AdGuard is blocking a client when I've excluded it

[glen4cindy]

I've been using AdGuard Home as an addon to Home Assistant.

I had to deactivate it today.

My wife plays Candy Crush. She likes the ads because she earns things in the game.

I set her iPhone as a persistent client. I used the IP and MAC address and set it statically on my home network so it would never change.

I had everything "unchecked" in settings, "unblock all" in globally blocked services, "service blocking" paused 00:00 - 23:59 Sunday - Saturday, and I had the following set as upstream DNS servers: 8.8.8.8, 1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1.

I had the DNS set to manual on her iPhone and the IP set to my Home Assistant server.

It seemed to work for a while but then it stopped working.

I really liked having AdGuard blocking ad traffic but as they say "happy wife happy life" so if I can't KEEP Candy Crush working I can't use it.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Dynamic5912]

Disconnect and reconnect the device to the WiFi.

[glen4cindy]

Disconnect and reconnect the device to the WiFi.

Thanks for that suggestion.

My wife comes and goes several times a day which would do this. Do you mean I should forget my home wifi and connect again?

Thanks in advance.

[Dynamic5912]

No.

Have you checked to see that iCloud relay isn't enabled?