https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/home-assistant/ Recent content in Home-Assistant on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/homeassistant/home-assistant-app-mtls-nginx-caddy/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/homeassistant/home-assistant-app-mtls-nginx-caddy/ Locking the Home Assistant app to a client certificate with nginx or Caddy at home instead of Cloudflare. What changes when Cloudflare leaves, both configs tested over IPv4 and IPv6, why nginx can check revocation and Caddy cannot, the Home Assistant proxy settings, and what to install on the phone. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/homeassistant/home-assistant-app-over-cloudflare-mtls/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/homeassistant/home-assistant-app-over-cloudflare-mtls/ Reaching Home Assistant from the Android app away from home without putting a login page on the internet. The options compared on cost, risk and battery, why Cloudflare Access does not suit the app, the free-plan client certificates and WAF rule that do, the Home Assistant proxy, ban and URL settings, and building the PKCS12 file the phone needs.