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!
@@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
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
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
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🤩
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.
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.
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.
Thank you very much. I am new to home assistant and started it from scratch few weeks ago with the help of TH-cam 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.
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!
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!
Bro this video is legit. I used a different service than freenom cos it's not working anymore. But all other steps are valid at the time of writing this comment. I subbed and liked and smashed everything.
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 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:
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 :)
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.
@@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!
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!
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.
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 😆
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.
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. 💪👍🏻
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.
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!
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!!
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!
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.
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
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)
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.
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!
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!
@@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 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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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!
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?
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 ;)
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.
This was impossibly easy. Why have I taken so long to set it up! Thank you Lewis, from a fellow Lewis. PS: the link to HA security recommendations seems to have disappeared. Will hunt that down now
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.
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!!
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...
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 ?
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.
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
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.
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
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.
I use OpenVPN server on my NAS and my phone (or laptop) connects to it (when remote) and once in, I have full access to my home network, including Home Assistant, NAS, Plex, etc. This method works perfectly fine for me so far.
@@EverythingSmartHome Right. I don't have Alexa nor any other voice assistant speaker at home, but is there any benefit having it if one is connecting remotely to a home network? (i.e. no physical access to a speaker nearby). I use OpenVPN to access HA when I'm NOT at home.
I had the bad request error and went to add the trusted proxy like on 7:15. But shouldn't the IP address shown in the trusted proxy example be changed to whatever system's IP your HA runs on? I added the example to my config yaml, because you specified to do it exactly like this, but should I change the IP to my HA internal IP?
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.
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!
Thank you for the fantastic video. got it to work just had to wait for all the online services to activate witch took about 3 hours. but it all works thank you for the realy clear instructions
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?
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!
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
Would looking at your security camera feeds consider streaming video ?
@@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
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
i have followed your video and everything is working like when i was using duck dns except google assistant
i have to change something?
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
Appreciate the feedback and kind words, thank you 🙏
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🤩
What do you mean? the video starts at 3:20 everything before that is just intro trash
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!
Ah thanks so much, makes me very happy you find the content useful 🙏
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you very much. I am new to home assistant and started it from scratch few weeks ago with the help of TH-cam 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.
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!
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!
Bro this video is legit. I used a different service than freenom cos it's not working anymore. But all other steps are valid at the time of writing this comment. I subbed and liked and smashed everything.
what service? free?
Never seen a spot on video. Such a great information every minute without wasting anyone’s time.
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
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 😂
@@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:
And there is nothing to delete in the given link
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 :)
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.
Brilliant video as usual. I’m sticking with Nabu though just to support the development.
Great decision 🙌
Same same
@@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!
I have added it as a sanity backup for me.
Thanks for watching!
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!
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.
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 😆
Nice 1!
I had started with cloud flare a while back but never completed the setup. Now, it's all done. Thank you!
Same here 😂
Awesome!
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.
Hi, could you please explain how you did that ?
please explain how to do this :)
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. 💪👍🏻
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.
37° in my office today :-) Hello from France ! Thanks a lot for this quality video
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!
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.
Hi is freenom working for you? I'm unable to create a new domain.
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!!
Thanks Dan!!
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!
You are a gift to the home automation community
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.
I don't always comment but you saved me in setting this up, Thanks!!!
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
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!
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)
any free replacement for freenom?
You amazing man! Once again blown away by how simple and well explained you make this stuff for idiots like me!!
Very clear tutorial! Really helped me to set up remote access without opening any ports on my router.
That's awesome that this is all free now, you can probably combine this with cloudflare access for additional security without much hassle
Still gonna use Nabu Casa, not because it's any better but because the $5 per month supports the dev effort for Home Assistant.
Absolutely, Nabu Casa rocks!
Price point is too high for a DIY thing like home assistant. If it was more like ten bucks a year, so less than a dollar a month I would snap it up and so would a lot of other folk. Paying for convenience needs to be at convenience prices.
Cooperised Plus 1 on that. And also the google tts is of higher quality than the free version
Nice! I was just setting up new HA at my mothers house and I was going to open a port (VPN is too much complicated for her). Since she doesn’t need any other services (like myself) I’ll use this method. Perfect timing Lewis!
Nice one, seems like a great solution!
So much easier than trying to get duckdns to work. Love it! Thanks, dude.
Incredibly easy to follow and setup. Thank you!!
Im not sure if this is the easiest method to access homeassistant remotly, but your tutorials are the easiest and on point no bull$it for suree 😅💯
Great video, although I believe Plex and video streaming services are against the terms of service of cloudflare.
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!
@@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?
I've covered both Google home and Alexa connections in the past that should work with this no problem!
