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Good Afternoon 

 

I've just started to look at Home Assistant, This needs to rules to be created and then triggered by certain things. so here comes my issue. i have setup my Alexa and my HTPC within Home assistant but for Alexa to talk to the HTPC i need to open port 2340, so i logged into 192.168.0.1 for my Netduma router and go to port forwarding and open 2340 on my internal IP for my HTPC. but when i go to a browser a type in my external IP:2340 i can a error saying the port is blocked. but if i do internal:2340 it works fine.

 

Why is port forwarding not opening this port?

 

Also with Home Assistant i have created triggers so when home assistant can ping my phone it will send a notification saying im home and when it cant ping it i get a notification saying im not away. This goes for everyone in the household. so my mobile ip address which is a static ip is 192.168.0.241 and i cannot ping it but the internet works fine. i can ping everyone else mobile in the household just not mine, i have checked the VPN but that disabled.

 

Hopefully someone can help me these issues?

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Any help would be appreciated 

 

thanks

 

Try putting your Netduma into the DMZ of the router it's connected to. In theory that should work, so please let us know how that goes.

 

To do this, copy the WAN IP from the Netduma device manager into the DMZ section of your ISP hub. The DMZ section should be under Security settings.

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Which device needs 2340 to be open? Alexa device or HTPC? and then what is that device ip address?

 

Thank you for your reply

 

So I have configured Kodi HTTPS on my HTPC to use port 2340 to allow access to it.

 

HTPC Internal IP = 192.168.0.180, if I go to a browser and type in 192.168.0.180:2340 I get the HTTP website for my Kodi Library

 

but if I use the External IP address : 2340 I get a refused connection error.

 

I have put port forwarding in to allow UDP and TCP 2340 to 192.168.0.180 but it does not work.

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I have now resolved this issue.

 

Last night I decided to factory reset my Netduma and set it all up again and now its working fine.

 

Very Weird but its working.

 

Thank you for all your help RedBull2k

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You can always trust the old factory reset. To be honest though I never thought the problem was with the duma, Just thought it was a configuration with your HTPC and app, as you already done the portforward. 

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I have now resolved this issue.

 

Last night I decided to factory reset my Netduma and set it all up again and now its working fine.

 

Very Weird but its working.

 

Thank you for all your help RedBull2k

 

Very weird indeed, I'm glad a factory reset resolved the issue. We usually only recommend factory resetting as a last resort, but it seems that's exactly what it needed! Please let us know if you have any more issues. I'll now close this thread.

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