# Home Assistant Community Add-on: Tor

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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 Home Assistant installation.

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[discord]: https://discord.me/hassioaddons
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[forum]: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-community-add-on-tor/33822?u=frenck
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[release]: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-tor/tree/v3.0.5
[tor-hidden-service]: https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en