[ale] Home Assistant / Docker / Network Security

[Derek Atkins]

So there are no "Add Ons" that you care about?
There did seem to be a few that looked interesting (that I wasn't sure how
to do on my own)

What do you do about security?  Can you connect from the outside world?

-derek

On Tue, July 24, 2018 11:27 am, Raj Wurttemberg via Ale wrote:
> I have run Home Assistant (HA) for about two years now. I run it on a
> Raspberry Pi but not in a container. I installed HA directly on Raspbian
> and
> have not really had any issues.
>
> I have my HA monitoring my outside gates, the doors & windows and
> controlling several lights. I'm using Z-Wave for everything.
>
> /Raj
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf Of Derek Atkins via Ale
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 10:22 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Home Assistant / Docker / Network Security
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to install Home Assistant to integrate a bunch of various home
> automation tasks (this is a longer-term project, but I'm looking to start
> experimenting early).  Unfortunately I found [0] which seems to imply that
> there is at least one (if not more) serious security flaws in HA.
>
> My plan was to set up Hass.io in a Fedora VM on oVirt.  I was NOT planning
> to enable/turn on SAMBA (Eww) -- but it does appear there may be some
> other
> security issue.  I suppose I don't HAVE to use Hass.io -- I could
> theoretically run HA directly on the Fedora VM and manually install the
> AddOns -- and I could do this for final deployment -- but I was thinking
> about Hass.io at least for my initial experimentation.
>
> However, Hass.io is released as a docker instance -- and I've never run
> docker.  I can take this as yet another learning experience, of course.
> But finding someone more knowledgeable would be a good first step.
>
> So...  Anyone run HA?  Hass.io?  Docker?   And have insights to provide?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -derek
>
>
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