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

submitted 2 days 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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[–] Archer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (6 children)

What I personally do is have it accessible over WireGuard. Open TCP ports to the Internet is a bad idea. This does mean you have to launch WireGuard every time, but it’s way more secure

[–] bazinga@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

Wireguard runs in a different subnet at home, so the ping sensor for my phone fails on the regular WLAN address and this my ha always knows when home and when not.

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