Hello everyone, I just want to start by saying that I appreciate any help that you can provide. I have been researching DIY Home Automation for a couple of months, now, and I have finally gotten around to starting my project. I am starting small, so to begin, I have a Pi 3 with a 32GB card that I have flashed HASSbian onto, a Linear HUSBZB-1 USB dongle, and a WNK01-21KIT (2x door sensors and a motion sensor). I decided on Home Assistant and the HUSBZB-1 based on some discussions I read and also took part in on some sites and a subreddit.
In any case, onto my problem. I plugged Pi in last night, first into my switch which sits directly behind my Untangle NG Firewall. I fired it up and gave it a few minutes to boot up; I came back to it and was able to log in after it loaded successfully. I then went over to my downstairs PC, which resides on my wifi subnet, and I tried to ping “hassbian.local”, to which I received no reply. I tried to SSH with PuTTY to “hassbian.local”, and the connection timed out. So, I decided to try and connect the Pi to the wifi router (which to my knowledge shouldn’t matter, since they both talk back to the same DNS); I tried the same steps again, and the ping worked. The Pi responded with a weird IP (it was a 198.xxx.xxx.xxx address), but the SSH did not. I didn’t have much time left to tinker, but I rebooted the Pi and connected it to my TV. I then did an ifconfig, and it suddenly had and IP within my subnet. I then tried to access Home Assistant via “http://hassbian.local:8123” on my PC, but no joy. I connected my phone to wifi and tried there with “http://hassbian.local:8123” as well as substituting with the IP, but again, no joy. I tried from my tablet with the same results.
I am, by no means, a Linux expert, nor am I a networking expert. My network is pretty basic; I have my Untangle box that I use to filter web traffic and stuff (just the free apps), and some basic QoS running behind that. I have my wifi in a subnet behind that.
Can anybody see where I went wrong? It was quite disheartening to already get stuck right after starting
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide! And please know that I am not looking for anyone to “do it for me” or anything like that, and then just disappear from the site. I hope to be a helpful contributor myself, some day