Access your LOCAL NETWORK with WireGuard Add-On in Home Assistant.

Super Easy PRIVATE VPN setup with the WireGuard Add-On in Home Assistant. Now you can access your internal network from a remote location in just a few easy steps using your very own private VPN!

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00:00 Intro and Discussion
00:49 Install and Config Add-On
03:50 Get the client QR code file
07:01 Configure phone app
08:39 Fire up the tunnel!
09:50 Configure PC app
10:47 Recap Steps
11:34 Wrap

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[mostlychris]

In the video, I mentioned that you could use Nabu Casa as the endpoint for the VPN configuration. This is not correct and I apologize for the confusion. You need to use a publicly routeable domain name that can reach your local network.

[xristostri]

Very good job Chris. Thank you. One question: what if i am connected on LTE and have enabled the hotspot future in my phone... What about other systems connected on hotspot. Do they connected via wireguard? so all are using vpn tunnel? Thank you

[JasonRasmussen]

Worked great! I was up and running in 10 minutes (already had my Dynamic Dns setup). No more OpenVPN in the router that kept failing.

[ertvvf]

Hi, I'm able to connect into the home network and I'm also able to access home devices.

What I can't do is to make my WireGuard client IP discoverable in the home network (I can see my others device in the router, but I can't see the Wireguard Client IP).
Do you know how to do that?

Thanks

[nukman]

Great guide. However, I'm getting err_connection_refused with my pone. The port is forwarded, DNS is my router IP, and in the log it shows no errors and gives me an endpoint IP. The tunnel info in the WG app on the phone also shows data being transferred. What could be the issue? I'm running HA Supervised on an Intel NUC with Debian.

[raymondsiew]

Hi, great video! Wonder if you would do a video turning on/off POE power for Unifi, say the VPN device is on one of the Unifi Poe ports, not part of the home assistant? You may power off the VPN completely when at home and turn it on when away. Thanks.

[DimusTech]

I'm trying to find out some issue, when I forget my wireguard on, and I get home and connect to the home network I have no internet, anybody has an idea how to fix that?

[allanlorriman]

Sorry Chris. Just got this to work. Thanks Allan

[uhmasyt]

@mostlychris: Just one request. Can you make it happen that the music in the intro is not that loud? I use earphones from my phone and your voice comes across at a normal volume. As soon as the music starts, the volume jumps to a sky high level which at least I cannot cope with. Maybe other users have a similar experience. I would really appreciate a change. Thank you!

[rishith]

Hi! great video, I'm using Wireguard on a mini router called GL inet which acts as a VPN server. I'm able to connect VPN clients to my VPN server remotely but I'm having trouble accessing other devices directly connected to the VPN router/server' s LAN.

How can I access (or even ping) a locally connected device (connected to a VPN router (server)) from a remote wireGuard VPN client? I'm guessing I'd have to create some sort of firewall policies to allow traffic?

[kamilosxd]

Is it possible to configure WireGuard addon to allow remote clients to access other devices on internal LAN?

[allanlorriman]

Hi Chris. I have set this up with the default 172.27... addresses and I can't get it to work. My HA address is 192.168.0.16:8123 this is a static address. I have Pihole on a Raspi zero 2W 0n 192.168.0.12 which is also handling my DHCP. My router gateway is 192.168.0.1 I have forwarded port 192.168.0.16 on my router to 51820 UDP. Can you tell me what server and peer addresses should I put in the wireguard config? Thanks.

[Sebastian-xfje]

Is this safer than opening ports 80/443 to access HA remotely?

[jagadeeshv]

Thanks for the video
I need one help to create one dummy binary sensor for 🆘 button.
I’m using Alarmo in home assistant, In My dashboard I’m going to have one button card to it trigger the alarm 🚨 manually, but Alarmo will accept only binary sensor to do that.

With no choice. Looking to make one dummy binary sensor. Which will give on or off based on input boolean.

[WoottonRivers]

Will I be able to access other things on my network?

[obl]

Is there an alternative to get access to HA without port forwarding?