I have my HD HomeRun on a VLAN to keep it separate from my main network (along with smart home devices, etc.).
I have set up a firewall rule and can ping or access the web interface of my HD Homerun from a browser on my main network. Plex, however, will not connect to it either automatically or manually. Is there some setting in plex I need to adjust to get this to work>?
Thanks.
Hi @wyzard, If your HDHomeRun devices are on a different VLAN, then they will not be discovered. It requires them to be in the same broadcast domain (VLAN) for automatic discovery to work.
If you do not have the proper ports open between the VLANs in your firewall config, then manually connection will not work. Discrovery runs on UDP port 65001, also used for the recording engine, and I believe normal connections are on TCP port 80.
You can still, however, add the devices manually even if they are on different VLAN’s. You will need to find the MAC addresses of your HDHomeRun devices and make static reservations in your DHCP server configuration so the IP addresses do not change.
So I need to open the port in both the LAN and VLAN interfaces?
Yes, if you are using the firewall to only allow specific traffic between those networks, then you need to open the ports in order for communiction to occur. You already allow ICMP through, which is why you can PING. The rules are very specific, so it is about allowing the proper traffic between the HDHomeRun’s and Plex Media Server.
Personally, I have the following VLAN setup:
VLAN10 SERVER - for all servers
VLAN11 NETWORK - VLSM for network device connectivity
VLAN12 MEDIA - This is for everything media. My PMS is on it with my HDHomeRuns and all my media devices
VLAN13 GUEST - This is for guest access and it ONLY has access to the internet…uses an ACL
The VLANs are in my switch, and the firewall is in my router. I have one trunk link between the switch and the router and the firewall is enforcing between my ISP interface and the trunk link to the switch. This way, I do not have to worry about firewalling between the VLANs on my local network as I am only concerned with traffic to and from the internet.
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