Changes made in the UI

Props are the whole truth. Every update sends the complete object, and an optional prop you leave out means “the console’s default”, never “whatever’s there now”.

Updates undo UI changes

A change made in the UI, to any field of a managed object, is undone by the next update of that object. Objects the stack doesn’t manage are left alone.

Find UI changes with drift detection

alchemy deploy only updates objects whose props changed. To find and undo changes made in the UI, run:

npm

npx alchemy drift --stage home

pnpm

pnpm exec alchemy drift --stage home

yarn

yarn alchemy drift --stage home

Or deploy with --detect-drift.

Watch for UI settings that rewrite managed objects

Some UI settings are views of fields the provider manages, so changing them in the UI rewrites managed objects. The reference points these out, e.g. the gateway mDNS proxy on Network.

Objects UniFi generates

UniFi creates some firewall policies itself: system policies between zones, and derived policies (e.g. from UI objects). The provider never lists, adopts, changes or orders derived policies, and system policies can’t be edited. Your policies sit before or after the system ones; see Ordering.