My parents are moving into an independent living place and the regular offering is just shared wifi. ChatGPT said you could put a TP-LINK TL-WR1502X - AX1500 WiFi 6 Dual-Band Gigabit Wireless Travel Router and it can supposedly connect to the wifi and create your own wifi ssid and password AND plug the Hubitat C7 into the ethernet port.
My goal is to put Wyze cameras and the Hubitat on this private network.
My question is.... has anyone done this? Any concerns?
Double-NATing. If you maintain their hub, make sure you get Remote Access. Or setup a server with Tailscale.
Installing the TP-LINK router will create a double NAT situation. This in turn causes problems when trying to setup port forwarding rules to access devices on the LAN. In fact, since you won't have access to the ISP router, your only solution to avoid port forwarding rules would be to use Tailscale as mentioned by @aaiyar.
Fortunately, you do not require any port forwarding rules to access Wyze cameras from the Internet. The Wyze cameras initiate a connection to the Wyze servers, allowing the servers to follow the same route back to the camera.
This is the same networking principle that allows us to access our Hubitat hub's remotely, or allows Tailscale to function, all without any modifications (i.e. port forwarding) to our routers.
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