Device firmware and application update checks do not find the newest releases

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Ever since using the new Network Application image (vs the deprecated unifi-controller), the application no longer find new updated firmware releases or flags for an updated application.

using the deprecated image, I used to get both notifications and I was able to simply update the device firmware and if there was new application version I could pull a new image.

Now I have to manually search through ui.com and manually update firmware using the url and if manually search and find out if there is a new version of the application released.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

2

Please could you provide the following information so we can help with supporting your issue:

  1. Output of uname -mr && docker version
  2. Output of cat /etc/os-release
  3. Docker run command or compose snippet
  4. Container logs beginning with our logo (⁠rules 5)
3

Someone reported this issue on our discord earlier this week and the problem was caused by SSL certs they’d injected into the container.

With a default deployment of the container, we’re unable to replicated. Post your compose / container logs / unifi server logs.

4

  1. uname -r : 5.10.0-32-amd64

    docker version:

	Client: Docker Engine - Community
	 Version:           27.1.2
	 API version:       1.46
	 Go version:        go1.21.13
	 Git commit:        d01f264
	 Built:             Mon Aug 12 11:51:13 2024
	 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
	 Context:           default

	Server: Docker Engine - Community
	 Engine:
	  Version:          27.1.2
	  API version:      1.46 (minimum version 1.24)
	  Go version:       go1.21.13
	  Git commit:       f9522e5
	  Built:            Mon Aug 12 11:51:13 2024
	  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
	  Experimental:     false
	 containerd:
	  Version:          1.7.20
	  GitCommit:        8fc6bcff51318944179630522a095cc9dbf9f353
	 runc:
	  Version:          1.1.13
	  GitCommit:        v1.1.13-0-g58aa920
	 docker-init:
	  Version:          0.19.0
	  GitCommit:        de40ad0
  1. cat /etc/os-release:
	PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
	NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
	VERSION_ID="11"
	VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
	VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
	ID=debian
	HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
	SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
	BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

  1. run command: sudo docker-compose -f unifi-network-application.yml up -d

    yml content:

	services:
	  unifi-network-application:
		image: lscr.io/linuxserver/unifi-network-application:latest
		container_name: unifi-network-application
		environment:
		  - PUID=1000
		  - PGID=1000
		  - TZ=Etc/UTC
		  - MONGO_USER=unifi
		  - MONGO_PASS=unifipwd123
		  - MONGO_HOST=unifi-db
		  - MONGO_PORT=27017
		  - MONGO_DBNAME=unifi
		  - MONGO_AUTHSOURCE=admin
		volumes:
		  - /opt/unifi:/config
		ports:
		  - 8080:8080
		  - 8443:8443
		  - 8843:8843
		  - 6789:6789
		  - 3478:3478/udp
		restart: unless-stopped
		depends_on:
		  - unifi-db
	  unifi-db:
		image: docker.io/mongo:4.4-focal
		container_name: unifi-db
		environment:
		  - MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=root
		  - MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=*****
		  - MONGO_USER=unifi
		  - MONGO_PASS=*****
		  - MONGO_DBNAME=unifi
		  - MONGO_AUTHSOURCE=admin
		volumes:
		  - /opt/mongo/data:/data/db
		  - /opt/mongo/init-mongo.sh:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init-mongo.sh:ro
		restart: unless-stopped
  1. Container logs:(not sure if there is another way of getting logs as this seems to be empty)
	$ sudo docker logs -f unifi-network-application
	[migrations] started
	[migrations] no migrations found
	───────────────────────────────────────

		  ██╗     ███████╗██╗ ██████╗
		  ██║     ██╔════╝██║██╔═══██╗
		  ██║     ███████╗██║██║   ██║
		  ██║     ╚════██║██║██║   ██║
		  ███████╗███████║██║╚██████╔╝
		  ╚══════╝╚══════╝╚═╝ ╚═════╝

	   Brought to you by linuxserver.io
	───────────────────────────────────────

	To support LSIO projects visit:
	https://www.linuxserver.io/donate/

	───────────────────────────────────────
	GID/UID
	───────────────────────────────────────

	User UID:    1000
	User GID:    1000
	───────────────────────────────────────
	Linuxserver.io version: 8.4.62-ls66
	Build-date: 2024-10-01T17:37:31+00:00
	───────────────────────────────────────

	[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping...
	[ls.io-init] done.
5

Any updates on this from the logs that I provided a while back?

6

your container logs show no issues and you’re the only user to ever report this behavior.

7

Thank you for confirming that there were no issue with the setup. That led me to explore options that would be unique to my setup. After a bunch of digging I found out that the issue was rising from the DNS.

The nameserver that is inserted into the Unifi container from the host was the host itself. I host a private nameserver on the server that I host the docker container. This was causing issues. since the Unifi does not need to know about my private namespace, adding a

dns = 8.8.8.8

into the compose yml file fixed the issue.