Home Assistant through Meshnet

Installation
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Hello folks,

I can’t make HA (running in a docker container) accessible from the exterior of my home network.

I’ve got a NordVPN account for a longtime now and one of the cool features they propose is “Meshnet”

  1. My setup
    A RPi 4 running Rasbian (latest version : bookworm)
  2. My problem (from outside my network only)
    I can access my RPi on ssh port through Meshnet (via nordvpn_ip:ssh_port)
    but I can’t access my Home Assistant container (via ‘nordvpn_ip:ha_port’). NordVPN hasn’t any solution to propose :thinking:

Android app gives a ‘ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT’

thanks for anybody with a solution :sweat_smile:

2

Docker run or docker compose would be handy.

Need to know how you setup your docker networking and how you connecting with VPN and internal network.

3

No idea how Meshnet works, but HA is basically just a web page, so it should work.
It might be something with what networks you have set as trusted.

4

Good point

Probably need to add some IP related to meshnet to trusted_proxies

5

Hi guys, by scrapping the web I finally found the solution.

NordVPN for linux (via cli) doesn’t set all you devices as “allowed” which is a big mess from NordVPN.

anyway, to solve the issue, I had to :

  1. Connect via SSH into the PI
  2. type the following command (as many time as devices I own on meshnet network) : nordvpn meshnet peer local allow [nordvpn ip of the otherdevice]

I wrote to nordvpn for this “issue” they (or I ? :confused: ) missed in the configuration…