The Easiest Free Way To Do Home Assistant Remote Access!

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I have covered quite a few different remote access solutions for Home Assistant, either through port forwarding or setting up VPNS but recently, it has emerged there is another way to do it...via a Cloudflare tunnel! So let's take a look at it & I'll show you how to set it up with a free domain name & explain why you may do this over some of those other methods we've talked about in the past!
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@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Small correction at 8:22 - I used Plex as an example of a web service to add as an additional sub domain, this was meant to be an example only of something you could connect - do not connect Plex to Cloudflare, it is against the ToS to stream video through Cloudflare tunnel and could result in getting your account closed. This was a poor choice of an example on my part, apologies!

@ayedjed 2 года назад

is this will effect the traffic ? I have Synology NAS so could my home assistant on raspberry p3 will effect performance of browsing my files on NAS

@danielshiloah1485 2 года назад

Would looking at your security camera feeds consider streaming video ?

@lixxus-m 2 года назад

@@danielshiloah1485 I think anything that is heavy UDP streaming traffic would be considering against the use of service. I think its more for tunnel lightweight tcp traffic like web servers etc as mentioned in their use cases

@chrisn5827 2 года назад

Hi all, did anyone have issues authorzing the tunnel as i receoved this message . "Failed to validate requested hostname *.xxxxxxxx: This zone is either not part of your account, or you do not have access to it. Please contact support if using a multi-user organization. (Code: 1010)" Cheers

@francescoatria1086 2 года назад

i have followed your video and everything is working like when i was using duck dns except google assistant i have to change something?

@bat3332 2 года назад

no nonsense no need to skip even a minute video. This video is the EXAMPLE for a value video which don't waste the viewers time or the creator's time just straight to the point and everything covered with error possibility and bonus tip. This should be the template of an content oriented video making. Awesome

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Appreciate the feedback and kind words, thank you 🙏

@swimWithAL Год назад

100% agree. I'm now setup with Cloudflare (A service I already have LOVED), now paired with my favourite smart home software to give me remote access from anywhere. EZPZ🤩

@tempacc9589 Год назад

What do you mean? the video starts at 3:20 everything before that is just intro trash

@Mimbultonia 11 месяцев назад

Freenom is obviously now defunct - but was able to follow these instructions using a different domain provider (in my case IONOS) pretty easily. Great video - but worth updating with another domain provider)

@cjano78 5 месяцев назад

any free replacement for freenom?

@JS-up8ff 2 года назад

I said it before and I will say it again: your videos are top notch. They are short but very complete. Keep this going, it's highly appreciated!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Ah thanks so much, makes me very happy you find the content useful 🙏

@Muscleduck 2 года назад

Few tips for viewers: when first setting up the domain name, wait 15 mins before continuing on Cloudflare. Cloudflare couldn't find my domain the first 10-15 mins. Also, same goes for adding the Cloudflared repo to HA. It added but for some reason I couldn't find the CLoudflared add-on. I rebooted my Pi and did something else and by the time I came back the add-on was there. But absolutely brilliant video. And I love that you added the Plex tip. I know Cloudflare doesn't like Plex, but I'm contemplating using Loxone this way, as long as I've not fully integrated it into HA. I won't have to use the Loxone DNS anymore with the port forwarding. The Cloudflare tunnel seems safer.

@RipsawFox 2 года назад

I watched the video on release, and finally got around to setting it up today. The instructions were so easy to follow. I've now managed to get rid of No-IP, close ports on my router, remove reverse proxy settings from my Synology and still access HA and my other services so much more easily and securely. Thanks for this Lewis.

@aqrus3965 2 года назад

Dude, I love your videos! Every single explanation is straight to the point and can is so simple that even inexperienced home assistant users can follow along. Keep up the great work, Lewis!

@doschlumm Год назад

Great Video, Lewis. thanks for the detailed one. Some remarks for other newbies, you need to restart the HA so the repository will be shown. Also, remember to verify your email address from cloud flare (clicking the link in the email that was sent to you), otherwise it wont work.

