Vera Lite - Login & Password When on LAN

Community Playground Getting Started & Initial Setup
#1

I have a Vera Lite (version: 1.6.641). I have only had it for a couple of weeks so I am pretty new to this. I just noticed that when I am on my home network, I can get to the UI by going to my Vera Lite’s IP address (without a login). This makes me a little uncomfortable. I have tried googling how to set up my Vera Lite to require a password to login, but a lot of the instructions I have found seems to be related to UI5.

I can set the Vera to “allow only secure access”, but I think this causes my MMS Vera App to stop working when my phone is connected to my home network. I apologize if this has been covered multiple times before. I want my Vera Lite to require a password when I am on my LAN and going to it’s IP address and I want my phone app to work when I am attached to my home wifi. Is this possible? Am I just missing something simple?

Thanks

#2

You are getting into unmarked territory when it comes to UI6 (1.6.XXX). There are instructions to have this setup on UI5 which will only work via web access (Vera’s UI) only and not the api port that most of the apps require to communicate on which is port 3480. This is certainly possible to lock things further down, but would most likely require you to log into your Vera unit via ssh and modify the lighttpd daemon to require authentication.

  • Garrett
#3

Garrett,

Can you please point me in the right direction regarding modifying lighttpd daemon to require authentication on the Vera Lite (some reading material).

Thanks

#4

See here for starters:

http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=12130.0

  • Garrett
#5

To enable local http authentication on the Vera Lite, do i just add an entry into /etc/lighttpd.users?