This is a Add-On for Home Assistant which enables to tunnel the communication of your Home Assistant server with the world through a VPN connection.
This Add-On is interesting especially for those of you having a Google Home Mini and/or Amazon Alex integrated into your local Home Assistant but don't want to expose it into the world and already have a trustworthy remote server with a ssl certificate (acquired e.g. using Certbot).
The initial version of the Dockerfile to install the openvpn client was created by TheSkorm. Thanks for this. Base on his work, I've added the following:
In order to install the Add-On, you currently have to build the Docker container on the system where the Home Assistant instance is running.
Therefore, assuming Home Assistant is running at <server>, connect to the device using SSH
ssh <user>@<server>
and clone this repository in /addons with
cd /addons && git clone https://github.com/larsklitzke/homeassistant-openvpn-client.git
Enable the OpenVPNClient by adding a new panel_iframe entity to your configuration.yaml with the following entry:
panel_iframe:
openvpn:
title: OpenVPN
icon: mdi:cloud-check
url: http://<server>:8090
with <server> as the address of your Home Assistant server.
Restart the Home Assistant instance and afterwards you'll find the OpenVPN Client Add-on in the Dashboard where you can configure and start the Add-on. Then, you can visit the OpenVPN website via the OpenVPN panel on the left side. There, you can upload the VPN configuration files to connect to your VPN server.