Accessing 'hassio.local:8123' when connected through VPN

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I just setup OpenVPN access to my home network giving me access to my Hassio setup. I can access the Hassio (RPi3) using the IP address but when I try using http://hassio.local:8123, the browser just sits there for a while and eventually gives a “Safari could not open the page because the server stopped responding.”

It works fine when I’m on a computer within my local network, just not when I’m connected remotely via VPN. I know this is probably going to be a setting inside my router/firewall, but just seeing if anyone else using VPN with Hassio has run into this issue. Thanks!

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Try to use the ip adress instead of hassio.local.

Edit:
Sorry I diddnt read right. I think its not possible to use hassio.local via vpn. Maybe you can try to setup your local dns server to your openvpn config. But I dont know if this works

3

.local relies on bonjour. if you can get bonjour to broadcast over your VPN connection to your remote device it would work.

Honestly, relying on bonjour over a VPN is not going to be fun.

4

Ah, that makes sense. Yeah, I’m just going to create a static IP for Hassio. Thanks for the quick responses!

5

It works fine to enter home assistant trough fixed IP but if i click in configuration to edit yaml files i still get an error message because HA tries to open the configuration window trough hassio.local… anything i can do to be able to edit the config trough a VPN?

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I have the same issue.
Could you resolve this?