Newbie question on connection when setting up Google Home with HA

Hi folks!

Relatively newcomer to HA here. Hope you can help me out!

Would really like to have voice control, so I decided to buy some Google Home Mini’s. Made this whole Google ESH project, created credentials and uploaded this json. Carefully followed the steps in a YouTube tutorial.

Anyhow, all seems to be fine.

But now I noticed that in the last step (where I should go from Google Home to the Home Assistant login screen), it is returned that I have an unsecure connection. Well, not that strange, because it seems like Google needs SSL and my Home Assistant is on http.

When I did a bit of research, I saw I can solve this using DuckDNS, port forwarding and doing same small changes in the configuration.yaml. However, it is again quite a bit of things to do. Besides, I am not as technical as most of you guys here and I try to keep things simple and maintable for myself.

My question: is there really no other way out there to get this working? Am I missing something? And Nabu Casa; completely willing to contribute, but if I switch to that, will it really be that easy to integrate Google devices?

Like I said, not so technical as most people out here and if I see how much effort it costs to only connect a Google Voice Assistant, I start to doubt whether something like Google Home would not suit me better.

Happy to hear your thoughts!

You do need a https connection for Google Home, that is a requirement from Google, not from HA. Duckdns is one way to do it, your own domain another, a Cloudflare tunnel works too, or Nabu Case.

If you don’t have your own, you can use dynu instead of duckdns. Easier and more reliable. Always get the feeling duckdns is run by some teenager out of his mom’s basement