#Apple airport express multiple setup install#
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Just a suggestion though, nothing in the article is inaccurate. Setting up/Configuring Multiple Airport Extremes on a Home Network Hello Everyone, Diving into the Apple Eco System myself and picked up Three Airport Extremes A1521 routers. The article doesn't really explain why you might want to use client mode (other than use as a WiFi adapter for some equipment) which could lead someone to think this is necessary for AirPlay 2 targets. It might be good to add a sentence to one of the first few paragraphs of the article to explain that. In these cases, client mode would likely fix the issue as you mentioned. You are right that if a person tries to extend the network of another router, it sometimes just doesn't work reliably. If the Express is connected to the other router via Ethernet back-haul it should also work fine. Looking at eBay already, there are a lot of people looking to get the Express all of a sudden.

#Apple airport express multiple setup install#

But, it works better with other manufacturer's routers if you do so. Ive always wanted to stream music wirelessly in my cars, I hate aux cables and bluetooth is lossy and a battery drain I set out to install an Apple Airport. I recently came across 3 A1264 Airports Express and decided to create a multiroom audio system for 3 rooms.

As-is on an AirPort-centric network, it works fine.

#Apple airport express multiple setup mac#

This turned out to be much easier on a Mac than I thought it would be thanks to Apple Support than it was on Raspberry Pi, although not by much.Just keep in mind that it is not necessary to set up an AirPort Express in client mode to use it as an AiprPlay target (and by extention, any seperately sound system that is connected via audio in). The other thing I was able to do is add virtual Ethernet Adapters on some devices so they also exist on the IOT VLAN. Oh, and unplug the two standalone Airport Express units. And then configure the IOT network on the existing Airport base stations. So all I needed to do was change the VLAN id I was using for IOT, and ensure that my router (and managed switch(es)) were passing through tagged frames for VLAN 1003 to all relevant devices. The magic bit of information is that the Airport base stations uses VLAN untagged ethernet frames for the main WiFi network, and VLAN 1003 tagged ethernet frames for the “Guest” network. I’m glad I didn’t: it turns out the the Guest Network functionality on the Airport devices can be repurposed for what I needed. I had thought that it would be neat to have the regular WiFi access points also creating the IOT WiFi network: indeed I nearly bought more Ubiquiti APs to install here just to do that (I put them in the beach houses). Then, and additional (only linked wirelessly) Airport Express extended this network. Then I had this connected to an older AirPort Express, which created the network. So, I had used a VLAN (and made it untagged on one port of the switch in the gateway router) for IOT.

#Apple airport express multiple setup update#

This allows me to update the firmware on my esphome devices without having to switch WiFi networks. I do use a set of firewall rules to allow devices on LAN to access IOT, but not vice-versa. I could have had those as an isolated network, but it’s convenient to be able to have some connection between the two. Click the 'reveal triangles' until you see AirPort Utility 5.6.app: Select it and then click Install from Pacifists toolbar. Until yesterday, I’d repurposed a couple of older Airport Express units that were running the IoT network themselves. Open Pacifist and from its File menu, navigate to the package and open it. If airplay is still possible can it be synced to multiple zones.

I still use the Express (and Extreme) units for WiFi. Airport Expresses are not supported in Apples Airport configuration utility. Apple started using the name AirPort way back in 1999. Prior to that, I’d just used an Airport Express, and several other Extreme and Express units around my house. AirPort is still Apple’s brand name it uses for its Wi-Fi networking products using the regular 802.11b, g, n and ac standards. Airport Express/Extreme and IoT Devices - Īt some point (I think it was when I needed to track down what device on my network was consuming multi-gigabytes of data daily), I moved to OpenWRT on my gateway router.