@@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.
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
Haha, stay cold my friend!
Same here in belgium :) i already did it in the evening, its a very nice and easy to follow guide ! appreciated !
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?
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
Please, what domain did you use? I probably will not use freenom too.
@@daviddavidorganico which one did you use now ?
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!
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?
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 ;)
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.
@@juanjo_segura thank you!
love Everything Smart Home, very informative videos, always right to the point!
Hi! I am unable to authorize the tunnel at 6:28. It is not active. Mine is "Pending Nameserver Update". Can you help me, please?
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
Freenom seems stopped working for me. All the domain names I tried are not available. How did you make it?
This was impossibly easy. Why have I taken so long to set it up! Thank you Lewis, from a fellow Lewis. PS: the link to HA security recommendations seems to have disappeared. Will hunt that down now
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.
same here, using Traefik/Cloudflare
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!!
Excellent, at 5:42 I had to restart HA before the repository would show up.
Thank you! I had the same problem.
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...
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 ?
Very useful and clear as usual. Thanks Lewis!
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.
Not a bad setup at all!
any other sites? freenom is temporarly no longer providing free domain
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
glad to see this one released!! best way to get secure connection. Stay cool :)
Thanks, I'm trying!!
Thanks for the video. Extra thanks for putting this up even during this heat wave.
Haha totally worth it! 🙌
Awesome tutorial, i gave up with duckdns. Now everything works as it shoud work. Thank you for video.
Wow this is so cool! Worked flawlessly. Love your videos!
This is a tutorial on how to make a tutorial. Amazing work!
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.
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
Just simple,clear...impressive as usually ;-)
Thanks dude!
Super thankful for this tutorial..1st attempt and I have access to Ha via my mobile handset
Thank you !!!!!! Finally, an easy and fast way for the Remote Access
another fantastic video, big thanks! it works like a charm
very nice tutorial. got it working in 10 minutes. subscribed!
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.
Thanks, good suggestions!
Thank you so much! I would suggest to enable "Always Use HTTPS" in Cloudflare>SSL/TLS>Edge Certificates
I use OpenVPN server on my NAS and my phone (or laptop) connects to it (when remote) and once in, I have full access to my home network, including Home Assistant, NAS, Plex, etc. This method works perfectly fine for me so far.
I use OpenVPN too for some things!
No, mentioned this near the beginning 😅
@@EverythingSmartHome Right. I don't have Alexa nor any other voice assistant speaker at home, but is there any benefit having it if one is connecting remotely to a home network? (i.e. no physical access to a speaker nearby).
I use OpenVPN to access HA when I'm NOT at home.
@@wojciechpolak at least for google home you need and external way into your instance.
Perfect, thank you. Can you please provide the link to the securing Homeassistant video you talked about? I don't see it linked. Thanks
I had the bad request error and went to add the trusted proxy like on 7:15. But shouldn't the IP address shown in the trusted proxy example be changed to whatever system's IP your HA runs on? I added the example to my config yaml, because you specified to do it exactly like this, but should I change the IP to my HA internal IP?
That additional hostname thing is next level!
Been using this addon for nearly a month, but never noticed it.
Thanks a lot man!!!
Glad it helped! 🙌
Hi @Lewis,
Please, this solutions doesn't work anymore, any suggestions?
Freenom website is down!!!
I couldn't use port forwarding due to some strange UPC config with IPv6... You saved me!
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.
Thank you for this great Content I was struggling to resolve the Bad Gateway 400 error after seeing your video I resolved this easily
Thank you so much. This was incredibly helpful.
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!
Thank you for the fantastic video. got it to work just had to wait for all the online services to activate witch took about 3 hours. but it all works thank you for the realy clear instructions
Wow that's long, I wonder if there was an influx of users all trying at the same time! Glad you got it working!
Thanks, Informative as usual and so easy to follow
Great, straight forward, very useful! Thanks a lot!
Hey, great video :). Any chance you have set this up with HA running in a docker stack? (No add-ons)
freenom free domains aren't available now what is the alternative options for this ?
there are 0.99c domains. check godaddy
Thank you,
I like your videos. You're helping me create my smart home.
Is there an alternative to freenom? No domains can be registered.
Thank you so much, I did this for my Unraid server but I did not know they had one for HA.
Thanks for the great video. Do you know about other sites like freenom?
That is brilliant, I have been having some problems of late with the duckdns, and 4G access, but this works a treat thankyou
great video, I had struggled to get the other methods working and this one has. Thank you 🙂
Thanks for watching!
Works like a charm! Thanks
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?
Thank you for the effort ! Works brilliantly.