
Just within your home network you might know that your Home Assistant is on an IP like 192.168.1.4 and listening on port 8123.

In order for the app to talk to HA, it needs to know its address. This guide aims to help you understand the requirements, some of the complexities and our recommended typical solutions to setting up network access to your Home Assistant instance: The basics: How the app talks to your Home Assistant Having your Home available anywhere and everywhere you go is important, whether you forgot to turn off the stove or you want to check the camera views because of an alert.īecause we want your smart home to be private and secure on the web, many parts of the puzzle need to align just right so everything works as you expect. As I’m rather proud of them I’m republishing the guide here.


I’ve written this guide for the documentation pages of the Home Assistant iOS companion app.
