High availability Wifi

[nosaj66au]

Hi All now getting down to final design of the new home automation system. Tasmota seems to support redundant networks or at least 2 networks with role over to a secondary AP. Does anyone have any suggestions how to make the most reliable system topology.

My top end at this stage is Node Red on a Virtual Windows box on ESXi. The house is large enought to require a number of AP's and when finished the system will require appox 75-100 devices.

I guess I have a few decisions.
Network topology - Mesh network (i.e. Google),WIFI networks with AP's , Dual WIFI with AP’s ?
IP Address - DHCP's or Fix IP's?
POE or not?
auto OTA firmware upgrade (scheduled of course) or not?
Naming convention for topics/devices/etc ?

Keep in mind I will also have IP Cameras and intent to run Google Casting on the network so there will be a fair bit of traffic.

Any suggestions welcome
Jason

[davidelang]

https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa12/technical-sessions/presentation/lang_david_wireless https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa12/technical-sessions/presentation/lang_david_wireless put all your APs on the same SSID, don't do mesh static dhcpllocations PoEor not depends on your hardware, if it's PoE and it's inconvienient to put a power supply near your device use PoE, if not, why did you pay for PoE you don't need ;-) David Lang On Sun, 11 Feb 2018, nosaj66au wrote:

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Hi All now getting down to final design of the new home automation system. Tasmota seems to support redundant networks or at least 2 networks with role over to a secondary AP. Does anyone have any suggestions how to make the most reliable system topology. My top end at this stage is Node Red on a Virtual Windows box on ESXi. The house is large enought to require a number of AP's and when finished the system will require appox 75-100 devices. I guess I have a few decisions. Network topology - Mesh network (i.e. Google),WIFI networks with AP's , Dual WIFI with AP’s IP Address - DHCP's or Fix IP's POE or not auto OTA firmware upgrade (scheduled of course) Keep in mind I will also have IP Cameras and intent to run Google Casting on the network so there will be a fair bit of traffic. Any suggestions welcome Jason

[ascillato]

Thanks for sharing your presentation. Very useful!!! 👍

[davidelang]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, Adrian wrote: Thanks for sharing your presentation. Very useful!!! 👍

while it's overkill, I figured it was a lot easier than trying to figure out which parts you needed and feed them to you one at a time :-)

[ascillato2]

Hi,

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