403: Forbidden but just from my laptop

I’ve just installed a new Mesh network at home and now I cannot access HA using my laptop; however I can still access it using my phone and using my wife’s laptop.

If I enter http://myIP:8123 I get the forbidden error; https://myIP:8123 just returns ‘This site can’t provide a secure connection’. On my wife’s laptop I get in using http.

I’ve tried removing the http: section from my configuration.yaml but that made no difference.

The network name has not changed and HA is using the same static ID as before.

Rebooting the laptop makes no difference nor does restarting HA.

Any ideas?

Clear your web browser cache?

Or do you have enabled in configuration.yaml

http:
  ip_ban_enabled: true

In that case, you have a file in /config named ip_bans.yaml that contains your ip_address. Just remove your ip_address from that file.

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Thanks for the suggestion. Sorry to say, it didn’t help.

OK I have the file but my ip_address doesn’t feature unfortunately.

I had previously set ip_ban_enabled and now it is commented it out.

Anything more I should do?

OK I’ve managed to get back in on my laptop by setting ‘ip_ban_enabled: false’. However that is not a solution because I want to ban repeat incorrect logins. If I set it back to true I can’t get in.

Delete the banned IP address from the ipbans file in /config and restart.