HA while on the go

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Hi everyone
I am fully aware of the HA Cloud offering but dont want to be paying an ongoing fee.
What are my other options if I want to be receiving alerts, sending my GPS coordinates back to HA etc?

  • VPN to home network?
  • External access to HA?

I like to be secure as well. Not sure how notifications would work if I enable 2FA? Also, is it possible to only allow certain MAC addresses (like running a firewall on HA) and drop others?

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I found reverse proxy with the Lets Encrypt docker image (now it’s named swag) was relatively easy to get going for my install.

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I am fully aware of the HA Cloud offering but dont want to be paying an ongoing fee.

Argo Tunnel (now free) is another option.

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I’m going out onto the net with something along these lines, using a port forward of a random high port, and my own domain name that I pay for yearly (no duckdns). I also have a static IP from my ISP that costs me a few $ a year.

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I 2nd SWAG (also running in a Docker container) going thru DuckDNS. There is plenty of documentation for the components of SWAG: Let’s Encrypt and NGINX. In fact, most of the programs you could think of using with a reverse proxy have a template in NGINX, pretty much all you have to do is fill in the specifics for your system.