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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/ExdigguserPies on 2024-09-24 12:24:37+00:00.

Some backstory - I had been using duckdns to access my ha for a few months and it worked fine until I came to setup google_assistant yesterday. I found it was very unreliable with devices constantly going offline, status not updating, etc. This thread suggested it’s a common problem and duckdns seems to be the culprit.

Many people in the thread suggested using the cloudflared addon instead. I already had a domain for my personal website but not on the cloudflare nameservers. With very little technical knowledge I was able to migrate my domain to the cloudflare nameservers (thankfully the cloudflare documentation is very good), and I setup the cloudflared addon very quickly. Disabled duckdns, changed the google_assistant config over to the new domain and now google home integration is solid!

So, shoutout to Tobias Brenner and his cloudflared addon - it makes this process so simple.