René Welches

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Secure Home Network Access with Twingate

Alternative setup to Pi-Hole and Pi-VPN with Twingate, Home Assistant and AdGuard Home

Introduction

Today, I had a chance to try out my new Twingate setup, and I noticed that my DNS wasn’t working. In this guide, I’ll show you how to set up Twingate to access your home network resources, including how to configure DNS using AdGuard Home on Home Assistant.

In the past, I used Pi-Hole (for ad blocking/DNS) and PiVPN (with WireGuard protocol), a Google domain, and Inadyn (DDNS client) for VPN. Everything was working great until Google decided to sell their DNS business to Squarespace (not a great move, Google). To make matters worse, Squarespace doesn’t support DDNS. I was already considering switching my DNS to something like Cloudflare, but then I saw NetworkChuck promoting Twingate and decided to give it a try. And I must say, I love it.