Multiple Instances - Why so difficult?

[PeWu]

Hi,

I’m trying to solve a similar problem. See my post here:

Home Assistant at home with online dashboard

Hi everyone, I’m thinking of deploying Home Assistant in the following setup: Home Assistant instance at home doing all the local automation Dashboard available online that does not use the home HA instance directly. I don’t want to open a port at home to access Home Assistant remotely. Ability to send events/run services remotely. My idea is: Set up a second instance of HA on a VM in the cloud. Set up MQTT at home and on the cloud VM, sychronizing topics with each other. Set up mqtt_event…