Accessing your PiAware coverage map from anywhere

Using Ngrok, you can access your single board computer’s ports from anywhere. By tunneling port 8080, we can access PiAware’s coverage map even when we are not connected to the home or Pi’s network.

https://youtu.be/_bskdNy38cI?t=483

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Thanks @shivasiddharth, that’s a really handy service to know about.

Hi, ive done quite a bit of experimenting with my pi including adding a screen and all. The thing is, ngrok used to work with the first instance of my pi (headless). I added the screen, didnt like it, removed it. Ngrok does NOT want to start now…

The command im issuing is ‘ngrok http localhost’ via ssh and yes, i have set my authtoken. As soon as i run this, it shifts to the ngrok screen and 10 seconds later, it brings me back to the ssh shell. A shell where i can issue commands but i cannot see what im typing. Any ideas on how to fix this?

I was able to get ngrok to work. it seems i had accidentally downloaded the x64 version. Now, any idea on how to start up ngrok as soon as my pi is booted up? systemd-ngrok used to work for me but itsnt working anymore :frowning: any other ways???

I use Zerotier One, works like a charm

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But only on the devices where Zerotier itself is installed. You cannot access a Zerotier-enabled device from outside that private network. (e.g. a public computer or a shared link)

Yeah that’s the best thing about it as I don’t want to expose my home network by tunneling any ports through my router.

i got ngrok to work. Looks like i was using the wrong architecture application