My vera2 is working just fine, but I need to also let it be a wireless access point (if possible), since it covers parts of my house, which my other wifi networks does not.
Today, the vera is connected with its WAN port onto my house LAN. There’s another router connected to the incoming fiber box. The LAN port of the Vera is unconnected.
So if I connect with a wireless device, I can surf the internet, and access vera UI, but I cannot access my LAN.
Especially, I’d like to be able to control my Sonos when I am in vera wifi range.
Can this be achieved? I looked around in the router settings but it looked very basic.
One idea I have, is to connect the LAN port of Vera onto my LAN, disconnecting the WAN. But will Vera work with mios.com if I do this kind of set-up? I frequently access Vera from my work, so I’d rather not loose this functionality.
Another way would be to connect Vera WAN directly to the Fiber box, the Vera LAN port to my LAN. But would this be safe (and would it work?)? (in parallel with my other router)
You will need to connect the Lan port of your Vera to your network. Do not use the wan port. This will prevent your Vera from being part of the network as the Wan port will be considered a separate network.
If I simply program the LAN address to my desired address, save and then reconnects the plug into ETH2, recycle power, I get a few ping replies on the selected address, then nothing. The ETH2 LED on the front never lits up.
If I then reconnect the ETH1, restart, log in, the LAN address field has reverted back to default 192.168.x.x.
I have the settings to “Automatically configure (recommended)” in the Vera UI. Should I set this to something else?
If you select [tt]MiOS is a switch[/tt] as the operating mode, you will maintain a single subnet managed by your primary router. You can then connect to Vera’s wireless interface instead of your other (unreachable) wireless interface.
Doh!!! Sorry about that I forgot to add that bit to my post. Was not fully awake when replying to your post.
Garrett
If you select [tt]MiOS is a switch[/tt] as the operating mode, you will maintain a single subnet managed by your primary router. You can then connect to Vera’s wireless interface instead of your other (unreachable) wireless interface.[/quote]
The marketing and technical meaning of the words gateway, router, switch, bridge and access point do blur a little.
The marketing folks will throw the word router around without knowing the implication. Vera is being very technical with their questions on this settings page and very carefully may I say avoided the use of “router” which can imply one or a combination of several of these technical words
gateway, router - device that connects two networks (typically WAN to LAN in the home environment) [Layer 3]
switch - device that connects several hosts together on a network [Layer 2]
bridge - device that connects two media types or physical layers together [Layer 1]
Advanced: Net&Wi-Fi
Automatically configure (recommended)
Directly to the internet. MiOS is a gateway.
Through another gateway on my network. MiOS is a switch
Through a wi-fi access point. MiOS is a bridge. IMPORTANT: read first
Use Choice 2 - When you want Vera to connect to the cable modem, DSL modem, fiber media converter
Use Choice 3 - When you have a Wi-Fi “router” (containing router, switch and access point)
Use Choice 4 - When you want Vera to wirelessly connect to your existing Wi-Fi “router”
And, yes, Vera will have a connection to cp.mios.com under all these conditions.
