Home Assistant Remote Access with DuckDNS and Let’s Encrypt (HOW-TO)

Do you want to have a secure #remote #access to your Home Assistant from everywhere, but you don’t want to setup complicated VPNs or to pay for the cloud service? If yes, then this video is just for you.

Exposing a local server or service to the outside world has always been tricky. Exposing #HomeAssistant is not hard, but you have to do it the right way with SSL encryption and IP ban enabled for multiple failed logins.

Otherwise you put your whole house or at least all of your sensors, switches and integrations that you have in Home Assistant at risk.

This tutorial will take you through some port forwarding, setup a dynamic DNS for your IP and allow trusted encrypted connections - using DuckDNS and Let’s Encrypt for free!

Now let’s start this video.

► TIME TABLE
00:00 Intro
00:17 What will you see in this video?
01:06 Home Assistant Port Forwarding
01:55 Set static IP for the Home Assistant
02:08 Creating a DuckDNS sub domain
02:25 Adding DuckDNS add-on in Home Assistant
03:24 Set Home Assistant internal and external URLs
03:58 Home Assistant http section
04:32 Set IP ban enabled option
05:09 Two other ways for Home Assistant remote access
05:28 Using a VPN?
06:00 Testing the Home Assistant Remote Access over SSL
06:14 One more thing!
06:58 Harden the Home Assistant Remote Access Security more
07:51 Support my Work!

► IMPORTANT INFO
After implementation if you have difficulties access your local Home Assistant, please try these things first:
1. Make sure that you type https:// before your local & external IP
2. Make sure that you are not banned by the ip ban option enabled. Your IP is not in the ip_bans.yaml file
3. Clear your browser cache or open an private/incognito window and try again.

► CONFIGURATION
# configuration.yaml entry
homeassistant:
external_url: https://YOUR_SUBDOMAIN_HERE.duckdns.org
internal_url: http://YOUR_INTERNAL_HA_IP_HERE:8123

http:
ssl_certificate: /ssl/fullchain.pem
ssl_key: /ssl/privkey.pem
ip_ban_enabled: true
login_attempts_threshold: 5

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