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fieldOfView / OctoPrint-ngrok

An OctoPrint Plugin that provides remote access using ngrok
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Use with Printoid app on android #9

Closed mpoffo1231 closed 3 years ago

mpoffo1231 commented 4 years ago

Sorry if this is in the wrong place. I cannot seem to get this configured to work with Printoid on my Android phone. I am sure there is something I must be doing incorrectly but I cannot seem to find any guide or instructions anywhere to assist. Can you assist or point me in the right direction?

mpoffo1231 commented 4 years ago

Figured it out. Put your Ngrok link/address in the Public IP or Hostname area and then enable Basic Authentication in the advanced settings and put in your Ngrok login credentials.

fieldOfView commented 4 years ago

Good to know you got it going!

mpoffo1231 commented 4 years ago

Well I may have spoken a bit too soon. I have two printers that I want to use. I can only have 1 simultaneous connection to Ngrok. The links seem to change even when octoprint does not reboot. So to get a solid connection it looks like I need to pay the 60/year? Is there a way to set this up with 2 printers on a free account? Will a paid account allow you to not have to change the settings constantly?

fieldOfView commented 4 years ago

I have two printers that I want to use. I can only have 1 simultaneous connection to Ngrok.

This is a current limitation of the plugin. A future version will have the ability for one OctoPrint instance to setup and "share" up to 4 tunnels on a free ngrok account. There are a couple of things you can do now:

The latter may be the easiest to try, and I am not sure if it works but during testing it looked like you could have a tunnel per region open.

With a free account, the tunnel address will change each time you save the settings of the plugin (because that recreates the tunnel). A paid account will let you reserve a subdomain to use, so there will not be any changes.

Unfortunately, even with the 60/year account you will not currently be able to use 2 tunnels on two different raspberry pis. Setting up a reverse proxy on one of the instances is your best bet until I create the version that shares tunnels from a single raspberry pi.

mpoffo1231 commented 3 years ago

Can you provide some direction on how to forward. Are you talking about doing port forwarding in my router using the unique link/web address ngrok provides?

I tried to multiple accounts method but it did not seem to work. I could get only one working at a time. It appears the service recognizes that I have the same IP as the other account and simply will not work. Perhaps I did something wrong but thought I had it configured correctly.

How do I set up different regions?

Looking forward to your updated plugin that allow you to share tunnels. :)

Learning this stuff still, so your help is appreciated.

fieldOfView commented 3 years ago

How do I set up different regions?

The tunnel settings in OctoPrint has a region dropdown where you ca choose between United States, Europe, Asia/Pacific, etc. I can run two instances, one in the United States and one in Europe, from the same ngrok account.

fieldOfView commented 3 years ago

I am closing this issue, because you answered your own question of how to use it with Printoid. Feel free to continue to discuss here though.

fieldOfView commented 3 years ago

The issue of hosting multiple tunnels will be tracked in #8