Effortless encryption with Let's Encrypt and DuckDNS
When Let’s Encrypt launched we were estatic: finally an easy and free way for our users to securely access their homes remotely. Let’s Encrypt signifianctly lowered the bar to get and renew SSL certificates. However, this process could still be quite an obstacle for our users. It required opening ports on the router and remembering to renew the certificate every so often.
Thanks to a blog post
I have worked together with Pascal Vizeli
To get started today, start with making sure that you have Hass.io installed. After that, go to the Hass.io panel in Home Assistant, open the add-on store, scroll down to DuckDNS and install it. In the DuckDNS settings change “accept_terms” to true and start it.
Next up is to configure Home Assistant with the config below and restart it. You’re now good to go! Make sure to use the right protocol when browsing to your instance: https://<your_domain>.duckdns.org
. Happy secure controlling your house!
# Example configuration.yaml entry for the HTTP component
http:
ssl_certificate: /ssl/fullchain.pem
ssl_key: /ssl/privkey.pem
If you’re not using Hass.io, check out the blog post
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