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I aked a company for API access and they asked for IPs to whitelist (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Squizzy@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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How do I find out what IPs to give, my IP doesnt stay the same? The local IP is hardly the one they want, it wouldnt make sense I think.

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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They want the IP that your ISP assigned to your modem. So go to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ to see the IP addresses.

However your ISP can change the IP address whenever they want. If you really need to be sure your IP address never changes then get a VPS with a static IP then run a VPN on it so you can tunnel your connection through that VPS. This way you will always have the same IP even if you change ISP or move.

[-] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Another good one ifconfig.me it can be used from a terminal to easily get your IP address

curl ifconfig.me

Super simple and clean response back too.

this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2026
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