Hello! I would like to separate the LAN dedicated to various IoT and home automation devices from my regular LAN. Currently I have it like this:
(WAN-[fibre GW]-[heX S (bridge eth4+sfp)-[unmanaged switch 1]-[unmanaged switch2];[hAP mini]-[fibre GW])
hAP mini is the node dedicated to IoT devices.
The problem is the devices are in various places and the walls between them are rather thick. There is also no space to carry another physical line (neither twisted pair nor fibre) but the home LAN is everywhere.
Initially I was thinking of doing this:
(WAN-[fibre GW]-[heX S (bridge eth4+sfp)-[unmanaged switch 1]-[unmanaged switch2];[hAP mini]-[fibre GW];[hAP mini 2]-[unmanaged switch 2])
..and creating a bridge between hAP and hAP2 using EoP, but somebody told me doing it based on vlans would be more elegant and perhaps more practical. The problem is I am pretty much vlan (and network protocols) illiterate so I am not even sure what is technically possible. Could you help me please with some very basic questions? First of them would be like this:
(WAN-[fibre GW]-[heX S (bridge eth4+sfp)-[unmanaged switch 1]-[unmanaged switch 2];[hAP mini]-[unmanaged switch 1];[hAP mini 2]-[unmanaged switch 2])
For the above, can vlan separation be done with unmanaged switches? Again, the main point is, the IoT devices should have not access to the home LAN but utilizing physical infrastructure of home LAN.