Very good Lee, when I finally get knee deep in this I’ll most likely be yelling 
for suggestions….Thanks so very much.

John



> On Mar 8, 2019, at 2:13 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 8, 2019, at 12:22 PM, John Robinson <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>> If you are concerned about the thermostats, you can absolutely segment your 
>> network and add a VLAN for the thermostats that only allows them access to 
>> the internet with a 1 way trust that will allow you access to the 
>> thermostats but won’t allow traffic to be initiated from the thermostats 
>> into the rest of your network.
> 
> He’s suggesting a variation on what I’m doing. You can put the thermostats on 
> a “guest” network with no open incoming ports so they can call home, but 
> nobody can call them. Mine isn’t quite that strict. For example, I’m reminded 
> some of my son’s gaming ports are still open, even though he doesn’t live 
> here any more. (Gotta fix that one of these days.)
> 
> I have my visitor network set up so traffic can’t pass from the visitor 
> network to the home network. A good router will let you do this within its 
> routing table.
> 
> L^2
> 
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