Re: Homeseer (or HA) Internet Access

[Doogie Brodie <ukhad@xxxxxxx>]

Robert Welsh wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> A question for Homeseer users - or, in fact, anyone who has
Internet
> access to their HA systems.
> 
> What have you done in terms of protecting them ?? Obviously don't
> discuss details on such a public forum as this, but I'm just wanting
to
> know what would be generally best to do. I want to be able to access
my
> Homeseer system from outside the house, via my DSL,  but I'm
concerned
> about "unwanted access" to it.

Homeseer (and TivoWeb - both of which I use remotely) support username 
and password authentication, plus user selected port access. I have 
password protected access on non-standard ports.

OK, not foolproof, but it does the job I suppose.

If you're really paranoid, the TivoWeb readme mentions setting up Apache
and doing internal proxying from it..... ie you ask Apache for something
and it then internally asks your Tivo/ Homeseer etc and puts the results
back out.

I use ICS (with Norton internet security) to ensure only the relevant 
ports get forwarded to my boxes running web servers, so I can't eg 
Telnet to my Tivo externally (since its non-password protected......!)

-- 
Doogie

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