@chunkychops Год назад

Excellent, and the process still works (generally). The freenom website was down, but I bought a 79p domain elsewhere and followed the same steps, except updating the NS records with the other domain provider instead. With the companion app, I had the option to set up the URL for when I'm off wifi, and the local address would be used when on local wifi (so if internet goes down I can still use the HA app in the house. Thanks for the instructions.

@theattorney6072 Год назад

Hi, could you please explain how you did that ?

@snador 8 месяцев назад

please explain how to do this :)

@SnowyPe Год назад

I followed your tutorial and it works 100%.. I have been using it for the past month and have had zero issues. Thanks a mil for the tutorial steps.

@michelghantous9466 Год назад

Thank you very much. I am new to home assistant and started it from scratch few weeks ago with the help of RU-vid videos. Most of them are yours and few from others. The good things about yours are up to the point with no secrets behind the scenes. Thanks again and keep your great videos.

@TheSalwayCannans 5 месяцев назад

As others have commented, this is so straight to the point. No messing around explaining anything at the beginning but getting right into it. I am coming to your channel for everything from now on! Keep up the great content!

@INSIGHTSAU 2 года назад

Brilliant video as usual. I’m sticking with Nabu though just to support the development.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Great decision 🙌

@clairerovic 2 года назад

Same same

@salemyr 2 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome Can't use port forwarding at my cabin due to CG NAT issues on LTE connectivity, so I have been forced to use Nabu Casa there, but I would rather have Nabu Casa at home. Exited to give this a try, thanks for the video!

@Hurricanepkt 2 года назад

I have added it as a sanity backup for me.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@shinydoc Год назад

Thank you 🙏 I already used Cloudflare and some services with them, so just got another Domain Name with them (I think their prices are fair) and job was a good'un. Very straightforward, thank you again.

@eduardocc555 2 года назад

I like your videos and you have inspired me to double down on getting into home assistant, this works perfectly for me. In Cloudflared add-on there's a disclaimer about "Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content" and that could affect adding Plex Server

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Yes that was a poor example on my part, I was using it as a demo for another web service but forgot about the ToS thing! Whoops!

@DLWertz 2 года назад

Absolutely incredible! I have a home assistant server running in my motorhome with a cellular router. I can't do port forwarding so this solved my access issue. Thank you for a clear and concise overview.

@simonpowell1442 2 года назад

Great Video, Lewis. Perfectly timed for me as my whole duckDNS system fell over, and I've never been too keen on using it. Cloudflare offer a top class service. Cheers.

@makaveli7771 2 года назад

27 degrees I am jealous. I am sitting in the 40s here in London. Another epic video I was going to use a paid for droplet to open up other services but your method is great. Thank you

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

That was the inside temperature, was worse outside but yeah you guys have it even hotter! Although in my defence, us Scots arent used to hot weather 😂

@makaveli7771 2 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome hi again Lewis, hope you had a chilled day, can you please rescue, I followed your guidance everything worked like a charm, however I had to restore my HA to 2 days ago (pre cloudflare add-on) and now I can't get it to work even with a new domain i, uninstalled the add-on many times, no luck, can you please help. I get FATAL: Failed to create tunnel. Please check the Cloudflare Teams Dashboard for an existing tunnel with the name homeassistant and delete it:

@makaveli7771 2 года назад

And there is nothing to delete in the given link

@makaveli7771 2 года назад

I managed to access the teams dashboard, I had to create a zero trust account though where a payment method was required but not charged. Back and running now after deleting the tunnel. Many thanks for the straight forward tutorial :)

@cooperised 2 года назад

Still gonna use Nabu Casa, not because it's any better but because the $5 per month supports the dev effort for Home Assistant.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Absolutely, Nabu Casa rocks!

@jezlawrence720 8 месяцев назад

Price point is too high for a DIY thing like home assistant. If it was more like ten bucks a year, so less than a dollar a month I would snap it up and so would a lot of other folk. Paying for convenience needs to be at convenience prices.

