Exposing Home Assistant using Cloudflare Tunnel
I use the wonderful Home Assistant on our home network for a variety of weird and wonderful automations and as a nice dashboard to all the devices in our home.
Nothing on my home network can be reached from the outside world without a VPN. Unfortunately, that presents a few issues with Home Assistant:
- Accessing the Home Assistant UI from out-and-about is a pain.
- The Home Assistant app can't report useful information such as location data unless the device is connected to the VPN.
- There are a number of integrations which use webhooks or similar to communicate data to your HA instance.
So far, I've been living with these problems. Exposing my entire HA instance to the world isn't something I'm comfortable with.