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Secure way to allow external access to Home Assistant (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by sikhness@lemmy.ca to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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Hey all!

I'm fairly new to Home Assistant and have just created a few dashboards to be able to view my router statistics and be able to restart them via REST if need be. Love being able to do this seamlessly from one place.

It got me thinking however, that I can only really access the dashboard when I'm on my internal network. I know that there is a paid Home Assistant cloud that would enable me to view my dashboards and such publicly and securely, but I was wondering if this community has set it up themselves for free and securely.

Would anyone be able to guide me in the right direction?

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[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You can use Tailscale and Zerotier to access your local HomeAssistant from any devices connected with your Tailscale/Zerotier account.

But if you want to expose your HomeAssistant to public using a custom domain name, one way to do that is by using Cloudflare Tunnel: https://www.makeuseof.com/use-cloudflare-tunnel-expose-local-servers-internet/

[–] sikhness@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would using Tailscale be similar to a VPN where I'd have to establish a VPN connection and have all my traffic directed to Tailscale?

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 2 points 1 year ago

Tailscale is a virtual lan network. When you enable tailscale, you'll have an additional network and ip address in your connected devices. It's not actually redirecting all your traffics there, unless you specifically configure it to do so (if you do so, you can designated a device as an "exit node" for your outbound traffic).

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