Remote access using eero

Configuration
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I’ve been banging my head against the wall for a while on this one, so any help would be appreciated. The networking part of HA is not my strong suit.

I can access HA just fine when connected to my local network using either http://[IPaddress]:8123 or with http://homeassistant.local:8123, but cannot access when remote using https://mydomain.duckdns.org

Here is my setup…

  • Home Assistant OS 2021.9.7 running on Raspberry Pi4
  • ATT router in IP Passthrough
  • eero mesh wifi with port forwarding set up for 443 on the Home Assistant IP address
  • DuckDNS and Nginx configured as below

DuckDNS Config…

lets_encrypt:
  accept_terms: true
  certfile: fullchain.pem
  keyfile: privkey.pem
  algo: secp384r1
token: 1234....
domains:
  - mydomain.duckdns.org
aliases: []
seconds: 300

No errors in the log

NGINX Home Assistant SSL proxy config…

domain: mydomain.duckdns.org
certfile: fullchain.pem
keyfile: privkey.pem
hsts: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
cloudflare: false
customize:
  active: false
  default: nginx_proxy_default*.conf
  servers: nginx_proxy/*.conf

Under the network section I have typed in 443 and left 80 blank.
No errors shown in the log.

Configuration.yaml…

http:
  #ssl_certificate: /ssl/fullchain.pem
  #ssl_key: /ssl/privkey.pem
  #server_port: 443
  use_x_forwarded_for: true
  trusted_proxies:
    - 172.30.0.0/16
    - 192.168.4.0/24

Note that I’ve tried various IPs under the trusted proxies ( 172.30.33.0/24, 172,30.32.0/24), tried removing 192.168.4.0/24, tried using the ‘server_port’, but none of that hasn’t done anything to help the situation. This is just the current state. The server_port actually makes things worse, I lose the local connection to HA and have to go in and change the configuration.yaml via SSH.

One thing that I’m seeing that is probably an obvious problem is the port forwarding with the eero system. When I go to canyouseeme.org and type in 443 the port shows as not open. As a test I opened port 80 on my laptop and it is seen as open. So it looks like port forwarding with eero works, but I’m not sure if there is a missing link somewhere in there for HA.

Anyone had success with remote access using eero? Or have any thoughts on settings I should change?

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Hello, did you find a solution ?

I juste replace my old router to a eero system and i jave the same issue

3

I ended up just going for the $5/mo Nabu Casa. I’m sure there is a solution out there to make it work but I guess I took the easy route.

4

Did you find a solution? Same problem with Eero Pro 6

5

Unfortunately not. I also subscribed to Nabu Casa

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Hi,

If it helps, I just switched to Eero and got it working. I had it working with my prior router so I didn’t make any changes on the HA or DUCKDNS side, just Eero.

What I found was I needed to set the external port to 443, then tick the box that said use a different port for the internal port, then put 8123 as the internal port.

Hope that helps

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Works Thanks

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I have just spent the last 2 days trying to get the Eero to port forward 443, once I added the internal port 8123, plus got it to open a 2nd port 8123, I finally got ‘canyouseeme’ to see both ports.

Although I still cant get homeassistant to load!