home-assistant-configuration VS homeassistant

I created two helpers (which are basically what Home Assistant calls variables): a toggle helper and a time helper. Then I created an automation to run when the time is equal to the time that the helper is set to and it checks to make sure the toggle helper is on, then you can run whatever task you want (lights, music, etc) as part of the automation. Some smart lights have a built in "fade" time that you can use in Home Assistant, but my lights don't support that (FYI, the "Light" service call built into Home Assistant has this functionality but only if your lights support it. If your lights don't they'll just come on and you'll be confused as to why it isn't working.... I know from experience), so I am using a script I borrowed from Jeff at SlackerLabs to accomplish the fading. He talks about his lighting script in this video. He has it on his GitHub here. Scripts in Home Assistant are a little more complicated than regular automations, but definitely much more powerful.

I'm one of the repositories listed. I've automated more things than I can count at this point. If you can dream it, it can be automated in an overly complicated way.

My problem is I do have IoT devices I want on a separate VLAN, and I mean a lot of them. I have everything so integrated that by moving Sonos to the primary VLAN now I need more holes for the Amazon Echos, my Home Assistant Server, and so forth. It was actually easier in my case to keep the Sonos on a separate VLAN. I installed PIM on my USG to really get it to all work properly and it does work fairly seamlessly now and I have the firewall locked down pretty tight.