# Tailscale App
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/tailscale-app/104676
**Category:** Apps
**Tags:** homey-pro
**Created:** [February 23, 2024, 7:31am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tailscale-app/104676 "2024-02-23T07:31:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Ulf\_Svanlund](https://community.homey.app/u/Ulf_Svanlund)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2024, 7:31am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tailscale-app/104676/1 "2024-02-23T07:31:39Z")
IT would be nice to have a Tailscale app, where you can run a tailscale node on Homey Pro and connect to your tailscale network. This would make it easy to set up for instance a Homey Satellite in another network. It shouldnt be that hard to makeeither , I have this up and running on my Raspberry Pi’s. Also there are Tailscale apps for many systems.
BR/Ulf
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### Author:  [@Ulf\_Svanlund](https://community.homey.app/u/Ulf_Svanlund)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2024, 7:33am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tailscale-app/104676/2 "2024-02-23T07:33:37Z")
Maybe this is possible to set this up in the SSH Sandbox?
/Ulf
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### Author:  [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2024, 7:40am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tailscale-app/104676/3 "2024-02-23T07:40:58Z")
> [@Ulf\_Svanlund](#):
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> It shouldnt be that hard to makeeither
That’s what non-developers always say 🤷🏼♂️
> [@Ulf\_Svanlund](#):
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> Maybe this is possible to set this up in the SSH Sandbox?
I doubt it, since it requires host-OS support.
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### Author:  [@Ulf\_Svanlund](https://community.homey.app/u/Ulf_Svanlund)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2024, 7:47am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tailscale-app/104676/4 "2024-02-24T07:47:15Z")
Questions newer can be stupid , but surley answers can.
Why would it be impossible? I run Tailscale on several Raspery Pi’s both in native OS, and conteneirized. There are apps on most common plattforms. but not on Homey pro. If you dont have a better answer than this, its better to not answer at all.
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### Author:  [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2024, 7:59am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tailscale-app/104676/5 "2024-02-24T07:59:02Z")
Tailscale uses Wireguard, and Wireguard needs root access to install. Homey apps don’t have that. Homey apps also cannot start containers.
The SSH experiment runs inside a Docker container itself. For Wireguard to work inside a container, the container has to be created using specific settings, and those settings are not set for the SSH experiment container. They also cannot be changed/added.
Obviously all depends on Wireguard being actually supported by Homey’s kernel which, as far as I can see, it isn’t.
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### Author:  [@Ulf\_Svanlund](https://community.homey.app/u/Ulf_Svanlund)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2024, 10:31am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tailscale-app/104676/6 "2024-02-24T10:31:31Z")
Thank you, much better answer. I will look into this further. You say SSH experiment runs in a docker continer, then homey must use docker? Also I read something about Homey compose. Maybe I can create compose yaml file to see if this may work. Possibly I will read the Apps SDK to learn more about creating apps for homey.
/Ulf
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### Author:  [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2024, 10:42am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tailscale-app/104676/7 "2024-02-24T10:42:30Z")
> [@Ulf\_Svanlund](#):
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> Maybe I can create compose yaml file to see if this may work
It will not, for the reasons I mentioned (Homey apps cannot start Docker containers, and the SSH container doesn’t have the correct settings).
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Draper](https://community.homey.app/u/Jonathan_Draper)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2026, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tailscale-app/104676/8 "2026-03-25T13:02:10Z")
There is now an app [Tailscale Connect | Homey](https://homey.app/en-gb/app/com.danielmiguel.tailscale/Tailscale-Connect/)
I can’t yet get it to work though. I keep getting an error message that the auth key is empty even though I have entered and saved an auth key which I have set up on my tailnet. Apparently no way to contact the developer or any community thread for the app.
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### Author:  [@Nacho\_Vayo](https://community.homey.app/u/Nacho_Vayo)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2026, 11:50am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tailscale-app/104676/9 "2026-05-09T11:50:20Z")
bored ot trying to get this work. Would be useful somo instructions