Local URL and Wi-Fi

[arins]

If you are on a Wi-Fi connection at home the app uses the local URL to connect to openHAB which is great.

If you are connected to Wi-Fi network but not your home Wi-Fi where openHAB installation is located the app will try to use your local URL as well. But of course that will cause an error because the app can not reach your openHAB instance because it is not on that LAN.

Would it be possible for the app to only use the local URL on specific Wi-Fi SSID?

You could have a checkbox use local URL for all Wi-Fi SSID if a users wants that to keep old functionality.

[dirkbe]

When you use a different Wi-Fi than your home Wi-Fi but with a VPN connection we still want to use the local URL. The detection of local vs. remote is not simple. I use same URL for local and remote and connect only via VPN from remote. We have another enhancement for multiple servers[/issues/557]

[arins]

I totally agree that we should not "break" current setting or force the user to specify SSID. That is why my suggestion is that we can keep the old functionality as is but you have an option for local URL. My thought was that only use local URL when on a specific SSID. If SSID is not specified then use local URL for all Wi-Fi connections in that way you can still connect through VPN on any Wi-Fi. So this feature would only be optional and not break existing functionality.

[lsiepel]

Or keep the current behaviour with an extra ‘rule’.
If connected by WiFi, but oh is unreachable by the local uri, try the remote. It might cause a small delay, but atleast it can work.