Setup MikroTik hAP be lite as an Access Point

I bought a MikroTik hAP be lite router, which in the future I want to use to try segmenting our home network more, but to start with I want to use it as a 'dumb' access point (AP). There is a guide to configuring a standalone access point from MikroTik, but I'm not very experienced with networking, and new to MikroTik and their RouterOS (7), and this guide left more confused more than once. So these are my notes extending that guide to cover the bits that weren't obvious to me as a beginner. Follow these notes if it helps you, but if something doesn't work as expected, I'm afraid you're on your own. I think that currently (October 2026) MikroTik appears to be in the process of updating all their documentation, so in some cases the new manual subdomain seems to missing some of the info that was in the older 'help' subdomain. So I hope their documentation soon catches up to cover some of the things in here. Setup and Equipment Our home network is simple: We have a cable modem that…