homeassistant

I started using Home Assistant (HA) for graphing the power consumption of my house. Many months before venturing down that road, I bought a Greeneye Monitor (GEM). A current transformer has been installed on each circuit in my breaker box (see the photos near the bottom of this album). I chose HA for that. I first trying installing from FreeBSD packages into a FreeBSD jail, but then reluctantly abandoned that approach in favor […]

I have the Let’s Encrypt Add-on configured for my Home Assistant logon. I got it to renew. I see the cert is stored at /data/letsencrypt/live/hass.example.org/fullchain.pem. But I don’t see directory in my terminal session for Home Assistant. It’s as if I should just give up and use an Nginx proxy instead. At least I know how to run that. I see files in /ssl and they have today’s date. openssl is not installed

In my previous blog post, I got homeassistant up and running, but without a TLS connection. Let’s fix that. In this post: FreeBSD 13.1 but that’s not relevant to the work being done homeassistant-2022.8.7 creation of a certificate is not covered the sysadmin.com guide covers this – it creates a self-signed cert I’m using a Let’s Encrypt certificate I have the application running from the command line. I stopped it before doing these