home assistant remote access cloud

by Miss Eva Littel Published 2 years ago Updated 1 year ago

Can I use home assistant cloud while away?

Remote access Users of Home Assistant Cloud can use the Remote UI without requiring any configuration. If you’re interested in logging in to Home Assistant while away, you’ll have to make your instance remotely accessible. Remember to follow the securing checklist before doing this.

How to remotely access your home assistant?

There are also two other ways for Home Assistant remote access. The first one is to use the Home Assistant cloud service called Nabu Casa. This a secure and easy way, but it will cost you 5 dollars monthly to have it. You can try the service for free for 31 days. The other method is to use a VPN.

What app do you use for remote access?

You can find plenty of information online about each of these, and they all have some pros and cons. Personally, I use Nabu Casa’s remote access for seamless callbacks and one-click Google Assistant integration, and Argo for the Home Assistant app and web browser access when not at home.

Why choose Nabu Casa home assistant cloud?

One of Home Assistant Cloud’s main features is the easy remote access to Home Assistant. I highly recommend that you use Home Assistant Cloud for this, as manual configuration can be very easily setup the wrong (insecure) way. Nabu Casa will take care of all the hassle, like setting up a reverse proxy, SSL certificates etc.

How do I get Home Assistant app to work remotely?

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How does Nabu Casa work?

Nabu casa creates a secure environment to connect to from the outside, and it uses the connection your Home Assistant instance made to exchange data. There's no need to open any ports from the outside going in. There should also not be a need to open an outbound port (unless you block outbound traffic by default).

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.

Is Home Assistant cloud free?

Well good news, because you can trial Home Assistant cloud for free for one month. In a few easy steps you can set-up your trial: From the Home Assistant user interface go to Settings, and then go to Home Assistant cloud. Click on the Start your free 1 month trial.

Is Nabu Casa worth it?

Nabu Casa provides good value for money with features like access to smart home from everyone, text to speech technology and one click connection to voice assistants (Alexa, Google). All of this can be achieved without Nabu Casa by the technically inclined with some degree of work.

How much does Nabu Casa cost?

After the initial 31-day trial period for new users, the subscription costs $6.50 + tax per month or $65 + tax for the annual plan. The annual plan is available for all countries.

How do I securely access Home Assistant remotely?

If you want secure remote access, the easiest option is to use Home Assistant cloud by which you also support the founders of Home Assistant. Another option is to use TLS/SSL via the add-on Duck DNS integrating Let's Encrypt. To expose your instance to the internet, use a VPN, or an SSH tunnel.

Is port forwarding Home Assistant safe?

Just putting a port up is not secure. You should definitely consider encrypting your traffic if you are accessing your Home Assistant installation remotely. For details please check the set up encryption using Let's Encrypt blog post or this detailed guide to using Let's Encrypt with Home Assistant.

How can I access my home server from outside?

Use a VPN. If you connect to your local area network by using a virtual private network (VPN), you don't have to open your PC to the public internet. Instead, when you connect to the VPN, your RD client acts like it's part of the same network and be able to access your PC.

What does Home Assistant cloud do?

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Is Home Assistant a hub?

Home Assistant acts as a central smart home controller hub by combining different devices and services in a single place and integrating them as entities.

How does Home Assistant communicate with devices?

Once started, Home Assistant will automatically scan your network for known devices and allow you to easily set them up. Once you have integrated all your devices at home, you can unleash Home Assistant's advanced automation engine to make your home work for you. Alert you when you leave your garage door open.

What is docker in home assistant?

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What is ESPHome?

ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.

What is home assistant Io?

Home Assistant is a free and open-source software for home automation designed to be a central control system for smart home devices with a focus on local control and privacy.

Where is my username on Home Assistant?

What port is Home Assistant on?

You just have to open port 443 in your router and forward it to your local Home Assistant IP on port 8123 . You also have to assign a static IP address for the server where your Home Assistant is installed. If you don’t know how to do that just ask in the comments section below or search in Google.

How to create a sub domain on DuckDNS?

Just go to DuckDNS.org and login with either of the available options (Persona, Twitter, GitHub, Reddit, Google) and then create a new sub domain. In a similar way as in the picture below.

What IP address to forward to Home Assistant?

