Learn more about Hidden Services on the Tor Project website. In fact, because you don’t use any public address, you can run a hidden service from behind your firewall. That is, you can offer a web server, SSH server, etc., without revealing your IP address to its users. Tor allows clients and relays to offer hidden services. Want to block anyone from knowing your home IP address and seeing your traffic to your Home Assistant.Want to block attackers from even being able to access/scan your port and server at all.Don’t want to or know how to get an SSL/TLS certificate and HTTPS configuration setup.Access your Home Assistant instance remotely without opening a firewall port or setting up a VPN.With this enabled, you do not need to open your firewall ports or setup HTTPS to enable secure remote access. This article guides you through the configuration of Tor to provide secure access to your Home Assistant instance as an Onion site, through Tor’s Hidden Service feature, from remote. Feel free to edit this guide to update it, and to remove this message after that. This guide has been migrated from our website and might be outdated.

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