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unifi-inform-protocol

unifi-inform-protocol documents the observed discovery and inform exchanges between Ubiquiti UniFi access points and their controller. It maps UDP discovery TLVs, the adoption sequence and binary HTTP /inform packet fields, including compression and AES encryption flags.

Targets: Protocol
Category: Protocol analysis tools
Relationship: Learning resource
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08

Stars: 119
Last commit: 2020-05-18

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Scope: Applies to UniFi access-point discovery and inform traffic.
Limits: The section on configuring an access point is marked as forthcoming.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{unifi-inform-protocol,
  title = {{unifi-inform-protocol}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/jeffreykog/unifi-inform-protocol}},
  url = {https://github.com/jeffreykog/unifi-inform-protocol},
  urldate = {2026-11-08},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/unifi-inform-protocol/}}
}

Plain text

unifi-inform-protocol. https://github.com/jeffreykog/unifi-inform-protocol (accessed 2026-11-08). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/unifi-inform-protocol/

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README.md GitHub · jeffreykog/unifi-inform-protocol · Revision 63d75a0