client/server relationship with HA

[Cyclonit]

Hi,

I just installed System Bridge and noticed that it appears to run as a server on my machine, with Home Assistant being intended to connect to it as a client. Why is that?

Home Assistant already runs as a server and necessarily has all of the server-ish requirements satisfied (e.g. having a fixed IP address/DNS name). Requiring a connection from HA to my workstation, means that I need to turn my workstation into a server too. Isn't this needlessly complex?

It'd make more sense to me if the HA integration acted as the server and machines running System Bridge connected to it than vice versa.