Satellite Tailscale — Ep. 9

🛰️ Episode 9: The Smart Home Ground Station (Tailscale in Home Assistant) “Get away from her, you witch!” — Ellen Ripley, Aliens (a Schwarzenegger contemporary production). “Get away from it, you open port!” — You, discovering your Home Assistant instance has been exposed to the public internet. 🏠 The Problem with Smart Home Remote Access You have spent weeks setting up Home Assistant. Your lights respond to voice commands. Your thermostat knows when you leave the house. Your security cameras upload snapshots when motion is detected at 02:00. The fish feeder fires at 08:00 and 18:00, reliably, every day, without human intervention. And then you leave for a long weekend and realise: you cannot check any of it from outside your home network. The conventional solutions to this problem range from mildly inconvenient to actively dangerous: Open a port on your router and expose Home Assistant to the internet — technically works; also technically invites every port-scanner on the planet to