Home Assistant Secure Access With Cloudflare Warp
Inspired by Cloudflare CTO - John Graham-Cumming cool post decided switch my OpenVpn server to provide secure access my Home Assistant , Raspberry Pi based installation in a serverless way. Finally I found some spare time, so let’s dig around of it!
A few words of introduction. I’am quite fun of home automation, there is plenty cool (and cheap) devices, which are very helpful daily, like remote switches, leak sensors etc. On the other hand, I’am not big fun of “all in a cloud” home automation - simply that is why:
In case of home automation, I prefer rather conservative approach - local installation which will be available even without internet access with optional ability to access it remote.
My current setup looks quite simple, I have Home Assistant Docker based installation on my Raspberry Pi, with ZigBee dongle working under zigbee2mqtt control and couple of zigbee based devices. The most pain in this setup is remote access, because my internet access is provided by LTE. It means that I have no static IP address, so must host and manage VM in a cloud, with OpenVPN server which provides me secure remote access to my home-automation environment for end devices (phone, notebook).
First we need to create our account for Cloudflare for Teams , there is good, step-by-step tutorial . Most important, which is good to notice - we need to choose our team name, this must be unique globally in cloudflareaccess.com domain as follow:
