🏠 Home Automation & MQTT¶

Best practices for building secure, reliable home automation systems. These guides focus on the security and architecture decisions that matter most when you're running services on your home network.

Guides in this section¶

• Home Assistant Security Best Practices — Access control, TLS, reverse proxy, backups, IoT VLAN, zero-trust mindset

Related¶

• MQTT Security Best Practices — Broker hardening, ACLs, TLS, topic design, credential storage (in ESP32 section)
• ESP32 + MQTT + Home Assistant Integration — Applied tutorial: secure end-to-end sensor + actuator setup