Remote-access Guide

ha remote access

by Mr. Kacey Schaden DDS Published 2 years ago Updated 1 year ago
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How do I log into my Home Assistant remotely?

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Can you expose Home Assistant on the internet?

There's always some risk. Having said that the last known exploit was patched very quickly by home assistant. So the risk is pretty small if you keep Home Assistant up to date and keep up to date with Home Assistant news.

How do I make my Home Assistant accessible outside the network?

You can use any free port on your router and forward that to port 8123. A problem with making a port accessible is that some Internet Service Providers only offer dynamic IPs. This can cause you to lose access to Home Assistant while away. You can solve this by using a free Dynamic DNS service like DuckDNS.

How do I access Home Assistant in cloud?

To get started, open Home Assistant, go to the cloud page in the configuration panel. Find the remote box and enable the toggle. The first time you enable it, Home Assistant Cloud will have to generate and validate the certificate. This can take up to 60 seconds.

Is Home Assistant app safe?

I should also note that Home Assistant does provide a 2FA (two-factor authentication) method that works with most authenticator apps. That's another win on the security front as is the fact that Home Assistant is an open-source project.

Is Nabu Casa safe?

Access from anywhere, this allows you to access your Home Assistant installation from anywhere. Easy connection to voice assistants, this allows easy integration with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. Security, Nabu Casa takes care of the security and hardening. You no longer need to worry about this.

What is my external URL for Home Assistant?

You can now access your Home Assistant via https://my-home.duckdns.org both internally and externally while having http://192.168.1.4:8123 available to be used as unencrypted endpoint for things like konnected.io .

What is Hacs Home Assistant?

HACS is a integration that gives the user a powerful UI to handle downloads of custom integrations and plugins. Highlights of what HACS can do: Help you discover new custom elements. Help you install (download) new custom elements. Help you keep track of your custom elements.

Can you use Alexa without the cloud?

You will need a Home Assistant installation up and running and some configured entities, a light or two should do just fine. You will also need an Alexa configured with the Alexa app as we will be using it to add Home Assistant as a device.

What is Nabu casa?

Nabu Casa is a paid subscription service which is linked to your Home Assistant instance, the main purpose of Nabu Casa is two fold, give the smart home owner access to their smart home outside of their home network, and secondly to help fund the home assistant developers and cloud infrastructure.

Do you have to pay for Home Assistant?

Home assistant is free to download and to use, to run home assistant you need to buy hardware that can start from $70 for a Raspberry PI 3B+ kit to $140 home assistant blue.

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