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Public IP in Home Assistant? (eventfrontier.com)

submitted 1 year ago by fishcharlie@eventfrontier.com to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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What’s the best way that people have found to get their public IP address into Home Assistant? It’d be useful to run an automation to send a notification when it changes.

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[–] AwkwardPenguin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

sensor:

platform: dnsip

group: External IP: - sensor.dnsip

automation: alias: Notify when external ip changes initial_state: on trigger: platform: state entity_id: sensor.dnsip action: service: notify.YOU data_template: message: "New external IP address is {{ states('sensor.dnsip') }}"

Here you go.

Source: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/display-public-ip-notify-of-change/74655

[–] Falmarri@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If your use case is to access your home assistant from external, I highly suggest cloudflare tunnels. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/new-add-on-cloudflared/361637/10

[–] mlaga97@lemmy.mlaga97.space 1 points 1 year ago

The "DNS IP" integration will give you your public IP address.

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Maybe not the best way, but I set up a Node RED work flow to query the API at ip.me every few minutes for my v4 and v6 addresses, and update sensors in HA.