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.
and you trust tailscale? no selling of your dns history?
I have everything set up to do this as well, but on my Pixel running GrapheneOS I would suddenly lose all network access until I turned TailScale off and back on on my phone. That’s the one thing preventing me from switching over (also certs, since some next cloud applications don’t play nicely with the default cert)
Thanks for sharing. I also thought about integrating my HA server into my Tailnet so that HA can access my other devices (NAS, etc.). It’s a long story because my HA runs in an own VLAN along with all other IoT devices.
Anyways, may I ask you how you installed Tailscale? I was not able to install the Tailscale client on by HAOS-based Home Assistant instance.
I only use Tailscale to remote into my network devices. Everything else I access with Cloudflare, haven’t had any issues with it.
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.
