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?

  • dislabled@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 day ago

    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.

      • dislabled@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        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.

        • batshit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          That kind of blows, I’m blessed with an ISP who doesn’t discriminate against power users and I get it gor relatively cheap (~$15 per month)

      • dislabled@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Yeah, I just made a quick script that queries my public IP every 5 minutes, then changes the a-records via the registrar’s API, if it detects a change.

        • Claude Flammang@dju.social
          0·
          16 minutes ago

          @dislabled
          Nowadays there are lots of people without a routable IP V4 address. As providers don’t have enough addressspace for all their customers they use NAT.

          • dislabled@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            3 minutes ago

            Yeah I know, i have turned down 2 potential ISPs already, because they use cgnat. Too bad, because they are cheaper. Just wish ipv6 would really catch on soon.