Trailer_Made wrote

  @Mr_Orange Did TP-Link even bother to reply to your post? I bought a Festa set-up over Omada because it was marketed as a prosumer product. What's the point in vlans for household IoT if you don't have mDNS?

  @Trailer_Made - No, but I put in a formal support ticket.....

 

The Festa range has been discontinued and will no longer be sold after about February 2026. I doubt they will be fixing bugs or adding functionality.

This is apparently critical for HomeKit Setup......I am really disappointed this feature is not part of the total solution as others have expressed. This is the first TP-Link products I bought (Gateway, 2 switches, and 3 AP's) and I've put a ton of work into getting it all to this point only now to realize it isn't very Apple HomeKit friendly (i.e no mDNS). Additionally, there is very sparse information about the FESTA product line at all. If it is new, then it was launched too early. There is tons of OMADA, but little for FESTA that I have found so far. If I am wrong I challenge someone from TP-LINK on this forum to post detailed instructions on how to configure a TP-LINK VLAN network to work with HomeKit across the VLANs. If there is no reply to this post.....then I guess we have an answer from TP-LINK that they are not monitoring their own forum well. But I hope I am wrong about both.

  @Mr_Orange 

Here is an update for others.....I reached out to Technical Support today.....Dec 22,2025.....see the attached chat screenshot.