https://blog.michal.pawlik.dev/tags/security/ Recent content in Security on Dev notes Hugo en-us Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:30:00 +0100 https://blog.michal.pawlik.dev/posts/smarthome/expose-home-assistant/ Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:30:00 +0100 https://blog.michal.pawlik.dev/posts/smarthome/expose-home-assistant/ <p>This is a third post in the Smart Home series. See the previous post if you haven&rsquo;t already: <a href="https://blog.michal.pawlik.dev/posts/smarthome/zigbee-setup/">https://blog.michal.pawlik.dev/posts/smarthome/zigbee-setup/</a>. Last time I wrote about Zigbee and shown how to control smart home devices. In this post I want to show you one of many ways you can use to expose your HA (Home Assistant) instance to the internet.</p> <h2 id="why-expose">Why expose?</h2> <p>All of the examples in previous posts were referring to local instance of Home Assistant. To work with it you had to be with the same network. While it&rsquo;s not a problem when you are at home, there are cases when you want to access HA from the external network. Those cases include controlling the heat, accessing monitoring, switching light etc. when you are not home.</p>