@Johnsormani Месяц назад

Cooperised Plus 1 on that. And also the google tts is of higher quality than the free version

@waelali3519 Год назад

This worked so well!!! i also added the URL to the HA app and it just logged in immediately without wifi connection. great success. one more thing is that now whatever guide i follow, things just work without any hussle. because now i use NUC with HAOS on it. i used HA in container and VM before and it sucked, nothing worked properly and i alway had to go through back doors to make easy installations. now things just work! thank you for the great video!

@jamesgedney-higham456 2 года назад

You always land the videos at the right time I need them, doing a HA rebuild and next step was to set up DNS and port forwarding... not anymore tunnel here I come, can't wait! P.s. 27! That's nothing we had that as a night temp in good old Yorkshire 😆

@antoniavivas6803 Год назад

been after this feature for more than 2 years and for one reason or another no other method has worked for me. Now I can finally ditch Nabu Casa. Thanks a ton mate.

@richardheb2489 Год назад

Hi Lewis, so good videos ! Thanks. I hope you’ll keep informing and teaching the community for a long time 👏🙏. (UPDATED) I tried this, but no way to get through the process with Freenom ! And no answer to my emails to them … too bad, I’ll try the ‘old way’ ! 😊. NO ! it worked.... I had parameters on Safari that were preventing the Captcha from working... I switched off : "block pop-ups" and "block cookies". Then everything went smooth...

@dpn1604 2 года назад

Nice 1! I had started with cloud flare a while back but never completed the setup. Now, it's all done. Thank you!

@pavolholes 2 года назад

Same here 😂

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Awesome!

@veerav579 Год назад

Never seen a spot on video. Such a great information every minute without wasting anyone’s time.

@hometumation1729 2 года назад

He probado casi todas las opciones gratuitas de acceso externo a ha y realmente creo que esta es la opción mas sencilla Muchas gracias por tus videos! Saludos desde San Juan Argentina. 💪👍🏻

@huublucassen7607 2 года назад

Nice video, i have Cloudflare up and running and both Google Assistant and Apple Home are 100% functioning. I have 2FA and Ip-ban active and use a strong password, but i still would like to add an extra security layer, e.g. Cloudflare Zero Trust. My HA instance still “feels” exposed to the internet, the security mainly depends on whether there are no weak spots or exploits in HA itself. Do you have experience with Cloudflare Zero Trust and would it be possible to implement it in conjunction with, in particular, Google Assistant, if so could you make a video about it?

@bridevalley Год назад

Fabulous tutorial - covers all you need for remote access. I got myself into a bit of a pickle when some sort of dyslexia kicked in as I was adding the Cloudflare nameservers to my domain. Apart from that everything worked as described - many thanks. I like your direct style of presentation - much appreciated!

@l56havilland Год назад

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Wow so many steps, watched video and followed your instructions in real time. Like others have said, DO NOT skip a step. Wonderful instructions, up and running!

@project-hq Год назад

Just followed this guide and everything has worked perfectly, first time. Not often that happens. Thanks Lewis for a spot on tutorial. You are so good at these!!

@EverythingSmartHome Год назад

Thanks Dan!!

@mous2K2 Год назад

Hey, i've noticed some connection issue theses days. when i've looked to freenom page my domain is no longer shown. Do you encounter same issue on your side ?

@kevinmerrison6700 9 месяцев назад

Really useful as always. Is there a good alternative to Freenom as not working at the moment? Also struggling with setting up new Green with HTTPS, pity it's not pre-set HTTPS from factory? Final bit to fix will be static IP, locked myself out trying, but thankfully had done your backups set up so recovered in about 30 mins. TVM

@kognitro 2 года назад

Excellent video, in fact excellent channel. I've only just started with home assistant in the last week. I think most would agree that HA has a steep learning curve. That's inevitable given the power of the platform. I've got so much further in learning the basic concepts. Today I got my HA available externally using your guide. I decided not to use freenom as reviews suggest it's not a great service. You are only a user and don't own the domain. They can take the domain back at any time, and some say it happens on a regular basis. I appreciate this makes it entirely free,, but I want a domain I can keep and a service I can trust.

@daviddavidorganico Год назад

Please, what domain did you use? I probably will not use freenom too.

@theattorney6072 Год назад

@@daviddavidorganico which one did you use now ?

