addon-wireguard VS iocage-homeassistant

I am fairly new to Wireguard and set it up using the add-on from Home Assistant. Git Link

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.

I'm running two Raspberry Pi 3 B+ on my network. One is running PiHole (w/ DHCP Server), and the other is running Home Assistant OS with WireGuard (https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-wireguard).

Home Assistant Wireguard Addon: Interface: wg0 Tunnel Address: 172.27.66.1 Docker IP: 172.30.33.6 Homeassistant Address: 192.168.0.80 Docker added ip route add 192.168.1.0/24 dev wg0 Homeassistant added ip route add 192.168.1.0/24 via 172.30.33.6 Allowed IP: 172.27.66.4/32, 192.168.1.0/24

Way back when, if you installed HA Core as a TrueNAS CORE Community Plugin, hopefully you followed these instructions to store your homeassistant_config directory to an external dataset. It will make your migration will be pretty easy.

Home Assistant

That leaves the Home Assistant Core installation option. TrueNAS has a community plugin that will take care of the jail setup and installation. You can find it from the plugins page in TrueNAS after changing the collection from iXsystems to Community. Here's a thread about the plugin, instructions for storing the data outside the jail, and instructions for setting up an SMB share for the HA data. (I don't like how the SMB instructions make the share readable by anyone. I'd suggest not checking the read-only option and replacing the write list=@homeassistant auxiliary parameter with valid users=@homeassistant so that only members of the homeassistant group have access.)