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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You can use Tailscale and Zerotier to access your local HomeAssistant from any devices connected with your Tailscale/Zerotier account.

But if you want to expose your HomeAssistant to public using a custom domain name, one way to do that is by using Cloudflare Tunnel: https://www.makeuseof.com/use-cloudflare-tunnel-expose-local-servers-internet/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm thinking to expose HA via a cloudflare tunnel; but I'm concerned as to what security implications this may have. I'm not sure what, if any, security issues the HA login page may have. I can easily put everything through a reverse proxy, which I already have set up for other reasons. I may migrate all my externally exposed webpages via cloudflare.

Have any lemmings used cloudflare for this? what is your experience with it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Currently using CloudFlare for two different homes. One is on cloudflared add-on, with Nginx Proxy Manager as the reverse proxy.

The other, CloudFlare tunnel hosted on a docker container in the same network, with Nginx Proxy Manager as well to unify ports for some services.

Both setups been working well so far, ignoring the concerns that the HA frontend may have potential security issues.

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