Static IP address - I messed up and need help!

Installation
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This is kind of embarrassing!

I’m not the most technical, just dipping into the HA world from Alexa.

I’ve booted up, got things running, set up a couple of very simple automations with lights and contact sensors, then decided I’d check out a video of “First things to with your new HA install” and follow along.

One of the first items on the list was setting up a static IP. I found my IP ranges from my router, and found one that was free - 192.168.178.02. I put it into the Network Settings, and the video said HA would disconnect, but using the new IP in the URL would reconnect it. Only it doesn’t, and I’ve lost all access to HA through the web browser and the mobile app. I get “this site can’t be reached” errors, and any automations have stopped working.

My router panel gives a different IP for HA - 192.168.178.59 - but no joy from this either - I assume it’s the previous floating IP. I don’t have access to the Settings menu to try altering anything from within HA, and I didn’t get to set up the SSH terminal (which was the next item in the video).

I know I broke it somehow, and that’s my bad I suppose. It’s definitely not my finest hour! But I’ll try anything to get it working again - if there’s a way to factory reset that’ll fix it, I’d do that - it’s not like I’ve done enough work in it to care about losing anything I’ve set up. What can I do / what are my options?

Thanks in advance :frowning:

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Can you plug a monitor and keyboard into the node running HA? Then you could use the CLI to recover.

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I can definitely give it a go. Do you know if there’s a specific prompt which will reset the IP address for HA back to default?

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Start with:

ha network

But if you have a screen plugged in it should show you a message about the configured ip address on startup.

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Thanks! Took me a bit of fiddling with the help of some other posts I found too, but I got it working. The sigh of relief I breathed! :relieved: