Hello, im looking for way's preferable as secure as possible or at least not expose my ipad/network to the world, to get my old Ipad 4 - Model: A1458 Year: 2012 used as dashboard for HA. I have heard of some sort of VNC but not exactly sure if thats a good idea or if there are better solutions.
#HA on old Ipad
robust spire
still beacon
What exactly are you trying to do?
Does your iPad stay in your house all the time? Are you trying to have it hung up on the wall (permanently) displaying the HA dashboard?
If so, depending on your router, you can isolate it.
Either by blocking it from accessing the internet and only accessing internal network resources (assuming your HA runs on a local device in your home).
Or by setting it into a separate VLAN that can't access the internet and then allow your HA device to access that VLAN.
If you host your HA somewhere else and access it via a public IP or domain, then it becomes more difficult to isolate the iPad without a dedicated firewall (your router might have one).
Generally though, if you disable UPnP in your router and don't use the iPad for anything else except accessing your HA dashboard, there's very limited risk it gets hacked. You're not exposing it to the public internet.
With an iPad this old, accessing the Internet requires it to have current certificates stored in the browser you use for accessing the dashboard. I don't know if that is an issue, though.
robust spire
The Ipad stays in the house sorry for the confusion, will see if i can hung it up on a wall somewhere or have it on the couch or so.
So yes it stay's in my local network.
I can't access it by the IP in safari saying the connection is not secure (no SSL certificate) and the HA app isn't compatible with Ios 10.x.x.
Tried Kiosk Pro Lite, but that won't work either on this old-timer 😉
still beacon
You can set up your own certificate and import it into iOS to use TLS on internal networks.