Unable to connect via browser

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi All,

Installed HA today on RPi5, tried to connect via various browsers on windows.

Tried:

homeassistant.local:8123
homeassistant:8123
http://192.168.1.124:8123

Tried reinstalling HA, and installing on a different microsd.

Could not connect.

I have a Plusnet Hub 2 router (a UK ISP), is this something to do with router settings? I’m lost as to what to do next. TIA

ETA: Further googling suggests something about mDNS? Could this be a router setting that I need to change?

ETA: I’ve purchased new microSD cards, working on the assumption that both cards I used are corrupt/not good enough. Doesn’t feel like the issue but it’s all I got :frowning:

I will try again with the new microSD cards, in the meantime thanks to all who responded, looking forward to more ideas in the morning! Goodnight.

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I don’t use an RPI for HA but i would recommend connecting a monitor to the rpi to see if there are any errors or a clue.

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Thank you for your response.

I did do that, the HAOS seems to be working fine. The desktop boots normally albeit a bit slow.

The issue has made me want to get a HA green, but if the issue is the router settings then I’d have to resolve that first anyway.

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Are you certain the Ip address is correct?

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Im certain. I connected a screen to the RPi, and hovering over the network icon top left shows the ethernet IP which is x.x.x.124 and the wlan IP which is x.x.x.126

Tried both.

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Is the station you tried from have the same network mask, and also has the x.x.x.# as the RPI?
Are you able to ping the RPI at the address?

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Just tried this. Yes the laptop pings the RPi address and gets a response. Both are 192.168.1.x

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Your browser is not trying to connect through httpS instead of http?
What does your browser return?
Are you using browser add-ons?
Did you try with a private session?

If you are sure about the IP address, you should keep trying with that.

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Firefox: can’t establish a connection to the server at 192.168.1.124:8123
Edge: 192.168.1.124 refused to connect
Chrome: 192.168.1.124 refused to connect

I made sure VPN is off.

Have disabled all extensions.

Same errors in private browsing modes.

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What if you try the WLAN IP?
Did you try with the same system all the time and can you use another system as a test?

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Doesn’t the RPi with HAOS output a console/text screen with the statistics?
How can you hover over an icon?

EDIT
To my knowledge, you should see something like this:

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My HAOS has a graphical desktop with a background picture of a fisherman fishing with ducks.

I tried the WLAN IP address in all above tests as well.

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Can you elaborate a little on how you installed HA, which installation method you have chosen?

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I used Raspberry Pi Imager v1.8.5.

Choose Device: Raspberry Pi 5
Choose OS: Rasp…

Shit.

BRB going to try a thing…

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Could it be that you have installed Raspbian/Raspberry OS instead of HA?

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I’m both embarrassed and elated. The fisherman with the ducks should have been my clue.

Thanks for guiding me through this @Nick4 and @pcwii

Hopefully this ordeal will bring comedy to some people. I’m sure I’ll be back again with something like this in the future.

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So, you will be following these instructions? :slightly_smiling_face:

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I’ll try but can’t promise, as you can tell from today’s adventure.

Didn’t slow down and rtfm. Thanks again.

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LOL
Good luck with installing HA :innocent:
But that should be a breeze with the link that @MaxK provided!

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