unifi-mcp-server MCP Server
An MCP server that leverages official UniFi API
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Published as unifi-mcp-server on npm. Runs locally.
Known issues
30 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.
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MCP_SERVER_TRANSPORT=streamable_http crashes with FastMCP: Unknown transport
Summary
Starting the server with the transport value currently recommended by the documentation:
MCP_SERVER_TRANSPORT=streamable_http
causes the process to exit during FastMCP startup:
ValueError: Unknown transport: streamable_http
FastMCP's server-side name for the Streamable HTTP transport is http.
Environment
- Deployment: Docker
- API mode:
local - Python: 3.13
- Configured transport:
streamable_http - Server port: 3000
- Repository: current
main
Read the thread · 2026-08-23 · open · external user · 3 comments
CI is unreachable for fork PRs: workflow runs stuck at action_required + Mermaid check erroring, blocking all 9 open PRs
Opening this as a process/CI issue rather than a code bug: all 9 open PRs are currently unmergeable for the same reason, and it isn't anything the contributors can fix from their side.
Summary
Fork PRs never run CI, so the only check that reports a conclusion is Mermaid Diagram Sync Assistant — which has been erroring on every fork PR since late June. The automated daily review then reads that as a failing required check and posts CHANGES_REQUESTED, every day, forever.
1. Fork PR wo
Read the thread · 2026-08-06 · open · outside contributor · 3 comments
[Bug] All v2 traffic-flow tools fail with "Site does not exist" when passed a site UUID
Bug Description
get_v2_api_path() interpolates the caller-supplied site_id straight into
/proxy/network/v2/api/site/{site_id}. The UUID → site-short-name translation
that UniFiClient._translate_endpoint() performs only fires for /ea/sites/...
endpoints; paths that already start with /proxy/network/ are passed through
untouched. So every v2 traffic-flow tool sends a UUID where the v2 API requires
the short name, and the controller rejects it.
This matters because list_sites ret
Read the thread · 2026-07-30 · closed · outside contributor · 5 comments
[Bug] create_wlan dry-run succeeds but confirmed 6 GHz WPA3 SSID creation fails with InvalidPayload
Bug Description
The MCP tool create_wlan failed when tested against the UDR7 Local environment.
The specific failure was creating a 6 GHz-only WPA3 PSK SSID. dry_run=true succeeded and returned a valid-looking payload preview, but the confirmed call failed with api.err.InvalidPayload / api.err.InvalidValue.
Error Message
Error calling tool 'create_wlan': API request failed: {"meta":{"rc":"error","msg":"api.err.InvalidPayload"},"data":[{"validationError":{},"rc":"error",
[Read the thread](https://github.com/enuno/unifi-mcp-server/issues/77) · 2026-05-12 · closed · external user · 4 comments
### Request - SKILL.md / cli mode
I wonder if you could package these tools as a cli with an associated SKILL.md file (or set of files)? That would make them easier to use because they wouldn't take up space in the context for conversations that don't involve Unifi. Users could leave the Unifi skill enabled all the time, vs having to enable/disable the Unifi MCP server.
There are tools that try to automatically wrap MCP servers into CLI tools and/or SKILLs. but an official version would be nice.
[Read the thread](https://github.com/enuno/unifi-mcp-server/issues/70) · 2026-05-01 · closed · external user · 7 comments
### Most recent
### [Bug] Unifi MCP SSL Issue
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<p>The MCP tool <code>list_active_clients</code> (and by extension, any tool that calls <code>UniFiClient.authenticate()</code>) failed against a <strong>UDM Pro Local</strong> environment because SSL certificate verification could not be disabled. The <code>.env</code> variable documented for this purpose (<code>UNIFI_LOCAL_VERIFY_SSL</code>) is silently dropped by the provided <code>docker-compose.yml</code>, w
[Read the thread](https://github.com/enuno/unifi-mcp-server/issues/161) · 2026-08-25 · open · external user · 2 comments
### [Bug] Integration v1 sweep: 3 more models reject real controller responses, 5 tools call non-existent endpoints
## Summary
Follow-up to #100 / #103. While fixing `list_wan_connections` I promised the reviewer a sweep of the other Integration v1 code paths for the same defect class. This is that sweep.
Two distinct defect classes turned up, both making tools unusable in `UNIFI_API_TYPE=local` mode:
- **Class A — model requires fields the Integration v1 API never sends.** Same root cause as #100. `ValidationError` after a successful `200`, so the data is fetched and then thrown away.
- **Class B — the to
[Read the thread](https://github.com/enuno/unifi-mcp-server/issues/108) · 2026-08-03 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments
### [Bug] ValidationError: FirewallPolicy.destination.matching_target missing 'WEB' enum value
## Description
`list_firewall_policies` (and by extension `get_firewall_policy`) fails with a
Pydantic validation error when any firewall policy on the site has
`destination.matching_target` set to `"WEB"`. Since Pydantic validates the full
response list, a single policy with this value causes the *entire* tool call to
fail — there's no way to retrieve any firewall policies for the site until the
offending policy is removed or changed.
This looks like the same class of issue fixed for `AP
[Read the thread](https://github.com/enuno/unifi-mcp-server/issues/106) · 2026-08-02 · closed · external user · 2 comments
### [Bug] get_network_topology returns no device-to-device links — reads an `uplink` field the devices endpoint does not return
## Bug Description
`get_network_topology` builds device uplinks from `device.get("uplink", {})`,
but `GET /integration/v1/sites/{site_id}/devices` does not include an `uplink`
key at all. `uplink_device_id` is therefore always `None`, no uplink connections
are ever created, and `max_depth` is always `0`.
The result is a topology graph containing only client-to-device edges. The
device hierarchy — the actual point of a topology tool — is missing.
## Environment Details
unifi-mcp-server versio
[Read the thread](https://github.com/enuno/unifi-mcp-server/issues/102) · 2026-07-30 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments
### [Bug] list_pending_devices hits a non-existent endpoint — 'pending' parsed as a deviceId
## Bug Description
`list_pending_devices` requests
`/integration/v1/sites/{site_id}/devices/pending`. The Integration v1 API has no
such route; it matches the `/devices/{deviceId}` pattern instead, so the
controller tries to parse the literal string `pending` as a device ID and
rejects the request.
The tool cannot succeed on any site — this is not environment-specific.
## Error Message
Error calling tool 'list_pending_devices': API request failed: {"statusCode":400, "statusName":"BAD_REQ
Read the thread · 2026-07-30 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments
[Bug] list_wan_connections raises ValidationError — WANConnection requires fields the Integration API never returns
Bug Description
WANConnection marks site_id, wan_type, interface and status as
required, but GET /integration/v1/sites/{site_id}/wans returns only id and
name. Every response therefore fails validation and the tool is unusable in
local Integration API mode.
Same failure shape as #72 / #75 / #89 — a model stricter than the API it parses.
Error Message
Error calling tool 'list_wan_connections': 4 validation errors for WANConnection
site_id
Field required [type=missi
[Read the thread](https://github.com/enuno/unifi-mcp-server/issues/100) · 2026-07-30 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments
### Requests to Legacy REST endpoints failing
I am trying to use unifi-mcp-server with Claude and it is failing. I requested Claude to document the error and its conditions. It provided detailed data and suggested fixes
## Bug Description
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Requests to legacy REST endpoints (list_port_forwards, get_device_connections) hang for ~4 minutes instead of failing fast, due to stacked retry/backoff on authenticate() + data call
## Error Message
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Read the thread · 2026-07-27 · closed · external user · 3 comments
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