Sharing devices (such as a printer) between guest and regular WiFi
Understand how the current isolation works and is great. However in some cases having guests access to certain devices (such as a network printer) would be awesome. Of course I imagine the user selects which device to expose between the two WiFi networks and this could also be on some sliding scale of time.
Cheers.
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Perhaps an implementation could be creating a 1:1 NAT between the guest network an a shared device on the non-guest network? IDK. I'm spitballing.
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Hey bahree —
Welcome to the eero community and thanks for this feature request.
I'm happy to share it with the team. Since the guest network is completely separate from the main SSID, meaning it only has internet access, it wouldn't be possible to share devices between the two at this time.
There are some workarounds for printers, however. Have you looked at Google Cloud Print?
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Jeff C. I have, and sure there are workaround and of course much of this is first-world problems. But having some option to have a shared set of devices between otherwise isolated network would not only be pretty sweet, but a huge differentiator in the market.
Of course fix the issue discussed at [1] first and then at some point get to this. :)
Keep up the awesome work! Thanks.
[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/eero/comments/5xdsgt/message_to_eero_wifi_internet/?st=izuskm62&sh=e47a0d48
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+1!
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Google Wi-FI implemented this feature well. It's one of the things I overlooked when switching to eero.
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+1 to this, even if it was only an option initially for any wired devices on the network. We have an HD Homerun box that would be great to be able to expose to our houseguests on the guest network.
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I am using a Google Wifi product that already implements this feature and is very important for me. On my other network I add all of my IOT devices to the guest network and then allow those devices to access my local home-control server.
allowing us to create separate VLANs with some firewall rules could accomplish the same thing.
Either way, I'm looking into returning my eeros now to get more Google Wifi because it has the feature Eero lacks.
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Any update on this?
I just joined Eero and I am a bit disappointed that I cannot share any of my devices on the guest network.
At first I thought it was just my Sonos network that was acting weird, then realized my Airplay devices were not showing up either. Until I realized Eero's guest network is just not configurable.
I came across this topic as well. It seems that both could be solved by implementing sharable devices/protocols (which could be an opt-in feature).
https://community.eero.com/t/y7g40n/allow-airplay-apple-tv-chromecast-control-on-guest-networks
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Still no update on this? I too wished I'd known this before switching from Google WiFi as it's an important feature for us too. Our use case is for an Airbnb where we want guests to be able use devices like a Wifi speaker or Printer w/out connecting to our main network.
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I so agree this is a critical ad. I love my eero system; but I don't want to be giving out my main network information to Guests to access printers or basic shared items in the house. There should be some option to do this in the Guest network and share properly.
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+1 on this. I have a device on a guest network I wish to isolate and it would be great if I could specify the device(s) on the main network is it permitted to communicate with (file sharing) so this feature is not just for printers!
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