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How many of you have an HA solution, which is open to the internet? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by 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:

  1. HA no longer knows when I'm home - it thinks I'm always home;

  2. 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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[–] 11 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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