Software dev here. I had a few classes about networks in school but I’m not too skilled with it. I recently got into building a home network as I will soon be moving in with my gf, and want to make a reliable internet setup for the both of us. Also just want to have a bit of fun doing this. I watched a few hours of videos on YouTube to figure this out, and made a small high level drawing of how I would like to do it. Does this make sense ? Will, for exemple, my main VLAN be able to talk with my home server ? Or my IoT devices be able to talk to Home Assistant on the server ? (The text on the drawing is mostly in French, I figured it’s generic enough to be understandable, tell me if you want more explanation)
Looks good. It’s almost like my home setup. Vlan are great for security, but don’t overdo it ; camera in a separate vlan, and that’s it. Give your main vlan access to cameras, and give camera minimal access to the internet for firmware updates.
IOT : if you plan for more than 5 devices, do not use wifi (iot uses 2.4ghz and 2.4 doesn’t scale well with multiple devices). Use a zigbee or zwave gateway instead.
Everything else looks good 👍
Good to know ! I’m a little bit familiar with zigbee but didn’t know it could relief the network load, I thought the devices were also using 2.4g to speak to the hub.
Zigbee hub uses 2.4ghz but not the exact same frequency. Hub is usually connected to network with ethernet cable, much cleaner if many devices.
Look at this. https://www.metageek.com/training/resources/zigbee-wifi-coexistence/