Avahi daemon interferes with Apple’s HomeKit
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Thanks to this Reddit post
https://www.reddit.com/r/tradfri/comments/dy8xqx/tradfri_gateway_wont_work_with_mdns_enabled/
I can confirm that the Avahi daemon interferes with HomeKit communication, somehow. With it turned on, it creates a lot of ping chatter between the different devices on my network.
I don’t myself know enough about how the daemon operates or what the HomeKit communication protocol does with Zeroconf to have an answer for why this happens.
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@dominikhoffmann I can confirm that this is true for me as well. Extremely disappointing. Any other options besides Avahi for MDNS across subnets on PFSense?
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As an alternative, I'd recommend trying
udpbroadcastrelay:https://forum.netgate.com/topic/155698/how-can-i-get-this-udp-relay-package-for-casting-across-vlans
Hope this helps.