DCardellini01

A bit confused on what is, and is not working for the MIMO2+ as of Nov 2018. Has anybody verified proper operation of BOTH relays with v.5.0.14 software? Thx in advance

Sorry for the cryptic post above. To clarify, changing the proxy settings in the Java "Control Panel" settings did not fix the original problem.......get XML and Socket error messages. I have tried it several times, different browsers, clearing java and browser caches, rebooting. I have tried some different proxy settings too (I am only changing the "Socks" advanced setting to 127.0.0.1 port 7070...just like the browser settings) The post above was a premature whine about not being able to get back to the ADMIN ISY page even in the home and no proxy. I just discovered that I had not returned my Java control settings to eliminate the proxy (sorry bout that). Everything works fine in home now. Outside home I use simple port forward with PUTTY-SSH and no proxy settings in browser or java control panel, and it works great. But cannot get socks proxy to work outside of home (adding proxy info in both browser and control panel).

Edit update: When playing with PROXY settings outside of home, I changed both the browser and the Java control panel proxy setting to match. Unsuccessful, I tried to return to no-proxy operation (both in Home and Outside of home) and received error message below. I just discovered that I had forgotten to eliminate the Java proxy settings (only eliminated the browser proxy settings), and that was the cause of the problem and message below. I leave this post and message here in case someone in future does same stupid thing.

Yes, Michel, Current settings are direct to my machine (127.0.0.1) on a port I picked (5750). I then use Putty to do a port forward the the inside of my home to the ISY: 192.168.1.101 port 80. Works great. As I do move back and forth between proxy and no proxy on my browsers, changing settings in two places...the browser and the Java console is too much of a hassle. I am happy with the simple port-forward method detailed above. However, to close this topic out for anyone looking in the future to employ a proxy to gain access, I did attempt a socks proxy connection. I set both the browser and the Java Settings (thru Control Panel) to a socks proxy of 127.0.0.1 and port 7070. Again, PUTTY on same machine listens to port 7070 and forwards the request with encapsulated URL/IP and port number to an SSH server within the home. Unfortunately, I was not able get a successful connection into the ISY. I get the admin blue-page with headings, then I get the socket/XML errors identical to the one I detailed above. I tried to clear the java cache, but get same result. In any case, thx for your help here Michel. On an offhand topic (that doesn't belong in this thread)....... the only good I can see between the Oracle/Google lawsuit is if Android would truly support true Java including Java browser support. It is such a shame that such a powerful paradigm (Java Applets) is not supported in any handheld nor tablet OS'es. How did Java lose it way on this?

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Quick update: My unnecessarily verbose post caused me to rethink this. I do not need to use a dynamic socks connection to make this work....I can use putty to make a simple remote port forward (if ISY only uses one port). So in my remote browser, (no proxy setup at all), I type this in my URL: http://127.0.0.1:5750/admin (I picked an arbitrary unused port number) And on the same remote browser machine, I set up PUTTY to do a local port forward ( -L 5750:192.168.1.101:80 .....) that forwards thru my home ssh server to port 80 on the ISY. Works great! So I think it is confirmed that the java applet is not aware of proxy settings in the browser. Doesn't seem like there is a standard way to do this generically across different browsers (I.E., Firefox, Opera, etc.). I can live with the simple port forward method, for sure. thx.

OK... Upgraded to 2.8.15 Outside home, verified that my PUTTY/socks connection into home can access any internal web servers and any port. Accessed the UDI web site applet to automatically find my ISY. It did this with no problem, but threw the same two faults after loading the blue admin page: Socket Open Failed java.net.SocketTimeoutException XML Parse Error http://192.168.1.101:80/desc Here is some more detail on how I get connected into my home. This is pretty standard stuff. I can use both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the remote machine. I set up a manual proxy in the browser's application settings as follows: I set up a Socks Host on my remote machine (127.0.0.1) on port 7070 Now any URL/port that I type on my browsers URL line will stay on my machine and get sent to port 7070 (with the real URL/port encapsulated). I run PUTTY on this remote machine that looks for any traffic on port 7070 locally. Anything that ends up here is sent to my home thru home router on port xxxx that I have forwarded and direct to an ssh server in my home. That ssh server in my home unencapsulates the real URL and port and makes the request. I can access external web sites, or any machine in my home this way from outside the home. This means that ANY application (not just the browser) on my remote machine that does a socks encapsulation of the real destination URL/IP and port and sends to 127.0.0.1 port 7070 will get routed thru. Suspect that the Java Applet ignores the proxy configuration in the browser and is attempting a direct connection to the entered URL. This the initial "blue page" for the admin page loads as html, and the java applet gets hung at this point. Although this seems complicated, it really beats forwarding a ton of unsecure ports into my home from outside. I only forward one port to the ssh server, and I can access anything from the outside securely encrypted. From my android phone, or PC, I can make this ssh connection. I port my personal email (thunderbird) thru this, and feel confident accessing my email anywhere. thanks again for trying to help.

Version 2.8.13 Local access to the Java stuff: http://192.168.1.101/admin When I am remote, I use a PUTTY socks proxy to inside the home and the remote browser looks just like I am in my house, so the URL is identical: http://192.168.1.101/admin Do this now to about three or four machines in my home (web servers, VNC, etc.). Have no problems with access to these servers in home from outside. thx in advance....

I am having the same issue. I am tunneling into my home from outside. My external browser is set up to with a socks proxy, and I Putty from external machine into my home's ssh server. I access several web servers within my home this way today...and want to do same with the ISY. Unfortunately, I get the main java applet screen (light blue window), and it hangs with XML parser errors...etc. Here are the URL's that I tried with no success: http://192.168.1.101/admin http://192.168.1.101/admin/0/x Did I miss something here? thx in advance!