[Solved] - Home Assistant SSL - Can't Access Locally

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I decided to dive into SSL for home assistant. I got it working externally using the DuckDNS add on, but accessing it locally failed.

For example, using the local IP address, I had to put https in front of it. This allowed me access to the log in page, but once I logged in, it would never load the dashboard and would eventually error out.

I am not a network or software guru, but the only thing that I saw that may be causing a conflict is that port 443 is forwarded to my Synology NAS already ( I assume for quickconnect).

Could this be the issue? I do not want to diable anything yet and cause even more headaches, so am trying to do some research before take down another part of the network and have two down. I edited out the ssl lines in my configuration.yaml for now, and that has things back to the way they were. I would think that if 443 was the issue, I wouldn’t get ot the login page, and that is where I am a little confused.

Thank you

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Which address did you use to connect externally and local?

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I used https://xxx.duckdns.org:8123 externally and it works in a browser and in the app. I just found an article that says that local IPs are lost upon changing to SSL.

I have been trying with the same address internally instead of the IP while on the LAN. It seems to let me log in now, but was erroring out before. I will note that the log in from inside the network using the duckdns address takes a long time to let me in. It looks like it is working now, just not as speedy as before.

Note: The internal IP worked now as well as the duckdns.org, both from being on the local network. They both take 15-30 seconds to load the lovelace dashboard though so I am not sure what causes that. I have a DNS Resolver entry in PFSense for the duckdns.org hostname so I would think it would handle it fairly fast internally since it shouldn’t be going out of the network, but I don’t know how to check that.

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I rebooted my laptop and the speed issue seems to fine now. I thought I had done that before, but I’ll take it. Maybe there was something hanging up. Thank you for the help, I get a little over my head with some of this.