tech_junkie
Getting comfortable
In this diagram, this network doesn't have internet access:
So the AP would only be used for adding wireless cameras.
If you need it to have internet access, then on the static ip entry of the access point, you would put in a static IP address that would be in the IP pool of the computer network and on the blue iris server you would bridge the two connections in windows.
The other way to do it without turning the blue iris computer into a switch would be to insert a router and program the LAN with a different base IP (10.20.10.xxx) and its wan is connected to the computer network and assign the AP a bridge lan IP (10.20.10.xxx).
The only issue that might creep up with that is configuring the managed switch, but it was an unmanaged switch all of that would work.
The only advantage you will get using a router to bridge networks is that you can restrict internet access by using mac filtering and provide dhcp to wireless clients.
Managed switches are really for spitting the switch and vLan but VLANs create their own overhead on the network so that is another reason I avoid them. Besides unnecessarily complicating the install.
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