Have a WC8 now set up as a "Garage Management System" and I would like to enable internet control securely. It is currently off the network. I know the board is not recommended to be directly connected to the internet, so I am curious as to how others have done this... a simple search has not turned anything up with details.
I do have a persistent Linux server on my home network and was thinking of setting up an internet-facing https secured login (.htaccess protected) page(s) on that which would connect across the home net to the WC8 to send/receive status commands via the documented cgi interface, with the password access on the WC8 disabled (as I understand it must be for scripted interfacing?).
Is this the best solution or are there other options I should consider? Any existing examples I could see or code to scrounge?
As this would control direct access into our home via the garage doors, I would like it to be robust. I hope to avoid doing something like VPN in order to keep it simple for my spouse, but I do have a Tomato powered router/firewall that is capable.
I have found the info on using stunnel for gmail hosted alerts and will set that up on the Linux box.
I do have a persistent Linux server on my home network and was thinking of setting up an internet-facing https secured login (.htaccess protected) page(s) on that which would connect across the home net to the WC8 to send/receive status commands via the documented cgi interface, with the password access on the WC8 disabled (as I understand it must be for scripted interfacing?).
Is this the best solution or are there other options I should consider? Any existing examples I could see or code to scrounge?
As this would control direct access into our home via the garage doors, I would like it to be robust. I hope to avoid doing something like VPN in order to keep it simple for my spouse, but I do have a Tomato powered router/firewall that is capable.
I have found the info on using stunnel for gmail hosted alerts and will set that up on the Linux box.
