Hi there, I just installed Proxmox on my home server and like the idea a lot, but there is a noticable learning curve. I used this wonderful website and the provided link for home assistant os.
Usually home assistant is available at homeassistant.local without any configuration, i think its called mdns? But on my setup, homeassistant.local does not work for me, on any device, but the ip does.
So i suspect some settings in the proxmox firewall stops the ha vm mdns service from creating an entry in my router (fritzbox). I could not find any useful information about this though, and AI gave me the usual not quite helpful advice.
I hope you have some tips what i can check. Thanks a lot!
ps: I want to host caddy as a reverse proxy on the server some day. Does it make more sense to host a dns server as well and use caddy to forward to the ip?
So you definitely still need a local DNS running. AdGuard Home, PiHole, Technitium, Hell your router probably has a local dns server you can enable and add some entries to it.
But once you setup a dns server, you’ll need to point all network clients to the dns server address so it can start resolving the web address to the ip in question.