topic Re: Homekit and VLAN in Arlo Ultra

Homekit and VLAN

lowriskC — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 20:53:07 GMT

I have my IoT device (Arlo included) in VLAN 20.

both my AppleTV are not part of any VLAN

when I try to setup HomeKit , I can't go pass the Discovering your device, I assume the only way would be to have AppleTV and Arlo on the same VLAN which would be very annoying for me?

any work around ?

Re: Homekit and VLAN

StephenB — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 21:55:30 GMT

@lowriskC wrote:

I have my IoT device (Arlo included) in VLAN 20.

both my AppleTV are not part of any VLAN

when I try to setup HomeKit , I can't go pass the Discovering your device, I assume the only way would be to have AppleTV and Arlo on the same VLAN which would be very annoying for me?

I'm not a homekit user, but from what I've read this is a limitation of homekit itself.

https://medium.com/@gepeto42/using-homekit-devices-across-vlans-and-subnets-aa5ae1024939 wrote:

HomeKit uses the HAP protocol, which actually uses peer-to-peer connectivity for really fast action when you try to perform actions. If your device is unable to reach the HomeKit device, it will, through iCloud, try to perform the HomeKit action through your AppleTV.

If your AppleTV is unable to reach the HomeKit device, the request will fail.

Re: Homekit and VLAN

lowriskC — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 10:37:45 GMT

Thank you, I'll try this, so far only enable mDNS repeater but didn't solved anything, probably need to check my firewall alright.