How to use Unifi Cameras in Home Assistant after NVR being deprecated

Unifi deprecated their Network Video Recorder (NVR) in exchange for their new Unifi Protect system, and, for this last one, there’s no installer to deploy it in our own hardware, as you could do with the former Unifi Video. Now they only distribute it with their own hardware. We just bought a new big server for installing Home Assistant, NVR, the Unifi Controller, and some other applications for our local installation, so we didn’t want to buy more hardware that we didn’t really need. Today we will learn how to install the NVR and fix some installation issues, like the Java version you need to make it work inside Ubuntu 20.10.

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How to automatically reconnect to the WiFi in Raspbian

At home, we have been connecting the garden, lights, doors, the TV, air conditioner, and even Higgs, our pet rabbit, but this last thing will be another post. We have a large variety of devices and sensors, with several Raspberry Pi 2 among them, connected to the WiFi network. Many times we have had to manually reboot the Raspis after a network connection outage because it looks like dhcpcd does not manage this situation.