Laravel Varbinary(ip) Using With Where Not Working

I'm using varbinary(16) to store ips in the database like described here https://stackoverflow.com/a/24270808/5717102 .

To convert to human readable and to binary i use inet_ntop and inet_pton. This works well, but it won't work with the where query.

MyModel::where('ip', $ip)->get();

What am I missing, shouldn't it work? I already googled, but wasn't able to find any usefull information.

Accessors and Mutators won't work with queries. So you should access it as MyModel::where('ip', inet_pton($ip))->get()

You can further just create a scope and move the logic to the model if you want to extract it out.

public function scopeWhereIp($query, $ip)
{
  return $query->where('ip', inet_pton($ip));
}

and access it as

MyModel::whereIp($ip)->get()