Ports·8123
8123
home-assistant
TCP · 0x1FBB

Port 8123 — home-assistant

Monitoring

Port 8123 carries Home Assistant over TCP. Above 1023, so an ordinary user can open it.

1024–49151. Meant to be applied for, though some numbers here are custom by habit.

By custom · Not a registered number but one settled by habit. Another program may well have taken it first.

Where it sits in 65535

A port number is 16 bits, so it stops at 65535. The narrow band at the left is everything up to 1023.

065535
Service
Home Assistant (home-assistant)
Kind
Monitoring
Protocol
TCP
Range
Registered
Root needed
No
Hexadecimal
0x1FBB
Binary
0001111110111011
Two bytes
31 · 187

Same kind

Collecting logs and watching health.

Ports next to it

How to read this

  • A port number is 16 bits, so it runs 0 to 65535. There is no port 65536.
  • Opening anything at or below 1023 needs root on Unix.
  • Plain and encrypted often live on different numbers — 80 and 443, for one.
  • Numbers like 3000 and 8080 were never registered; those are marked as custom.

Frequently asked questions

Q. What is port 8123 used for?

Home Assistant (home-assistant) uses it, over TCP.

Q. Does opening port 8123 need root?

No. It is above 1023, so an ordinary user can open it.

Q. Which range does port 8123 fall in?

Registered (1024–49151). In hex it is 0x1FBB.

Q. Does port 8123 have a twin?

Not a separate one. It either was encrypted from the start or negotiates TLS on the same number.