PFSense IoT VLAN and Matter Smart Home Devices?
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Anyone know more about what will be needed for the new Matter smart home devices to work across vlans (ones using Wifi and not Thread)?
Homekit was pretty good, with the setup of Avahi you can have a separate IoT VLAN with firewall rules that block it from talking to talk to your main, and as long as your main could talk to the IoT it just worked without any additional relaxing of the separation. Do we know if Matter over WiFi just needs Avahi for mdns across vlans, or will it require more ugly allowances like with chromecasts?
Or is it not really going to matter anymore since supposedly this new standard is going to be more secure, potentially eventually making the IoT VLANS really just for those old off brand odd devices?
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@baronkrause said in PFSense IoT VLAN and Matter Smart Home Devices?:
Or is it not really going to matter anymore since supposedly this new standard is going to be more secure, potentially eventually making the IoT VLANS really just for those old off brand odd devices?
Pretty much the only thing I can say for sure is that will not be the case. Unless they are somehow guaranteeing continuous firmware updates for every device for the life of the device (10y?) Which seems very unlikely.
Steve
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You need an Apple TV or HomePod, the newer versions act as thread routers.
It just works with iPhones on one vlan and IOT devices on another vlan, same as it would if you were away from home.
For what it’s worth I had nothing but problems with avahi and removed it after a week.