Stop faffing around with duckdns and use Tailscale

https://lemm.ee/post/1451317

Stop faffing around with duckdns and use Tailscale - lemm.ee

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.

OK, you bet me, it took me 15 min to setup WireGuard on my opnsense-based router and install it on my phone and my laptop. Now I can access my entire network from everywhere, including full access to HA.

Not saying tailscale is bad but for me WireGuard was sufficient easy…

It should be worth noting the tail scale uses wireguard on the back end