Cloudflare tunnel & Docker HA - intermittently working on iOS/Mac

[hazy meteor]

I already use my own domain with Cloudflare tunnels so seemed like a no brainer to setup remote access this way.

It works - kind of. As you can see in the video it almost seems to not load every other time I click something, like it’s dropping.

Refreshing whatever page I’m on fixes it. Nothing in logs of either side to suggest an issue and no issues with the server itself or connectivity at home. It doesn’t affect any other services I have remote access to.

This also doesn’t happen when I use my IKE2 VPN and stick to local url either but that’s not practical for notifications as there’s no easy way to keep connected 24/7 on iOS.

I’m waiting for my weather controller to arrive so the broken weather text is expected btw, not loading stuff I click on eg graphs is not.

It’s also not limited to graphs, it can happen when I try and do anything. Am I missing something stupid or is this just how it works remotely with the iOS/Mac app? It’s the same there too. I don’t use Windows or Android to see if it’s platform specific.

Ps sorry for audio did not realise it would record that

[hazy meteor]

Cloudflare tunnel & Docker HA - intermittently working on iOS/Mac

[hazy meteor]

If someone is could let me know whether this is just expected behaviour for these apps remotely or not before I start punching holes in my firewall and reverting to nginx to see if I have better luck it would be really appreciated 🙂

[warped tartan]

Im a bit confuse about your question, you mean the "loading data.." not loading?

If so, this is probably not an app issue, check in iOS Safari to see if you can reproduce

[hazy meteor]

Thanks for the response. Yes the “loading data…” would just stall there no matter how long I left it but then a refresh and try again it works fine.

In safari it happens too. In fact, if I do as much as refresh the page using safari it takes me to the login screen which definitely seems like a network related flow issue.

I’ll try going out through Nginx > Tunnel, it’s just annoying I can’t find the causation considering others are using it just fine directly.

[warped tartan]

I'm not sure what may be happening in your setup, I would say to start over your remote access configuration

[hazy meteor]

Might be a red herring (safari iOS refresh > login flow) as maybe expected doesn’t happen when I hit stay signed in.

Config is as basic as it gets. Also tried specifying the single IP only, same behaviour, which is odd because you’d expect it to not work at all if any of it was wrong.

http:
use_x_forwarded_for: true
trusted_proxies:
- 192.168.0.0/24

Will break out to its own tunnel, there’s no special rules in place for other services (or needed for this afaik) but seems like the only place to check now.

[warped tartan]

Sorry thats out of my comfort area, perhaps give it a try on the network or core channels