When my internet provider fell over with a network outage lasting for a week, many of my local services were still up and running. However, Home Assistant was not.
Is Home Assistant generally requiring access to the internet to function?
Not really. I experienced an internet outage of ~36 hours lately and HA was functioning normally except for the link from external. Did you correctly configure LAN access to your HA?
Thank you all for your replies. I am running HASS in a Virtuabox VM on a 2011 Macbook. LAN users normally have access to the web GUI. When my connection to the internet fell over, I was not able to access the GUI from either a web browser or from a mobile phone app. Good to know that it is a localised issue I will be able to overcome.
I am wanting to migrate all cloud connected to locally connected, Tuya devices hopefully next on the hit-list?
You mean DNS name…
also that works locally, provided you configured a local dns server (which could be the routers own dns)
I use the same dns name both internal as well as external (which comes in handy when ssl is configured and no hairpin NAT is available)
As mentioned, too little info to say anything useful about it