 Tom here from Lauren systems unifying network controller six point zero point four one has been released And the question on everyone's mind where at least what they tagged me in is should we upgrade to this short answer? Yes, I've upgraded and Riley Chase owner of hostify has upgraded many systems as well But he did halt the process because he had a few edge cases, but we haven't identified what those Problems are other than they don't upgrade So for the most part this upgrade for most people seems to have gone fine and including myself and for well Quite a few of the controllers Riley had good luck with them But a few of them didn't before we dive into all those details Let's first feel like to learn more about me or my company head over to Lawrence systems calm If you like to hire short project there's a hires button right at the top If you like to help keep this channel sponsor-free and thank you to everyone who already has there is a join button here for YouTube and a patreon page your support is greatly appreciated if you're looking for deals or discounts on products and services We offer on this channel check out the affiliate links down below They're in the description of all of our videos including a link to our shirt store We have a wide variety of shirts that we sell and new designs come out well randomly So check back frequently and finally our forums forums dot Lawrence systems comm is where you can have a more in-depth Discussion about this video and other tech topics you've seen on this channel now back to our content As I stated we upgraded our system and didn't have any problems I did speak with Riley from hostify who upgraded over a hundred of them before he had a couple that the database wouldn't migrate over This is one of the reasons it's so important to have a full backup before you do this that way if everything goes wrong You can revert to the backup for me This runs as a virtual machine inside of my XTP and G server and I snapshot it and roll it back if things go wrong That's just kind of you know been my process for a while and it keeps my sanity in case There's some reason we have to roll back of note. It is running W Linux version 9 I have 8 processors assigned to it and it's has 16 gigs of RAM It's only using about 4 gigs right now. So it's not really taxing the system So got 4 gigs out of the 16 gig use and yeah generally speaking when you're not making any changes The processor sits quite idle now another thing I had a few people mention was the maps weren't working I haven't seen this problem at all since I moved to six But I don't know because I had a few people that I've seen it not work and they've asked me what to do to fix it I don't really have a solution because for people that it's completely broken where this map decides to no longer function It just doesn't work unless you reload the controller I haven't figured out what the switch you have to flip is that breaks it or how to Unbreak it other than reload the controller migrate to the other controller and sometimes just restoring from a backup is fixed as well so kind of a strange one, but I have not experienced any issues with it and for the record this device right here that shows not actually attached is Not actually attached us for a future video and it's not inside my network And you may have a guess that by his name port tap Back to the controller This is just a patch release of the 6.0 series. So the bigger release details are over here Dashboard updates combine radio According into one property panel. There's a lot of small improvements. They made Exposed advanced features checkbox in the classic settings I'm hoping they go back and forth and fix some of this because I don't like when You have to switch back and forth between the new settings and the old I know their goal is probably get things to new settings. I don't mind the way it looks I just wanted to be one or the other not have to occasionally when I look for something have to find both now from a day-to-day Basis, it's really not a big deal because the new settings are really only for when you're setting up a new client But obviously this breaks some things including me who makes videos about this I guess it's opportunities. I can make new videos But things aren't where they used to be and so someone may reference something and go Hey, what version do you want? Well the new version they move that feature here I don't mind and there is always changes in UI, but obviously this is It's not finished. So having to go back and forth between two, you know interfaces makes it a little difficult But hopefully they're gonna fix some of those things looks like they fixed some typos and misspellings and Not really anything major in here like updated minimum rssi range for when you're determining how You want the thresholds to be for when a client gets a disconnect from an AP So there's like little tuning they did and a lot of like the Wi-Fi experience showing zero occasionally I never really stare much at that. I also don't look a lot at the dashboard I mean I can go over to the dashboard, but honestly, I don't spend any time here We also pretty much universally do not use any of the dream machines or the unified gateways Deployed to our clients. So if you're having problems with those, they're just not something we use We've repeated this quite a bit in the last well handful of videos and updates I've talked about unify just because a lot of people throw while I'm having all these problems on my usg This is also why we don't use usgs and people bring a lot of problems To the usg it does I think these dashboards are really pretty and people do like to use one of the unify Devices for routing to you know help complete the dashboard But honestly, I don't look a lot at dashboards I dive deep into details and actual problems not just Kind of statistics that don't give me a ton of great detail So there are some fixes though to this and it looks like there's you know Some randomness that was in there that hopefully has been resolved as well Overall Riley did have a post and I'll leave a link to course of this And this is on page four where Riley's post is and he shows some of the things and other people He had these same problems well and these are problems with migration that people had Was specifically Riley did on some of the servers they were maintaining At hostify and uh, like I said, it's not really a clean error And it didn't still make anyone replied to the actual error itself So yeah, that's kind of interesting that it's in there But uh, I wish they had a better, you know error log that in someone replied to it So we know exactly why those ones won't upgrade So my best advice if you're going to switch this new version is make a backup first Make a full backup like I do is my uh with a whole virtual machine is obviously super ideal Because you shut it down and revert completely back to the way it was And hopefully it works for you It seems to from based on the comments quite a few people have not had any issues at all But I will admit this is one thing and someone brought this up of They're not showing things properly. I thought this one was interesting They tried the app and one app says it was working and then the on their phone Then the app on their tablet said it wasn't working I thought that was a little bit strange But I will admit to clearing your browser cache is something really important because of the way the unify controller Sends all the data into your browser You really have to make sure sometimes rebooting devices and clearing the browser Which is actually I think is probably over on page one a few people clear the browser Because if you don't you'll assume it broke and what I mean by that is if you don't force reload the browser page After you've done an update Which you end up with is a bunch of variables dumped onto the screen And I've seen people send me screenshots of that saying hey the controller update didn't work right and it's got a bunch of variables Literally dumping the browser cache fixes that open up a new browser open up a different browser And you'll find that problem kind of is because the browser wants to cache it doesn't realize there's a new version So other than that, I haven't really had any other issues. Everything seems to be working I actually been doing some lab work the last couple days with this particular version and All the settings provisioning changes internally and stuff. I pushed for remote clients. No issues so far That's my thoughts on it and thanks And thank you for making it to the end of the video If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up If you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon If you like youtube to notify you when new videos come out If you'd like to hire us head over to laurancesystems.com fill out our contact page And let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums.laurancesystems.com where we can Carry on the discussion about this video other videos or other tech topics in general Even suggestions for new videos. 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