Next week I’m traveling to a ‘vacation’ house (in another country) and am going to be setting up a Vera system, Panasonic IP camera, Slingbox, remote power control device,…
Each of these boxes has an embedded web server and email capabilities.
-Can I use findvera to get the actual current IP address of the vera box, and then use that IP address to access my other devices like SlingBox (streaming tv/video server)
-Can I move the vera’s web server to another port other than 80, and findvera and all other functionality will still work?
-Is that all I have to do, move each device (on my home subnet) that has an embedded web server to its own port, or do I need to set up some kind of mapping table in the router,… My router is a 5 year old Linksys, but can be replaced
Im not exactly sure how all this will work through a home router, so that requests sent to the different devices get sent to the right device,…
I appreciate any help I can get about the most efficient way to do all this. I’m only at the new house for a week and have a lot to do.
cable modem > Linksys router > vera
cable modem > Linksys router > slingbox
cable modem > Linksys router > power reboot device
cable modem > Linksys router > wireless gateway
I’m a computer programmer, but not really strong on networking stuff.
I think you can fight vera and install a dynamic dns server on it- but many routers already have that built in.
Basically it’s a little program that connects to a web server like dyndns.com and it constantly updates that server with your ip address. Then you would have a domain name like yourname.dyndns.org (there are all different providers, some free, some pay, some built into different routers.)
so rather then needing to know if you are 123.456.788.110 you would just aim your browser to yourname.dyndns.org or some other name.
Second part it getting all the different webpages. To do that you would set up your router to push the various web requests to different machines. The “mapping table” you guessed at. Normal web traffic is on port 80. you would set up your router so that each machine has a ‘static’ ip address. say one web camera would be 192.168.1.1 and another might be 192.168.1.2 You could tell your router to take incoming port 81 and push that to port 80 on 192.168.1.1 and take incoming port 82 and push that ove to port 80 on 192.168.1.2
Then in your browser you would type yourname.dyndns.org:81 and that would get to the webserver on 192.168.1.1 and you would type yourname.dyndns.org:82 to go to 192.168.1.2
That way you can leave all the boxes webservers on port 80.
if you want you can move the various boxes to port 80, 81, 82 (or ANY port petty much) but still you have to set up that “map” in the outer to tell it that machine x gets traffic to port 81 and machine y gets trafic to port 82. So you might as well just have the router convert all the traffic back to the inherent port 80’s.
vera’s website at findvera.com automatically takes care of all that for your vera so you wouldn’t need to fiddle with any of this for vera. They just handle it all. nice and easy.