DuckDNS etc. not possible without Public IP?

numix · February 18, 2018, 4:57pm

Hey everybody! I am fairly new to Home Assistant and successfully set up Hass.io on a RasPi and connected some lights/music…
I want to reach the Pi from the outside to get the Google Home Add On etc., but here I’m running into a problem: My internet provider does not provide me with a public IP. In the building where I live I get the Internet connection directly and thus can’t port forward from the outside.
Any ideas what I could do?

Thanks!

bbrendon · February 18, 2018, 5:29pm

It’s still possible though likely complicated. A few ideas.

Setup a tunnel/proxy to someone who has an IP.
Get a VPN provider that gives out a public IP.

gpbenton · February 18, 2018, 5:39pm

You might also see if there is a hassio addon for tor

numix · February 19, 2018, 12:12am

Thx for the advice, there is a tor addon and I got it running, however having an .onion link does not help me with getting a public IP that I can use for Google Home Integration / IFTTT?

flamingm0e · February 19, 2018, 1:16am

If it connects back to your home assistant instance, it doesn’t matter if you have ‘a public IP’ or not

numix · February 19, 2018, 9:25am

True, it does give me a channel back into the RasPi and that works, but what I meant is that I can only use an .onion link with Tor browser?
Maybe I just didn’t understand this correctly but in order to control the hass.io/home assistant I need a URL or IP as IFTTT or the Google Home API won’t be able to work with a .onion link?

Thanks for your help!
(The VPN/tunnel thing usually involves getting a provider and paying a monthly fee so I’m trying to do this locally…)

flamingm0e · February 19, 2018, 1:23pm

isn’t the .onion link a URL?

numix · February 19, 2018, 2:47pm

Without a tor2web service it is not accesible as far as I know. And those tools are not really safe to use as all nodes will be able to see my IP beeing routed through…

flamingm0e · February 19, 2018, 2:49pm

Sounds like you are stuck paying some money and setting up a VPN or a VPS and VPN combo. If you can’t control your public IP, or your port forwards, then nothing else will work for you.

numix · February 19, 2018, 3:09pm

Ok I’m gonna stick here to not messy crosspost, sry…
Thanks for your help, appreciate it!

So if I set up a VPN at a friends place with a public IP then I will only need a VPN client on Hassio to connect to it, correct? Would then a connection to the public IP tunnel through to the RasPi with Hassio? Do you have any advice on setting up the client, I couldn’t find any ressources on how to do that with Hassio.

flamingm0e · February 19, 2018, 3:47pm

Yes.

Yes

I don’t think anyone has created a client add-on yet.