Companion app using Tor and .onion with RethinkDNS

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Hi all. I’ve seen a 5 year old thread on using the Android Companion app with a Tor .onion URL but it doesn’t seem like it works the same way anymore?

I have the Tor add-on in my HA at my house, I have used torbrowser to connect to it ok.

I have the companion app on my Android phone. I have orbot installed and RethinkDNS app installed.

RethinkDNS sets up a virtual VPN and then intercepts stuff and filters/routes/etc. One option it has is to route certain apps over the orbot HTTP proxy.

I’ve set HomeAssistant to be routed over the Orbot HTTP proxy. And I set my external URL to http://blablablabla.onion the same blablabla that I have successfully used to connect via torbrowser on my laptop.

But the companion app says
“Webpage not available… ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED”

It seems it doesn’t like the .onion URL. Has anyone gotten this working?

NOTE: I just tested my TOR setup by telling Rethink to route Firefox through Tor, and then loading a blog I visit a lot, it went through cloudflare’s “test if you’re a human” and then blocked me because my IP is on some block list (ie. the exit node of the Tor). As soon as I change Firefox back everything works. so Rethink IS routing working with orbot.

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No one has any idea about this? Would love to be able to connect to my home assistant via onion site.

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Ok, further information. If I turn off rethink and just use orbot and select the homeassistant companion app to go through orbot, that also doesn’t work in the same exact way.