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?

  • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.gardenEnglish
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    1 day ago

    It’s generally fine to open it up, if your somewhat know what you’re doing. I wouldn’t do it without some protection measures like fail2ban and making sure HA is always up to date.

    Nabu Casa, the manufacturer of HA, has a paid option where they take care of publicly accessing your local HA instance. I think that’s a good solution as well. It includes backups on their servers.

    • ropatrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      1 day ago

      Nabu Casa is the way. Built by Home Assistant for Home Assistant, and utterly seamless and reliable (in my experience).

      Most importantly it supports the developers who have created this amazing piece if software! Do it! 👍🏼🙏🏼