@pHr34kY @corroded Not from home automation but from my #pihole installation.
My internet radio tries to send the title of each new song to itunes.apple.com. My smartphone tries to report any new installation / update of SW packages to googletagmanager.com.
Those are among the reasons I use a #pihole in the first place.
@wildflowertea No problem.
Everyone started from about zero and learned by asking or reading.
Normally your router does not support incoming connections. I can configure my router to forward an incoming port (from the internet) to my nextcloud instance. The ports would be 80 (http access) and 443 (https access). There are two modes of communication: TCP (establishes a connection) and UDP (sends data w/o connecting). Which port no (TCP and/or UDP) your router needs to forward depends on the VPN.
@nogooduser @wildflowertea or #wireguard as a VPN server and clients for your smartphone. There is #pivpn for the Raspberry Pi which works as a VPN server instance. My Router supports #openvpn out of the box but never used it.
@pedz @cm0002 there are pre-build images for a lot of SBCs offered by #armbian .
Link for HomeAssistant:
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/33245-armbian-with-preinstalled-home-assistant-supervised
My Odroid N2/N2+ is listed under "Tested on"😁
Link to all apps:
https://github.com/armbian/distribution/tree/master