Did homeESP change the HA url?

ESPHome
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Hi there,

So I installed homeESP on a HA instance that run on a VirtualBox in windows 11 on an old-ish desktop.

It worked nicely, and I started generating the firmware for an ESP device. It appears that was a bit much to ask so it crashed the computer that the VirtualBox ran on. Opun starting it up, the url http://homeassistant.local:8123/ that I previously used to acces HA now returns nothing (“this site can’t be reached”). The observer url also returns the same.

The command line tool for HA is live, and I can interact with HA with it. Amongst other things, I used it to restore my backups from before installing HomeESP, but it did not help.

How do I get back in my HA?

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I assume you mean esphome. No, it doesn’t change the url, but use the ip address.

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And if you meant HomeESP you are in the wrong forum.

4

Wow, wasn’t aware of that!

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HA runs in a virtual machine (virtual box) and there is no port forwarding set up. So the IP doesn’t work.

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That was a mistake on my part. I meant ESPHome. I wasnt aware there was another one.

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Every host, even a virtualbox one, has an IP address.

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I did some further investgation and finaly decided to kill the thing entirely and start over from a backup. Mostly I just wanted to say thanks for your answers :slight_smile: