Cant Access Hass.io Its Using My Apple TV's IP

Hi guys,

I’m new to HA, last night I was trying to install themes and I noticed on the left around the bottom on the page in the configurator. It said “Brocks Apple TV” I didn’t think much of it at the time, but the next morning I couldn’t access the web interface.

I can at the moment access the PI via terminal and web based SSH, also can access the file server in finder.

At the moment using the Fing app, my Hass.io is not using its IP address from the night before instead is using my Apple TV as well as at times using all Apple TVs connected to the WiFI network.

Im a bit lost for thoughts.

Thank you very much,

  • Brock

Hmm… this looks like you have provided your apple TV a fixed IP address whilst the PI is having a dynamic IP. Have you tried to restart the PI to see if it obtains a new IP?

I´d think that this is something you need to look at in the router. Normally either fix all addresses (in a specific sub-range) or have all dynamically assigned via DHCP (and then fix some based on Mac address), but likely you´d want to have your PI on a fixed IP so you can have forwarding rules in your router.

Thank you very much for your reply, I have restarted each device a number of times but ill reboot them again and see what happens.

Okay now in the router, I have the HASSIOs’ MAC Address & IP Address. However cant connect to them with :8123. But this is better than before.

I can add the MAC Address & IP Address as a static IP would that help?

If the Pi has the same IP as the TV and you cant access it, then turn off and unplug the TV. Reboot the PI and change its address to another one. This is called IP conflict. It means that 2 devices have the same IP and you can only access one of them (most likely the one that got the IP first). After you have changed the Pis address, you can plug your TV back.

Agree with argykaraz, this would be the first approach to avoid the IP conflict.

To get to the hassio, you should be able to get to it through http://ipaddress:8123 (unless you have SSL installed and then it needs to be https://).

Thank you Argykaraz & Piggyback, I still cant access http://ipaddress:8123 or https://ipaddress:8123 using the new IP addresses but I can get to http:// hassio.local:768.

Ive spent two days trying to fix it, if I just need to wipe it and start again then I will.

Thanks again,

  • Brock

If you’re able to navigate the file structure, are you able to get to the homeassistant.log file? Maybe that will give you useful information.

Ive wiped the SD card and doing a clean install right now, its a learning experience.

I was no longer able to reach the file server, but could get in with terminal and web SSH.

You need to make sure the hass.io pi has a static ip address