Makes sense. I thank you for all the attention you’ve paid to this!
Because the eero won’t let me add a static route, the Mini isn’t going to act like a bridge and won’t work for this situation. Let me explain what I’m trying to accomplish here and maybe we can brainstorm another solution.
I have a remote mobile observatory with computers, PLCs, cameras, etc wired to an ethernet switch. When the observatory is here at home, I run a long ethernet cable from my home (10.x) LAN out to the switch so all the devices are now connected and I can work with the observatory. I bought the BR1 Mini in hopes that I could install in the observatory, and take advantage of cellular or satellite WANs to provide connectivity while it’s in a remote location. This should work fine. But, when I have the observatory at home, I want to connect it to the home network.
I thought of a few things. One was to just plug my long wire into the WAN port and have it work like a bridge (that’s what I’m doing now). But because the eero won’t let me set a static route, that’s not going to work. Can I use my home WiFi as WAN or will that have the same routing issue? Could I specify the WAN port as another LAN port and just have it act like a switch? Other ideas to connect the observatory devices to home network?