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I moved home assistant to a wireless access point (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I moved home assistant to a wireless access point because I live at home and my parents are getting a bit annoyed with me having raspberry pi and an old computer that I use as a server in the living room, so i got a wireless access point from the kitchen in to my room, so I could just have it in here, but now home assistant obviously got a new ip so it doesn't work on my cloudflare url yet, but it's acting kinda strange, I can't access it on my computer, and when I type in the ip i got from the local ip address it integration i can't connect through that, and cloud flares says it's not a valid ipv4 ip address, so idk how to get it back on my url

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check your wireless config for anything that would block interclient communications. It's common on wifi hardware to disallow wireless devices to talk to other devices on the lan. Different brands of kit call it different things. "Wifi isolation" is the most common.

Also, "you got a wireless access point". What does that mean? Got it from where? Did you configure it yourself? Is it acting as a DHCP server? If yes, is it behind another DHCP server? Cause that'll cause you issues like this as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is it acting as a DHCP server? If yes, is it behind another DHCP server? Cause that’ll cause you issues like this as well.

Good point, didn't even think about that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you ssh into your HA server locally?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't tried, but will try that tomorrow or the day after, as it's pretty late, and I have plans for tomorrow

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, also if you can give a bit more info it may help. How is it installed, is on the pi or the old computer, are you using a reverse proxy, are you port forwarding anything via the router, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's installed on the pi, and its not port forwarding, its just a cloudflare tunnel, and nothing has changed about it, but after I moved to the access point instead of the main router it just ain't working, but by the looks of things weirdly it seems it's only apple products i have been getting to connect via homeassistant.local:8123 I really don't understand any of this, i have tried two browsers on my laptop and it doesn't help

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what OS you are using but now is a good time to set a static IP if you haven't already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I accually don't remember if i have but even if I haven't that doesn't explain the apple only thing, though I have yet to test if it works on android, but it's weird home assistant app finds the ip of the server automatically and everything, but on my computer i can't access it, and i have tried pasting that ip address on cloud flare too but it still isn't working

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Try clearing your browser cache on the devices that can't connect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But then why can't cloudflare connect to it, I tried multiple times, even on my phone as it is working on there, but no luck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried that, but it just says that cloudflare can't connect to the server

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you connect via https://<the rpi's address>:8123?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

sorry for slow reply, just had to get home before i could test that, but no i cant, i have been at my girl friends house so i haven't been home for a few days

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can access it through my phone though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can access from my phone and my girlfriends MacBook through homeassistant.local:8123 but not on windows or pop-os so idk what's going on