I’m planning to start with a self-hosted option, but if I get tripped up, that sounds like a good plan B.
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OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Re: VPN and Wireguard, I was looking into doing the same on my unifi router, but came across Twingate (through a networkchuck video) and decided to try that instead, being a bit of a networking noob. It’s almost too easy…you can share individual resources or whole networks with user and device control over each. I think you get 5 users and 10 resources in the free plan. I’d recommend looking into it.
I had been pondering Nabucasa for external Home Assistant access but am very happy I found this. Now my wife can have remote access to HA and Plex and I can access the whole network remotely.
investorsexchange@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
glasgitarrewelt@feddit.de 1 year ago
It’s great that it works for you! For me every recommendation of networkchuck that starts with ‘and its free! You just have to sign up for…’ is a pointer to search for ‘open source alternative for…’.
That is how I found out about a Raspberry Pi with pihole and piVPN installed on the same device, using this manual. Pihole blocks ads, with piVPN you can log into your home network using the wireguard protocol.
I thought it was easy to set up, but of course it depends heavily on the time you can and want to invest. So Twingate can be the right solution for you, but I am often impressed by the excelent free software solutions that are out there.