@barrybach 8 дней назад

Incredibly easy to follow and setup. Thank you!!

@jdcpr Месяц назад

Thanks for sharing. I was able to follow your video and be up and running in less than 10 mins. Now ready to expand HA utility.

@shanchanti Месяц назад

Hi is freenom working for you? I'm unable to create a new domain.

@ashoktvm Год назад

any other sites? freenom is temporarly no longer providing free domain

@chrisdarby2719 2 года назад

You amazing man! Once again blown away by how simple and well explained you make this stuff for idiots like me!!

@alex_ortiz 2 года назад

Great video, although I believe Plex and video streaming services are against the terms of service of cloudflare.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

They are indeed good point, forgot to mention that - it was more just an example of an internal service but a poorly chosen one by me! But yes, good spot!

@alex_ortiz 2 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome It is such a great an easy setup for remote access. I have a CG-Nat and wish I could access my Plex server as well with this method. Its easy though for HA and again, great video. I didn't realize this was also a way to connect Google home and Alexa. Do you have examples of that process, or is it pretty straight forward like Nabu Casa?

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

I've covered both Google home and Alexa connections in the past that should work with this no problem!

@stephanhackett5012 2 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome Many have gotten there Cloudflare account permanently closed because of Plex specifically. I would recommend you make note of this somehow (via pinned message maybe?). I think they actively monitor for Plex specifically because of its popularity and its high bandwidth requirements that tax CF servers.

@pbjordi Год назад

My router won't let me touch port 443, so I tried this solution instead and it works great, however freenom does no longer provide free hostnames, I ended up buying a cheap from cloudflare directly. Thank you so much for sharing this guide!

@OwlishGeorge 2 года назад

That's a pretty elegant solution! Personally I'll stick with my Traefik/Cloudflare combo as it works well for my situation, but I like this tunnel option for setting up family members with similar functionality.

@PaulDerbyshire007 2 года назад

same here, using Traefik/Cloudflare

@Jannick-mp7bf Год назад

Very clear tutorial! Really helped me to set up remote access without opening any ports on my router.

@mathesonstep 2 года назад

That's awesome that this is all free now, you can probably combine this with cloudflare access for additional security without much hassle

@hoctrimededebutry8655 2 года назад

37° in my office today :-) Hello from France ! Thanks a lot for this quality video

@fabrystyle7799 Год назад

Hi @Lewis, Please, this solutions doesn't work anymore, any suggestions? Freenom website is down!!!

@pavolholes 2 года назад

Nice! I was just setting up new HA at my mothers house and I was going to open a port (VPN is too much complicated for her). Since she doesn’t need any other services (like myself) I’ll use this method. Perfect timing Lewis!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Nice one, seems like a great solution!

@GallikDaniel 6 месяцев назад

An excellent solution, not only for connecting to the home assistant. I wonder what the limitations are on the Cloudflare side, since it is completely free.

@hvddrift 2 года назад

I think a good follow up video would be how to create firewalls and an advanced topic of using WARP for your companion apps. Also using an authenticator. I tested Cloudflare tunnel and put a simple geographic firewall on. It blocked so many scans from all the usual suspects.

@AMillionInAOne 2 года назад

Thanks, good suggestions!

@cho26504 6 месяцев назад

I don't always comment but you saved me in setting this up, Thanks!!!

@cserajesh Месяц назад

Thank you for this great Content I was struggling to resolve the Bad Gateway 400 error after seeing your video I resolved this easily

@philgriffiths1970 2 года назад

This is just what I've been looking for! Stuck behind CGNAT and looking for alternatives to Nabu Casa, I was getting frustrated. Just one question, - is the Let's Encrypt (seen at 07:00) provided by Cloudflare or is it to do with the add-on I can see on your system at 5:26?

@simonqreed 2 года назад

Brilliant, I tried the duckdns method, but struggled with double nat, followed this tutorial and now have HA and Plex running perfectly... remotely!

@nspcontent960 9 месяцев назад

I followed another one of your videos using duck dns but that had stopped working just followed this and got it working great, thank you

@TienTaioan 9 месяцев назад

Freenom seems stopped working for me. All the domain names I tried are not available. How did you make it?

