How many of you host your IOT software in the cloud?
How many of you host your IOT software in the cloud?
As an example: some people might be using the offerings from Microsoft or Amazon, whilst other people might be running a VM with a VPS somewhere and hosting their apps like Homeassistant, OpenHAB, Node-Red etc there.
I wanted to know if you do something like this, and what might be the downsides to doing something like this.
Thanks!
Home assistant is already a mess to properly configure in the lan where the auto discovery does most of the job, doing it in the cloud under a VPN (because you don't plan to expose the iot devices to the internet, right?) Increases the complexity for no benefit
I plan to run a tailnet, which means the VPS box will be connected to my LAN using a VPN
Good luck connecting all of your IoT devices to the tailnet though. You'll need a firewall and lots of tinkering. I use linode and host some stuff in the cloud, but not Home Assistant.
Tailnet appears to be Tailscale which is Wireguard underneath. This means it operates at layer 3 (IP). However a bunch of smart home stuff (mDNS, WoL, etc) all depend on layer 2 connectivity (same subnet).
That means some stuff won't work correctly.