Home Assistant URL

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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This may sound silly but I am trying to use Home Assistant on the iOS app and it has asked me for the URL. I have looked everywhere but I am unaware what my Home Assistant URL is?

Thanks

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Well, how do you access Home Assistant in your browser?

Take a look at the docs:

  • base_url (Optional): The URL that Home Assistant is available on the internet. For example: hass-example.duckdns.org:8123. Defaults to local IP address. The IOS app finds local installations, if you have an outside URL use this so that you can auto fill when discovered in the app.
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I don’t know “This may sound silly but I am trying to use Home Assistant on the iOS app and it has asked me for the URL. I have looked everywhere but I am unaware what my Home Assistant URL is?”
I saw your link but i don’t understant how to find my Home Assistant Url.
Thanks!

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Hi,

The Device running Home Assistant has an IP number.
If you do not access HA from the outside of your house, you can use the internal ip address.
If you have HA running, can you access it from a browser, that’s the url you need.
In the installation manual on the hass.io site, the url is mentioned.

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I follow your helping but I can sign Home Assistant. My url is: “http://192.168.1.1:8123” but it not work…

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192.168.1.1 should be your router not the home-assistant.
If you not sure the ip of home-assistant. you can use Fing app from app-store or go to router and see the ip of home-assistant.

Furthermore, if you using hassio for your home-assistant. you can access the ui by http://hassio.local:8123

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One last thing I should mention, your phone should be on the same network as your home assistant.

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I am also trying to find the URL to enter into the iOS Home Assistant app. None of these comments above are very helpful.

I have looked and searched through all the documentation and cannot find this information.
It is not the IP address.

The format the app is asking for is: https://homeassistant.myhouse.com

Can anybody help? Seems like a simple thing to be able to search for but no joy.

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Can you enter your HA from IOS app yet?

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I understand the frustration you are having, even the simplest things sometimes are hard to figure out. As stated above if your on your home network enter http://hassio.local:8123 into the app, be sure to put the http:// before the hassio.local:8123 and hit save. That should do it.

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hey all,

I am as new as you can be to the HA stuff and I am just poking around in the dark in order to see what I like and what happens.
I installed the HA on my QNAP and is running (without anything configured - just the home screen) and want to see what the app can do for me.
So I installed the app and activated my VPN on my phone (to login into my home network) and entered the local IP and port as URL and the password.
Should work in theory but doesn’t do anything. It even doesn’t save the entries :frowning: Every time I go back to settings the fields are empty again. (yes I did hit the save button)

Any idea what is going on?

Thanks in advance,
sto

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@sto.teac did you ever get this sorted? I’m confused why it doesn’t ask for a username, only a password - what password?!

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It will be the API password…

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The “legacy” API password? I’ve only installed HASS within the last month - does that mean I likely need to enable this password before trying to login with the iOS app?

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With the current iOS App, the api password is the only authentication available and auth is mandatory from 0.77 so yes.

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Thanks, @DavidFW1960 - I’d love to improve the documentation for others following me…is there a method by which I can do this, do you know? There have been lots of little gotchas with this iOS app so far :slight_smile:

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There’s a new version on the way… not too far off now that uses the new auth and tokens.

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My router has no nat forwarding. So I need to use https://xxxx.ddns.net while outside of home network and https://xxxx.ddns.net:8123 while inside home wifi network. Is it possible that the app recognizes this automatically and does it automatically? Thanks

edit: I’ve downloaded the beta version and it already does what I need. Thanks.

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Thats quite helping

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I also am having an issue connecting the Home Assistant iOS app to my server. I’m using v1.1.1 on iOS v9.3.5.

I’ve added these lines to my configuration.yaml file:
http:
api_password:

And I’m using http://:8123 as the url and in the app, but am still getting “The password was incorrect” in the app.

How can I determine what I’m doing wrong?

TIA