Is it possible?

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Hello - I’m wondering if this is possible…

I purchased the CRS125-24G-1S-2HnD-IN with the hopes of creating a few different subnets (vlans?) for my various devices on my network.

192.168.1.x - office pc, printer, etc
192.168.2.x - entertainment (TVs, ps4, etc)
192.168.3.x - home automation (Philips hue, Amazon echoes, etc)
192.168.4.x - home security (ip cams, nvr, etc)
192.168.5.x - guests (phones, laptops, etc)

Most of these devices connect wirelessly via a mesh setup - netgear orbi - though some are wired connections (into an 8 port tp-link switch wired to the orbi).

I would like to turn off the wireless on the mikrotik device and continue to use the mesh setup for wireless and continue to control access to the network (block all new devices even with wifi password and manually approve) and create MAC address based subnets/vlans with dhcp handed out by the mikrotik device.

The setup would be like this:

Cable modem —> mikrotik —> orbi

And then a few devices in my office directly wired to the mikrotik.

Is this possible? Is it a relatively simple thing to achieve if so? I have very little network admin experience beyond a basic wireless router setup with dhcp reservations and basic access control. I’m not asking how to do it necessarily (though that would be great) but mostly wondering if it’s possible with my existing hardware.

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possible? Yes
easy? No
with exsiting hardware, probably not.

if some of your subnet shares the same physical interface, e.g a LAN port on the router, you need VLAN.
then your network switch, need to understand the VLAN set up (so it needs to a managed switch)
your WiFi controller and Accesss Point, has to understand VLAN
each VLAN group, may need a different SSID, Sounds like you want 4-5 VLAN, and therefore the same number of SSID, by the time you have done this, the WiFi network is going to be running very slow as it has to broadcast so many different SSID, even worse as it is a mesh.