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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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[–] Archer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What I personally do is have it accessible over WireGuard. Open TCP ports to the Internet is a bad idea. This does mean you have to launch WireGuard every time, but it’s way more secure

[–] syaochan@feddit.it 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If I understood correctly, you may find https://wgtunnel.com/ useful. No need to launch wireguard manually anymore.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 points 23 hours ago

Same, I use wgtunnel with autostart when I'm not on my home wifi. The only time I have to think about it is when I'm trying to see devices on others' networks (ex. Chromecast/apple tv/etc), but that's much less common than just always wanting access to my home services.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Wish they had it for iOS

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Seconded, works great!

[–] bazinga@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

Wireguard runs in a different subnet at home, so the ping sensor for my phone fails on the regular WLAN address and this my ha always knows when home and when not.

[–] WilmBoerhout@mathstodon.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

@Archer indeed. A small effort for a good result