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?

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Very different solutions.

    • DuckDNS: you expose your HA to the internet like a public website and register it’s address with DuckDNS so you can look it up.
    • Wireguard: you VPN to inside your firewall and can access anything on your private network.

    Wireguard all the way. Exposing just a VPN endpoint that can’t be connected to without the right cryptographic keys is a much more secure and maintainable attack surface.

    BTW I assume that’s what you meant by “DuckDNS”. Using that service is orthogonal to making HA visible externally, but is (I think) the common pairing.