Exposing HomeAssistant to the Internet

expose-rasberry-pi-to-web.md

Install Dataplicity

Exposes our RaspberryPi to the web.

• Login to RaspberryPi
• Create account at https://www.dataplicity.com
• Install Dataplicity daemon as per instruction.
• Go to your Dataplicity dashboard and go to your device and enable wormhole.

Install Caddy Server

This will serve as our HTTP server.

• Login to Raspberry Pi
• Go to https://caddyserver.com and download caddy server.
• Create a caddy.conf file and add this as content:

0.0.0.0:80 {
  proxy / localhost:8123 {
    websocket
    transparent
  }
}

Restart Caddy on Reboot

Create systemd service. This will run caddy server on restart.

• Create caddy.service file and add this as content:

[Unit]
Description=My Caddy Server
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/caddy -conf caddy.conf
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi
StandardOutput=inherit
StandardError=inherit
Restart=always
User=pi

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Copy caddy.service file to this location:

sudo cp caddy.service /lib/systemd/system/caddy.service

• Try starting the service:

sudo systemctl start caddy.service

• If all is good. Enable it so it will be restarted on reboot.

sudo systemctl enable caddy.service