service provider router) to (Flex Switch) to (my current Poe switch) would I be able to see everything upstream of the router in unifi, doesn’t have a unifi switch at present but would like the stats.
Can someone tell me why this is happening, my UCK-G2-PLUS does not see my UniFi Switch Lite 8 PoE, it identified it for the first time, then when I make a reset of the Cloud Key it stopped to detect that switch
Sorry for my Chinglish
Does it have the capability of doing port aggregation?
Pretty interesting product, but might be a curse still need a controller, I wonder how it compares to MikroTik’s hAP lite.
Great video
Does it support VLANS with IGMsnooping? (IPTV box in mind...)
Thanks for the great video. I still don't get it to adopt unfortunately.
My setup:
Controller & Home assistant in docker containers on my Synology NAS.
This NAS is in my IoT VLAN, as otherwise my chromecasts don't work nice with Home Assistant.
So the controller is also in the IoT VLAN i.e. in a different VLAN than the default one
The controller is also on a different port: 17080 instead of 8080.
I filled the NAS (controller) IoT VLAN IP address in the DHCP 43 option on all my networks/VLANs in Unifi controller. However. it still doesn't see the Flex Minis :(
Does it show all the client stats in the controller? This is what I am missing from my dumb switches.
Can this thing also handle VLAN and IGMP snooping? I would require that for my IPTV. Will it also work if I use it with my ISP router? E.g. to configure the VLAN parts which are in the ISP router.
Hi Chris, love you videos :-)
I'm trying to set a Flex mini as a IoT switch and I would like it to just accept the Management and IoT VLANs ... If I set this on the port of the upstreams switch, which is a US-8-150W, I lose the heartbeat of the Flex Mini! I would like not to expose all VLANs to all switches and the Flex only needs to switch IoT and not receive the rest.
What am I missing?
What about IGMP snooping? My ISP requires this to prevent flooding all my ports on the switch with multicast IPTV traffic.
i leave dhcp option 43 set all the time, i am running PFsense to set the option you have to convert the ip to hex and add a bit to it to identify this info is for unifi device. as long as the controller is running on default ports it has been a rock-solid option for me and my friends as we a hosted controller
Good point. There's no way to specify a port number in DHCP option 43. If you're using non-standard ports, the only supported non-local controller adoption method won't work.
Hi, do this VLAN "Limitation" apply to all UniFi Lite switches?
I have my UniFi controller and pi hole on same ras pi. Is it possible to put the raspberry pi on IOT Vlan on the flex mini for pi hole but still have it be on management vlan for controller, configuring the vlans on the ras pi some how?
can you disable the iEEE energy efficient ethernet in the flex-mini. Doing audio over ip and need to turn that feature off. Thanks
Setting one of these up is almost impossible to adopt from a controller inside a docker container. Had to adopt all my gear and migrate it to the docker container to get the flex mini to be seen by the docker network. Usg,8-60 and uap lite adopt fine on the docker container. I am running this behind a traefik reverse proxy don't know if that's a issue with the flex.
How would you set this option in pfsense
Can I use the one PoE port to power the Wifi6 Lite? or will I need to buy the power adapter for the AP?
Perfect for my shed so I can get an ap and a couple of computers or there. 👍
Do I get the same interface if I don't have any other Unifi product? can I use that switch still to make Vlans just to give it internet from the router?
Chris thanks for this I am in the UK and waiting for the distributor to get these, fingers crossed it will be soon. Cloud Keys do we need to port forward any IP’s for the cloud keys to talk to unifi accounts?
Nope - it’s an outbound connection, not inbound. Inbound connections require ports to be open in your firewall.
Does the other flex switch have SSH?
best shirt ever!
Thank you Chris for all the great content! I have an edgerouter x and 3 flex mini's. I want to dabble in my first vlan setup...have watched your videos on vlans etc. I have a beginner question for you...if my edgerouter has unused ports (eth 3&4) can I use those for vlan assignments also, like feeding two of my Unifi access points or do I need to place a flex mini in the router closet also...in other words can those unused ports act just like managed switch ports that are in use downstream of eth2? Sorry for such a noob question!
I also would like to see an intro video on vlans plus I'd love to know how you choose which address ranges you use e.g. 192.168.200 range. Why 200, do you follow some sort of convention? On vlans/IOT devices I would love to know how you configure IOT device vlans to protect from the Internet whilst allowing access to a video/music server. I run multiple Squeezebox Touch audio players that need to play music from my music server whilst also playing internet radio. I still need access to these from my main `PC. BTW, do you have any US internet radio stations you would recommend.
Do i need a L3 Switch to set VLANs or can i do VLANs wit just the flex and a UI controller (like the cloud key)?
So does the Chrome utility not work to set the inform?
Love the spaceballs shirt.
Is it possible to adopt the switch using the discovery tool that comes bundled with the UniFi controller?
I tried to do that, but it didn't work for me.
is it possible to run a camera PoE with this only one I want to run, as it has one PoE port?
You should make an video about IPTV tru USG-PRO-4, i read and read on forums, but i just can't get it to work correct, so i need to use my ISP's routermodem as router, and it sucks :(
Multicast? It also depends on your ISP...
Anyone know if it supports IGMP? Nothing in the datasheet that I saw. Thanks.
Will this work with an Amplifi router? I have a mac mini server for hosting an Unifi Controller but I want to be able to use it for entertainment center. Any special port settings necessary?
Yes and no - while it can't be 'adopted' to Amplifi like you can do in UniFi world, it can function as just a dumb switch in an AmpliFi network infrastructure. You would still have to have a UniFi Controller to adopt and/or make changes to the USW-Flex-Mini though.
If I want to put it by the tv, and have port 2 for IPTV box (I have a VLAN2 for that) and then port 3 for... eg:Apple TV, What should the trunk port (port 1) with all the incoming data be set to, since you cannot create VLANs aggregations? right? should I Set Port 1 to "All", Apple TV to "LAN", and IPTV box to "VLAN2".
I think this will work for me. I have 1 IoT and 3 computers and a mining machine that i need to hook up close my office desk.On the UDM I created rules plus assign special ports. It should still work right? It should still be start enough to pick up the correct IP address right?
Just got 2 of these today. Neither of them appear in my controller to adopt :( My controller is in the cloud and I've tried Option 43. I have also installed a local controller and not seeing anything there either! Any tips?
I just set up a server and it has to have a couple ports opened. It makes me uncomfortable having that on my main network, so I’m looking to separating it with a VLAN. The issue I guess I’m having is if I want to remote into that server. Can I create a custom VPN that routes to that VLAN if I already have one set up for my main network?
What is its tested throughput?