Access Homeassistant via ip

Installation
1

I am using Homeassistant quite a while for basic lighting, heating and smart plugs without issues. However, there are some strange things happening when I am trying to access homeassistant via the browser of via the app, which I cannot understand:

  1. on the browser, I can only access Homeassistant typing homeassitant.local. Typing the ip address 192.168.178.235 that I assigned to the raspberry pi 4 in the router (Fritzbox) and also in the homeassistant settings does not work. However, pinging homeassistant.local in the cmd gives
    grafik.
    On the other hand, configuring the app with 192.168.178.235:8123/ I can access Homeassistant.

  2. I tried to set the ipv4 and ipv6 to automatic in homeassistant settings (instead of static ip), and then pinging homeassistant.local yields as before but with the address [fe80::50c3:452d:4478:712e%9]. However, I can still connect over the app with 192.168.178.235:8123/. With the browser, I can access homeassistant only via homeassistant.local.

Does someone know what I am missing or doing wrong? Thanks in advance!

2

What does homeassistant.local resolve to ?
ping homeassistant.local
or
nslookup homeassistant.local
should tell you

(please provide the output from both commands)

3

Trying to access an IP address only defaults to port 80. HA runs on port 8123. That is why the IP with the port works and just the IP does not.

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