Can no longer connect to homeassistant.local, only IP

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Hello,

I’m running the following:

* Méthode d'installation Home Assistant OS
* Core 2026.8.1
* Supervisor 2026.07.5
* Operating System 18.2
* Interface utilisateur 20260729.6

And the Home Assistant terminal shows:


       ▄██▄           _   _                                    
     ▄██████▄        | | | | ___  _ __ ___   ___               
   ▄████▀▀████▄      | |_| |/ _ \| '_ ` _ \ / _ \              
 ▄█████    █████▄    |  _  | (_) | | | | | |  __/              
▄██████▄  ▄██████▄   |_| |_|\___/|_| |_| |_|\___|          _   
████████  ██▀  ▀██      / \   ___ ___(_)___| |_ __ _ _ __ | |_ 
███▀▀███  ██   ▄██     / _ \ / __/ __| / __| __/ _` | '_ \| __|
██    ██  ▀ ▄█████    / ___ \\__ \__ \ \__ \ || (_| | | | | |_ 
███▄▄ ▀█  ▄███████   /_/   \_\___/___/_|___/\__\__,_|_| |_|\__|
▀█████▄   ███████▀

Welcome to the Home Assistant command line interface.

Home Assistant Supervisor is running!
System information:
  IPv4 addresses for wlan0: 192.168.1.12/24
  IPv6 addresses for wlan0: XXX, YYY
  IPv4 addresses for end0:  192.168.1.10/24
  IPv6 addresses for end0:  ZZZ, QQQ

  OS Version:               Home Assistant OS 18.2
  Home Assistant Core:      2026.8.1

  Home Assistant URL:       http://homeassistant.local:80
  Observer URL:             http://homeassistant.local:4357

I can ping homeassistant.local from my home computer and it resolves to my wlan0 IP address.

I can also reach the Home Assistant UI using 192.168.1.10 (which I would prefer) or 192.168.1.12 from both my home computer and the Home Assistant app on my wifi-connected smartphone.

However, I cannot connect to http://homeassistant.local even though that worked last week, before I upgraded from 2026.7 to 2026.8

One of my friend/customer has the same issue but is still running the server on the :8123 port.

What am I doing wrong?

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Drop the .local, try http://homeassistant.

3

In the last release there was a change in HA port. Before was 8123, now is 80

Maybe is related to this.

4

I know, that’s what I did, as you can see in my OP.

What’s strange is that my friend, who did not change the port, has the same issue.

5

That doesn’t work either. :frowning:

6

What device are you using?

I notice that Android (depending on browser, OS, brand) does a horrible job with mDNS, while my Apple devices generally work with http://homeassistant.local and http://homeassistant on 2026.8.1.

7

I’m using both a Linux Mint and a ungoogled Android (/e/OS) smartphone.

Call me crazy, but all of a sudden… it works again. :open_mouth:

I’m sorry for whoever (including future me) will encounter the same issue and was hoping for a solution.

The only thing I can think of was rebooting or changing my home router’s DNS…

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My Android devices were all over the place after switching to port 80. One would only work with the IP address, another only with .local appended to the end of http://myinstancename, and one with just http://myinstancename.

My browsers however all work fine with just http://myinstancename

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I’m not sure that

Really counts as a solution.