ELK M1 / ISY99 from a distance

[Guy669]

Hi everybody,
 
How can I access my ELK M1 and ISY99 from another location other than my home computer such as my office pc at work. Can I use some kind of IP address or something?
 
Thanks in advance for your help

 

[apostolakisl]

Yes

 

[apostolakisl]

Oh wait, you probably wanted to know how.
 
You open a port in your router and point it to your secure port on the Elk.  Or more securely, you get a vpn router and connect to your home network.
 
You can also point a port to your ISY, preferrably HTTPS port.  Both ISY and Elk will need to be on static addresses.

 

[Guy669]

So basecaly I would enter my IP address and at the end indicate the port #?

 

[apostolakisl]

So basecaly I would enter my IP address and at the end indicate the port #?

 
Yes, from your office you enter your home IP WAN address, colon, port.
 
Better yet, get yourself a no-ip address so you don't have to keep track of your home IP (which may change from time to time).
 
http://myname.no-ip.com:xxxx

 

[wuench]

Like Lou said, you have to forward your ports on your router, one for Elk and one for ISY.  And the no-ip configuration would be used in your Dynamic DNS settings on your router if it supports it.
 
The ISY is simple, you just need to "Enable Internet Access" under the file menu.  If your router supports UPnP that will setup everything for you and you can access it via the IP given in the dialog that pops up (https://x.x.x.x).  If you have Dynamic DNS setup, then you can use https://myname.no-ip.com.   No port needed, this is HTTPS not HTTP.  Here is a link to the instructions for the ISY.
 
The Elk web interface is more complicated.  You have to open up/forward a few ports.  2601, 26, and 80.  You may want to use a port other than 80 for security reasons.  So if your internal ip for the Elk is 192.168.1.1 (for example) you would forward

• 2601-->192.168.1.1:2601
• 26-->192.168.1.1:26
• 8888-->192.168.1.1:80

Then you would access the Elk using http://myname.no-ip.com:8888.  Note: this is HTTP not HTTPS.

 

[Guy669]

Cool thanks guys