REMOTE ASSISTANT XP INSTALL

You don’t want to expose your home automation server directly to the internet and want to add a layer of protection between the third-party online service and your home automation server.

Your Home-Assistant or Node-RED instances or any application running in your home automation server needs to receive webhook notifications from 3rd party home automation services online such as IFTTT or Zapier. Webhook notifications are mostly one-way and don’t expect any responses back.Third party online services that need a bi-directional communication channel to your home automation instance.You need remote access to your home automation instance (for example you want to view it through a browser remotely).

SocketXP Webhook Relay Service - for proxying and relaying webhook notifications.

SocketXP Tunnel - For remote access and connectivity.

You want to avoid tracking the non-static IP address on your home router via DDNS.

Server that is hosting your home automation system is changing IP or location.

You cannot access your router to configure port forwarding.

You want to avoid tampering your home router configuration.

It can also be used to receive webhooks by popular services such as IFTTT or Zapier and relay them to your Home Assistant or Node-RED instances. Since webhooks are just standard HTTP requests, any services can easily produce and consume them. SocketXP addon helps to securely access your home automation servers and applications from remote locations.

REMOTE ASSISTANT XP INSTALL

Install the secure, lightweight SocketXP add-on to run on your home automation server, alongside your other applications. The SocketXP add-on is an agent that creates a secure SSL/TLS tunnel between the SocketXP Cloud Gateway and a specific application running in your home automation server. SocketXP Cloud Gateway, running in the Google Cloud Platform, creates a unique public endpoint (HTTPS URL) for the SSL/TLS tunnel. You can use the public URL to access the specific application running in your home automation server from remote locations. SocketXP’s secure SSL/TLS reverse proxy service is a simple, reliable and safe alternative to messy, unreliable and unsafe methods of tampering your home router configuration to setup port forwarding and Dynamic DNS (DDNS) tracking. SSL/TLS tunnels are extremely secure, making “man-in-the-middle” attacks impossible. SSL/TLS is the technology used by banks, financial institutions, and e-commerce websites to perform secure financial transactions online. SocketXP creates a secure end-to-end SSL/TLS tunnel and a unique public endpoint (HTTPS URL) for your home automation server and applications running in them. You can use the public HTTPS URL to access your home automation system from any remote location. You could even share the SocketXP public URL with any 3rd party home automation services online such as IFTTT or Zapier, to send webhook notifications to your home automation server.

SocketXP is a cloud based secure reverse proxy service, that provides secure remote access and connectivity to your home automation server and applications (such as Home Assistant, Node-RED, Graphana, InfluxDB, Cloud9 etc.,) running in your home network, behind NAT and firewall.

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