@trimmkm 

Did you set up the switch ACL rules as "Bi-directional" when creating them, i.e. there is a rule "x" and a coresponding "x_reverse" in the list?

@TEDC 

Thanks for the response.  Yes, I have used the bi-directional option to make this work.  I'm learning most of this as I go, so I'm relying a lot on what I find online.  I haven't been able to find much content online for using the Omada products in a smart home environment.  Based on what I've seen, I didn't think this option would be necessary.  Following a video on setting up the Omada system, the presenter creates a rule to allow all clients on a VLAN to access a switch on a management VLAN.  He didn't enable bi-directional rules, and appeared to have communications.  However, after reviewing the video again I realized he did not create a deny rule to block traffic originating on the management VLAN, therefore the ping requests could return.  

In the Unifi ecosystem there is a setting to enable "established and related" messages that I think allows communications across VLANs without creating static bi-directional rules.  I haven't found a similar setting in Omada.   

So, is the bi-directional setting the only way to allow two way traffic between VLANs? 

@trimmkm I'm curious if you found an answer to this and what your final solution was as I'm trying to set up the same thing right now.

@atvking 

I ended up creating bi-directional rules for things that needed access.  For those services that I deemed "nice to have" but not must have access, I gave up on them as I felt it would defeat the purpose of setting up VLANS. 

@trimmkm Oh that's a bummer! I suspect we've been watching a lot of the same videos (Mactelecom Networks, The Hook Up). I was under the impression that the Omada stuff was as powerful/configurable as the Unifi stuff but at a better price. At this point I just really hope TP-Link adds the ability to configure an established-related rule in the future. That and the lack of an mDNS repeater/reflector are making me want to return the Omada stuff and just take the price hit on Unifi.