Mikrotik hap ac2 and cAP

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Hi everybody,
thanks for the help so far, but I need to expand the network with an Access Point, because there is no network in the attic and the router is on the ground floor. I would like help with this.

The Internet is connected to the Mikrotik hap ac2 ether 1 port and the router distributes the network in the house with a PoE switch. One port of the PoE switch ends in the attic and I connected the Mikrotik cAP ac access point to it. WiFi and the Internet receive power from the switch and work. If I connect to the AP via WiFi in the attic, I can reach the devices in the house, but I cannot reach the devices connected to the WiFi in the attic from the network of the house. How can I solve it so that I can reach the devices connected to the WiFi in the attic?

The cAP eth1 (with PoE) port is set as WAN and WiFis via bridge as LAN.

I cannot connect the cAP to the port of the router because there is no built-in cable and I cannot supply power to the cAP in any other way either.

IP address range of the home network: 192.168.1.0/24
cAP WiFi Ip address range: 192.168.88.0/24

Thanks for help

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Probably you left cap as a router ?
Then it’s firewall will block your access.

Best to configure it as simple access point.
1 bridge
All ports attached to bridge incl wireless interfaces
No firewall rules
Dhcp client on bridge

And that should be all.

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Plan your network carefully.
How many subnets do you need, home, work, iot, guest, media, test, video cameras, etc…

Cap is an AP/switch ( no wan,lan) ensure the capac gets an IP address on the trusted subnet.

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The cAP is still in the default setting and I got stuck here.
I would like the cAP to be in the IP address range of the house network (192.168.1.0/24) and the router to distribute DHCP addresses. Currently, ether1 receives a DCP address from the router, but I want to give a fixed IP address to the cAP.

I understand correctly:
remove it from the WAN on the ether1 port and add it to the LAN
disable or delete the firewall and NAT rules

Why should I set a fixed IP address? Birdge?
How do I get a DHCP address from the router for the WiFi clients if I disable the DHCP of the cAP?

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If ether1 is connected to bridge, the dhcp requests from wifi clients will pass to your router.

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Thanks for the help @holvoetn, it works as I hoped. I will test that everything works fine.