I’ve spent the last few days trying to configure hass.io to turn on my miilights.
I’ve decided to go the IFTTT route after giving up on the google assistant component configuration.
Anyway, I’ve got the IFTTT trigger service available, i’ve set up a recipe and an action to turn on my lights. But nothing works, I think the problem is my Ip address. I’ve forwarded port 8123 of my hass.io local ip address - but because like most people, my main pc is behind a VPN (PIA) - so I’m not really sure how to have IFTTT access my raspberry pi. I enter in my public ip in the web request applet section of IFTTT - but it doesn’t call the service through my main pc’s ip address.
When I go to canyouseeme and type in the port - it just says connection refused. that’s probably because it’s my vpn ip address. (it won’t let me put in any other ip) any workarounds that you know of? thanks in advance
that’s what I thought but every tutorial I’ve watched kind of glossed over this part and no one mentioned anything about being behind a VPN.
Is there an easy way to figure out my public PI address? I’ve used fing to figure out it’s local ip address - but I have no idea how I would get its public IP address. I’m obviously new to this, my apologies.
edit: duh, it’s the same one. i’'ll edit the recipe and report back
ok new problem but it feels like I’m making progress:
on the hass.io home page I get invalid authentication login errors from random ip addresses every time i check the applet or run the recipe. i’ve double checked my webhooks api key, my ip address must be correct or the errors wouldn’t get logged - any ideas what i could be missing? thanks again for helping me out.
oh my god it works. i just erased the body of the webhooks applet - ran the voice command again and it worked. don’t know why exactly - but i feel like i just won a lottery.
thanks again for all your help. mission accomplished.