Appreciated the efforts made by the people , great jobs are done to make local home assistant work without any internet dependency at least to work after all configurations online. Still we need to make it fully local, like: companion APP should work without internet, Sounds, alarms should work …

There is nothing inherent in SSL or no SSL. It requires PROPERLY CONFIGURED SSL which is hard to do correctly if you don’t study PKI, cert revocation and DNS. If you have properly configured HTTP or HTTPS whether it’s inside or outside the firewall it should work. But improperly configured SSL abs…

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Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple

koying (Chris B) September 5, 2024, 8:33am 8

You can, but it’s too tricky for the benefits.
What you should do:

Remove SSL in HA itself
Use a reverse proxy for external access through SSL (e.g. the nginx proxy manager addon)