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Repair: the router allows access to SRM from the internet

Shown when SRM allows access to its web interface from the internet on a router. Access points are not checked: an access point's WAN port is your own network, and it is reachable from the internet only through your router.

Wherever your connection lets it through (a public address, a port your provider does not block), anyone on the internet who finds the router can try to sign in, and a flaw in SRM would be open to all of them, not only to your own network.

What to do

  1. If you do not need SRM while away, switch off the setting in SRM that allows access to SRM from the internet.
  2. If you do need it, prefer a VPN to your network (SRM can run a VPN server), and keep two-factor authentication on for the accounts people sign in with, and the auto block on.

The repair disappears at the next slow update (every 5 minutes by default) after the setting is off. If you keep the access on purpose, ignore the repair in Home Assistant.