appletv and homepod on different vlans

Leaving this here for anyone who has a similar issue…

My AppleTV is on the same vlan (both wired) as the Phillips Hue so I can control the lights via homekit while segmenting for security. My homepod minis are in the same network as my phone. This seems to be necessary, otherwise the homepods try to join whatever network the iphone is on. To allow the homepods and apple tv to communicate and to act as speakers to the tv I had to enable mDNS on my firewall (pfsense using avahi).

I’d prefer to keep the homepods on the same network as my tv and lights, so if anyone has any suggestions I’d appreciate it.

Hope this helps someone.