Client certificates are important for securing the remote connection to our HA instances. Why do we still have to use browsers on our phones and cannot use the official app?
Why security has a lower priority than hundreds of sensors?
When I read the title I was immediately inclined to vote for it because I also would like to require a client certificate for external connections. However this confuses me:
If you require a client certificate then you can’t use a browser to connect. It just doesn’t work. You can only use an app because then it can have the client cert packaged.
So can you clarify what you’re asking for? Right now if you require a client cert then you can’t use either the official app or a browser. If you don’t then both work.
Are you actually asking for the ability to use a self-signed cert in the mobile app? That’s the only change related to certs I’m aware of that breaks the mobile app but the browser still “works” (as long as you ignore the scary warning).
The Android app does have TLS certificate support.
For self signed certificate we have
Sorry, this should be closed. I have missed PR #2526 which was released for the Android app on August 25 in version 2022.8.0 and added this
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