HA is vm installed on ProxMox. HA uses vmbr0 now. I would like to also have HA use vmbr1 for IP cameras on Frigate which is installed as add-on in HA.
The plan is to have my PoE switch and cameras, plugged into the second motherboard port. I added vmbr1 to the hardware list for HA VM in Proxmox.
Do I now just add another IPV4 instance in the HA configure networks interface?
Will that automatically use vmbr1?
First post here. New to using HA, But got my bedroom light working to schedule already!
I dont have proxmox but I think that will work, but maybe just the other port when that is in another IPv4 subnet.
When you add it as a ethernet adapter in the vm settings it should.
Once you added the interface in the VM and restart HA system (not just HA core), then it should be available in the network settings as a tab.
Unless you really know your way around network routing and protocols, then you are setting yourself up for a disaster though.
IPv6 needs to be handled and that require a good knowledge about that protocol, which is quite different from IPv4, so your IPv4 knowledge can’t be used there.
Of course IPv6 can be disabled, unless you use Matter or other devices that require it. Mind you that it will NOT get easier later if you disable it now and then later decides to reenable it, when you need Matter. Quite the opposite!
All the discovery protocols of your devices and HA needs to be handled too, which means your frigate network devices will probably not be autodiscovered or they will and all other devices on your HA system will start to fail, because their autodiscover have been lost.
I decided to bare metal install home assistant on the server. Now the two nics are directly revealed to HA. I so far only intend to have HA and Frigate on the server. The networking errors presented in the Frigate log were many. I am hoping it will integrate more nicely now. To experiment I have to have some time available, as it requires taking the current surveillance system offline to try the integration. It is all PoE hardwired to a QNAP right now. Running HA OS directly removes some layers of complication I hope.