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How many of you have an HA solution, which is open to the internet? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by oz1sej@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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I'm running my own HA locally, in my house, but I would like to be able to access it also when I'm not home. So I've put it on my Zerotier One VPN, which works fine. Except for two things:

  1. HA no longer knows when I'm home - it thinks I'm always home;

  2. Other people in my household would also like to have remote access, but it's unrealistic to have them install and use the VPN.

So - can I just open it up, and rely on long, complex passeords? Or is that a complete no-go?

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[–] dislabled@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't really see why you shouldn't... I have mine behind a reverse proxy, which puts SSL on the public endpoint. The biggest "issue" today, is the isp rotating my ipv4 address to often.

[–] batshit@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Can you not buy a static IP address from them? It's inexpensive

[–] dislabled@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

My ISP only have static ipv4 available for businesses. The price increase is quite a lot. I have been experimenting with ipv6, though I will loose connection when I am at someone else's WiFi with no ipv6.. It's there as a fallback for now.

[–] batshit@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

That kind of blows, I'm blessed with an ISP who doesn't discriminate against power users and I get it gor relatively cheap (~$15 per month)

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

DDNS might help you with that

[–] dislabled@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I just made a quick script that queries my public IP every 5 minutes, then changes the a-records via the registrar's API, if it detects a change.

[–] claude_flammang@dju.social 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

@dislabled
Nowadays there are lots of people without a routable IP V4 address. As providers don’t have enough addressspace for all their customers they use NAT.

[–] dislabled@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yeah I know, i have turned down 2 potential ISPs already, because they use cgnat. Too bad, because they are cheaper. Just wish ipv6 would really catch on soon.