New Smartthings app issues when using Pi-Hole

Apps & Clients SmartThings (Samsung Connect)
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Since the classic app was no longer supported, I have been having issues with the new IOS app. When I access the app through cellular (wifi turned off, thus pihole not being used) the application works fine.

Here are the issues I am facing:

  1. When trying to add a new device, “by device” or “By Brand”, the application returns with nothing listed

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  2. When accessing the hub, the connected devices will not show

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  3. Widgets can not be accessed

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  4. When trying to turn on location tracking for my phone, when I activate (slide right), the app immediately moves it back to left (not activated)

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  5. Smartapps do not function (all, but most of all Smart Lock Guest Access SmartApp", receive “Server error occurred” “Server isn’t responding” on home screen

As I stated, when I turn off Wifi, I have no issues with these functions

I have added the following sites to the Pi-Hole whitelist but the issues continue to exist


usage.tracks.com
beacons5.gvt2.com
beacons.gvt2.com
beacons5.gvt3.com
mobile.launchdarkly.com

To try to find what other domains Smartthings are trying to call, I am monitoring the Pi-hole query log when I am accessing the app through Wifi and see no other domain denials to add to the whitelist.

Anyone have any idea how to resolve this? While I can get around turning off wifi when I add new devices, the SmartApp server problem makes any usage of Smartapps useless as long as I am on my wifi

Thanks,
Tom

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I think @jkp had a lsit of domains that need to be white listed

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Is that a typo?

Should be usage.trackjs.com

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I had both in my whitelist
usage.trackjs.com and usage.tracks.com

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In the past, it was basically the usage.trackjs.com url but for a few, SmartThings.com was needed. If you discover another domain needs to be whitelisted, report back for other users who might encounter the same issue.

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I have added www.smartthings.com to the whitelist, but the problems persist. Is there other URL’s that Smartthings use, like when adding a new device when it needs to provide a list of brands?

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Why www? Just plain SmartThings.com

Not that is it will really matter :slight_smile:

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I did change it to Smartthings.com and also added the domain as a wildcard (so subdomains would be included) but that did not resolve anything :weary:

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what about api.smartthings.com ?

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Thanks, tried that and problem persists. This is especially frustrating because normally you would see the domain blocked in Pi-hole, then can whitelist it, but nothing appears to be blocked on the query list.

When I go to add a new smartapp, it comes back with “no items”. Another peculiarity is that when I disable Pi-hole, the problem persists, but works as long as I am off wifi. My Iphone has no firewall or filtering software on it. I have UFW running on the Raspberry PI that has Pi-hole installed, I have disabled UFW but that has not helped towards a resolution. So not sure what else could be impacting the ability for SmartThings to work correctly

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Does anyone have an update for this?
I’m having very similar issues too!

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More details. What steps noted above have you tried? If you turn off wireless on your mobile device and use cellular only… do the Smartapps show?

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Hi. I did follow everything above adding the URLs listed and somemore that I’ve found myself. I think it was more down to my mobile not clearing it’s DNS cache even after restarting my phone a few times.
All is working now though.

Thanks @jkp for a super quick response.