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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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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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[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm actually not a Home Assistant User, but if I understand the issue correctly something like that can usually be solved by setting up your own VPN on your modem/router. If you choose the right options and a good password it should even be secure :)

[–] fixmycode@feddit.cl 2 points 1 year ago

the problem with VPN and HA is that if you want to use your phone as a presence sensor, you need to keep your phone connected to your VPN at all times or the HA app won't be able to update your sensors.