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

Thanks for sharing. I also thought about integrating my HA server into my Tailnet so that HA can access my other devices (NAS, etc.). It's a long story because my HA runs in an own VLAN along with all other IoT devices.

Anyways, may I ask you how you installed Tailscale? I was not able to install the Tailscale client on by HAOS-based Home Assistant instance.

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

Installation was a breeze, far far easier than wireguard with duckdns. (which I have now just done as well) But can't you add it to HA as a add-on?