So far my #HomeAssistant instance had been running on the local subnet, behind the #Router's #Firewall and so was inaccessible from outside my house’s network. However, I’ve now got it onto the #Internet. Of course, there are inherent risks and potential problems with this if malicious actors want to crack the system and so I made sure that it’s only accessible as an #Encrypted connection via #HTTPS rather than #HTTP.
Two free services which I used are #DuckDNS to give me a #URL and #LetsEncrypt to provide #SSLCertificates. I had to open up a #Port on my #Router for #PortForwarding and to make sure that the #HomeAssistantGreen is attached to a fixed IP address locally.
There are several online tutorials to perform this operation and I would advise anyone wishing to do so to look at them carefully before proceeding as a misstep can lead you to locking yourself out of your own hub.
#GNU #Linux #HAOS


Don T3rr0r 


