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Beej210

• August 01, 2023 19:50

Just installed homebridge on my mac mini running on my "trusted" vlan.  Added a couple of devices (alarm and rachio) which are connected to the "IoT" vlan.  I can control these devices fine on the homebridge UI, but controlling from the Home app itself, these devices will ONLY work if my phone/ipad is connected to the "IoT" wireless network.  The plugins say "no response" if I'm connected to the trusted wifi network.  

I only have 3 rules that I'm aware of that could be causing this.  But I paused all 3 of these rules, and the issue still exists.  Attached a screenshot of all my rules. 

What am I missing?

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  Michael Bierman

  • August 02, 2023 14:58

  If things are on different LANs/VLANs do you have mDNS turned on? Are there rules to allow traffic between the segments? 

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  Beej210

  • August 02, 2023 15:08

  Thanks Michael.  mDNS reflector is on, on every VLAN.  Haven't put specific rules in place to allow traffic between vlans.  Honestly, I'm confused as to what rule I should even put in place.  Homebridge bridge is running on my mac mini on my trusted network.  All the plugins (alarm.com and rachio) are running on my IoT vlan.  Iphone trying to control the home app is running on the trusted network.  If I turn off wifi completely and run my phone just on cellular, these plugins don't respond either. 

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  Michael Bierman

  • August 02, 2023 18:29

  Do you have rules on your IoT network limiting Internet access? Rachio, for example needs internet access. It can't be controlled over the local network. 

  Data will flow like this: 
  Rachio > Internet cloud > Homebridge
  device <-> homebridge <-> Homekit

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  Beej210

  • August 02, 2023 18:37

  Rachio and all IoT have internet access.  The only rule I have is blocking traffic FROM the IoT vlan TO all other networks.  From my understanding, this is the only rule that makes sense to keep the IoT devices from accessing the trusted devices.  But makes no sense why these couple "plugins" on homebridge are only accessible if I'm connected to the IoT vlan.  To not be able to access them from the internet makes no sense....

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  Sergio Lopez

  • April 28, 2024 20:44
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  EDIT: Nevermind - I noticed that there was now an option to update to the latest Homebridge UI. I was able to complete the update and everything seems to be working as normal now.

  How do I update this in firewalla? There are instructions here (https://github.com/homebridge/homebridge/wiki/How-To-Update-Node.js) but unsure in which directory I have to run this command in firewalla?
  I need to update so I can upgrade to the newest homebridge version. I'm having issues retrieving nest tokens and currently Nest isnt' working.

  

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  Michael Bierman

  • April 30, 2024 01:59

  See the Docker section under https://github.com/homebridge/homebridge/wiki/How-To-Update-Node.js

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