29 July 2026
Older post, but still very valid. Great way to enable Home Assistant access while on the go, without having to depend on a VPN or open it up in general.
I’m a big fan of Home Assistant, and until now I only had it accessible from inside my own network. Outside access was only possible through a WireGuard VPN. This works, but isn’t very practical - definitely when I quickly want to check something, or need to diagnose something while on the road, having to toggle the VPN & hope that the DNS resolution works (which sometimes it doesn’t) - the extra hoops make it annoying. Add to that that the location features of Home Assistant aren’t useful until the location of the device is updated in Home Assistant…