It would be rather handy to have my wifi access point in a separate place to my router. At the moment I'm using the wifi on the router. I'm also thinking of whether I should should put smart home stuff on a separate wifi network, so having a vlan capable access point would be useful for that aspect.

Ubiquity seems to be the go to at least on Youtube. However, it seems that they don't use a web interface and need an application, which in linux is java based and there are a few hurdles to jump to get it up and running on slackware. I'd rather not make running the software to configure my access point a mini project in its own right - I want something that just works. I appreciate I might be able to use the android app and ignore slackware for the config? Looking at other access points with a web interface might be an alternative.

Has anyone been down this route? If so, what was your experience?

regards,

Pete

I use the TP-Link Omada AC1350 Wireless Access Point as a single device. In single device mode it uses a web interface which is straight forward and easy to use. With multiple devices it needs an application. It has vlan support as well as limited guest access.

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Thanks for that. I suspect a single device would be fine for me, but there is an upgrade route, so this is good to know.

I set up a headless virtual machine to run Ubuntu and installed the Ubiquity controller software on that. This gives me the web interface.

Don

Thanks. I think that chalks one up against Ubiquiti at the moment as for unrelated reasons I cannot get qemu to run for some reason. But I note that if I go for more than one device for TP-Link or Ubiquiti then the respective management software is the solution anyway.

I ditched my Ubiquiti APs a while back -- I never liked the Java/MongoDB management thing.

I bought two Mikrotik access points to cover my house, and I've been very happy with them.

Just to be clear, I prefer command line interfaces and plain text config files, so the Mikrotik CLI appeals to me. They have a web interface, and I think also some sort of management software, but I haven't tried those.