@savage169 2 года назад

Hey, great video :). Any chance you have set this up with HA running in a docker stack? (No add-ons)

@santisoifer471 Год назад

Hi there! do you anyone know a new way to do this? (freenom does not work anymore). Thank you!

@Renkinjutsushi 9 месяцев назад

Thank you. I've been working on this for the last couple days and your video helped me solve my issue. I didn't realize that I HAD to include the ip address for the proxy given in the documentation. I only had the cloudflared ip address list, not the on that's in the docs, so it wasn't working.

@robdunn8832 2 года назад

Awesome info, thanks for this. Though if you already have google home and/or alexa setup using nabu casa, would there be much of a configuration change to switch over?

@A_I_GHOST Год назад

Freenom stopped working and I couldn’t register a new one as they stopped it. Any alternatives? Thanks!

@A_I_GHOST Год назад

For future reference, I’ve tried a free options but they didn’t work. I ended up buying a $1 domain from Namecheap. It supports name servers. The https initially didn’t work for me but the next day it worked (I also emailed Namecheap, I don’t know if the time or the email did the trick). But at the end, Namecheap $1 domain/per year works great!!(especially for users under CGNAT

@SnowyPe Год назад

Super thankful for this tutorial..1st attempt and I have access to Ha via my mobile handset

@harryscarheadsam 2 года назад

Thank you so much! I would suggest to enable "Always Use HTTPS" in Cloudflare>SSL/TLS>Edge Certificates

@ranaway34 Год назад

Thank you for the video, freenom is down and cant accept new registrations. Is there a good working alternative?

@SMGGM 2 года назад

Love this tip and the easy way of also using my own domain. Living in Belgium with extreme temperature too so will bookmark this one and do it once it gets a bit colder :D

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Haha, stay cold my friend!

@stijnmoke6184 2 года назад

Same here in belgium :) i already did it in the evening, its a very nice and easy to follow guide ! appreciated !

@osamaalmatary6423 Год назад

freenom free domains aren't available now what is the alternative options for this ?

@AutodimRO 9 месяцев назад

there are 0.99c domains. check godaddy

@slickbackwood 2 года назад

I do something very similar, I have a VPS that is running linux, it has wireguard running on it. Then I have a docker running NGINX proxy manager running on it. That is set up to forward HA traffic through the WG tunnel to home assistant. That way I can use my domain and its all using LetsEncrypt and WG encryption. Plus the proxy manger only uses domain info and users from the internet have to know the exact url.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Not a bad setup at all!

@ktdehollander Год назад

1 year update - Freenom let my domain go without emailing me to renew. Now it's reserved somewhere else and I can't use it.. looking for another domain but I'd rather not have to switch every year.

@bertdebondt 9 месяцев назад

same here

@Johnsormani 2 месяца назад

I just have my home assistant and all other pc‘s on a zerotier network. Which allows me to use HA natively. It’s free up to 50 devices. What is interesting to me is the ability to have connections with hardware behind another network, like your second house, office etc. I just set up a wireguard tunnel just for this purpose.

@Craigslistmist Год назад

Quick question: with this method, google home app is not letting me connect to the external website. Getting error that it is not secure. I added the site to “allowed” - still no luck. I am using before the domain name. Any suggestions or help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!

@mfadetoblack 2 года назад

Took a bit to get it all working. For some reason took a long time for the additional host to take, I used it for my NAS instead of the built in DDNS option. Tip: If you had duckdns and dnsmasq installed make sure to turn it off or this won't take. Learnt that the hard way.

@Hiwinders 2 года назад

I also had trouble getting things to take. But for me DuckDNS had nothing to do with it (and is still installed and running). Problems I had seem to be related to DNS cache on my computer needing to be flushed. Perhaps a Mac thing.

@mfadetoblack 2 года назад

@@Hiwinders Im also on a mac, but as soon as I turn off the 2 add-ons it worked. Now I am getting deceptive warnings from google everytime I visit my own tunnel.

