Client OpenVPN to connect server outside my network

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This is real shame. Hassio is also locked up so bad, you cannot simply install your own package. I mean, we are talking about Linux here, but it is completely closed.

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Any luck? I also want to use HA OpenVPN Client addon but with username & pass rather than client certificate?

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Then don’t use it. HA OS is provided for an appliance like experience, for people who specifically do not want to manage the host Linux system (some may not even know what Linux is). If you want to manage your own OS, there are three other installation methods you can choose from. The most flexible and bare metal one (HA core) being just the raw Python code that you can run on pretty much anything. That’s what I use.

I don’t really understand why people are trying to make HA OS do things it was clearly never designed to do, when there are so much easier alternatives readily available.

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I’m in the same boat. My HA is in a network with unrestricted outbound traffic but restricted inbound. This network is not administrated by me and no policy to bend here about routers, firewalls, IoT VLANs, etc. The solution I find to remotely administrate the HA is to get either Nabu Casa (NC) or a VPN client on the HA that connects to my external VPN server. The HA runs Hassio for stability reasons (no other option, supervised nor container, to consider). As I understand it, NC is limited to one HA per subscription and so no possible to consolidate multiple HA in one account.

  1. I’m not familiar with NC but would it be possible to get NC to bridge to multiple MQTT brokers?

Back to the VPN client topic. I understand there is no real interest in getting a VPN client in the Add-on Store because, as mentioned above and by Franck Nijhof, it would defeat the commercial principal behind Nabu Casa. I have full respect for that possible reason because this fantastic solution needs to get financed somehow.
I really hope the people behind Nabu Casa to develop a sort of Nabu Industrial (or Pro) version of it aimed to the professional and industrial market.
As it can be noticed, the few non official add-on VPN clients alternatives have had a relative ephemeral operational life and so not reliable as mid/long-term solution.
Having all this said, my biggest hope relies on a Nabu Industrial solution. That would led me to stop hassling with VPN solutions, homemade consolidations, etc. My vote for it!

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