Wifi connectivity

Hello all

I’m new to OpNsense. and i have been using HA on a dedicated PC. The pc had wifi connectivity.however all components that require wifi all used the wifi connectivity from the router

I will use the OPNsense isolution as my main router and firewall for my home environment.

I installed Proxmox on a dell r720 and OPNsense and Home Assistant are VMs on this server.
At the moment OPNsense is not operational because i’m still learning. i plan to make it my main router and firewall solution by end of August.

In addition to OPNsense the Proxmox on the dell R720 will have as VMs Home Assistant and Tuenas

I need to have wifi functionality for Home Assistant to connect some HA devices

I currently run an Asus RT 87U as my main router and a DSL AC68U as a wifi access point

I would also like to turn the RT87U in to an access point in september when i will go live with OPNsense

These 2 access points are connected via wireline to each other at the moment and at a later date to OPNsense on the proxmox server

My questions:

When i will make OPNsense my main router in September, will i need to add to the proxmox server a USB dongle with wifi capability and pass it through to Home Assistant to provide wifi capability to HA?

Or will the asus devices acting as access point be sufficient

Many thanks for your patience and help in this matter.

Be all well

No, the wired network connection is all you need. HA talks to the network, that network just happens to include some devices connected via WiFi. HA doesn’t know, or care, about that.

Wow Tinkerer

Thank you for your very prompt response. This helps a lot

Again Thank you… Be well