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Except that many IOT devices require you to be in the broadcast domain for control and discovery.... e.g. with LIFX wifi light bulbs, you can control them with
by daurnimator 7y ago
Except that many IOT devices require you to be in the broadcast domain for control and discovery....
e.g. with LIFX wifi light bulbs, you can control them with low latency (and no internet connection) via ip packets; or high latency via LIFX's cloud servers if you're not in the same subnet.
- snuxoll 7y agoMeanwhile my WiFi-enabled HomeKit devices happily run on a segmented network.
- iso1210 7y agoAre they using broadcast packets, or is it multicast and enabling multicast routing on your home network fixes the problem (you might need a mangle rule to bump up the TTL)
- daurnimator 7y agoUDP broadcast: https://lan.developer.lifx.com/v2.0/docs/workflow-diagrams#discovery https://lan.developer.lifx.com/v2.0/docs/workflow-diagrams#d...
- iso1210 7y agoNasty. Maybe able to do it with a dst-nat?