It takes is a dedicated multicast relfector and few firewall rules to let you discover your media devices and stream content.

Explore various methods to securely connect and manage IoT devices on a separate VLAN, including using firewall rules, Home Assistant workarounds, and dedicated offline networks.

Have you been told that VLANs are the ultimate solution to your network woes? That they’ll magically secure your infrastructure, eliminate complexity, and solve all your traffic management headaches?

At home I generally set all switches with a native VLAN of the main LAN and tagged to the guest LAN. I know this is probably not optimal, but I'm wondering how bad it really is? I get that it probably ...