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I don't use HA but FHEM and what I do to retrieve data from my homecontrol is using a telegram bot.
In telegram you can setup buttons when formatting messages, so my bot shows me the control menu with predefined actions. One action is to show my power consumption at home.
There is no need to open ports as the telegram bot polls the same way you cell phone does.
Also the bot only communicates to known clients that I predefined before, so nobody can see or control my home network.
Maybe something similar is possible in HA.
Hey, thanks for the hint! I’ll need to read more about FHEM since it’s the first time I hear about it (how do people even find out about it?), there’s a lot going on for me here, but it’s nice to see there are more options out there.
I checked and there is basically no need to switch to fhem if you have a working environment as in HA the connection/use of a telegram bot is also possible.