iOS VS addon-wireguard

Note: The iOS companion app does not support mTLS. See the discussion in #1788 and the comment from Franck Nijhof (one of the Home Assistant maintainers) on PR #2144 for more information.

checked out the source of the Home Assistant app, compiled and ran it on my Mac Book Pro successfully. Is the same as I used on my Mac OS X which support Mac OS / iOS / Apple Watch.

2. Firebase Cloud Messaging, for push notifications (since we can't talk to APNS directly in HA)

FCM is a dependency I'm actively trying to kill off in favor of an implementation that is both end-to-end encrypted and talks directly to Apple's Push Notification Service. Apple would not allow a solution where HA talks directly to APNS as they do not want that many active connections, and it would require disclosing private keys for the App STore account.

[0] https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS/pull/2010

See, for example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and so on.

I too am surprised to hear this. GP can you point to said spyware in the GitHub repo?

https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS

I am fairly new to Wireguard and set it up using the add-on from Home Assistant. Git Link

There are three major cloud components. Alexa and Google integrations both have open options that are documented by NC and you are welcome to use them. There’s a lot of setup as you need to deal with a semi-complex config on AWS or GCP which can be challenging if you’re new to those environments, but they work as well as the paid NC option.

The remote access proxy service doesn’t really have an open equivalent but there are tons of other supported solutions out there for secure remote access to your Home Assistant install. One example add-on, developed and supported by an NC employee: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-wireguard

In short, the paid cloud services provide an easier path to solutions you can deploy for yourself if you wish. Those services cost NC money to host, so asking for money isn’t too far out there. Of course, that money is more than what the cloud parts cost, and what we all get in return is a team of skilled developers working on the project and releasing everything for free.

I'm running two Raspberry Pi 3 B+ on my network. One is running PiHole (w/ DHCP Server), and the other is running Home Assistant OS with WireGuard (https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-wireguard).

Home Assistant Wireguard Addon: Interface: wg0 Tunnel Address: 172.27.66.1 Docker IP: 172.30.33.6 Homeassistant Address: 192.168.0.80 Docker added ip route add 192.168.1.0/24 dev wg0 Homeassistant added ip route add 192.168.1.0/24 via 172.30.33.6 Allowed IP: 172.27.66.4/32, 192.168.1.0/24