Looking for some advice on my home network. I have fiber coming in from the street that is hooked to a 16 port switch. I have a wifi router upstairs that is fed by one of the ports off the switch. Speeds and connectivity are working fine.
The dilemma I have is that my two tvs (one smart tv and one ust projector with android tv built in) are hooked to ethernet via wall ports that connect to the switch… Great quality through the built in apps, but unfortunately, I’m not able to cast to either of them from phone. I can take them off ethernet and move them to wifi, but then I lose access to them from Home Assistant…
I googled around a lot, but haven’t come up with a solid solution. Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly welcomed and appreciated.
do you perhaps have a diagram of how this is configured?
the way it reads the wifi router is handling its own DHCP etc. but then how would your TV’s be getting their addresses? from the ISP?
unless you have the TV’s and home assistant in a VLAN separate from the wifi, this should work to cast from wifi to an ethernet device. i actually moved the ethernet port for my smart tv to the same as i use for wifi just to make casting to it easier. i’ve been two occupied to setup mDNS repeater.
yeah just like i thought. that is why you aren’t able to cast to them. if you instead have your wifi router act more as an access point then it will work how you want. right now you are operating in 3 network address spaces. you need to either take the mDNS traffic from one and rebroadcast it over the other or migrate to a single space.
So I need to turn off DHCP on the router? Maybe assign the router an IP on 192.168.1.0/255? Or should I just replace the router with an access point altogether?
that is an option. if you don’t have another DHCP server going then your wifi connected devices would also need static addresses. if you have a set number of desired static ones then you could move the wifi router DHCP range to 192.168.1.0/255 and just enter your static reservations so there isn’t an IP conflict later. this would possibly require you to have the ethernet cable going from the switch to be connected to a lan port instead of the wan (idk which one you have it connected to right now)
The ATT modem is a modem/router combo so it has DHCP. If I set the ASUS wifi router to a static range that won’t conflict with the Netgear Switch (I have a managed switch so I think I can limit it’s IP range as well) I should be able to let the ATT modems DHCP assign IPs on the 192.168.1.x range??
