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[Home Assistant] Port forwarding?
(discuss.tchncs.de)
Discussion about general home automation ideas and projects, home automation protocols like Z-wave, Zigbee, Matter, etc, and home automation software and hubs like HomeSeer, Home Assistant, OpenHAB, Homey.
To piggyback off the mention of security, I personally feel a little icky having ports open to the world on my home network. I would definitely recommend OP to look into using a VPN to connect back to the home network. Easy-to-use options like Tailscale and ZeroTier exist, or if they want they could roll their own with Wireguard (not sure what exactly is involved doing this, I went the easy route)