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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 2 years ago by Minty95@lemm.ee to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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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@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (6 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...

[–] Minty95@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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

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