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@KingOogaBooga for the DNS part:
I have indeed a #pihole running in my local network where I host a nextcloud instance with a fix IP address.
If I am connected to my local network with a client or want access via a browser, pihole returns this IP address to my device.
If my device is connected to the internet one of the DNS server handling dynamic IPs will return the official current IP address of e.g. a Home assistant server.
It is mostly a point of easier and faster. Why should my device connected to my local Wlan go out to the internet just to use my server in the local Wlan?

You don’t really need a reverse proxy if you have just one application running on one server. But the more applications you are hosting the easier is it for handling SSL certificates for all of them
@lorentz

@paequ2 @Cyber We had a local internet outage (provider equipment) and I couldn’t get in touch with my neighbor because the doorbell didn’t work because of that😃
Knocking at the window helped, though.

@early_riser it can get even worse. Some washingmachine manufacturers over here offer more programs to select from if you pay 10 CHF every month to them 😩

@Sxan @x4740N In the video on the amazon website it mentions a fan 🤔

@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

@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.