Remote Access via VPN on Router (fritzbox)

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Hey there!

I installed HA a couple days/weeks ago and already started to automate some stuff. However, as I just enabled HA to control my shades, i would love to control them remotely from anything, that is not my home.

The ios app works perfectly when i am in the same network. So i created a VPN access on my router (fritzbox) for my phone via wireguard, which works fine as well. I can access different stuff in my network.
Now, when i try to open the HA app, it just shows a blank screen and to be honest: I am too noobie to understand why. For the home assistant it shouldnt make a difference, if it gets opened by the one or the other (right?).

I must be missing something obv here to fail the communication between iphone(vpn) and HA.

I tried to go through the existing threads already, but somehow it didnt work out for me.

Any help is much appreciated!

BR
Winni

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Are you able to access Home Assistant via browser while being connected to you VPN?

Try with http://homeassistant.local:8123 and also direclty with the IP (for example http://xxx.xxx.xx.xx:8123 → replace with the correct IP of your HA)

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I used a ping app to double check if i can reach the device somehow via name/ip.
It successfully pings the IP and the name. So name resolution works fine i guess.

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Then update your Mobile App

→ Settings → Companion App → Select your HA instance → Internal URL → add your IP:8123 there

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Done. works fine. For some reason it wasnt working earlier when i changed it to the IP.

However, it would be nice to understand why it wasnt able to connect to the hostname. Just curious.

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Glad to hear it’s working now.

Hard to say why it didn’t work before without knowing details about your network.

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