Home Assistant restore in progress - Yet I still got a notification on my phone

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This is just a question about how this is possible.

Had issues overnight with HA. It’s installed via UTM virtual machine on a Mac mini m1. Something about no space left which caused it to stop working entirely, even though it had space left. Which is odd as the drive was set to over 30GB, HA storage page said it’s using 18GB, and yet the container file for Home Assistant in UTM is over 40GB. Don’t really understand how that works.
Thought it was the Mac Mini at first as the system had decided to take up the vast majority of the hard drive. Reboot put it back to normal.
But then HA did it again, and this time the mini still had 70+ GB available.
Reboot HA allows it to start again, but I couldn’t figure out what space was “full”. Anyway…

My early morning, not enough sleep brain decided to create a new virtual machine and restore my latest HA backup onto that. Old HA virtual computer is definitely shut down. I’ve got to the point where home assistant has “Restore in progress” going on the new IP page for it. Different local IP from the old instance of course. I can’t access any part of HA on any other computer or phone or even another tab on the Mac mini. No matter what IP or port I’m using.

But somehow my iPhone sent me a notification via Home Assistant Companion app telling me that I’ve triggered my alarm. Obviously I need to change when I do backups because I somehow didn’t account for restoring setting the alarm system to the second strictest setting. It did this twice. First time I selected to change to armed Home instead of Night, second time I missed the button and it opened the app. Which still says it’s disconnected.

So how can it send me notifications if it can’t actually access Home Assistant?

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Hi, your HA seems to be running and automations do fire.
It just seems to be an issue to access the webUI.

Make sure the current IP address is right/known and you can ping it.
Also, it can be easier to access it from a PC with a browser compared with the mobile app, so try that first.

Did you connect over http or httpS before.
Make sure your browser does not tries to use the opposite protocol.
You also might have to clear your browser cache.

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I’ve tried every combo of IP (local and external), port (I changed it from the default) and http vs https I could think of. Can’t access the webpage or app, the webpage on Mac mini still says Restore in progress. But I was able to use Apple’s Home app to control HA. Now I’m out of time as I have to get read for work, so I’m shutting it down, restarting the original HA and will hope for the best.
If the original HA messes up again while I’m at work, or overnight, I’ll have another try.

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Unless you have some kind of reverse proxy or NC cloud account, you can only use the internal IP.
Are you also not forgetting to add :8123 behind the IP?

Don’t you have another kind of desktop/laptop or at least another browser to make sure that it’s not a browser issue?

If you are sure about the IP address, there is no use in trying others…
You didn’t answer regarding that ping.