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?

  • pafOPEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Thanks, wireguard sound much better then for just accessing HA, wonder why is duckdns so popular then

    • Lee@fosstodon.org
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      1 hour ago

      @paf @wewbull In fact, even if you’re using Wireguard you’d likely need DuckDNS (or a real domain with something like Cloudflare) to point your wireguard clients to. All DuckDNS does is associate a domain name with your external IP. You could just use the IP directly but your ISP likely doesn’t assign you a static IP so it’ll change randomly, so you run a script that updates your IP with DuckDNS.

      • pafOPEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        Will check that, thanks