I can access my Home Assistant server from a Safari browser window on my iPhone but not through the Home Assistant Companion App. Even though the support documentation talks about how to handle connection problems I have so far not found this exact case described. I have tried:
Automatic Detection
homeassistant.local:8123
192.168.86.71:8123
On an iPad all 3 methods of connecting to the server work successfully.
The error I receive states: Failed to Connect. A server with the specified hostname could not be found. Error Code: NSURLErrorDomain -1003
Try toggling the Local Network setting off then on again. There is a bug I have seen where it shows “on” but it isn’t really. Restarting the phone may also be useful here.
From the app’s perspective that error message is indicating it has no connectivity to the host. If they’re on the exact same Wi-Fi then I am not sure what’s happening. This error isn’t something the app controls.
Tried toggling “Local Network” access on/off with no improvement. Tried restarting the phone and ultimately tried deleting and reinstalling the app and restarting the phone. No improvement.
Sometimes I get error 1003, sometimes 1004.
In fact Settings now has NO “Local Network” setting at all for Home Assistant!?
Feels to me that the issue is related to how the Home Assistant Companion App accesses my local network but have not explanation to why the setting is no longer available…
Local Network access is, unfortunately, not at all something the app can force to happen. The system should prompt for it at the start of the app’s onboarding, when it does the scanning for local networks. It should also prompt when accessing a local IP address like 192.168.xx.yy. Worth noting that my.home-assistant.io will never work for a server address, it’s just a URL to open things.
Last ditch effort here is to reset the phone’s privacy settings. This means you’ll be re-prompted in all your apps to grant privacy settings, but it maybe will resolve this one.
Go to the system Settings app
Navigate to General > Transfer or Reset iPhone
Choose “Reset”
It’ll pop up a choice of what to reset: pick “Location & Privacy”.
Did you ever get it to work? This bug has been a PIA for me! What model phone are you using? I have this issue with the wife’s iPhone 13. Trying to figure out if it is an iOS issue or HA. Neither party seems to know how to fix it. Thanks!
Make sure that in the App access settings “Local Network” is set to on. I had EXACTLY this issue with my wife’s phone yesterday (so you can understand I put a lot of effort into solving it!)
Thanks! I was finally able to solve it… Not sure how long it will stay in place though as it comes and goes. I can’t exactly remember the steps I took to fix it cause I went nuclear on the thing. I turned off every stupid secure feature I could find on her phone… And then, just to make sure the iPhone had the exact configuration as what was on my Android, I momentarily had her on the same wifi as the android. It authenticated and gave access to the HA server. Once I had it logged in, I put the iPhone back on the guest wifi.
So I am thinking the guest wifi configuration (hard coded) on the Amplifi HD is blocking the routing of the duckdns.org URL from going out to the cloud for the HA setup process. I don’t know for sure.
And for those wondering why I have the iPhone on the guest network, it’s because she is an avid user of the facebook products. I don’t want any of the facebook apps to have access to the main network.
I hope this can help someone - cause this bug has been around for years and there are hardly any answers to the problem.
Happened for me exact the same. restart uninstall install problem solved. that is in fact how open source world is. let alone whole linux ecosystem based on such silly rules. paid ones also do the same. i am happy as it is.
