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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Stop faffing around with duckdns and use Tailscale (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Minty95@lemm.ee to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I've been trying for yonks (>two full days, plus crashing HA along the way) to get duckdns to work on my home assistant, so that I can remote access it from my telephone. Without success. There are pages and pages of people trying to get it to work, with multiple suggestions, mostly without success. I then came across Tailscale, it took me all of ten minutes to set it up, and WORKING. Whow, so hope this helps anybody trying to get remote access to their home assistant. This is not a publicity for Tailscale or Duckdns, just I'm so pleased to get it finally working.

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[–] jazzzaj@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IDK man. I set up DuckDNS 2 years ago and since then I had to update HomeAssistant settings just once when they introduced public address in settings. No failures, no problems. Rest is done automatically and my alert for expiring certificate never triggered.

I’m happy that you found solution with Tailscale but DuckDNS is also good and reliable in my experience.

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't had the same experience with DuckDNS. It was great for a few years, but for about the past year it would randomly go down (preventing access) or my domain would get flagged as spam. I ended up buying my own domain from cloudflare but I'm planning on investigating Tailscale at some point.

[–] Janis@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and you trust tailscale? no selling of your dns history?

[–] Minty95@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

No I do not see that as a problem. I think, seeing some of their clients that it's a reliable company