I was using “0.0.0.0” as ip addr already as advised in the documentation but could not pass the ipWhitelist section … omitting the “::ffff:” part helped. (Now everything is up and running.)

to allow systems from OUTSIDE the MagicMirror hardware, you must use something OTHER than “localhost”

you can either use “0.0.0.0” , which means use any ip address on this machine to listen to requests
or the actual ip address (which can change )
use

ip addr

to get the address of the wifi or ethernet connected interface

THEN
you can fiddle with the whitelist …

using the whitelist (IMHO) is really only useful in a commercial setting where someone in the office MIGHT scan for open IP addresses and try to connect to a range of ports…

in my house, noone is getting on my network unless I let them …

sorry, this is a very long thread I stumbled upon because I had the problem that my browser told me that I cannot connect to a server only instance of mm2. The terminal output gave me an “Access denied to IP address” and printed the ip address I configured in the ipWhitelist section of the config file according to the getting started section in the documentation and the comment in the config itself.

What I was doing was following this advice:

// or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
                                                                                                                        // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],

the ip rejected was 192.168.178.42, therefore I used first

"127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.178.42"

BUT I think I have to use (at least this is what makes it working)

"127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "192.168.178.42"

Does this make any sense to you?

Kind regards

Marco

u mean inside your home?

Yes inside my home.

ipWhitelist: [“127.0.0.1”, “:: ffff: 127.0.0.1”, “:: 1”, “0.0.0.0”]

u mean inside your home?

address: "0.0.0.0".
ipWhitelist:[],

127.0.0.1 means ONLY from the same box as MM on it.

I want to connect from the outside on my maggic. I configured the config.js file like this: ipWhitelist: [“127.0.0.1”, “:: ffff: 127.0.0.1”, “:: 1”, “0.0.0.0”], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses but I don’t have remote access.
Thank you for your help.

I recently installed MM and am viewing on screen rather than on a mirror. I’m unable to view MM in a web browser from another machine in the network. I get

This site can’t be reached
192.168.0.113 refused to connect.

I’ve gone through this topic and tried the various suggestions including turning off IPv6. No joy.
No errors or connection refused messages in the pm2 logs. I’ve run config:check and it runs clean.

netstat -lnpt
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5900            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -                
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8080          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1861/electron.js 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -            

I’m trying to access with http://192.168.0.113. Ssh to the pi is fine.
Any ideas?

change to address: “0.0.0.0” (listen from anywhere)

This is my adress for global access to the mm2 via internet browser

http://raspi-mm2.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.myfritz.net:8116/

an this is a part of my configuration in my config .js

var config = {
        address: "0.0.0.0",
        port: 8116,
        ipWhitelist: [],

Port forward configuration for my router for global access

screenshot browser:

screenshot VNC Viewer:

Has anyone found a fix for the issue below? I tried hardcoding my raspberry pi IP address and creating a range of acceptable IP addresses but still not able to access the MagicMirror from my desktop or phone. Any advice?

Maybe I have missed this from someone else, but one important thing about the whitelisting message:

“This device is not allowed to access your mirror.
Please check your config.js or config.js.sample to change this.”

The EXACT SAME message appears (in my case) if the config.js has syntax errors. Locally your mirror will tell you that there is no config file or just give you a black screen, but if you try to reach it from outside through a browser (Firefox and Chrome in my case) with a broken config.js, you will get the whitelisting message above.

So, before trying to get your ipWhitelist in the right shape, make sure you have no other syntax errors with the mirror, e.g. using

npm run config:check

If you had some and had them corrected, be safe and restart the mirror.
Below you can see the example in my case.

pi@magicmirror2:~ $ tail ~/.pm2/logs/mm-out-0.log
No helper found for module: helloworld.
All module helpers loaded.
Starting server on port 8080 ...
Server started ...
Connecting socket for: updatenotification
Sockets connected & modules started ...
Launching application.
Access denied to IP address: 66.249.93.64
Access denied to IP address: 80.157.5.50
Access denied to IP address: 80.157.5.50
pi@magicmirror2:~ $ cd MagicMirror/
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $ npm run config:check

> magicmirror@2.1.2 config:check /home/pi/MagicMirror
> node tests/configs/check_config.js

Checking file...  /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js
Line 260 col 9 Expected ']' to match '[' from line 26 and instead saw '{'.
Line 261 col 16 Expected '}' to match '{' from line 11 and instead saw 'module'.
Line 261 col 22 Missing semicolon.
Line 261 col 16 Unrecoverable syntax error. (95% scanned).
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $ sudo nano config/config.js
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $ npm run config:check

> magicmirror@2.1.2 config:check /home/pi/MagicMirror
> node tests/configs/check_config.js

Checking file...  /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js
Your configuration file don't containt syntax error :)
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $ pm2 restart mm
Use --update-env to update environment variables
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [mm](ids: 0)
[PM2] [mm](0) ✓
┌──────────┬────┬──────┬─────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬──────────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem      │ user │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼──────┼─────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼──────┼──────────┤
│ mm       │ 0  │ fork │ 901 │ online │ 6       │ 0s     │ 18% │ 2.3 MB   │ pi   │ disabled │
└──────────┴────┴──────┴─────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴──────────┴──────┴──────────┘
 Use `pm2 show ` to get more details about an app
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $

I wanted to quote this as it just happened to me. MM was working fine remotely. I made some edits to config.js and got the dreaded “This device is not allowed to access your mirror…" message. I hadn’t edited the whitelist, so I started doing all of the network troubleshooting. Seeing this post reminded me I had done some edits and sure enough, I missed a comma somewhere and the screwed it all up. Fixing that unrelated entry in the config.js made this error go away.