Remote Camera via VPN?

[ha-as (HA)]

Hello

An elderly relative living abroad has a local LAN camera producing an rtsp stream, and a Wireguard VPN server. When connecting e.g. my Laptop to the VPN, I can display the camera stream.

Can I configure Home Assistant (Wireguard addon etc) to connect to the VPN (to abroad), but remain at the same time accessible locally for my other Home devices?

The goal is obviously to display the remote stream to detect if the relative is well, while still using other local Home Automations.

Thanks for any advise

[tmjpugh]

Can you connect camera over vpn or similar?
Yes.

HA just want IP for connection.
Networking doesn’t matter much.

[ha-as (HA)]

I’m not sure how this response should help… the question is if there is a HA solution which does the “Networking”.

As written: When my Laptop uses the Wireguard VPN client, then the Camera (remote LAN) is reachable (but the Laptop is not reachable the home LAN anymore)

Now HA should do both: still reachable for home LAN, but at the same time having a Wireguard Client running and a steady VPN connection to the (remote server and) camera stream (from the remote LAN).

Integrate Home Assistant Green into a wireguard VPN (client without port forwarding)

Introduction Hello everybody. I recently bought my first Home Assistant Green and needed a setup for remote access with wireguard. The existing Wireguard Community Add-on did not work for me for two reasons: The community add-on requires port forwarding to my HA Green device. Well, my router is behind a carrier-grade NAT and port forwarding is just too much of a hassle. So the wireguard on my HA Green device has to “dial out” in order to get through CGNAT and firewalls. The community add-o…

seems to go in this direction, but in my case the VPN Server is not in my control, but an ISP-provided Router (I cannot enter a “PUBLIC_KEY_HASSIO”).

But on fact the remote CAM does not need to access HA, rather the inverse: HA should just display the rtsp stream which is broadcasted anyways from the remote Camera to all devices in the remote LAN (=to HAs VPN Client).

[tmjpugh]

Setup HA host in tailscale

Setup tailscale node at your relative home that advertise route to camera

HA will connect like it is on same network

As I said, HA can connect to multiple network. Tailscale and I pretty sure wiregaurd create network. You just need to put HA and camera on same network

Tailscale not require open port so router doesn’t matter mostly

@ha-as

I’m not sure how this response should help… the question is if there is a HA solution which does the “Networking”.

Your first question ask if it is possible and say you already setup vpn. Sound like networking was good and your asking if this is ok to do

I hope above is good solution for you

[ha-as (HA)]

I cannot setup a HA “tailscale node”: it’s physically far away and needs additional hardware.

Are you saying the linked approach (HA as VPN client) will not work?

[tmjpugh]

@ha-as

Are you saying the linked approach (HA as VPN client) will not work?

No. As long as HA can connect it will work and yes. One way (HA >> Cam stream)’should be OK

I can’t imagine the setup you have but that’s not important. As long as HAncan connect with network running VPN to camera and seperate Local LAN you should be ok

[ha-as (HA)]

I explained the situation and setup clearly…

Just showing an RTSP stream is definitely possible in HA (so “HA can connect” to an rtsp stream), and a HA Wireguard Client can “connect” to a VPN Server.

As long as HAncan connect with network running VPN to camera and seperate Local LAN you should be ok
is thus fullfilled, just the routing config for this is needed