@Rahditzzz Год назад

Is there an alternative to freenom? No domains can be registered.

@נתיברחנין Год назад

Thanks for the great video. Do you know about other sites like freenom?

@Capozzi3 4 месяца назад

This worked fine for me! But i have a question, is this safe? Im newbie here and i read that you have to put your HA in a private net on my router. Have we done this with this process or i have to do it myself? If that, do you have a tutorial, should a i need to do that before?

@PlayerLeonardo 9 месяцев назад

freenom is not working atm, do you have any alternative sugestion?

@bertdebondt 9 месяцев назад

same here look at my post above.

@haniidankova7068 2 месяца назад

You can indeed add a subdomain even if the main domain is used for another purpose. Simply add the subdomain to the HA Cloudflare external hostname and restart the addon.

@88jsp88 2 года назад

Hello, thank you very much for the tutorial, due to the characteristics of my network, nothing had worked for me until now to control HA remotely, thanks again man. And keep it up your videos are super interesting. You also helped me a lot with the Broadlink Remote. Thank you!!

@getoutmore 2 года назад

Perfect, thank you. Can you please provide the link to the securing Homeassistant video you talked about? I don't see it linked. Thanks

@brakahiphop Год назад

Definitely the best way to get remote access to HA. Awesome video however I would have recommend to put the security video you made in the description or at the beginning of the video instead of the end of it. Also, it could be great to show the people how to setup their app to access their HA on the go, using their mobile data plan. :) Keep up the good work. Its pretty much what every HA users expect it to be. I'm just being picky ;)

@juanjo_segura Год назад

Yeah, video was awesome, but I also would like to know how can I use it remotely with the mobile app instead of from the browser Edit: answering myself, it's very easy to do that. When you make the login on the app, just write your domain and login.

@benriefourie115 Год назад

@@juanjo_segura thank you!

@daoudsheikh3462 Год назад

brilliant video was very easy and simple to follow the only thing that was missing was the url to github to copy and paste in my browser but went to your website to get the url 10/10

@gabsta5 2 года назад

I couldn't use port forwarding due to some strange UPC config with IPv6... You saved me!

@geoemm 2 года назад

Can you make a video on how to cast your home assistant dashboard and rtsp camera to a google nest hub if you have set up external access with the Cloudflare method? Because when I am trying to cast the dashboard with the scripts i am getting this error- "Failed to call service script/cast_mushroom. Home Assistant Cast requires your instance to be reachable via HTTPS. Enable Home Assistant Cloud or set up an external URL with valid SSL certificate"

@RichardKirman Год назад

I found one issue with the Cloudflare, when following the link from the log to authorise the tunnel, it would get the message "pending nameserver update", this persisted for many days after setup i found the fix was... - go into the freenun domain name settings and tick "Use default nameservers (Freenom Nameservers)" and then hit "change nameservers to save the changes. - go back in and change the name servers to the ones specified by Cloudflare. as this video shows I hope this helps others

@RLR997TT Год назад

Wondering if anyone has a solution for the now expired freenom domain registrations. Mines now gone over the year and I'd like to renew but it appears not possible

@ibryxx Год назад

Im not sure if this is the easiest method to access homeassistant remotly, but your tutorials are the easiest and on point no bull$it for suree 😅💯

@dylanbudd2986 2 года назад

an excellent solution! I just moved house so I'm setting everything up again. Using duckdns I couldn't access my home assistant on my work laptop (lunchtime only of course) because they block duckdns addresses but with this i should have no problem accessing it. I did find freenom annoying as i tried to get a domain 5 times and got a technical error so in the end i just purchased a domain from fasthost for £1. Which means it's a .uk address! excellent video of course!

@Hhunted 9 месяцев назад

Hi. Thanks for the great video. I used the cloudflare option on my HASS setup and it works great. I do have an issue though, when I tried to do the same with my brothers HASS setup who makes use of Starlink the addon just states waiting for log in. I have done everything as I should have, but I wonder if another step is needed for people who uses Starlink.

