Could someone that is knowledgeable in the subject connection help me determine if there is anyway to make this connection more reliable.
How do I determine if it is the ddns service causing the issue or something else between home assistant- google home?
I currently use duckdns with nginx proxy.
Essentially whats happening is I’ll get random “home assistant not responding” when asking google to do something. Maybe 5 minutes later, I’ll ask the same thing and it’ll work fine. It’s definitely kind of annoying.
Of course, like everyone, my goal is to be a cheapo and hopefully not spend any money.
Thank you all for any advice, direction you all can give me. It will be very much appreciated!!
Hey
I have the exact same issue with google assistant and duckdns. I just switched my config to using nginx in order to enable local fulfillement for google assistant.
This is mostly working (90% of queries to google assistant are now working compared to 10% in the last days). And the speed also seems faster.
While investigating the remainig issues I have found in the google assistant logs that the error observed by google assistant when trying to reach my home assistant instance is:
I was shocked to see that my url in xxxx.duckdns.org is failing to be resolved on multiple duckdns servers. This explains the timeout observed by google assistant.
I am looking to alternatives to duckdns as this issue is lasting since several days now.
