A fresh out of the box Unifi Access Point has no idea what to do with itself. It starts scanning the local LAN for any controllers to 'announce' that it is here and needs configuration. But what about when your controller isn't on the LAN? Mine is running on a DigitalOcean droplet, for example.
We need to tell the AP where the controller resides in order for the announcement to be successful. It's actually a relatively straightforward thing to solve but requires a few steps which I'll outline b
