Greetings,

I'm planning a wifi mesh network for a rural property which includes a small house (~800 sq/ft), and a metal shop building about 200 feet away. I'd like to cover the indoor areas, *and* the outdoor spaces surrounding and between the two buildings with wifi that would support fast roaming between APs for wifi calling. Because the Deco line has no outdoor mesh products, I'm looking at the Omada line, and specifically the EAP610-outdoor. I'm thinking to mount one on a mast on each building, where there's a decent line-of-sight between them (some, but not much foliage). If that alone doesn't cover the area, I'd augment with an indoor AP.

My first question is what additional hardware would be required for this? Would I need a hardware controller? I could run the controller software on a laptop, but the laptop leaves the prem frequently.

I've seen this:

https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/2283/

which implies that of the features I most want, only fast roaming would fail without the controller. Does this seem correct?

Secondly, the location is currently serviced by an ATT hotspot (a Netgear Nighthawk M6 Pro with an external panel antenna). I'd connect it to an ethernet switch, in turn connected to the local EAP610-outdoor. Would this serve adequately as a router for the meshed APs?

Any thoughts or suggestions on this are welcome.

Thanks