How to set up your Smart Home devices so you don't get hacked!
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Published 2024-06-08
And if you must, you have to set them up the right way.
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All Comments (21)
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The only "Smart device" I have is furry, barks, has 4 legs and knows how to work all my buttons!
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Putting these devices on the guest network is the best option for "smart" devices. Good work Liron!
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Hadn't looked into this - another valuable lesson, thanks Liron!
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Liron you're the best! I just redid my entire network and am using this router for my main R and four other as nodes. Love the added guest network features. I just wish it worked with more routers other than the Asus Pro lines. Thanks again for the video!
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I wish I was tech savvy to do all you teach. Thank you for all you do to teach us viewers to be safe.
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I’ll never understand how people can rationalize connecting all their devices to Alexa … particularly with children in the home 🙄
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Thank you. I play around with a lot of IOT devices and con figuring programming my own ESP32 devices and have always wondered about keeping them connected to the main wifi. This was a great video. Thanks.
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But... but... but how will my refrigerator tell me that I'm out of milk? 🤣 Thanks for the great idea: I'll put my thermostat and washing machine on the guest network I already have set up.
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Great video. Thx for sharing....
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Noted. Thank you.
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good info and timely
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The only sensible benefit to those smart plugs is to allow it to power on a lamp 💡 so thieves think someone is still at home at night or to track power consumption to troubleshoot power bill issues. Other than that disconnect it and put it aside.
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You are a living legend brother🎉
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I actually have an older tp-link router and use VLAN to get a similar result to what you described. I can use 3 SSIDs and a guest network, all of which can be added to a vlan.
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At those prices I will take my chances, but thanks for this info.
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Hi Liron , ... Once again, you are 'THE Man' in this department. My energy supplier keeps on pestering me to have a smart meter installed in place of my prepayment meter! As all appliances have different Hertz's and such, i worry about someone knowing that I have just boiled the kettle. Stay well Sir and full respect to you. 🦉
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Hello My touchpad setting is missing on windows 11 , i want to enable two finger scrolling , i watched lots of videos on youtube but didnt work , i also installed gesturesign but dont know how it works
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Thanks Liron. I have never trusted Wifi or any wifi connectivity devices. No matter what the stores or there websites say how safe they all are, its totally opposite. But the only smart device I have in my home is smart tv. And phone. But the tv dont have any wifi connected to it. But phone only connects to my sister's wifi once in a while. But thanks for confirming my suspicions about wifi smart devices.
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If youre savvy enough you could go down the rabbit hole and setup something like pfsense as a router and unifi as APs. The secret is in vlans and firewall rules. People would be amazed at the control one could have. Plus setup a pihole with a strong list for DNS filtering and most bad sites should be blocked.
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Nice advice to move IoT devices to the Guest network (or Guest wifi in my case) but there is a small problem. Now I can't reach those devices anymore. For example my IP camera. So they are not usable anymore.
