Hi,
I wasn’t too sure where to put my topic, as it is not on topic with Home Assistant itself, but potentially important if you set up your home automation.
I read that it is advisable to have your IOT devices on a separate wifi network, for security purposes (limit influence of potential malicious IOT devices) and stability (2.4 Ghz use only for IOT).
In my case, on Wifi side, I have a few Wiz devices, heatpump devices that connect through the cloud (Melcloud of Mitsubishi), some NetAtmo devices, apart from that also Z-Wave and Zigbee devices. My Wifi setup is from Ubiquiti, so I have no trouble setting up an extra wifi network.
On my “regular” WIFI network I would then have smartphones, printers and Google TV chromecasts with some other casting devices. I also have a “guest” network to allow guests to connect to the internet.
It seems that all my wifi networks need connection to the internet.
The IOT network would need access to Home Assistant and be disconnected from the other WIFI networks. I assume this can be done through vlan.
Is that than it ? Or is there more to make it more safe ?
What approach do other people here take ?
Thank you for your feedback !
Kind regards,
Discoverer