Hi all,
I recently started playing around with Home Assistant (version 0.103.6). I installed Home Assistant via python 3.6.3 on my Windows laptop (as I didn’t yet buy a Raspberry Pi and I’m still just testing). Also, I’m running an OpenVPN instance on my laptop for testing purposes.
With the above setup, I can succesfully connect my mobile phone over 4G to the OpenVPN instance. When connected to the VPN, I can also reach services that are hosted on my laptop. For instance, I was hosting a test http server (also with python) on my laptop via port 8000 and indeed when my mobile phone is connected to the VPN and I go to my browser on my mobile phone and go to http://<local_ip_of_laptop>:8000 I can reach that service and everything is working fine. However, when Home Assistant is running on the laptop via port 8123 and I’m on my mobile phone connected to the VPN and go in the browser to http://<local_ip_of_laptop>:8123 then I can not reach my Home Assistant.
I added firewall rules on my laptop that allow python as well as hass.exe to be reached (inbound and outbound rules). I don’t understand why I can’t reach my Home Assistant, because I should virtually be on the home network with my mobile phone. When my mobile phone is connected to WiFi (same network as laptop) I can reach HomeAssistant, also via browser, and everything is working fine.
Could anybody help me out here?
Thanks in advance!