Tailscale Private Networking

Tailscale  provides a private mesh VPN that lets you access your Companion Home apps from anywhere — without exposing them to the public internet.

When to Use Tailscale

Tailscale is ideal when:

• You want private access to your apps from your devices only
• You don’t want apps publicly accessible
• You need to connect multiple machines in a private network

How It Works

1. Install Tailscale on your Companion Home server
2. Install Tailscale on your devices (phone, laptop, etc.)
3. All devices join the same Tailscale network (tailnet)
4. Access your apps via the server’s Tailscale IP address

Setup

Install Tailscale on your server:

curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh
sudo tailscale up

Then install Tailscale on your other devices from tailscale.com/download .

Your Companion Home dashboard and all apps will be accessible via the Tailscale IP (e.g., 100.x.y.z).