VLAN-Setup, with devices with different IP addresses within same LAN

erm HA to accept Vlans, theres no option there for me to do this. All my other switches are enabled with mDNS for IOT devices auto discoveries. My Mik router has been enabled with PIM for all interfaces. In fact even before enabling PIM all multicast traffic can be seen across all interfaces in the router.

The latest discovery detected my iphone whilst being connected on my IOT network

Sorry for being “unclear” , i was referring to “Allow”

Which Integration ?, Mobile-App ?
BTW. You haven’t either informed us whether you have SSL/Remote-Access enabled in HA, On the other hand it sounds like you know what you are doing, so i guess you you thinks this is irrelevant for us to know.

configure HA to accept Vlan, how do you do this? Theres nothing in the HA Green thats showing this despite activating advance mode. And no i have not done any SSL/Remote access enabled in HA, do you need to activate? i will only want access locally. Any need to access it externally will be done through my VPN in my router. Already tested, mobile mode no wifi vpn activated can access HA Green server, VPN off access not possible.

Integration as in iphone to HA all stats and info now seen in HA. Its auto

Forget about “Vlans”, HA don’t know that “Word” and it doesn’t care about the “Word”, it’s a Network Device( Server )

Sorry never heard of that Integration

And with this, Also Configured Somehow, my last words are final.
I have No idea how to guide you “through”

PIM is used for forwarding “routable” multicast between routers. To be clear, the types of multicasts being used for Discovery (for example mDNS/DNS-SD) use an IP address in the range of 224.0.0.0 and 224.0.0.255 and these are called link-local multicast and they are not to be forwarded from one subnet to another (i.e. they are confined to the local link (LAN/VLAN)).

Nevertheless, as I mentioned earlier, there are some schemes implemented in routers that do forward mDNS link-local multicasts. I’ve been glancing through some Mikrotik Forums, and there are no out-of-the-box solutions for forwarding link local multicasts. However there are a couple of “hacks” some people have been attempting to implement in order to overcome this, so you may want to google around for things like “mikrotek mDNS-repeater”, “mDNS-reflector”, and here is a link on a container that looks sorta interesting. But again, these types of solutions do not always solve the problem.

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I remembered using HA on my NAS years before and now realised why i stopped using it - it was the same issue i have now being HA not being to detect, discover IOT devices within your LAN if those are in another network like Vlans. Read through a fair bit of what others have gone through in trying to integrate devices from their Vlans and it seems to have the same issue.

I have a Ikea Dirigeria with some IOT devices and awaiting it to be made available in the integration.

Thanks for your input, as someone informed above HA seems to not work with Vlans.

Appreciate your effort, i noticed elsewhere there are people who grapples with the same issue being HA being unable to integrate devices from other networks mostly Vlans, wonder if anyone overcame this or a solution is in the works.

Yes many people “struggling” with this (for various reasons) and some ends up “open” the network(VLAN) to all access from i.e “ordinary” LAN, which kind of defeats the purpose (Depends on ones reasons, for choosing Vlan)
An easy solution is, you could place HA on same VLAN, and have dedicated device(s) to access it “locally”
Btw, by “accept/allow” i mend HA-Network “settings” ( allow-list ) access to/from specific network-segments :wink:
However as wmaker mention, start by going through your manuals/forums for Your specific Brand Router/Switches, and Google, it’s as you understand not a “specific” HA scenario (beside specific functions, and knowledge about how HA communicate) , it’s a Common Network related situation, which highly depends Your specific HW/SW solution/setup, and experience