Secure way to allow external access to Home Assistant (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by sikhness@lemmy.ca to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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Hey all!

I'm fairly new to Home Assistant and have just created a few dashboards to be able to view my router statistics and be able to restart them via REST if need be. Love being able to do this seamlessly from one place.

It got me thinking however, that I can only really access the dashboard when I'm on my internal network. I know that there is a paid Home Assistant cloud that would enable me to view my dashboards and such publicly and securely, but I was wondering if this community has set it up themselves for free and securely.

Would anyone be able to guide me in the right direction?

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[-] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Surprised no one mentioned the native option of paying for the native Nabu Casa tunnel, you also get some other benefits. It is by far the easiest option but not free. It does however support Home Assistant development.

Personally I just expose my instance behind Opnsense with an SSL cert, and some web application firewall rules using nginx but that is a more technical configuration.

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I like Nabu Casa because it's easy, it works, and it supports the HA devs.

[-] phrogpilot73@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Supporting the HA Devs is the only reason I didn't set up a reverse proxy myself.

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