#HomeAssistant is going well, but I need to move all the devices to another network SSID and password. Searching for how to do this is basically full of "why would you do that?" but no solutions that don't involve manually diving in to the config "secrets" - followed by replies saying "don't do that!" Well, security is one reason. I can't be alone here, right?
@PossiblyMax
Ah, another "don't do what you need to do" message. There is an awful lot of that in #HomeAssistant forums. No, actually I do have reasons and they don't fit in a toot.
@vik Oh don't get me wrong I'm absolutely agreeing that splitting your iot and normal WiFi is a good idea. When I did it with my network I had far more iot devices than not, and the iot devices were going to be a real hassle to move, so I didn't move them.
Instead I blocked that network off from the Internet and made a new one for my non-iot and moved those instead.
Unless you mean you have reasons to want to keep your ssid as your main network? Fair enough if so! Just trying to help 🙏
I put Home Assistant and all my IoT devices on a separate VLAN and 2.4GHz-only WiFi network.
My biggest mistake was putting a second NIC in the Home Assistant box. If I was to do it all again I would put it on a single NIC with the default and IoT-only VLAN.
Unfortunately HomeKit devices are in my normal private WiFi since the Apple pairing process expects them to be on the same network.
The electrician had a chuckle when he saw me pairing a new device. “Is that your password?” Oops
@vik Then off you go! Otherwise, you'll end up like myself with several dozen of devices to repair and worse, potentially end up with new IP addresses 🙂
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