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Stop faffing around with duckdns and use Tailscale (lemm.ee)
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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Both Tailscale and Wireguard are valid options but both must be enabled first. If you use a DNS solution to only provide access to HA it always works, no actions needed. I personally use DNS (ipv6.com via DynDNS from my Fritzbox Router) and a locally hosted Nginx to provide access to HA and it works perfectly. If I need access to something else I can still enable Wireguard for full access.