Homekit camera streaming choppy and AI motion detect notification not working or blocked
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We have homekit with several home automation and commerical grade security camera setup in our home. Recently, we switched ISP from cable to fiber so they told me we are required to use thier router. It turn out because it needed a VLAN201 on the wan side for the ISP fiber to work and our home network to connect to the fiber.
The ISP provided router been working for several months with our homekit and cameras. Stream are good and notificaiton push work every time from our NVR to our iPhones. Even AI detection nofitiction push works fine.
The ISP provided router does not have VPN service support built in and we wanted to use OpenVPN whenever we are not at home on our Macbook Pro. Since we needed the vlan201 on wan side of the router that how we wound up purchasing TP-Link ER605 V2.
First thing we did was removed ISP router and set up TP-Link with vlan on wan then it connected instantous so all is great. Then we change router gateway and lan to 192.268.1.xx because our existing network was on this and we did an ip reservation by mac number for each camera / nvr / homekit devices. Homekit accessories work fine just the cameras part of the homekit are acting up on ER605.
One thing we noticed that one of the software we use for scanning on our network where it will list all devices on our network and its' ip address, mac number, hostname, and mdns. On the ER605 when we run a lan scan, the ip address, host name and mdns is all blank almost if the router is blocking this information to the lan scan applcaition. On our ISP provided router, this information is shown.
Only vlan we should be using is the vlan201 on wan side. We do noticed a vlan1 listed and we did not set this up so we assume that was set up by OpenVPN service when we enabled it? Is that what may be causing our issue? OpenVPN works for us great and no issue when connecting to our Macbook Pro outside of our home directly to our local network.
Any idea why our lan scan application show all of the ip address blank (it deos show the tp link gateway ip address) and mdns blank and hostname blank when other router show everything?
Thank you
Bill
