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That's going to be hard to deal with, principally because I'm sure many of the control apps only search for devices on your local subnet and don't allow manual specification of IP. If they do allow manual specification of IP, then you could probably do what the other person who replied to your question suggested: multihome a router, establish a hardened second network, and leverage port forwarding. If they don't, then you need to put them on a separate network and put a controller on that second network too (eg an old phone, tablet, smart speaker).

Alternatively, you could set up a bridge by hardwiring the device to a raspberry pi and then use the pi's WiFi to connect to your existing network. You then set up traffic forwarding across the NICs, man in the middle all the traffic, and only allow certain traffic in and out. This avoids the need to create a new network.




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