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I saw that the domain names expire every month if you pick the free option. That's better than the four day or so leases my IP seems willing to grant, but only by degree... It sounds like you use a paid version of the service. Do you leave a computer on always to handle the updates? Or did you dedicate a low power computer to that task?

The cert configuration is not in the Admin console. It's found in the dashboard. http://isy.universal-devices.com/994i/4.1.2/dashboard.jnlp I believe enrolling for certs is supported in the base version but not the enhanced encryption. Thank you.

Has anyone had a particularly good, or bad, experience? It seems that many people provide this service and it looks like basic capability is around $20 - $30 per year. The free services all seem to have various limitations, such as expiring domain names. The router I use supports DynDNS.com, only (i.e. the domain name is selectable from a dropdown and that's the only entry in it). But other services have small programs that can run on a networked computer.

This only works in the PRO version, correct? I'm not seeing the same interface in my Admin console. I have an ISY-994, but it is not PRO.

Something to try: some ISPs do not allow residential users to serve webpages. They enforce this by blocking inbound traffic on ports 80 (http:) and 443 (https:). Have you tried changing to another port? To avoid colliding with other applications, choose a number greater than 2000; the maximum allowed port number is 65536 (it's an unsigned two byte quantity).

This was apparently the issue; thanks for the tip. If there is a way to disable this disagreeable behavior in my router, I can't find it. UD might consider warning people about this in their documentation. Not everyone is a network guru.

I can try that tomorrow; I'd have to leave the house with a laptop to do it. That was a typo. I was using https://xx.xx.xx.xx:port. My understanding is that specifying a port number in the address overrides the default for the protocol regardless of the protocol (http: or https:).

I'm clearly not understanding something. I'm using an ISY-994. I 'Enabled Internet Access' from the File menu. I checked my router's UPnP page and sure enough, the local IP address assigned to the ISY had an entry for the port, 443. Should sending my browser to http://octet1.octet2.octet3.octet4/ have produced some kind of display? All I get is that my browser can't establish a connection. The octets are those of my external IP address, assigned automatically by my ISP. Not the internal address assigned to the ISY by my router, which begins with 192.168 My ISP does not permit residential users to host webservers. Therefore it occurred to me that they might block inbound traffic on port 443. So, using the ISY's administrative console, I changed the port number to one that was greater than 2000. I checked the UPnP again and the new port was listed. Then I tried browsing to the same external address, this time with :port_number on the end (substituting the correct port number, of course). I do understand that my ISP could reassign my IP address and that this is what dynamic DNS services help fix. But before I get into that, I figured I'd at least see if it was possible to see the device over the Internet. I did find a security manual, and since I'm not an internet security expert it was useless to me. As written, it presupposes a thorough understanding of Internet security rules. If I need to understand that to make your product work, shouldn't you help by writing a more detailed manual? I must say that the lack of step by step instructions (or, at least, the lack of easily discoverable instructions) in the Wiki and manuals disappointed me. There seems to be no clear set of instructions along the lines of "do this... see this... do this... see this" in the Wiki or the manuals. Quite frustrating for a novice. I like the ISY. It's easy to program and it makes using my INSTEON devices a snap compared to manual linking. But one feature I also wanted was control when I was away from home. What I have read tells me this can be done. But the documentation isn't helpful.