CAPsMAN + IPTV

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hi Everyone,

I’m planning how to build NW infrastructure in my new apartment.
Outcome is to have ac wireless ( single SSID ), LAN and IPTV to all three rooms, transmitted over just one CAT6 cable( per room ).
Desired products are three “hAP ac2” managed by CAP Manager ( still don’t now what device but most probably “hEX S” ).
Reason behind using CAPsMAN is that I’ve just one physical NW cable to each room and all of them are collected far away from two of the rooms.

Currently testing with one “hAP ac2” and one “hAP Lite”. The “hAP ac2” is working as CAPs Manager for the “hAP lite”.
Following official documentation - https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Simple_CAPsMAN_setup - I was able to configure wireless section ( not ac one but at least is working ).
Assume that LAN is also working on “hAP lite” ( not tested ) as all ports on it are in the same bridge. Two points achieved from the desired setup.

And here is the tuff part - IPTV.
Only scenario in which I have both internet and TV is when I put WAN + STB ports on CAPsMAN router in different bridge ( bridgeTv )and also to change masquerade FW rule to point to all interfaces. However, in desired situation STB should be connected to CAP not to manager.

Can anyone share his opinion is it possible to passtrough IPTV via CAPsMAN ?

Regards,
Spas Zdravkov

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I’m not sure I understand you right: you have one UTP cable per room. In each room you want to have WiFI AP, wired LAN and IPTV?

My setup, which works in this scenario: use 3 different VLANs sharing single UTP cable, one for LAN (plus “home” SSID), one for guest (“guest” SSID) and one for IPTV. All terminated on routerboard (hAP ac2).

capsman has nothing to do with wired setup of caps, you’ll have to do it by hand on all caps … and if you feel that 3 wifi APs are not many, you can just skip using capsman altogether and configure what little remains for wireless by hand as well.

Regarding VLANs: there’s a nice user contributed tutorial here.

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You understood me correctly and yes, three devices are not so many so I can configure them manually.
Thanks for suggestion, now I just need to figure out how to separate multicast IPTV and LAN with VLAN.