NodeRed and HomeAssistant with SSL (not Hass.io)

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So, I’m running Home Assistant on my Ubuntu server. NOT Hassio since I’m running much more than just home assistant.
I’ve configured it to use ssl with a duckdns address, this all works fine and is addressable from the outside.

Now, I’ve also installed Node-Red (on the same machine) but can’t for the life of me get it to connect with Home Assistant. All guides I could find that contain anything ssl + node-red related are all about Hassio. I’ve also tried this to no avail.

Has anyone been able to configure node-red to connect to an https instance of home assistant that does not run Hassio (which apparently has plugins for node-red)?

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I don’t use HassIO and I installed Node Red this weekend. I just configured it using my publicly accessible, off network, address (ie. https://myhouse.mydomain.com), rather than an internal IP or machine name.

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That’s what I did as well (using my duckdns address and self-signed certificate), but I keep getting:

Cannot GET /homeassistant/entities

I feel like I’m missing something obvious…

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Any update on this ???

Do we need to use the password too ???

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keep getting :

0|node-red | 2 Jun 16:29:56 - [error] [server:Home Assistant] Home assistant connection failed with error: Connection to home assistant could not be established with config: https://mydomain.com/

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Did you fix this?

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Yes , just include the full base URL of your site with the port 8123 in my case

https://mydomainsite.com:8123

And yes you do need the password

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@carlostico, I too have this problem - still. Please help.
This is my setup:
Home Asistant Core (not Hass.io) v. 0.115.3 running in Docker
NodeRED v. 1.1.3
node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket v.0.26.1

The NR <–> HA integration works just fine on my LAN using a HA generated access token.
But when accessing NR remotely (over the internet), the integration fails.
I connect to the NR editor through an Apache Reverse Proxy : https://nr.mydomain.com and that works just fine. I can access the editor and dashboards.
I have configured the HA integration using https://ha.mydomain.com both with and without the port 8123 and with bot legacy API password as well as the access token, but all fails.
I don’t think adding the port number makes any sense as that is automatically done by the Reverse Proxy. I assume legacy password is the same as my NR login password?
The only think I can think of, is if NR relies on websocket protocol, perhaps I have to open for websocket through the Reverse Proxy. That’s about the only thing I haven’t tried yet.

In fact, I do not understand why the NR/HA integration should change when I access the NR editor remotely as opposed to locally (LAN) ? After all, both my NR instance as well as my HA instance runs on the same LAN. What I see in my browser is just a view, right (like a looking glass)? Nothing takes place on the remote PC where I run the browser, or… ?