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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:

HA no longer knows when I'm home - it thinks I'm always home;
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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[–] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

If you are hosting other things with it, then a reverse proxy like Caddy or Traefik + crowdsec is pretty much as good as you are going to get and you can add region blocking on your router (if that feature is available) or if you use cloudflare as a proxy.

If you want to go really crazy, you can put authelia/Authentik in front of it, depending on what else you host.