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Security 2/8 regular – a few times a year

The FTP add-on provides a secure and fast file transfer service for Home Assistant, allowing users to upload and download files from their system.

Facts about this add-on

Security rating
2 / 8
Ingress
no
Maintenance
regular – a few times a year (4 changes/year)
Version
7.0.0
Last change
August 24, 2026
Project
github.com
Architectures
aarch64, amd64

How this rating comes about

Home Assistant calculates the rating itself: every add-on starts at 5, and each right it asks for or gives up moves the number. The same calculation runs here, on the configuration the add-on ships.

Starting value of every add-on 5
AppArmor switched off -1
Asks for far reaching rights (SYS_ADMIN) -1
Shares the network of the host -1
Result 2 / 8

A high number does not mean the add-on is good, and a low one does not mean it is dangerous – a backup add-on has to reach far into the system to do its job. The number says how much it is allowed to do, and the list above says what exactly.

What the add-on is allowed to do

  • Uses the host network
  • Extended rights: SYS_ADMIN

Installation

  1. In Home Assistant open Settings → Add-ons → Add-on Store, and add the repository https://github.com/hassio-addons/repository through the three-dot menu.
  2. Reload the store and open FTP.
  3. Install the add-on and wait for the first start.
  4. Check the rights the add-on asks for before you start it – they are listed above.

Add repository to my Home Assistant Open the add-on directly

Both links go through my.home-assistant.io and open the store of your own instance – no address of ours is involved.

Source of this entry: the add-on configuration on GitHub

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