Homebridge and Home Assistant ssl problem

Third party integrations Homebridge
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Hi!
I have tried to sett upp Home Assistant with letsencrypt and Homebridge. I cant get it to work…
I tried to follow:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/home-bridge-home-assistant-plugin-ssl/3279/2

And:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/using-homebridge-with-ssl/1209

This is how my Homebridge config.json looks like:

{
    "bridge": {
        "name": "Homebridge",
        "username": "CC:22:3D:E3:CE:30",
        "port": 51826,
        "pin": "031-45-154",
        "manufacturer": "@nfarina",
        "model": "Homebridge",
        "serialNumber": "Not Specified",
        "firmwareRevision": "0.4.27",
        "hardwareRevision": "<optional>"
    },
    
    "platforms": [
  {
    "platform": "HomeAssistant",
    "name": "HomeAssistant",
    "host": "https://192.168.0.17:8123",
    "password": "MyPassword",
    "supported_types": ["automation", "binary_sensor", "climate", "cover", "device_tracker", "fan", "group", "input_boolean", "light", "lock", "media_player", "remote", "scene", "sensor", "switch"],
    "default_visibility": "visible",
    "logging": true,
    "verify_ssl": false
  }
]

}

systemctl status homebridge:

Oct 16 09:15:16 raspberrypi homebridge[486]: [10/16/2017, 9:15:16 AM] [HomeAssistant] Fetching HomeAssistant devices.
Oct 16 09:15:16 raspberrypi homebridge[486]: [10/16/2017, 9:15:16 AM] [HomeAssistant] Failed getting devices: Error: socket hang up. Retrying...

I have tried different ports, tried with my dns domain…
If anyone got some ideas i would be really grateful!

//Oscar

2

Solved.
Was just a rookie mistake…

3

Would you share your rookie mistake to another rookie? :relaxed: I’ve got the same problem.

4

From one rookie to another…if you were in the same situation as me and had set up SSL…

Go to your homebridge config.json
Make sure “host” is https://
Change “verify_ssl” to true

:+1:

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When i enabled homebridge to autostart the config.json file moved to: /var/homebridge/config.json… So i was edditing the wrong Json file…

veryfi_ssl should be set to false…

From the documentation of Homebridge-homeassistant

Using with self signed SSL certificates
If you have set up SSL using a self signed certificate, you will need to to set verify_ssl to false in your config.json file to allow bypassing the Node.js certificate checks.