Connection errors

[feetie]

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I have been unable make them dash button work without errors when testing with Home Assistant. The button was discovered and the yml configuration passes.

Here is my amazon-dash.yml file contents (mydns replaces actual name):

settings:
delay: 10
devices:
00:FC:BC:24:1F:28:
name: Living_Room_plug_switch homeassistant: https://mydns.asuscomm.com:8123 event: toggle_Living_Room_plug # Event name to send access_token:

When I run the command: sudo amazon-dash test-device 00:FC:BC:24:1F:28 --config /etc/amazon-dash.yml

I get the following error: Exception on request to https://mydns.asuscomm.com:8123/api/events/toggle_Living_Room_plug: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='mydns.asuscomm.com', port=8123): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/events/toggle_Living_Room_plug (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x75aaa550>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused',))

I also tried "access" instead of "access_token" using HA api password in the yml but get same error

Any help is appreciated!

[Nekmo]

Your url is not accessible from your server. It can be a problem with DNS or the remote server.

[feetie]

Thanks for the reply. I'm a bit of a novice...

I am able to access HA using the DNS on other machines on my local network via web browser. Why would this not work from my Raspberry PI on same network?

[Nekmo]

Sorry, I don't know how you have configured your network, but you can do tests on your raspberry pi using curl: curl http://yoururl

[feetie]

I found the problem with my router settings. I port forwarded 8123 to 8123 & I can now use my url for both internal and external access.

Thanks Nekmo for your time and creating a nice application!

[Nekmo]

You are welcome :)