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ZeroTier – home VPN without a public IP address
🇬🇧->🇵🇱 Przejdź do polskiej wersji tego wpisu / Go to polish version of this post In previous posts from the smart home series, I described how to set up smart lighting in your home using Shelly products and how to set up your own server with Home Assistant to manage home IoT devices. This way, we created the possibility of fully remote control of the lighting in our home.
Providers like T-Mobile, Plus, Play, Orange, and others have rather complex infrastructures that resemble a large tree with branches splitting into smaller subnets. However, no problem is unsolvable, and after this slightly lengthy introduction, I will now explain how to access your home network from outside when you do not have a public IP address, meaning you cannot simply set up a traditional VPN. However, in the long run, I always recommend trying to obtain a truly public IP address from your internet provider and setting up a standard VPN tunnel for yourself, whether using WireGuard or even OpenVPN.
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