Home Assistant and Cloudflare Dynamic DNS (DDNS)

Home Assistant and Cloudflare Dynamic DNS is actually the easiest way to get a real DDNS configured if you are already using Home Assistant and if you already have a domain managed in Cloudflare. I said it several times in past, if you are using DDNS today in order to facilitate remote access via port forwarding, i strongly advise against it. port forwarding is a bad idea.

Having said that, in order to get started with this Home Assistant and Cloudflare Dynamic DNS obviously you need both home assistant to be already up and running and a domain already managed via Cloudflare. Those are two prerequisites that are outside the scope of this video but if you do want to see a video on any of them, drop me a comment below.

Another note worthy comment, Home Assistant and Cloudflare Dynamic DNS will result in a DNS A record to be automatically updated with your IP address given to you from your ISP. If your ISP assigns you a double NAT'ed IP address, this is the address that will be updated in DNS which will render this entire process useless. So if you are going to use this for remote access via port forwarding, keep in mind that double nat will not work in this case.

After configuring this Home Assistant and Cloudflare Dynamic DNS keep in mind that the integration will update the DNS A record once every hour. unlike other DDNS clients or sevices that sometime update the DNS once every 15 minutes. Just something to keep in mind.

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