Hubitat-Homebridge - port forwarding required?

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Hi,

I've just installed the plugins on both HOOBS and my Hubitat Elevation device and entered all the relevant info that it asked for. In one place, it said to be sure that port 8000 was available and allowed through my firewall. I'm curious if that means that I need to port forward 8000 through my router and, if so, am I forwarding that to my HOOBS install or to the Hubitat? Thanks so much!

(PS I did search before posting this but didn't find any info. I just don't want a port forward to stop this working properly.)

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No, you shouldn’t use port forwarding. Adding a firewall rule is different than forwarding a port.

Port 8000 is the default direct port that the plugin will listen on for traffic from your hub. You need to make sure your firewall allows incoming traffic on this port from your Hubitat hub IP address to your HomeBridge instance.

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