Hello everyone!

I encountered an issue while installing Home Assistant on my old iMac. I followed the guide step by step, just like you’re doing, and everything seemed to install smoothly! However, we encountered the dreaded ERR_Connection_refused! Frustrating, isn’t it?

The strange part was that http://homeassistant.local:4357/ was working perfectly fine and indicating it was healthy!

Here’s a solution I discovered that might assist you. It turned out that Home Assistant was crashing, which is why http://homeassistant.local:8123/ wouldn’t work for me.

Step 1. Go into the VM ha console

Within this console type in

supervisor -h

You can see that the different commands supervisor has. Now enter

supervisor repair

After this step has finished then run

core start

That should do it! Try accessing home assistant from port 8123 now and it should be accessible.

If that doesn’t work please port forward 8123 from your VM’s ip address.