![]() Some other solutions I have thought of include the following… It is a possibility to remove the pfsense box all together and make the Google Wi-Fi router act as the main router for the whole house, but that would require re-wiring some things between the basement and first floor and I want to see if there is a better solution before going through with that. This makes sense from what a router is supposed to do, but makes things very difficult for me. The problem I am having is that all of the IOT devices sitting behind the Google Wi-Fi are unable to be seen by the Home Assistant box which is sitting on the other side of the NAT. This is very annoying because this makes my home internet setup a triple NAT situation (I am learning this is why you don’t mix professional and consumer gear…). Unfortunately, as far as I know, when the Google Wi-Fi devices are in mesh mode (which they have to be because my parents want the Wi-Fi coverage in certain dead zones around the house), they also HAVE to act as a router. If I had it my way, I would throw out the stupid Google Wi-Fi crap and replace it with a powerful access point, but my parents want to keep those devices. A Google Wi-Fi router is connected by cable to the pfsense box, which serves the main Wi-Fi to the whole house (which includes both IOT devices that Home Assistant needs to see along with phones, laptops, etc). ![]() The basement is home to a server running Proxmox which hosts (among other things) hassos and an old mini-PC running a pfsense router. At the house, where the connection comes into the basement, is where most of the internet connectivity occurs. They are in bridge mode, so they essentially behave as a very long ethernet cable with much higher latency. There is a router there in the shop, where a directional Wi-Fi antenna is connected to it that enables a connection to another directional Wi-Fi antenna about 100 yards away. One, the shop, where the wired internet comes in from my ISP. There are two buildings on my parent’s property. You can skip the next paragraph if you understand the image below it. I am going to try to explain the network setup, but it’s much easier to visualize it with the diagram I linked below. ![]() I am working on a Home Assistant setup in my parent’s house, so some things can’t change. ![]() I know what you are thinking, “A triple NAT setup? What are you thinking!?” and I feel the same way, but some things are out of my control. ![]()
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