Hi all,
I have my home assistant setup on a raspberry pi 3+ and that is connected to my main wifi router. I will like to use a repeater (ESP repeater by martin-ger) whit a other SSID (no mash-routing). I tryed the following with out luck:
i put all network-information (from repeaters second network) to a yaml-file
i compile and upload the yaml to my esp
i made a portforwarding (6053 and 8266) on the repaeter to my esp.
i changed the ip address in the yaml file, to the ip-address of my repeater. I just save the file and didn’t upload to the ESPHome assistant (so that Home Assistant communicate with my repeater)
Thanks
mDNS is not on board
but strange, I get the measured values ​​in the log files
So I have to find another solution. I just want to connect to a ESP outside of the “normal” WLAN signal.
Could i switch to mqtt whit this repeater? Or if I make a mesh, can I shut my i-phone off that ugly slow repeated signal?
That’s true. I guess you have api: inside your yaml? You could actually try from home assistant to add a new esphome device and try 192.168.178.161 as IP.
Still this topic was already mentioned couple of times on discord and there was never a real solution to it if you use NAT (meaning you actually cascade two networks).
Frome the primary side (router, homeassistant,…) to the repeater, seems ok(on picture, upper request).
From the secoundary side (other side of NAT) to the esp device seems also ok (on the picture the secend request - I change with the notebook to the “secoundary side wlan” for the secound request)
It really doesn’t matter because mDNS ≠DNS. The later could be used to ping a hostname - or you ping the IP directly like @Yves_IF did. In anyway it doesn’t help at all for this particular issue @nickrout
It does prove that the device is reachable over the network. Then the next step is to work out why your particular service/or application is not responding as you would expect.
Just to add a solution that worked for me in order to put a router between HA and my ESP. Here is the config of the ESPHome that is behind the router:
wifi:
ssid: xxxx
password: yyyyy
fast_connect: true
use_address: 192.168.0.144 #this is the WAN IP of the router.
manual_ip:
static_ip: 192.168.4.144
gateway: 192.168.4.1
subnet: 255.255.255.0
On the router, you need to configure port forwarding for 6053 and 8266 ports.
When integrating the ESPHome device in HA, I use the WAN IP of the router.