I have recently enforced a better privacy practice for my smart home devices, that includes creating a new access point for those devices and blocking them of internet access with VLAN.

Since then, my yeelight minas celiing lights goes unavailable whenever I physically switch them off and turn them on afterwards.

One really stupid thing is it needs internet access for using LAN control feature. it’s really really dumb.

but at the same time, in this kind of age where everything wants to phone their home, i need to somehow mitigate this in every possible way such as by fooling the devices as if they have access to the internet.

Is this kind of things possible?

thanks!

  • RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyzEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Go zigbee! I was very hesistant running a second wireless network next to wifi, but it’s widely supported and totally cloud-free

    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      22 minutes ago

      Yeah really. I keep hearing these tales of issues with poor network and what not…

      I have literally over 120 devices in my network. Ranging from the cheapest Tuya door/windows sensors I could find (cause I needed thirty+!) to innovelli switches and it just works fantastic. HamGeek PoE concentrator. My only complaint it not being able to control the mesh more (tell certain devices not to be routers, force certain routes for end devices so they don’t use routers that go down when the power is out). I will probably remedy that by adding a second concentrator.

      That’s not to say wifi with ESPHome.and Tasmota aren’t great. Far more powerful and flexible, and with a quality AP it can also support a ton of devices, I have easily four dozen devices running with no issues.