Home Assistant Zwave JS UI Proxy Plugin

[killtux]

Would be cool if someone could make a proxy plugin like it's already existing for Zigbee2MQTT or Frigate if you run that service externally so you can have it in your Home Assistant Sidebar like its running directly in HA Supervisor:

https://github.com/zigbee2mqtt/hassio-zigbee2mqtt/tree/master/zigbee2mqtt-proxy
https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate-hass-addons/tree/main/frigate_proxy

[kpine]

I just use an iframe.

panel_iframe:
  zwave:
    title: "Z-Wave"
    url: "https://hostname"
    icon: mdi:z-wave

[killtux]

if you access your Home Assistant instance over an external domain, iframes with local services won't work.

[kpine]

What do you mean by "external domain"? I am using that iframe snippet with a zwave-js UI running on a remote PI. My HA and ZUI are in two different rooms.

[kpine]

Ok, I think I understand, you want to access ZUI outside of your local network, e.g. an external or public network (not domain). Presumably you are using something like Nabu Casa and not a VPN.

In that cause, you are correct, the iframe doesn't work unless your ZUI instance is also publicly available. You need Supervisor Ingress in that case.

Obvious suggestion: use a VPN instead. I'm guessing you don't want to do that though.

It looks pretty trivial to fork one of the existing projects you referenced and just modify it for ZUI. I don't use HAOS so I can't help there. Perhaps consider taking up your own request. 😉

Another option (not one I'd personally use, overkill for this use case) would be to use the community ZUI add-on instead, which supports Ingress. Then you can install and run a TCP serial port server on the remote host, in place of ZUI. Then configure the add-on ZUI's device path as a tcp:// path, so the official add-on is talking to the remote controller via TCP. Some people seem to be happy with the TCP serial port approach, although there is at least one open issue for re-connect problems.

[killtux]

i access my Home Assistant instance over ha.mydomain.com. I run a reverse proxy and letsencrypt ssl certs since you need your Home Assistant instantce to be reachable over a secured https connection for some services like alexa media player oder smartthings integration.

sure i think it would be possible to use existing projects, but thats beyong my skills. i thought maybe is a demand for such a plugin since other Home Assistant Plugins offer that too and it would be nice to have everything in one place. atm the only way to access it from an external network is to use vpn. but it would be cool to have everything home automation related in the Home Assistant Dashboard/GUI.

Maybe someone can adapt the existing proxy plugins for Zigbee2MQTT or Frigate if there is a interest from other ZUI Home Assistant users with a similar setup (nabu casa, cloudflare tunnel, duckdns plugin, etc).