Ubiquiti Device Discovery Tool Outdated As Hell

Last release was in 2017. It fails with modern Java installations.

“A Java Exception has occurred.” Pretty opaque message.

Installing an old version of Java is probably not a good idea, security-wise. So what to do?

Here’s how I solved it.

• Download the Discovery Tool.
• Download JRE 8u271, the relevant archive (tar.gz) package.
• Extract both files like so

• Edit the batch file, change the path of javaw.exe

• Voilà!

Pretty poor show, Ubiquiti.