This README describes a very simple and convenient way to access (and then administrate) your gateway, or a deployed one, from anywhere in the world using the remot3.it tool.
remot3.it works as follows: there are software running on your RPI that will connect the RPI to the remot3.it platform. When you register an RPI, you will give it a name, e.g. MY_RPI_GW, that will appear on the remot3.it platform when you logged into your remot3.it account. When selecting a remote RPI, you will see the various services that are installed on the RPI, e.g. MY_RPI_GW_SSH for SSH service MY_RPI_GW_WEB for TCP (web) service. When selecting a service, remot3.it will provide you dynamic information such as URL and port number for you to ssh (with SSH service) or access a web page (with TCP web service) on your remote RPI. The advantage of remot3.it is that you can perform all these steps remotely even though the URL can changed from one session to another as you will get them from your remot3.it account.
You need to create an account on https://www.remot3.it/web/index.html. A mail will be sent to you to activate the account. An account will allow you to manage as many RPI gateways as you want.
You have to use ssh to connect to your RPI gateway, then:
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install weavedconnectd
Then use weavedinstaller to install services that you want to use.
> sudo weavedinstaller
It is recommended to add SSH and TCP (web) services
For sudo weavedinstaller, follow instructions here.
For instance, create SSH service, name it MY_RPI_GW_SSH, and TCP service for web access, name it MY_RPI_GW_WEB.
Log in your remot3.it account, select the RPI gateway you want to administrate, then select the SSH service. remot3.it will provide you with the URL and port number to run an ssh session to access your RPI.
For instance, you can remotely perform complex configuration tasks by editing various files such as gateway_conf.json or clouds.json to install a new cloud script.
Log in your remot3.it account, select the RPI you want to access, then select the TCP service. remot3.it will provide you with the URL to copy/paste into a web browser to open the corresponding web pages on the RPI.
The web access will allow you to access the gateway's web admin interface to, for instance, update the gateway software, although this update can easily be performed with the SSH service by running the update_gw.sh script.
Enjoy! C. Pham