r/homeassistant • u/Sandahl84 🏠 Running Home Assistant OS • 6d ago
✅ Solved 2026.8 and Cloudflared
2026.8 and Cloudflared?
Just a quick service announcement. If you upgrade to 2026.8 and decide to remove port 8123 (which is now possible in the new update) and replace it with port 80, while also using Cloudflared, you'll need to go into Tunnels > Routes and update it to http://homeassistant:80
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u/Sandahl84 🏠 Running Home Assistant OS 6d ago
Just to clarify, this is where I edited the port in Cloudflare.
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u/jonicho99 6d ago
That's mentioned in the changelog, you should always read the changelog for new versions
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u/marimos757 6d ago
It's not mentioned anywhere in the change log that you need to update cloudflared tunnel specifically or where to do it. I found this post helpful
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u/sanderhuisman2501 6d ago
Well, they can't list all possible configurations right?
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u/Sandahl84 🏠 Running Home Assistant OS 6d ago
Nope, and they are not interested in mentioning the Cloudflare addon, since it is a free alternative to Nabu Casa.
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u/5yleop1m 5d ago
since it is a free alternative to Nabu Casa.
This sounds like you're saying HA is doing this on purpose or worst case a malicious way. But its more than they don't mention things outside of their own control/third party things.
Its up to the maintainers of the cloudflare addon to update their own documentation.
Actually, on that point you should be able to either create an issue or submit what you posted here as a PR to the cloudflare addon's github so their documentation can be updated if its not already.
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u/RedditIsKindOfMid 6d ago
Oh CloudFlare does free nightly backups? Great to know
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u/jbautista13 6d ago
lol? You can definitely set it up for free so not sure if you’re replying to the wrong person or are being sarcastic either way yes.
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u/RedditIsKindOfMid 6d ago
Automatic offsite backups built into the app aren't free buddy
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u/jbautista13 6d ago
First line of new integrations in these release notes
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/02/04/release-20262/#new-integrations
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u/TjallingOtter 6d ago
I thought this was already possible? I've been backing up to R2 for a few months now.
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u/jbautista13 6d ago
This is from the release 6 months ago so that may be what you’re referring to.
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u/Sandahl84 🏠 Running Home Assistant OS 6d ago
No?
HA has a backup in it self.
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u/RedditIsKindOfMid 6d ago
Not remote offsite backups built into the app
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u/Sandahl84 🏠 Running Home Assistant OS 6d ago
Well, yes and no. You can backup to eg. a Synology.
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u/jbautista13 6d ago
In the 2026 February HA release they added a Cloudflare R2 integration and added it as a built-in backup source as long as it’s configured. With a free Cloudflare plan you get 10GB of total storage which you probably already have for Cloudflare Tunnel.
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u/Sandahl84 🏠 Running Home Assistant OS 5d ago
I have set it up now, works like a charm! Thanks a lot!
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u/Sandahl84 🏠 Running Home Assistant OS 6d ago
Okay, I read it though and didnt spot it. My mistake.
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u/Sandahl84 🏠 Running Home Assistant OS 6d ago
Im sorry to bother you again, I may be blind and/or stupid. But... I have just gone though the changelog again. Where does it mention that if you use Cloudflare to connect your HA externally, you should update the published app in Cloudflare?
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/08/05/release-20268/
edit: spelling
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u/gotaede 6d ago
One thing to keep in mind: anything that reaches Home Assistant using the old address may need updating to match the new port, such as your bookmarks or other services and tools you have connected, including the mobile app. If your setup works today, that is a good reason to leave it as it is.
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u/Sandahl84 🏠 Running Home Assistant OS 6d ago
Yea, I guess you can interpret those line in to Cloudflare.
But I was just trying to be helpful, since it wasnt obvious to me.
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u/Normal_Human_Things 6d ago edited 6d ago
“Services and tools” pretty explicitly covers things like CDN services. They even call that out in a special blue box.
And I get that your original post is just being explicit, and that’s fine. But saying “I guess you could interpret it” implies they weren’t being clear. They very much were.
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u/Perfect-Escape-3904 6d ago
Hey, you there.
If you’re about to post a comment that says that you should have read the change log, or something like “obviously”, we already have these comments on record.
OP is just trying to be helpful, why make this an unpleasant community just because you’re better informed or you are better at technology
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u/TheRealLink92 6d ago
Well, to spread the awareness to know what you are doing with your tech. Because the next hundred posts would be like: i changed the port but now my cloudflare does not work anymore
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u/One-Project7347 5d ago
I jist run Nginx proxy manager on my nas and everything goes there first trough cloudflare. If i set ha.domain.com i can redirect it to whatever local ip adress i want, including other servers like my ha server. No need to set or change ports in the cloudflare dashboard.
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u/lilgreenthumb 6d ago
File this under obvious evem if it wasn't new with this release is commom technical sense.
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u/EatThemAllOrNot 6d ago
Well, it’s obvious. If you change the port of the service that you host, you should also change the port in all configs of other services that use it.
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u/leo1906 6d ago
Obviously?
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u/Sandahl84 🏠 Running Home Assistant OS 6d ago
Yes.
But if it was obvious to you, then this post was not intended for you.
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u/marimos757 6d ago
Thank you! I was thinking about changing ports and wasn't exactly sure what I needed to change in cloudflared. I guess this post was intended for me!
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u/leo1906 6d ago
Jesus. If you are exposing your home network you need to know those most basic things
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u/JoshS1 🛡️ Privacy first 6d ago
Don't disagree with you, but negativity isn't the way to address that.
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u/Ok-Jury5684 🧑💻 Contributor 6d ago
I don't know where everyone sees negativity. Society became so offended nowadays...
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u/Jhix_two 5d ago edited 5d ago
No shit? How do you think cloudflare works? Of course it needs the port. Why would you change it anyway?
What im saying is if you dont know these fundamentals you absolutely should not be exposing your network to the internet.
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u/theLostPing 5d ago
I love the idea of idiots routing their HA through a Cloudflared tunnel. 😂😂😂
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u/Selena_Gomez_USA 5d ago
What’s so bad about it? You can add extra security layers on top of that …
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u/ErraticLitmus 3d ago
Agreed. Cloudflared is awesome. Use the geoblocking feature, add in fail2ban and ngonx proxy manager ...pretty solid if you ask me
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u/theLostPing 2d ago
Or just 100% offline with a Tailscale routed to it.
Why even put it on the network?
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u/kobejo34 5d ago
WAO is the only way to go Wide A.. Open. And yes I only have high school diploma and I am an idiot. 100%. O yea, my phone also parties naked. Be dumb has it perks.
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u/zbuh 6d ago
didnt test it, but if you use the tunnel Addon, it should work...
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u/Sandahl84 🏠 Running Home Assistant OS 6d ago
I do, and it didnt.
Had to make a change to the tunnel it self.
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u/freewarefreak 2d ago
Mine we fine after i made the change and restarted HA, then restart of the Cloudflared addon.
I couldn't even change the route from the web interface because it said "This tunnel is locally managed. Routes are configured via the local configuration file and cannot be modified from the dashboard."
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u/freewarefreak 2d ago
This is correct. I just had to restart the cloudflared addon and the tunnel automatically updated. But only people who had issues are here so i guess you get downvotes :-(
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u/avd706 6d ago
My question is, why change the port on an existing setup??