Home server and NAS access
A NAS or home server sits behind your router, often behind carrier-grade NAT, where forwarding a port is fragile or impossible. Airdress gives you a permanent address that your home machines dial out to, so nothing at home has to accept a connection from the internet.
What you can do today
Section titled “What you can do today”Open a terminal on it, from anywhere. Run airdress shell host on the
Linux machine, approve it once after comparing fingerprints, and open
sessions on it from your laptop or phone with airdress shell. The session
is end to end encrypted; your airdress only routes ciphertext. What may run
is a profile you write on the machine itself, never a command sent over the
network. Shells.
# on the home serverairdress shell host --operator https://<your airdress address> --name nasairdress shell profile add --id admin --label "NAS shell" --program bash
# on your laptopairdress shell admin --machine nasLink Home Assistant. A Home Assistant enrolls with your airdress as a
machine and is linked as a Home when you approve it; your functions can
then operate it, read its state and notify you, with nothing dialling in.
Homes.
Run small services at your address. A function runs behind your airdress and can bridge to something at home. A plugin adds a small app, such as a form or a map, on its own subdomain; plugins work on an operator you run yourself and are coming to an airdress we host.