What's the simplest but still safe way to access home assistant remotely? 

I have a static ip but no vpn. 

Simple port forward safe to use? 

8 minutes ago, Chris_S said:

Simple port forward safe to use? 

It is not safe, but it should work... I'd say, time to implement a firewall with openvpn as an option, that you then use for this...

I currently use this:

https://youtu.be/AK5E2T5tWyM

But if I could get a free website I would transition to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXAwT9N-7Hw

Or if you dont mind paying something use NabuCasa which is the official one.

Can also look into something like Tailscale, run a node on your LAN and that acts as the entry into your network from outside. No need to forward any ports etc

 

 

24 minutes ago, mzezman said:

Can also look into something like Tailscale, run a node on your LAN and that acts as the entry into your network from outside. No need to forward any ports etc

I second Tailscale.  It works beautifully.  And very user-friendly.

Free for up to 3 users.  Install the plugin for home assistant, install the app on your phone/laptop and whenever you want to connect just connect on tailscale and then access home assistant as if you're at home on your wifi.

1 hour ago, Hyarion said:

I second Tailscale.  It works beautifully.  And very user-friendly.

Free for up to 3 users.  Install the plugin for home assistant, install the app on your phone/laptop and whenever you want to connect just connect on tailscale and then access home assistant as if you're at home on your wifi.

I recently discovered a setting to autoconnect to Tailscale when im not on my home WIFI and its worked flawlessly. Its great coz i use my nodes as exit nodes and benefit from the on-LAN pihole adblocking 

On 2023/12/12 at 5:08 PM, Robbo said:

I currently use this:

https://youtu.be/AK5E2T5tWyM

But if I could get a free website I would transition to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXAwT9N-7Hw

Or if you dont mind paying something use NabuCasa which is the official one.

I took the cloudflare tunnel route. I bought a .co.za domain for R99 a year and used that to setup straight into HASS from the outside. No Issues with SSH or certificate issues. Works great.

21 hours ago, Hunted said:

I bought a .co.za domain for R99 a year

NIce! where did you buy it?

2 hours ago, Robbo said:

NIce! where did you buy it?

I have an account with Grid Hosting - https://1-grid.com/ and bought it from them.

The native nabu casa integration works perfectly 

Domain + cloudflare would be my preferred way, for either a static ip or dynamic. HA has a cloudflare plugin to update the ip as it changes with cloudflare. And cloudflare offers ddos mitigation on port 80:443

Native nabucasa was just too slow.

You can buy a domain from domains.co.za

Edited December 25, 20232 yr by Pho3niX90

Zerotier works great for me.

12 hours ago, Pho3niX90 said:

Domain + cloudflare would be my preferred way, for either a static ip or dynamic. HA has a cloudflare plugin to update the ip as it changes with cloudflare. And cloudflare offers ddos mitigation on port 80:443

Native nabucasa was just too slow.

You can buy a domain from domains.co.za

Can I use a domain I have parked in GoDaddy?

6 hours ago, cp69 said:

Can I use a domain I have parked in GoDaddy?

yes you can, you can either create a subdomain, such as "home.domain.tld" or the top level "domain.tld".

Cloudflare does have a free tier

On 2023/12/17 at 11:20 AM, Hunted said:

I took the cloudflare tunnel route. I bought a .co.za domain for R99 a year and used that to setup straight into HASS from the outside. No Issues with SSH or certificate issues. Works great.

im using the same setup. easy to configure.  you can also create subdomains like. "[email protected]"