addon-wireguard VS addon-tailscale

Compare addon-wireguard vs addon-tailscale and see what are their differences.

addon-wireguard

WireGuard - Home Assistant Community Add-ons (by hassio-addons)

addon-tailscale

Tailscale - Home Assistant Community Add-ons (by hassio-addons)
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addon-wireguard addon-tailscale
5 4
166 156
1.8% 7.1%
7.6 8.6
22 days ago 17 days ago
Shell Jinja
MIT License MIT License
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addon-wireguard

Posts with mentions or reviews of addon-wireguard. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-17.
  • My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Feb 2022
    There are three major cloud components. Alexa and Google integrations both have open options that are documented by NC and you are welcome to use them. There’s a lot of setup as you need to deal with a semi-complex config on AWS or GCP which can be challenging if you’re new to those environments, but they work as well as the paid NC option.

    The remote access proxy service doesn’t really have an open equivalent but there are tons of other supported solutions out there for secure remote access to your Home Assistant install. One example add-on, developed and supported by an NC employee: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-wireguard

    In short, the paid cloud services provide an easier path to solutions you can deploy for yourself if you wish. Those services cost NC money to host, so asking for money isn’t too far out there. Of course, that money is more than what the cloud parts cost, and what we all get in return is a team of skilled developers working on the project and releasing everything for free.

addon-tailscale

Posts with mentions or reviews of addon-tailscale. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-22.
  • Low speed issue I'm home assistant exit node
    2 projects | /r/Tailscale | 22 Apr 2023
  • Tailscale SSH
    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2022
    I appreciate that Tailscale runs the DNS server so it's one less thing for me to manage. Similarly, the built-in LE is just icing on the cake as it's one less thing to think about. Once https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-tailscale/pull/89 is merged, running Home Assistant on a VPN with a LE certificate, would be such a quick setup for anyone.

    Indeed, you can do all that yourself as you point out. Just last night I manually created a public domain to point to a ZeroTier address and ran the Lets Encrypt addon in Home Assistant to generate a certificate via the DNS challenge. Didn't take long, but there were many steps involved (creating a Google Cloud service account and configuring everything).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing addon-wireguard and addon-tailscale you can also consider the following projects:

addon-nginx-proxy-manager - Nginx Proxy Manager - Home Assistant Community Add-ons

addon-adguard-home - AdGuard Home - Home Assistant Community Add-ons

addon-vscode - Studio Code Server - Home Assistant Community Add-ons

addon-motioneye - motionEye - Home Assistant Community Add-ons

wireguard-docs - 📖 Unofficial WireGuard Documentation: Setup, Usage, Configuration, and full example setups for VPNs supporting both servers & roaming clients.

addon-aircast - AirCast - Home Assistant Community Add-ons

iocage-homeassistant - Home Assistant Core - TrueNAS CORE Community Plugin

addon-unifi - UniFi Network Application - Home Assistant Community Add-ons

iOS - :iphone: Home Assistant for Apple platforms

addon-bitwarden - Vaultwarden (Bitwarden) - Home Assistant Community Add-ons

addon-ssh - Advanced SSH & Web Terminal - Home Assistant Community Add-ons

authelia - The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps