How many of you have an HA solution, which is open to the internet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by oz1sej@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I'm running my own HA locally, in my house, but I would like to be able to access it also when I'm not home. So I've put it on my Zerotier One VPN, which works fine. Except for two things:

HA no longer knows when I'm home - it thinks I'm always home;
Other people in my household would also like to have remote access, but it's unrealistic to have them install and use the VPN.

So - can I just open it up, and rely on long, complex passeords? Or is that a complete no-go?

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[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My HA instance is publicly accessible (with 2FA) through Nabu Casa's cloud service. Happily paying the subscription price of a whole $7/mo for that feature and to support them.

I can quickly switch it to my own reverse proxy if necessary.

this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026

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