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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Stop faffing around with duckdns and use Tailscale (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/homeassistant

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I've been trying for yonks (>two full days, plus crashing HA along the way) to get duckdns to work on my home assistant, so that I can remote access it from my telephone. Without success. There are pages and pages of people trying to get it to work, with multiple suggestions, mostly without success. I then came across Tailscale, it took me all of ten minutes to set it up, and WORKING. Whow, so hope this helps anybody trying to get remote access to their home assistant. This is not a publicity for Tailscale or Duckdns, just I'm so pleased to get it finally working.

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[–] torwag 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

OK, you bet me, it took me 15 min to setup WireGuard on my opnsense-based router and install it on my phone and my laptop. Now I can access my entire network from everywhere, including full access to HA.

Not saying tailscale is bad but for me WireGuard was sufficient easy...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol no, Tailscale is incredibly simple, even if you don't have any idea how any of this works. Just install a client on your device, sign in, and you're on the same network as your other devices. The fact that you have an opnsense router means that you're comfortable with a level of networking complexity that most people simply cannot handle.

[–] torwag 3 points 1 year ago

Fair, but I guess we could agree that a lot of people on this community are not exactly matching your "most people" bin. Having alternatives is always a good idea. And taken that some people run HA on pretty exotic hardware, there is a chance that tailscale doesn't work with it (albeit I agree they do a pretty good job in supporting as much platforms and distros as possible). Talking about alternatives... There is netbird as well ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I set up WireGuard this morning, but it's far 'harder' than Tailscale. So now I have both working. 😁

[–] bigdog_00 1 points 1 year ago

It should be worth noting the tail scale uses wireguard on the back end