iOS Companion App 2.0: How to use in local network only

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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Is there a way to configure HA to be accessible via the iOS app on the local network only ? I am not interested in allowing remote access to the HA. I did a fresh minimal install using latest version (0.103.3) without success. The app finds the instance http://192.168.1.94:9123 (yes different port number), when it tries to connect, It always gives Error: invalid client_id or redirect uri.

The logs contain

2019-12-21 16:47:00 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.auth.indieauth] Timeout while looking up redirect_uri https://home-assistant.io/iOS

2019-12-21 16:47:00 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.http.ban] Login attempt or request with invalid authentication from 192.168.1.129

As I mentioned, I only interested in accessing the HA from within the local network.

Thanks for your help.

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Yes the app works local only but you do need to have working outbound connections and your error indicates your HA can’t talk to the oauth proxy at home-assistant.io.

Have a look here: https://companion.home-assistant.io/en/getting_started/migration.html#4---common-problems

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IPv6 is disabled completely on my raspberry pi, as per ifconfig.

ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.94 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether b8:27:eb:2c:4e:68 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 280853 bytes 159470728 (152.0 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 298549 bytes 50545472 (48.2 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

Lookup of the IP was a bit slow, so I added it to /etc/hosts

PING home-assistant.io (104.25.24.31) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from home-assistant.io (104.25.24.31): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=31.7 ms
64 bytes from home-assistant.io (104.25.24.31): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=31.3 ms
64 bytes from home-assistant.io (104.25.24.31): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=31.1 ms

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I have resolved the issue… The problem was with my set of nameservers. I changed the order and now the name resolution is done right away.

Thank you