# Home assistant bouncer addon

**URL:** <https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/home-assistant-bouncer-addon/2490>\
**Category:** crowdsec\
**Created:** [April 9, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/home-assistant-bouncer-addon/2490 "2025-04-09T14:58:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![yegormarkeloff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/439d5e/32.png) [@yegormarkeloff](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/yegormarkeloff)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/home-assistant-bouncer-addon/2490/1 "2025-04-09T14:58:18Z")

</div>

Hello, i need some help understanding how the bouncer addon for HA works. I’m running traefik with Crowdsec as a middleware.

I’ve installed Crowdsec HA addon and connected it as a machine to another my “central” LAPI, i’ve also installed the Bouncer addon in HA and connected it to my “central” LAPI, it works, i can see it getting decisions.

But when i ban an IP manually i can see the bouncer in HA getting the decision but i dont get blocked when accessing via the IP of HA, i get blocked when accessing via traefik.

Have i misunderstood how the HA bouncer addon works? If i understood correctly HA doesnt use nftables so the bouncer cant do anything? How would you secure HA if i don’t ha a revereseproxy with crowdsec as middleware?