How many of you host your IOT software in the cloud? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago by MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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As an example: some people might be using the offerings from Microsoft or Amazon, whilst other people might be running a VM with a VPS somewhere and hosting their apps like Homeassistant, OpenHAB, Node-Red etc there.

I wanted to know if you do something like this, and what might be the downsides to doing something like this.

Thanks!

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[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

What do you mean? Isn't this supposed to work similar to a direct VPN connection to the VPS box, i.e. akin to the machine being in the same network? Am I missing something? What do you mean by "firewall" (on my side, or on the side of the VPS)?

I'll likely be using Node-red and MQTT with some automation apps, probably. Not decided yet.

[-] lambda@programming.dev 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Tailnet requires you to run the Tailscale client. I would bet that the Tailscale client isn't even built to run on some/all of your IoT devices. Even if it were, I doubt many little esp devices would have the overhead to run them.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

I suppose you are right, but if I install a tailscale on my router like so, wouldn't that work?

[-] lambda@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

It just might. That's what I meant by firewall btw. A router is usually just three things, a firewall, a network switch, and a wireless access point. The part that handles routing to the internet (and your cloud instance) will be the firewall. I have OPNSense as my firewall with Tailscale installed on it.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

Thanks. If I install tailscale on OPNsense I should be able to connect my IOT devices to the VPS.

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