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

I just use a Cloudflare tunnel using the Cloudflared plugin and a custom domain name. So no need to open ports. I use long passwords for the users. Not sure how unsafe it is but in HA you get a notification when a failed login happened.

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

That + mtls certs from cloudflare. Anyone/thing that doesn't have the cert gets blocked.

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