Running Vera Lite with UI7.
Is there a way to connect to the Vera using WinSCP after allowing remote access?
I’m getting the following information after enabling remote access:
12345678-123456 (SSH: XXXXX TS_SRV=vera-us-oem-ts11)
You need to turn-off Secure My Vera then you should be able to connect. The setting you are changing is for Tech Support.
But how? Which server, login and password do I use?
Use the local IP address of your Vera for the host name, Port 22, and SCP protocol. Username should be root then the WiFi Pass from the back of your Vera for the password.
I was somewhat unclear. I would like to login from a remote position, not from the local network.
Sorry, haven’t set up an SSH tunnel before. But I would presume that is what you would be trying to do.
You’d have to set this up yourself, and not use Vera’s remote access tunnels.
One way is to create a home VPN, and connect to that with your device (phone, laptop, parents’ computer, PC at work). Once you do that, Vera is “on” your local network and you can just connect to it as if you were physically home. I’ve done this occasionally, when Vera has needed a remote reboot or I’ve needed to check the contents of a file to answer a question here on the forum.
Another way is to create your own SSH tunnel. You’ll need a server somewhere in the world with a global IPv4 address, and which you can run sshd on. You then run ssh on Vera (before you leave home) with the -R option (“remote port forward”) to this global server. Once that is done you can connect WinSCP to the global server and it will forward all of the traffic to your Vera at home. (Disclaimer: remote port forwarding can be as dangerous as port forwarding to Vera on your router. I’m deliberately being vague about the ssh commands you need so that you can google the terms I’m using and learn enough to keep yourself safe.)
To expand on @futzle, if this can be of interest I posted about creating a VPN connection straight into the remote Vera, without need for any other hardware: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,28718.msg206910.html#msg206910
If you have to ask questions on how to do this … you should NOT be doing it.
If you do not do this properly it’s like telling hackers on the Internet … that Mi Casa es su Casa.
They may not care what’s on your system … but would luv to launch attacks from your system … the finger points back to you.
Did you know that as of the end of 2013, more than 50% of all web traffic was generated by a non-human bot … and that 60% of that had malicious intent.
I have not seen the statistics on other internet protocols …
Ughh. Wish I’d find much sooner the info RStrouse posted on the forum regarding getting into Vera with SSH by disabling"secure my vera". This would have saved hours of frustration. Thank you for posting it. Perhaps the support section could be updated to include this sort of information concurrent with the new UI7 requirements for SSH’g in since I also had to find the info about Vera lite using a temp PW, etc. There seem to be a lot of steps which are in various docs all over the place rather than one comprehensive document for each of their very limited number of HA gateways and UIs. Just a thought.
Posted by: rstrouse
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You need to turn-off Secure My Vera then you should be able to connect. The setting you are changing is for Tech Support.