

I really like the speed of this old laptop over the Pi, but I dont know how to get DuckDNS and my NGinX running if I cant forward 443 to 443. The port forwarding button isnt able to be activated on the VM ware options. But my VM isnt visible on the router, so I cant get up my Duck DNS and port forwarding. So now I have HA running (loaded my second newest backup and worked fine, as the latest backup was corrupt), albeit on a different IP address. Now when I run Fing, I am able to find the IP of the Hassio in order to log into the front end (my router has never allowed the hassio.local:8123 thing). Problem #2, my Google wifi only recognizes the host laptop’s IP address, but none of the virtual machine. Problem #1: his commands to reserve a certain IP address didnt work for me (I am using the VM on Windows 7). So, I thought screw this, I saw Rob’s video (from the Smarthomehookup YouTube channel ) on installing Hassio on a virtual machine.

I dropped the new image once I got Samba up and running, went to load it, and Bam! Dead in the water (the backup is bad!) I got a new card and went about installing a new Hassio image so I could reload my last backup on the Pi. Fortunately, reading this forum I found a recovery software and could find my recovery tar files as well as my config file! (Yes, I know, now I should backup to Google drive.

Long story short l, the Pi works but the card is corrupted. But last week, everything went Fubar after a back up and upgrade. Halfway through this journey, once I fried a Pi, got a new one, and popped in the SD card, and was back in business. Also, I had remote access with Duck DNS, as well as Tor for emergencies (it’s so slow). I have 3 different manufacturers’ robot vacuums, Ring doorbell pro, 4 Nest Smoke alarms, 12 TP link switches ,4 Wemos, 2 Kuna cameras, my garages via Gogogate, my Ring Alarm system, a Volvo, my Google wifi stats, my Samsung smart fridge, my hydrawise sprinklers, my Roku, and intermittently the Xbox. Since finding HA and all you guys last August, my home had come a long way. I’m not very technical and as advertised, this configuration was a great way for my to get into the smarthome game.
