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?

  • bob_lemon@feddit.orgEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    I solved Problem 1 by adding ICMP to HA. It’s constantly checking if my phone is present on the WiFi*.

    I’m using Tailscale instead of ZeroTier, but that should not matter.

    *I could also use my routers integrstion, but this logic worked with my shitty old router that had no integration