Hi folks, Some time ago lots of Node-RED home automation systems have been hacked. There were a number of good initiatives in the community to help people to improve their security. But it were all bits and pieces, but I didn't find a tutorial with a full solution. I needed a lot of things: Li…

Hi Bart, Excellent write-up. I'll have to try installing TailScale on my home set-up. One thing I did notice in your section on Port-Forwarding was this heading... [port_forwarding] Did you mean that, or should it be Risks of port forwarding ??

Hi David, Thanks for joining! [image] dynamicdave: Did you mean that I assume that is a rhetorical question, because the answer is obviously "No"... I am pretty sure that there will be MUCH more other typos or bad english syntax stuff in my texts. After 20 times of rewriting it in Word (w…

[image] BartButenaers: Don't forget I am dutch speaking, but I try to write everything in English so you guys can sit back and relax in your native English chair Bedankt Bart, we houden van je

Thanks Bart. I think perhaps I'll follow your advice and switch from ZeroTier to Tailscale [image] BartButenaers: I try to write everything in English so you guys can sit back and relax in your native English chair :yum: If only everyone was so helpful life would be so much simpler (for us …

My new website now has a remote service access article that will (eventually) cover the main different cloud and on-prem services. Still mostly a stub article right now and the website look is still a bit odd as I'm actively developing it. However, thanks to Cloudflare Pages, it is in its live loca…

[image] jbudd: switch from ZeroTier to Tailscale Hey @jbudd , I still love the simplicity of Zerotier. But it had too few features for me. First I tried to combine it with other technologies like Ngrok. But then I (slowly) discovered that Tailscale offered most stuff out of the box, so I fi…

Perhaps you are on to something. It is true that I have married very few Dutch women. :thinking:

In case anybody would be experimenting with this already: I have added some extra comments to the tutorial (see overview here ), based on feedback I get yesterday from our security expert @TotallyInformation . Note that it is mostly about extra security on top of Tailscale, in case your tailnet might…

[image] BartButenaers: ailscale is in between Zerotier and Cloudflare, both in complexity and features. Have you tried twingate ?

No that one has never appeared in any of my search result. Hopefully it isn't better compared to Tailscale, because my time is up :wink:. Back to my nodes now...

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