Cloudflare

With the cloudflare integration, you can keep your Cloudflare records up to date.

The integration runs every hour, but can also be started manually by using the service cloudflare.update_records under services.

Due to a limitation in the Cloudflare API, you can not use this integration with any of the following TLD’s:

.cf
.ga
.gq
.ml
.tk

Setup

You can find your global API key in your Cloudflare account settings.

Configuration

To use the integration in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
cloudflare:
  email: YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS
  api_key: YOUR_GLOBAL_API_KEY
  zone: EXAMPLE.COM
  records:
    - ha
    - www

Configuration Variables

emailstringRequired

The email address for your Cloudflare account.

api_keystringRequired

The global API key for your Cloudflare account.

zonestringRequired

The DNS zone (domain) you want to update.

recordslistRequired

A list of records (subdomains) you want to update.

Additional information

Usage of external service

This platform uses the API from ipify.org to set the public IP address.

API Key

Please note that the api_key is the global API key of your Cloudflare account (not the API Token).

Home Assistant Companion App

If you would like to use iOS App via Cloudflare set Minimum TLS version as 1.2, in order to do that, do the following:

Login to your Cloudflare account.
Choose your domain.
Click on the SSL/TLS icon.
Go to tab Edge Certificates.
Find Minimum TLS Version and set it to 1.2.

Other settings should not cause any issues.

SSH over Cloudflare

For SSH usage (according to this source), you need to connect directly to your server (bypassing Cloudflare). To do that, create a CNAME DNS record, e.g., ssh.example.com, with proxy status as “DNS only” (to do that click on orange icon, it will change color to gray) and then connect to ssh.example.com using your server SSH port.

Using Cloudflare domain only for Home Assistant

If you want to update just a main domain, place in the records list only your domain, e.g., example.com. It will update your A DNS record with your IP every hour.

# Example configuration.yaml entry for one domain
cloudflare:
  email: YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS
  api_key: YOUR_GLOBAL_API_KEY
  zone: EXAMPLE.COM
  records:
    - EXAMPLE.COM

The minimum DNS record settings (if you have set up HTTPS already)

To redirect from your domain to the IP address of your Home Assistant server set this DNS record:

Type: A
Name: @
IPv4 Address: your.ip.address

You can find your current IP address using this page.

In order to redirect from https://www to https:// you need to set this DNS record:

Type: CNAME
Name: @
Target: example.com (your actual domain)

And also create Page Rule:

If the URL matches: www.example.com*
Then the settings are: Forwarding URL
Status: 302 - Temporary redirect
Destination URL: https://example.com/$1