HASSIO network requirements

Configuration
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I’m getting some weird behavior with my HASSIO system. I’m trying to use it to automate some things on our farm. I’ve built and configured the system at home (different location and IP as the farm) and it works perfectly. Once I move it to the farm it will boot up and I can log in to the GUI. But if I reboot the system from the GUI HASSIO menu the system will essentially brick. I can ping the unit, but no GUI, no Samba, and no SSH.

At the farm location, I have the Raspberry Pi hardwired into an Asus RTN66R router that is serving as an access point. The router and modem are two miles away, we are beaming the signal via a point-to-point Ubiquiti system. So, the signal goes Modem>Router>Ubiquiti PTP>Access Point>RPi. We have a computer at the location the RPi is being installed. That computer is running BlueIris with security cameras. The speed is slow (1mb/s) but it works very reliably and can be accessed remotely.

I have all the ports that are needed by HASSIO forwarded in the router (to the RPi address) and modem (to the router address).

Could my network setup at the farm be causing the issue? Anything else I should be looking at?

I’m wondering if my DuckDNS/LetsEncrypt is causing some of the issues. I set it up with my home IP, would the LetsEncrypt cause issues if the RPi’s WAN ip address changes once moved to the farm? Although, I wouldn’t think that would cause it to “brick”. Could it be an issue with the slow speed (1mb/s)?

2

I am curious about the bandwidth you have on your PTP. I wonder if you would have any luck with the GUI displaying without the BlueIris sucking up all your bandwidth.

3

All the testing I have been doing I’ve been on the same local network. My laptop is using the wifi that is broadcasted by the same access point that the RPi is plugged into. All the IP cameras and BlueIris server are also at the same location. So, there shouldn’t be much BlueIris traffic over the PTP, except when we are accessing the BlueIris server while off the local network, which is rare.

4

If you can ping it, you should at least be able to ssh it. When you ping, is the response time reasonable? (<50 msec.)

5

Yep, the ping is usually 30ms. I’ve tried to SSH but can’t. I don’t think HA boots far enough to enable the SSH add-on.

6

My experience with a PI3 and HA is the system won’t hang on boot up because of a networking issue. It will boot unplugged.
So I think at this point you may have to truck out to the PI with a monitor/tv and an HDMI cable so you can watch the boot sequence.

7

I found my problem. At home, where I built HA, my router address is 192.168.1.1. At the farm the router address is 192.168.1.5. I had set a static IP during setup using the network install guide. My network config them became incorrect after moving it to the farm.