South Africa C4 user Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Is there any way (driver?) that can identify the public IP address of my network. I was thinking of emailing this to myself every time it changes on my holiday home so that I can change my VPN settings. I realise that DDNS would allow me to achieve the same results with a small fee, so this is more of an “interesting challenge” than a “must have”! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lippavisual Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Use google ddns, costs like $10 for the year. Other than that, I know my.Control4.com dealer sites will give public IP info when trying to connect remotely. Dont know of any drivers though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4 User Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 If you have a watt box and ovrc account, you can get your IP through that account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4 User Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Just now, C4 User said: If you have a watt box and ovrc account, you can get your IP through that account. If would be nice if C4 would show the public IP when logging in remotely through the app. A new request. South Africa C4 user 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 46 minutes ago, C4 User said: If would be nice if C4 would show the public IP when logging in remotely through the app. A new request. but why? why would 99.999999% of the users care? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekohn00 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 1 hour ago, C4 User said: If would be nice if C4 would show the public IP when logging in remotely through the app. A new request. There's a few free DDNS providers - you can try https://freedns.afraid.org There are also various apps that tell you the current address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggzlot Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 4 hours ago, South Africa C4 user said: Is there any way (driver?) that can identify the public IP address of my network. I was thinking of emailing this to myself every time it changes on my holiday home so that I can change my VPN settings. I realise that DDNS would allow me to achieve the same results with a small fee, so this is more of an “interesting challenge” than a “must have”! Fingbox can update you on an IP change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo1738 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 www.No-ip.org is what I use but does require a computer being on to refresh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted December 14, 2020 Author Share Posted December 14, 2020 4 hours ago, C4 User said: If would be nice if C4 would show the public IP when logging in remotely through the app. A new request. Thanks everyone! I appreciate all the suggestions. @C4 User- I really like this suggestion Suspect that I will be forced to go the DDNS route which is what I did at my primary residence anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4 User Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 4 hours ago, msgreenf said: but why? why would 99.999999% of the users care? Because they already have the information and it would be EASY to show it. Even if only for 0.00000001% of us - who by the way are likely C4’s bigger individual customers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Africa C4 user Posted December 14, 2020 Author Share Posted December 14, 2020 21 minutes ago, C4 User said: Because they already have the information and it would be EASY to show it. Even if only for 0.00000001% of us - who by the way are likely C4’s bigger individual customers. Or just make it available as a string variable in Composer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 31 minutes ago, C4 User said: Because they already have the information and it would be EASY to show it. Even if only for 0.00000001% of us - who by the way are likely C4’s bigger individual customers. everything you show in the UI has the opportunity to confuse someone and make them call support. Everything that is shown must add value IMHO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4 User Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Could easily bury it inside of System Info under Settings where it would not be confusing IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Should be pretty easy to do with a simple driver. This linux code will do the trick, assuming the C4 controllers have wget "wget -q -O - "http://myexternalip.com/raw"" or you can use curl "curl "http://myexternalip.com/raw"" I am sure that there are easy ways to do that command read the output in Lua. South Africa C4 user 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rexabyte Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 The C4:urlGet command would be sufficient. It also has a callback function containing the body of the response. Should be extremely easy to parse, if there's a need to parse at all. Throw it in a repeating timer and you're basically done. South Africa C4 user 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR2 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Pakedge Dynamic DNS and VPN is included in their routers - Free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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