# 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.

- Type: Documentation
- Targets: Protocol
- Category: Protocol analysis tools
- Relationship: Learning resource
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/jeffreykog/unifi-inform-protocol>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/jeffreykog/unifi-inform-protocol/blob/63d75a085c816ad5126a77523878e4e4ab3a2a39/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/unifi-inform-protocol/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/unifi-inform-protocol/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/unifi-inform-protocol/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/jeffreykog/unifi-inform-protocol/blob/63d75a085c816ad5126a77523878e4e4ab3a2a39/README.md>

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