@ken7481 8 месяцев назад

You are a gift to the home automation community

@daveizod 2 года назад

Thank you for the video. I was able to get it working but I am unable to connect to my new domain name created in freenom over a secure connection. I am only able to connect to my HA over http. When I connect over https I get the following error "This site cannot provide a secure connection. xxxx.yy uses an unsupported protocol. ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISHMATCH". I understand the my connection from HA to cloudfare is through a private tunnel but aren't my credentials being entered in clear text? I'm sorry if I missed this in the video, I have watched it 10-15 times. Thank you and keep up the great content

@TheUnofficialMaker 2 года назад

Excellent, at 5:42 I had to restart HA before the repository would show up.

@solsson 2 года назад

Thank you! I had the same problem.

@romeesna6917 Год назад

I am getting a Bad gateway, 502 error. I get the image where browsing is working and Cloudflare too, but my host gets error. What should I do? Contact my host or could it be a Cloudflare problem?

@lynchpin Год назад

Great video. This was very easy to follow. Should this work with the app too? Or just via the web only? - Edit, worked it out! Just had to point the companion app settings at the new URL.

@DaDouganator 2 года назад

Great video!!!! Does this help with getting Alexa working or do you need to jump through all the hops still?

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

The process for that is the same unfortunately, Nabu Casa is by far the easiest way to go through that process

@a_landstander 2 года назад

I feel like maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this nearly the same as a simple port forward on your router (with added complexity and dependencies)? In the end, you're exposing your HA instance to the world via a public interface: something that presents a fair bit of risk (ie, how much do you trust HA and the whole stack it runs on to have zero vulns?). Thinking port forwarding on my router that sets up temporarily only after some knock-knock ports would give this a little less exposure. Thoughts?

@theattorney6072 Год назад

Interesting ... But how is it exposing your HA instance to the world ?

@a_landstander Год назад

@@theattorney6072 You're just moving the entry point to CloudFlare. However, if you apply additional security measures using CF tunnel security, it can be locked down, I've learned.

@theattorney6072 Год назад

@@a_landstander Thx. What CF Tunnel security do you refer to ? Full Ssl/TLs encryption ? Firewall ??

@a_landstander Год назад

@@theattorney6072 OAuth, google sign on, WAF region rules, etc.

@rickz6006 2 года назад

CGNAT threw a wrench in my setup, using ZeroTier kept having issues connecting maybe my fault I don't know Tailscale has been great for my BlueIris server but also questionable for HA, again maybe my fault for a setup error? The nabu casa solution came to my rescue and has been (knock on wood) flawless so far. Nice to see another option, thanks for the detailed instructions!

@foortizs 2 года назад

love Everything Smart Home, very informative videos, always right to the point!

@maykinit Год назад

You sir are the best! Thank you so very much! Excellent video, presentation, instruction! Where is your patreon?

@gamingclipsonly3118 2 года назад

Hello this is great but personally which one you use? Duck dns or cloudflare and why .? May me some others too have same question

@dmhprime Год назад

So much easier than trying to get duckdns to work. Love it! Thanks, dude.

@bigdaddy7741 2 года назад

Great Video, works like a charm. My concern is security. You just need a URL without any saved user login info. I added Blue Iris access like you did Plex. But the question is can anyone access this and how would you know? Thanks for all you videos...

@dbenyakar Год назад

Is Freenom working at all? When I press 'Check Availability' nothing happens

@mameroo2000 Год назад

Thanks for the tutorial, it worked great for me, the only question I have now is how to integrate Alexa with home assistant using Cloudflare tunnel

@finchilla Год назад

Great tutorial, got it all set up and Alexa is working a charm! However, im now getting multiples of my stuff on Alexa and when i delete them, thry come back next time she Discovers. Any way to restrict which entities she finds?

8 месяцев назад

Many thanks for this very useful video. I've a question: I was accessing my HA remotely via the Duckdns approach. I remember that in top of the Duckdns add-on, I had also installed the NGINX Home Assistant SSL prox add-on. Now that I moved to the cloudflare tunnel, I stopped the Duckdns add-on, but what about the NGINX one ? I see that I had configured it in accordance to my Duckdns url. Can I safely stop it ?