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I've implemented https for IoT devices in a similar way that plex did it. Basically every device got a cert for *.$MAC_ADDRESS.myiot.com and then the DNS for myiot.com would essentially bounce back 192_168_10_10.$MAC_ADDRESS.myiot.com to an A record for 192.168.10.10

You needed to know the IP for the device still (in our case we still had a central service keeping track of it), but the principle works. For cheap IoT I guess the cost of the certs can be too large though, we couldn't use letsencrypt due to limits on the number of certs per domain.



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