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?

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Mine is open to the internet, via a nginx reverse proxy. I made it ban people who try to brute-force my password. It’s been fine like that for years now:

    http:  
  trusted_proxies:  
    - w.x.y.z  
  use_x_forwarded_for: true  
  ip_ban_enabled: true  
  login_attempts_threshold: 10