This is what you aim! Just replace the Forward IP – 10.0.0.2 with your Home Assistant local address and you are good to go.

Does Home Assistant have a warning?

That means – you will receive warnings from your browser when you access the https version of your local Home Assistant. Depending of the browser that you are using you may add your local Home Assistant https address as exclusion once and you will not receive any warnings after that.

What is the cloudflared daemon?

Cloudflare’s Argo Tunnel uses a daemon, called cloudflared, to make the connection outbound to Cloudflare to enable traffic to reach your network. You can read the installation documentation on Cloudflare’s documentation site.

What is cloudflare?

Cloudflare. Cloudflare is a content delivery network (CDN) which handles the initial requests to your content. You point your domain to cloudflare, and they handle the traffic, and deliver any static content to the user immediately.

Does Cloudflare work with Argo?

Cloudflare offers an enterprise solution called Cloudflare for Teams which extends the Argo Tunnel capability with added support for OAuth authentication. This is interesting because it enables you to add Cloudflare-provided authentication, either via one-time passcode sent to email or even Google Account authentication, in front of your applications. However, I would recommend skipping this for Home Assistant remote access because the Home Assistant app doesn’t know how to handle this authentication. You could consider adding this authentication in front of other applications you might expose, such as your Proxmox server, your NVR, etc.

Is Cloudflare for Teams free?

I tried briefly, but had some issues with the Home Assistant iOS app - but maybe you’ll have better luck! Cloudflare for Teams is free for up to 50 users.

Does Nginx protect home assistant?

For Home Assistant, using Nginx or other proxies allows you to more easily install an SSL certificate and protect Home Assistant itself from direct attacks from the internet. The concept remains the same: point your domain to your Nginx proxy, and configure Nginx to redirect requests onward to Home Assistant.

Can you name a tunnel between Cloudflare and VM?

You can name the tunnel anything you like - and the tunnel can serve multiple applications. So, we might decide to name it “homeNetworkTunnel”, for example.

Does Azure have web applications?

Microsoft has offered this capability with web applications for a long time with their Azure AD Application Proxy. The downside with this is you need premium Azure capabilities and Windows servers. Not exactly very friendly for home network admins.

How long is the Home Assistant cloud free?

Who is responsible for hosting the Home Assistant community?

Nabu Casa is responsible for hosting the Home Assistant community. This will make sure that the community remains a ad-free experience. all cloud based integrations such as: Amazon, Google and future ones will be contributed to Home Assistant so people can run their own integration if wanted.

What is supporting home assistant development?

Supporting Home Assistant development, you are supporting the further development of Home Assistant by getting a subscription.

Can you use TTS in Home Assistant?

You can also use the TTS service from automations in Home Assistant. Here is an example of an automation that uses the TTS feature:

Does Alexa work with Google Assistant?

Easy connection to voice assistants, this allows easy integration with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa.

Is Home Assistant free?

Even though the manual setup is for free, it does present some risks if you not correctly done. One could expose the wrong parts of Home Assistant and put your installation at risk. Furthermore all of the setup aspects need regular maintenance, such as security updates.

Is Google Assistant easy to integrate with Home Assistant?

Furthermore Home Assistant cloud offers some other features such as easy integration with cloud solutions such as Google Assistant. The integration of these cloud services are really easy with Home Assistant Cloud, but take quite some setup and troubleshooting when you leverage the integration yourself.

Is ESPHome open source?

We started Home Assistant and have acquired ESPHome. Today these are the biggest open source projects that keep your home private and your data local.

Is Home Assistant encrypted?

All data is fully encrypted between your device and your Home Assistant instance. No snooping.

Does Nabu Casato need new hardware?

There's no new hardware needed for this part, though I will be using my phone (running iOS) to get the mobile appsetup and a separate service called Nabu Casato remotely connect to our Home Assistant install. An Android versionof the app is also available, though I can't comment on that as I haven't used it.

Can you use Nabu Casa for remote access?

I'm using Home Assistant Cloudby Nabu Casa for my remote access. You can setup remote access yourself, but I don't mind paying $5 a month to not have to worry about managing it all (at the minute, I might end up switching to something like Cloudflare eventually thanks to this guide on how to use Cloudflare with Home Assistant- but that's something for future me to deal with)