ansible-openwisp2 VS ansible-openwrt

OpenWISP (https://openwisp.org) tries to do this and it's Python and Django based.

Last time I checked it out, it seems like they keep configuration in an intermediate format that is then translated to manufacturer-specific formats, so it should be possible to build a Unifi converter for that.

OpenWISP (might be closest thing I've seen to what you're looking for)

Time to flash openwrt and use openwisp?

For those using OpenWRT looking for a central controller which can be installed on-premise: https://openwisp.org/

I think you are wrong. I have been working on https://openwisp.org for some time and implementing a controller which is robust and can handle many different corner cases and offer good functionality and also ease of use is a challenge and requires several people working full time on it. Even simple functionality it's a lot of work, unless for simple you mean really trivial. If it wasn't hard, there would be many alternatives but as far as I know there aren't many.

you can use this: https://github.com/gekmihesg/ansible-openwrt

There have been efforts in that direction:

- https://github.com/gekmihesg/ansible-openwrt

- https://github.com/NN708/ansible-openwrt

and even

- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/communit...

Are they not sufficient?

https://github.com/gekmihesg/ansible-openwrt (which is a dependency of the nn708 one) to me seems way better, but it works by re-implements various ansible modules in a way that doesn't require python, which - while commendable in principle - will in practice surely drive users into hard-to-deal-with issues with incompatibilities, unsupported features, etc (of course the details of the re-implementation of modules are not documented, so it's gonna be trial, error, and.. hope the next release doesn't break things).