Remote-access Guide

nabu casa remote access

by Diana Okuneva Published 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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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 my instance of Nabu Casa?

In this case you can navigate to your Nabu Casa account page to get your instance online. You can also use this page if you forgot your url. As a Home Assistant user, you might like to automate things. We understand!

What is Nabu Casa subscription?

Supporting Home Assistant development, you are supporting the further development of Home Assistant by getting a subscription. Text to Speech, Nabu Casa offers a natural sounding text-to-speech engine. All in all you get quite a lot of features for five dollars per month.

How important is the connexion between CG-Nat and Nabu Casa?

It’s not important. Nabu Casa say that there are connexion problems with CG-NAT (see the capture), that’s why I had to fix that first That page is not talking about nabu casa remote access.

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How do I access Home Assistant from Nabu casa?

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.

How do you use Nabu casa?

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Is Nabu Casa secure?

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.

How do I access my Home Assistant externally?

13:3817:57Home Assistant 101: Setting up Remote Access - YouTubeYouTubeStart of suggested clipEnd of suggested clipStore but in ssl cert only allows the communication. Between home assistant. And an outside deviceMoreStore but in ssl cert only allows the communication. Between home assistant. And an outside device to remain private it doesn't prevent someone from trying multiple passwords.

Is Nabu CASA free?

Currently, Nabu Casa has a 31 day free trial and costs $5 a month after that. Nabu Casa is owned by the same people that run the open source project (home assistant).

How do I access Hassio?

If you get access to the hassio-cli (either by enabling the host SSH access on port 22222) or, I guess, by plugging in a keyboard as you've done, then typing 'login' from there takes you to the host system. You can then run docker ps to see the containers that are running.

How do I delete my Nabu account?

You can delete your account on our account page. If you are currently subscribed to Home Assistant Cloud, you will need to cancel your plan before you can remove your account. You can do this on the account page too.

How does Home Assistant cloud work?

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Can you run Home Assistant in the cloud?

With Home Assistant Cloud, you can connect your Home Assistant instance in a few simple clicks to both Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. If you can connect it to Home Assistant, you can now control it with your voice using the Amazon Echo, Google Home or your Android phone.

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.

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.

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Access from anywhere

No longer worry if you left the garage door open. Quickly access your Home Assistant instance from your phone, your favorite coffeeshop or at work.

Easily connect to voice assistants

With Home Assistant Cloud, you can connect your Home Assistant instance in a few simple clicks to both Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa.

Fund development of Home Assistant and ESPHome

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Text to Speech

Get access to neural-network powered text-to-speech as part of your subscription. Turn any text into natural sounding audio clips to be played on any speaker that Home Assistant supports.

Let's keep advertisers in the dark

We live in a world where cloud companies are constantly trying to collect more of our data. With Nabu Casa we're breaking this trend.

What is Nabu Casa?

Nabu Casa is contributing features to Home Assistant to make it easier to install, manage and make it accessible to a wider audience. Nabu Casa is responsible for hosting the Home Assistant community. This will make sure that the community remains a ad-free experience.

How long is the 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.

probot-home-assistant bot commented on Jan 7, 2020

Hey there @home-assistant/cloud, mind taking a look at this issue as its been labeled with a integration ( cloud) you are listed as a codeowner for? Thanks!

balloob commented on Jan 8, 2020

103.6 only made changes to the cloud integration related to Google ( https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/30525/files ). Do you have any other errors in your logs ?

fillwe commented on Jan 8, 2020

I have had issues since 103 with remote ui sometimes being unavailable. It comes back at random intervals. Google working fine though. Have started using my own domain for now to see if it solves itself, but seen a couple of people in discord and the forums reporting this

pvizeli commented on Jan 8, 2020

I need the full log of startup with debug logging. Otherwise I can't say why the backend was not setup.

pvizeli commented on Jan 14, 2020

What I see in your log is, that the code is never called like they will not exists. Can you remove the dept folder inside config?

rschuiling commented on Jan 19, 2020

I don't see a dept folder. Do you mean the deps folder? This one is present and empty. Do you want me to remove it? Presently, the remote UI is functioning just fine.

pvizeli commented on Jan 20, 2020

Okay. I close the issue and we can try to debug it again if you see the issue

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Automating Availability of The Remote UI

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As a Home Assistant user, you might like to automate things. We understand! The cloud component exposes two service to enable and disable the remote connection: cloud/remote_connect and cloud/remote_disconnect. That way you can turn on the remote connection only when you leave the house and need it.
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Ingress

  • Add-ons which support Ingress can be accessed via Home Assistant Cloud. Because they are served via the Home Assistant UI, they benefit from the same end-to-end encryption and local authentication as the Home Assistant frontend.
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Caveats

  • We are currently not forwarding the IP address of the incoming request. Because of this, we are unable to support Home Assistant instances that have configured 127.0.0.1 or ::1as trusted networks or proxies. It also means that if you use IP bans, the remote connection will be banned as a whole instead of just the address from which the incorrect passwords were entered. We ar…
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Security

  • Making a secure solution is a challenge. In this section we want to discuss the things we do to improve security, what weaknesses there are in our approach, and how we plan to solve them. Our approach is secure because: 1. All data is encrypted between your browser and your local instance. The local instance has generated and owns the certificate and so only the local instan…
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Insecure Versions

  • Home Assistant instances known to have security issues to connect to the Cloud are blocked from using the remote UI feature. This helps in securing your Home Assistant instance. Updating your Home Assistant instance to a secure version will allow it to be accessible via Remote UI once again. If you cannot update to the latest version of Home Assistant right now and are certain tha…
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