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Hi everyone

So, that's a 2 in 1 post. First a more general question then looking for advice for a friend.

  • What is your preferred way to access HA from outside (and why)?

  • a friend of mine use duckdns and I often read (recently) that some people are having issue with it. Is wireguard a better way or another solution that is not too techy to deal with?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

I just realized that this is the homeassistant community and not something more generic.

Specifically for homeassistant, Wireguard should be fine, unless you plan to do some more advanced stuff like use Alexa without a nabu casa subscription.

The times where you need access to your HA instance without being able to connect to Wireguard should be pretty limited.