# Community Hass.io Add-ons: Tor [![Release][release-shield]][release] ![Project Stage][project-stage-shield] ![Project Maintenance][maintenance-shield] [![Discord][discord-shield]][discord] [![Community Forum][forum-shield]][forum] [![Buy me a coffee][buymeacoffee-shield]][buymeacoffee] [![Support my work on Patreon][patreon-shield]][patreon] Protect your privacy and access Home Assistant via Tor. ## About This Tor add-on allows you to access you Home Assistant instance as an Onion site, trough [Tor's Hidden Service][tor-hidden-service] feature. With this feature enabled, you do not need to open your firewall ports or setup HTTPS to enable secure remote access. This is useful if you want to have: - Access your Home Assistant instance remotely without opening a firewall port or setting up a VPN. - Don’t want to or know how to get an SSL/TLS certificate and HTTPS configuration setup. - Want to block attackers from even being able to access/scan your port and server at all. - Want to block anyone from knowing your home IP address and seeing your traffic to your Home Assistant. The add-on also offers the possibility to open a Sock proxy into the Tor network. Allowing you to access Tor from any of your (SOCKS supporting) applications through your Hass.io installation. [Click here for the full documentation][docs] ## WARNING! THIS IS AN EDGE VERSION! This Hass.io Add-ons repository contains edge builds of add-ons. Edge builds add-ons are based upon the latest development version. - They may not work at all. - They might stop working at any time. - They could have a negative impact on your system. This repository was created for: - Anybody willing to test. - Anybody interested in trying out upcoming add-ons or add-on features. - Developers. If you are more interested in stable releases of our add-ons: [buymeacoffee-shield]: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/assets/img/guidelines/download-assets-sm-2.svg [buymeacoffee]: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/frenck [discord-shield]: https://img.shields.io/discord/478094546522079232.svg [discord]: https://discord.me/hassioaddons [docs]: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-tor/blob/ac56311/README.md [forum-shield]: https://img.shields.io/badge/community-forum-brightgreen.svg [forum]: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/community-hass-io-add-on-tor/33822?u=frenck [maintenance-shield]: https://img.shields.io/maintenance/yes/2019.svg [patreon-shield]: https://www.frenck.nl/images/patreon.png [patreon]: https://www.patreon.com/frenck [project-stage-shield]: https://img.shields.io/badge/project%20stage-production%20ready-brightgreen.svg [release-shield]: https://img.shields.io/badge/version-ac56311-blue.svg [release]: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-tor/tree/ac56311 [tor-hidden-service]: https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en