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		t0mas88 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ring introducing new feature to allow police to li... Maybe I'm paranoid, but I have a separate VLAN with its own WiFi SSID for iot things like cameras, sensors, washing machine, dryer, solar panels and a bunch of ESP32 based projects. It has no internet access, and is only accessible from my home automation server. Those devices really only need to send data to Home Assistant and expose some basic APIs to it.

amelius 6 months ago [–]

I take a simpler approach and block such devices in the router. This is a bit riskier as devices may in theory change their MAC address.

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