Homekit Nightmare

elduder

New to PFSense. I watched a few videos on YouTube (Tom Lawrence, and when his failed another one) for how to configure PFSense to allow HomeKit across vlan. I was previously using an Edgerouter without HomeKit issues, so I tried to configure the PFSense similarly but with no joy. I don't have a ton of experience with routers/firewalls which is why I moved to PFSense to get more into it.

The strangest thing is this was working for a while, then just stopped.

VLANS - IOT, WIFI, LAN

My IOT firewall rules
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With the opening of specific ports, that is what needed to be done in order to make the Edgerouter work, so I figured it couldnt hurt to try as a step.

I have a few floating rules in an attempt to get this working, thought maybe I needed these rules on all interfaces and this would be the easiest way
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I also have Ahavi running enabled, reflecting, and I'm not running IPv6. (tried with Ahavi disabled as well)

When I check states,
IOT udp 10.0.2.142:10008 -> 230.0.0.1:10008 NO_TRAFFIC:SINGLE 542 / 0 108 KiB / 0 B

I hope I provided enough info for someone know what I'm taking about.

NollipfSense

@elduder You might want this: https://github.com/homebridge/homebridge
May find valuable info here too: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/154163/can-i-use-ips-to-trigger-a-custom-action