UniFi MCP Server

About This Project

This MCP server's intended use is to allow MCP-capable clients (e.g., Claude Desktop) to directly interact with UniFi Site Manager and UniFi Dream Machine and make the available telemetry usable in a conversational context. It has not been tested outside of this scope (but it's probably fine).

This server provides the following tools:

• mcpGetClientDetails

• mcpGetClients

• mcpGetISPMetrics

• mcpGetDateAndTime

• mcpPing

Schema and decriptions for each tool are documented in their respective files. Test coverage is available for observation/validation purposes.

Related MCP server: unifi-rmcp

API Keys

Instructions for obtaining API keys are in the sample.env file. It's beyond the scope of this project to dictate how you manage these secrets. The JSON blob provided below is obviously the fastest way to get started, but you're encouraged to handle these keys in a way that is in accordance with your policies, or, more bluntly, in a way that doesn't keep you up at night.

JSON configuration for your MCP client

{
    "mcp-unifi": {
        "command": "<path/to/podman>",
        "args": [
            "run",
            "--rm",
            "-i",
            "--env-file",
            "<path/to/.env>",
            "mcp-unifi:latest"
        ]
    }
}

Statement on AI

This project was pair-programmed with Claude Code. Claude wrote the unit tests, Dockerfile, and assisted with answering the odd question I had about the inner-workings of the MCP SDK.