My home network is divided in two wifi networks: The one that my isp router broadcasts (192.168.100.x) and the one from my Deco M5 mesh (192.168.68.x). My computer (connected to the mesh) is running on Windows10 I installed HiperV and over that installed VirtualBox with Ubuntu. Installed HomeAssistant in a docker container Created a DuckDNS address that points to my isp router static IP. Installed Nginx which opens port 80 and 443 Changed my VM network to type “Bridge”. Up to this point, I can access Home Assistant from outside the VM but still inside the mesh network. Cant access it through my isp router network (outside the mesh). The only option I can find with Deco is to portforward to my computer’s IP but has no effect at all.
So my ultimate goal is to access Home Assistant from the outside world. If I were using only my isp router with only one network, it would be very easy to just port forward on the main router. But in my case, I don´t have a clue (even though I searched for hours) on how to port forward through the mesh too?
I figured I shoud do the port forward on my isp router to the mesh router IP first and then do a port forward again on the Deco mesh. But where? to my computer IP? I cant forward to the virtual IP given by VM bridge, since it doesnt appear on the Deco at all (even though I can ping it). And have no DMZ option either on Deco’s app.
Is it possible that this is not possible? Am I forced to connect my computer directly to my isp router wifi instead of my mesh?
Is there a reason you have your network double nat? Is there a reason you didn’t just put those Decos in bridge (AP) mode and use the one 192.168.100.0 network?
If you’re really going to keep your double Nat, you’ll need to port forward from your ISP to your deco. Then again from your deco to your computer.
This is really how you should be doing it if you can’t simply replace your isp router…
I did try port forward from Deco directly to my computer, but this doesn`t seem to work as the VM’s IP is different from my PC’s IP, even though they share the same route. This VM IP doesn’t show on Deco (I suppose because its DHCP was not the one that assigned this IP). So I can’t port forward to the VM’s IP.
So I thought of changing the Deco to act as an Access Point, but I didn’t want to lose the extra safety features by doing this. As mentioned in the Deco documentation “some advanced features will not be available in the Deco app, including Antivirus” plus I liked having a second layer of isolation with the mesh in router mode.
If I cant find any other way, If there’s no one that can show me how, I think I will have no option but to turn my mesh into an ordinary A.P.
