Damn this was my first thought too.
Someone pass me an AARP card and a Costco-sized tube of ointment…
I’m going to add to the chorus of voices here advising you to stick with homeassistant. It is hands down the best open source home automation platform.
If you need help with reverse proxy let me know if you’re using nginx. There are a few header configurations that are required for the home assistant interface and I’d be glad to share my nginx configuration file.
You could also pay $6/month for nabu casa and they will proxy everything for you in the cloud.
Heard. Debian in the streets, Arch in the sheets!
Never fails that about this time every year I give Hybrid Theory a listen. Had such an impact on me when it came out that it seems to have left a permanent mark on the change from summer to autumn for me.