Starting with Unifi Video 3.10.x, in-place upgrades are not fully supported. It's best to generate and save a backup file, and remove your data folder. Then restore the backup from the web setup page.

This docker image runs the unifi-video controller on Ubuntu. Originally intended for Unraid 6.x, it should run fine anywhere.

Set your local data and videos directories in the docker run command. You can also specify a UID and GID for the daemon to run as.

Restart the docker, visit http://localhost:7080 or http://<ip.address>:7080/ to start the Unifi Video wizard.

docker run \
        --name unifi-video \
        --cap-add SYS_ADMIN \
        --cap-add DAC_READ_SEARCH \
        -p 10001:10001 \
        -p 1935:1935 \
        -p 6666:6666 \
        -p 7080:7080 \
        -p 7442:7442 \
        -p 7443:7443 \
        -p 7444:7444 \
        -p 7445:7445 \
        -p 7446:7446 \
        -p 7447:7447 \
        -v <data dir>:/var/lib/unifi-video \
        -v <videos dir>:/var/lib/unifi-video/videos \
        -e TZ=America/Los_Angeles \
        -e PUID=99 \
        -e PGID=100 \
        -e DEBUG=1 \
        pducharme/unifi-video-controller

To avoid MongoDB errors that cause UniFi Video to hang at the "upgrading" screen on startup, you must create a volume (e.g. UnifiVideoDataVolume) docker volume create UnifiVideoDataVolume and then use that volume for /var/lib/unifi-video by changing this line: -v UnifiVideoDataVolume:/var/lib/unifi-video

You can then specify a different directory for your actual video files, which do not need to be located in a docker volume. E.g. -v D:\Recordings:/var/lib/unifi-video/videos

mount: tmpfs is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: cannot mount tmpfs read-only

If you get this tmpfs mount error, add --security-opt apparmor:unconfined \ to your list of run options. This error has been seen on Ubuntu, but may occur on other platforms as well.