Is there a good open source smart home system? What do you guys use? Which brand to buy?
How is OpenHAB?
I tried home assistant but I can’t manage to get it working with my reverse proxy.
Keep trying with home assistant. It’s the best in my opinion.
What issues are you having with your reverse proxy? Home Assistant is light-years ahead of any other option
Misconfiguration because of wrong X-forwarded-For wit nginx proxy manager. Thx! And there are no add ons.
For addons you need to install HACS
I’m just installing it, thx. Yet I don’t know how that’ll help me with the proxy
You also need to enable websockets iirc.
Is enabled 👍🏻
Have you added this to your configuration.yaml
http: use_x_forwarded_for: true trusted_proxies: - 172.21.0.2Where 172.21.0.2 is NPM docker IP
Its the only thing I had to do to make it working. Cant help much if something else is required
I’m in. Thank you! I added a couple of different IPs now. Internal, external. No idea which one worked. But I’m in. Thank you!
Glad it worked. Cheers 😉
I’m going to add to the chorus of voices here advising you to stick with homeassistant. It is hands down the best open source home automation platform.
If you need help with reverse proxy let me know if you’re using nginx. There are a few header configurations that are required for the home assistant interface and I’d be glad to share my nginx configuration file.
You could also pay $6/month for nabu casa and they will proxy everything for you in the cloud.
Caddy (OSS & free) is possibly the easiest reverse proxy to install and configure, and gets and manages SSL certs with literally no configuration.
We solved it, thx!
Thanks
I’m using nginx proxy manager. It would be great if you would share the config
Paying a remote proxy doesn’t make sense if my setup works for all but home assistant
It’s not just a reverse proxy that they offer for that price. They also do the hard work of building a connector for google and other smart home systems, and they host parts of the voice assistant pipeline if your hardware isn’t capable. Finally, the money helps to fund more cool HomeAssistant stuff.
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I frequently donate to open source stuff. I’m down for paying stuff. I just want to host it myself if possible
So I switched from OpenHAB to HA a few years ago. There’s just no comparison, particularly in terms of support and add-ons.
Thanks!
Open source does not come with an easy button unfortunately. No matter what we suggest will leave you needing to tinker and play with things.
Home assistant really is the best option from all angles. Just have to keep tinkering.
HA kinda does come with an easy remote access button. It costs a monthly fee. Although of course the remote proxy part isn’t open source.
I use home assistant and found some instructions on how to set up a free-tier cloudflare reverse proxy to access it from outside my home. Works like a charm.
