Hi
As you know, this provider is used by other components, so to avoid checking if it breaks something else, it's better not to modify the constructors and do something else: provide the new method I mentioned, OR don't change the provider at all. If the HA address contains the https scheme, use the standard constructor with port 443 (it sets the scheme to https), and then immediately change the port to the correct one (provider updateHost(const QString& host, int port)). To get the scheme/port/host, use QUrl in the HA driver initialization section. Then there's no need to change the HA driver scheme or the RestProvider. Example :

QUrl url(input);

if (url.isValid())
{
    QString scheme   = url.scheme();      // "https"
    QString host     = url.host();        // "example.com"
    int port         = url.port();        // 1234
    
    qDebug() << "Protocol:" << scheme;
    qDebug() << "Host:" << host;
    qDebug() << "Port:" << port;
 }

BTW we are using TABS as code indentation.

Well, it turned out that updateHost does nothing useful. Please check the app after my changes if https is working correctly (HA address must be in form: https://host or https://host:port)

Can confirm that HA now connects over SSL on this build. Thanks heaps.