Hey everyone,
I recently installed Tailscale to remote access my HA - it works great but it sucks that I’ve got to install the tailscale app on each device I want to access HA from.
I know there’s Tailscale Funnel that let’s anyone access your HA via a public URL without requiring the app. I’ve been struggling to set this up. Has anyone succeeded with this? Would greatly appreciate your help.
Thanks.
I think there’s a more simple approach to this by using cloudflare and you have a domain name.
setup cloudflare within HA link
very simple to follow guide.
then configure access policies to control who can reach your Home Assistant http://ha.yourdomain.com for example. another good guild to that here
Thanks, yes I’ve used Cloudflare before. I want to avoid paying for domains dedicated to HA. The one that I purchased on GoDaddy for almost $2 last year is now $150/year!
I have another domain that hosts my website that I’d like to use with Cloudflare using a sub-domain name (eg. subdomain.domain.com and not domain.com) - not sure if Cloudflare would allow that.
My entire goal of moving to Tailscale is to use custom sub-domain names to connect to HA instances remotely. I want to give Tailscale a shot and if that doesn’t work then it’s Nabu Casa all the way, because they let you use your own sub-domain.
you can indeed use sub domains.
I do exactly that for a number of resources
Oh wow ok. I’m going to look this up. Would super appreciate if you could point me to resources that explain how