How many of you have an HA solution, which is open to the internet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week 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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[-] dislabled@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

I don't really see why you shouldn't... I have mine behind a reverse proxy, which puts SSL on the public endpoint. The biggest "issue" today, is the isp rotating my ipv4 address to often.

[-] batshit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Can you not buy a static IP address from them? It's inexpensive

[-] dislabled@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

My ISP only have static ipv4 available for businesses. The price increase is quite a lot. I have been experimenting with ipv6, though I will loose connection when I am at someone else's WiFi with no ipv6.. It's there as a fallback for now.

[-] batshit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That kind of blows, I'm blessed with an ISP who doesn't discriminate against power users and I get it gor relatively cheap (~$15 per month)

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

DDNS might help you with that

[-] dislabled@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I just made a quick script that queries my public IP every 5 minutes, then changes the a-records via the registrar's API, if it detects a change.

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