When you’ve decided on one, hit “add domain”.Īt the top of the screen you’ll see a “ Token“, which a long alphanumeric string of characters this is what we’ll need fo rate Duck DNS add-on to work in Home Assistant. Try to pick something unique that hasn’t been used before, but is easy enough to type into your URL bar. Thankfully you don’t actually need to set up a new account, but you can actually just log in with a variety of social accounts (including gmail) that you most likely already have.Īfter you’ve selected your account go ahead and type in a unique URL that you want as your Home Assistant URL. Next step is to get our Duck DNS account up and running by going to. This can usually be done from the home screen of the router settings. You may need to restart your router for this to go into affect, depending on your router.
For external port, type in 443, and internal port, type 8123. Select “Add New” under port forwarding, and select the Home Assistant under your list of devices (or type in the IP address assigned if there isn’t a list available). You’re going to setup two instances of port forwarding one for port 443, and one for port 80. Duck DNS Port Forwardingįor my Netgear router it is under Advanced – Advanced Setup – Port Forwarding. This should also be somewhere in your advanced settings. Now we’re going to set up the Port Forwarding aspect.
Your router may have to restart for this to take affect. Hit Save / Apply once you have done this. This means that the IP address of the Home Assistant on my network is always the same (172.16.X.XX). In my Netgear settings I can set a static IP address by going to Advanced – Setup – LAN (or WAN if your Home Assistant is connected via WiFi) – Address Reservation. These are both very basic functions, so it shouldn’t be too difficult. If you are using a different brand router, you’ll have to consult Google to help you along the way. Set port forwarding for the Home Assistant.Set a static IP address for the Home Assistant.We are essentially going to do two things I personally use a Netgear router, so my settings will look a little different than yours. Now this portion will be slightly different for everyone, depending on the model of your router. It will take a minute or two, once it is installed we’re going to open a new tab and go to our router settings. The Duck DNS add-on is towards the top of screen, select it, and click install.
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