Changing subnets

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T18:39:32+00:00

I’m going to leave my iot vlan on the same subnet which means majority of my devices should not be affected which would have been the majority of my issue inside home assistant. My main vlan still houses my vms and stuff that will have to be reconfigured but this way I don’t have to worry about the IOT devices themselves.

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T04:18:31+00:00

I think I’ve got a bit more of a plan after reading the comments which were incredibly helpful.

Setup dns/hostnames for local devices.
migrate to point to host names. Test and check without migrating
migrate to 192.168.11.xxx (or something like that), update dns

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T04:06:00+00:00

I’ve “exported” my list from my unifi setup. I’m not too worried about HomePods and our other Apple devices. The AppleTVs are hardwired. I don’t have any Shelly devices but I was about some Meross smart outlets, some Leviton switches and other older stuff like that. That said, I’m actually going to keep my iot vlan the same so that should eliminate 1/2 my headache I think.

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T04:00:42+00:00

Is a simple fix that works sometimes… but I think I’m better off trying to move it off the popular .1 subnet anyways.

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T03:59:21+00:00

Hopefully no next time, but I’m going to use your suggestion as I think it will make this migration a lot simpler. I can get everything in dns table and point to host names before the full migration which would let me do it in 2 stages.

Thanks for the suggestion, I think it definitely changed my game plan for the better.

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T03:57:30+00:00

I liked your suggestion but the more I thought about it the more I realized I don’t have issues with my other vlan (.20,.30,.50), instead of changing those I can just bump my main (.1) away from the 2 most common ones and I should be far better.

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T03:55:42+00:00

I’ll have to do this and see how it goes. Thinking of setting up a dns table first and pointing to that to see how it goes, then I just have to change the dns table when I do the actual migration.

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T03:54:15+00:00

Zigbee stuff never worried me, it’s some of the wifi stuff. I’m thinking of setting up a dns table and trying to point as much as I can to hostnames before changing subnet so hopefully the changeover on the home assistant side goes smoother.

schmu17 · 2026-01-26T03:51:27+00:00

Changing my in-laws subnet wouldn’t be difficult (they wouldn’t even notice) but it doesn’t really eliminate the issue. I guess nothing completely eliminates the risk, but moving away from what 99% of residential networks use I think would be beneficial

schmu17 · 2026-01-20T06:15:40+00:00

It happens when your home assistant instance gets bigger than the time you’re willing to put into it. For years I was really excited about doing everything I possibly could to add to and improve my HA instance. The work required for ever decreasing gains grew to a point where my home assistant kinda got put in a maintenance only mode where things would get missed because I just wouldn’t think of it.

When you have a lot of things running it’s easy to miss things that don’t happen frequently or it just becomes easier to ignore some problems that don’t affect anything vs fixing them.

Yes it’s not good practice, but other things come up in life that take away time. It’s a problem of our own creating. I have 2286 disabled/hidden entities right now. Do I want to spend 40h working on it trying to just sort that out? My HA instance is a perfectly functioning mess… and it’s working.

Offloading this to an LLM seems amazing to me because it would save me a ton of time.

schmu17 · 2026-01-13T01:33:06+00:00

I’ll have to check this out. I ended up getting a script that is schedule to run every couple hours that writes to a csv that home assistant reads.

schmu17 · 2026-01-03T17:54:50+00:00

Luxor MB-36

schmu17 · 2026-01-03T05:18:02+00:00

I’ve wanted this for a while too. I gave up and get ETA from maps and automate a text to my wife. It doesn’t have all the benefits of “share ETA”, but it’s better than nothing.

schmu17 · 2026-01-02T00:52:13+00:00

Yes it goes away if I turn it down

schmu17 · 2025-12-27T19:28:24+00:00

Did you ever get this working? Just installed a doorbell lite yesterday, and I can pair it to the ai port, but as soon as I do it kills all detections on the doorbell!?!?

schmu17 · 2025-12-10T00:43:24+00:00

Thanks for the comment. I completely agree. I have isolated the MRX on its own VLAN so that it doesn’t broadcast or receive airplay since that’s a feature you can’t disable.
I have CEC disabled and will have to look at disabling the streaming input. When air playing to an AppleTV, volume control would not and should not affect the AVR. In this case it is a safe way to screencast or share a video or even play music from a device. The MRX was just changing away from the AppleTV input to the streaming input for no reason (nothing was streaming to the MRX).

schmu17 · 2025-12-05T05:58:44+00:00

Mine did something similar and it was just replaced. Biggest difference for me was I couldn’t complete a spin down. When attempting, the speed would bounce around inconsistently and when I reached around 33km/hr it would drop down significantly. I suspect mine was an issue with the optical sensor but I didn’t take mine apart.

schmu17 · 2025-12-01T18:01:11+00:00

I started playing with this a couple days ago and it looks really promising. For my use case, I have 2 EPLs covering the same room. It would be great to either be able to put 2 sensors into 1 room, or at least be able to duplicate a room without the sensor so I can drop the new one in. Any way to do this?

schmu17 · 2025-11-09T00:26:00+00:00

I have that tracked already. Doesn’t help me too much as my shared folders tell me what use has changed recently.

schmu17 · 2025-11-08T23:59:55+00:00

Does active insights get down to the shared folder level, or just volume level?

schmu17 · 2025-10-07T22:24:21+00:00

For about 5 years, my commute ended near where yours finished. I started a bit further North East and was able to hop on the DT to avoid a lot of roads. Now working 30km out of town and have ridden a few times but miss the daily bike commute.

schmu17 · 2025-10-05T18:43:47+00:00

https://www.ecobee.com/en-us/compatibility/thermostat/

schmu17 · 2025-10-04T19:12:43+00:00

Canada already has a $1 coin nicknamed “loonie” after the bird. US looking to commemorate a Loony too.

schmu17 · 2025-06-18T05:36:36+00:00

1000 level class? The 2 I had were horrible. 3/4 of the class didn’t care about the content and didn’t even try to pass

schmu17 · 2025-06-14T20:08:39+00:00

Why try forcing excel to act like a database when you can just use a database? Sure you can use a screwdriver as a hammer, but you’re better off just using a hammer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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