Hello,
On my MacBook Pro M4, I want to install the Home Assistant (HA) app to use it as a sensor platform to gather data. However, in the latest version of macOS Sequoia (and possibly earlier versions), there seems to be no way to grant the HA app access to the local network in the system settings.
When I try to set it up, the app doesn’t make any network requests and instead displays the following error message:
“Unable to connect.
The server with the specified hostname could not be found.
Error code: NSURLErrorDomain -1003”
Of course, I can access my Home Assistant server via a browser, so there’s no issue with the server itself.
How can I enable local network access for the Home Assistant app on macOS Sequoia? Any advice would be appreciated!
I don’t believe so, you’d have to wait for the app to request it I believe. Does it allow to you connect to an “external” home assistant instance? Through Nabu Casa, Cloudflare etc.?
when connecting remotely, the page for entering the username and password appears, but then again gives the error “Unable to connect.
Unable to complete the operation. (HAKit.HAConnectionImpl.ConnectError, error 0)
Error code: HAKit.HAConnectionImpl.ConnectError 0”
some kind of access rights are definitely needed here, but Home Assistant doesn’t ask me to give consent to use the network. And I can’t google anywhere how to do this so that the application makes a request
I just updated my Mac to 15.3 and the HA on a server on my LAN could no longer be reached through my browser. I had to do what @Jbautista13 suggested in the screenshot above, but I had to grant “Local Network” permissions to Firefox, my browser. Works fine now.
Kind of the same issue here. I’m using Virtualbox to run HAOS. I have it running this way on an old MacBook Air. It works ok but I’m trying to migrate to a newer Mac Mini. I upgraded the Mini to Sequoia, brand new installation, everything fresh and new. Installed Vbox and setup a VM running the latest HAOS. All starts up fine. Then I go to my browser and try to access http://homeassistant.local:8123 to start onboarding and that’s where it fails. I can access the observer on port 4357 and all good there but nothing on 8123. I get ‘The connection was reset’ every time. Tried 2 browsers, checked that they have access to local network, which they do.
Just once I got to the onboarding screen and selected the backup file I wanted to use but that failed and it would never connect again. I uninstalled and reinstalled everything but still the same. I even reset the entire Mac again, deleting all data and setting up from scratch. Fresh Virtualbox, new VM etc. nothing works at all.
I’m not experienced but I can ping the HA ip address from another Mac on the network and it responds. So it’s there and connected but I can’t access it locally.
