I have a Vera Plus at home and also one at work. When I leave for work in the morning, I’d like to use my Key/FOB at home to run a scene or activate a switch at work to turn some equipment on so it is already warmed up when I arrive at work.
Besides using a smart-phone or logging into the remote controller via my laptop, is there anyway possible that I could use my Key/FOB at home to send the controller at work a request to turn a switch on?
I’m just wondering what options I have.
I know I could put the equipment at work on a timer, but I don’t arrive to work everyday at the same time.
Not probably the answer you are looking for, but simplifying it for you quite a bit is if you have Android, get “Tasker” and the “Autovera” plugin and make a button the turns the scene on. I did this for my garage door, because I got sick of waiting for the app to load and searching all over for the device.
Houston — We have a security problem… But just to make sure, I test it from a remote location, via http.
Sure enough… Huge security issue going on here.
Anyone on the planet with a connection to the internet can manage just about any device connected to anyone’s Vera Controller. Anyone can search IP’s for an open port on :3480, once that open port is discovered all the attacker needs is a device number for the http string, and really doesn’t even need that… the attacker can just send a repetition of commands starting at device #1 thru device # 200 or even to any number, with action=SetTarget&newTargetValue=0 and shut everything off and disarm everything.
That only works locally. And if you notice when your local you can type your vera IP and you need to credentials.
If you don’t like that you can in the vera settings check box “Secure only” which will force you to go threw the VERA web portal to check security. But if internet or vera servers are ever down you can’t get in.
If you think you would like local security done in the vera, then that doesn’t exist.
Well I did need to open port forwarding to access the port from the WAN, so maybe I got a little anxious trying to discover a way to operate one Vera from another remote Vera.
I’ll close that port I guess and keep looking for a way.
[quote=“additude, post:5, topic:191874”]Well I did need to open port forwarding to access the port from the WAN, so maybe I got a little anxious trying to discover a way to operate one Vera from another remote Vera.
I’ll close that port I guess and keep looking for a way.
Thanks.[/quote]
Well you never said anything about “remote”. With the new ui7 security there is no easy http access to a remote vera. In the old ui5 you used to be able to pass user and password in the http string and connect to a remote vera.
Now remote connection is possible as 3rd party remote apps can connect but it’s not a simple task.
[quote=“integlikewhoa, post:6, topic:191874”]Well you never said anything about “remote”. With the new ui7 security there is no easy http access to a remote vera. In the old ui5 you used to be able to pass user and password in the http string and connect to a remote vera.
Now remote connection is possible as 3rd party remote apps can connect but it’s not a simple task.[/quote]
Well, I think I did say remote – “But just to make sure, I test it from a remote location, via http.”
What is the reason for this? Is there a particular reason why we can’t have local security? I personally bought Vera due to it’s local control. However, the fact that there is no security on the system unless you connect through the internet is kinda scary, or am I just being paranoid? Also, let’s say I do have the “Security” box checked in my settings, is that just for me to access it and change settings, or if the internet goes down, will Vera not work at all anymore?
Your user name, password, your level of access is all stored/checked and processed on Vera’s web servers. If you have secure only checked which requires you to sign in and then you have no internet or vera servers are down, YES you will not be able to get into your vera. Functions will still happen but you will not be able to login into vera to manually turn things on and off or make settings changes.
Your first line of defense so be to not allow any one malicious in on your local network. If that happens there is alot of things that can be attacked or used more then just VERA. Next It would be nice to have local access protection, but they don’t.
I would say the majority of us don’t have Secure only checked. And Most of us have security measures in place to now allow unknown people on your local home network. Some even isolate the vera network a bit from other users or family members in the house.
Thank you for your quick reply. I appreciate it. It clears up a lot. I can understand why they do it, it’s just strange there is no local security built in. I know personally i have encryption and a mac filter on my network, so I’m not TOO worried. What are the other ways to protect your Vera while on the network if i can ask. Is there a way to only allow a particular local IP or MAC address to access other local IPs?
[quote=“EZFett, post:10, topic:191874”]Thank you for your quick reply. I appreciate it. It clears up a lot. I can understand why they do it, it’s just strange there is no local security built in. I know personally i have encryption and a mac filter on my network, so I’m not TOO worried. What are the other ways to protect your Vera while on the network if i can ask. Is there a way to only allow a particular local IP or MAC address to access other local IPs?
Thanks for your help![/quote]
If your on the same LAN as vera there is not much. what you can do if your wanted to do IP or MAC filtering is to create a VLAN or such to further isolate only the few devices you want to have un restricted acces to VERA. You could then run your IP or MAC filtering to allow only those devices on that Vlan. This would be all router ideas as VERA doesn’t have IP or Mac filtering.