Privacy is important in the smart home, and one of the primary reasons to use Home Assistant is because it is totally under control of the user, on your own network. Since writing these posts, setting up encryption with Hass & Node-Red has been the number one question I’ve been asked about my setup. So after being lazy and just leaving my software behind a VPN and firewall, I finally git around to setting up SSL support for both Home Assistant and Node-Red.
Read below for a guide to securing your smart home with Let’s Encrypt.