I think I may have solved my problem with the WiFi system here at the Retirement Community. As I said before, this is a WiFi only environment; I can run Ethernet but not through the walls and not connected to the WiFi equipment and I have no control over the WiFi system. The WiFi equipment has two main SSIDs, SSID1 and SSID2 in the following diagram.
Notice that there are a number of additional elements to the architecture. The main input to the MainRouter in my HomeLab is through the WiFi Bridge, a Gl-iNet SLATE router. That in turn goes into a managed switch, RemoteSwitch, which has a trunk line to my MainSwitch through Two TP-Link AV2000s. The MainSwitch in turn poses the flow as the [WAN] vlan to the WAN port of my MainRouter. Having the trunk line between two managed switches gives me great flexibility in how I arrange items in my HomeLab. In fact I can put part of my [SRV] vlan in the living room where the main input equipment goes. The MainSwitch also connects to other equipment in my HomeLab as necessary. Normally I have almost a 30 dBm signal drop between the WiFi Access Point in the living room and my large back bedroom. This input architecture resolves that.
I have an RPiGateway which is being primed to host input ports into my HomeLab from the outside. As it turns out I can access RPiGateway from anywhere on the Retirement community campus; I just can't access it from the outside (and I don't need to, I'm not working now).
Over on the right of the diagram is a problem that was solved through the use of a simple switch. I have a Sleep-Number bed and it requires a WPA/WPA2 shared key encryption setup on 2.6GHz. It is also a bit fussy on the level of the signal that it connects to. So in that respect I have a DIR-505L which is connected to the SSID1 and retransmits a WPA/WPA2 shared key setup to the Sleep-Number bed since WPA/WPA2 is not available from the main WiFi setup.
I have a Tempest Weather station on my balcony which has a hub that was not able to receive the WPA/WPA2 shared key setup from the small bedroom, so it is now connected to a NEWIOTSSID coming from my Unifi AP AC Pro access point. I also have a SRVSSID broadcast from that access point that I can connect to with my personal laptop in order to perform admin functions on my HomeLab while on my balcony.
I am also using the NEWIOTSSID to connect to a series of Tasmota switches mounted in my HomeLab Rack for the purpose of controlling power to several devices, since I may only have need of a couple at a time.
