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Duckdns/wireguard/... Which one do you prefer and why? (jlai.lu)

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Hi everyone

So, that's a 2 in 1 post. First a more general question then looking for advice for a friend.

What is your preferred way to access HA from outside (and why)?
a friend of mine use duckdns and I often read (recently) that some people are having issue with it. Is wireguard a better way or another solution that is not too techy to deal with?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've currently switched to cloudflare DNS, and it looks like it's doing the job better than duck for me. There's an integration for it, though I don't know how good that works, I initially set it up manually

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When you say it is doing a better job, can you explain how ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I use the Google assistant integration, and it works right now. With duck, I think it was maybe 50/50 on it that a voice command worked. Some days it was nearly not at all. So far with cloudflare, I've had no "I'm sorry, but ___ is not available right now"