Feature Request: Access "Media Players" Across Vlans

[crudolphy]

I have a pretty extensive home network and a fairly extensive Home Assistant installation. I would like to incorporate Music Assistant into this. However my problem is this.

I have Home Assistant and all of my "IOT" devices on one vlan, the "IOT" vlan, "192.168.XX.0/24". I have all of my media devices on a different vlan, the "Media" vlan, "192.168.YY.0/24". I do this for several reasons. The first I want to separate the IOT devices and keep them as local as I can by restricting their access to the internet (I think this is a very common practice). I want all my media players, i.e Home Assistant Voice Preview, Amazon Show, Amazon Dot, Amazon Fire TV Sticks, LG TV, Samsung TV's, and LG Soundbar on a different vlan. Reason being the "Media" vlan is the largest bandwidth "Hog" so to speak and requires internet access (in the case of everything but the Home Assistant Voice Preview.)

Home Assistant is able to work across vlans, case in point the Amazon devices are incorporated into Home Assistant via the Alexa Media Player integration. The LG TV is integrated via the LG Web OS TV integration. The Home Assistant Preview is integrated into Home Assistant via the ESP Home integration.

I understand that I have to go into my router and allow communication across the separate networks. That could be limited to IP addresses and specific ports (if published).

If Music Assistant could work across Vlans by sending and receiving data by IP address:port rather than be restricted to an all encompassing flat network, I think would open up more installs to use Music Assistant.

My two cents worth.

Chuck Rudolphy

[OzGav]

The reason is not with MA. It’s with the broadcast nature of the discovery protocols that consumer devices use. Additionally, some protocols use random ports to communicate hence the need to have access to all of them. If you put MA on your media VLAN then it should work. Whether it can also access HA on your other VLAN is up to you.