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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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[โ€“] rambos@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wireguard + duckdns is simple setup, but lot of people prefer tailscale cuz its even more simple to set up or they cant forward port or they might be behind cgnat. I just dont like additional company between me and my server, so im avoiding it as long as I can

[โ€“] Minty95@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Forwarding ports can be a pain, I admit, here in France you get a routeur supplied when you sign up for fiber, and of course they are all different. I got WireGuard with Duckdns working, though impossible to get just duckdns to work on it's own. And it was was far more difficult than just tailscale.

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