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Man, that was a lot of geek talk there. If you were too giddy and omitted this section, you lost out on the true potential of the NET. What we will discuss here is how to feed your PDA, iPhone or Blackberry with RSS. Online, all the time baby!
Lets go:
- First, you need to make your IP address static (as most ISPs give you dynamic addresses).
- If you do not have one, go to no-ip.org and register your unique address. The process is very straight forward. If you are too lazy for this, I can go over it with you…
- FOR THE LAZY ONES (Skip to step 6 if you have two seconds of your time to register yourself without a guide) Register with the site first. Then add a new host. Type in your new host name. Make it something that you can remember. Something like ‘doofus12345reef‘ is good enough as long as you can remember the spelling.
- ‘Host type’ should be ‘Port 80 Redirect’, IP Address should be your bridge address (mine was 192.168.1.xxx), ‘port’ should be the port that is forwarded in your router (discussed later). Make it anything you want except 80. I set it at 7001, which you can do as well.
- Thats it, save. You have a registered static domain. But you have to make sure that when the dynamic IP address changes, so does the one listed at no-ip.org. For that, you have to download their program which checks for any updates to your dynamic address. It will change it automatically if it is different, so that you do not have to go to no-ip every time.
- We have to route the router (now thats ironic) to recognise your new IP’s port (in this case 7001).
- In your router, using DD-WRT software, you should see a screen like this:
- Fill out these fields like I did in the screen shot. Make sure you are single port forwarding, rather than triggering and/or port range forwarding.
- After that, save and you are done.
- Go to your RSS reader and type in your new static domain from no-ip. So its your new domain+your new port+rss suffix. IE http://doofus12345reef.no-ip.org:7001/rss/rss.xml
- Enjoy checking out your new toy!!
Happy Reefing!
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well done … there are a number of sites that provide the same type of service. i am fond of http://www.dyndns.com, or maybe just because i have used it for a long time.
Steve
Thanks for the link Steve. That’s the other one that I was trying to remember. Either or will work.
I also use dyndns and recommend it. The price is great – free. And if your account is about to expire from inactivity, you get an email with a link to click to avoid expiration.
Great info here. How are you liking the controller overall?
Hey Logan,
Love the RKE. I was patient with the early bugs, as I know nothing is bug free in its infancy. But right now, it is amazing. Controls everything about the system. Gives me RSS whenever I want. And its reliable. The SL2 is coming out with a salinity monitor option. You know that I am all over that one
Yeah gotta pay some price for early adoption, but someones got to do it. The module aspect is nice. I sometimes wish I went ac3pro route for the conductivity probe option – no chance to expand without upgrading the controller unit.
Thats the point with the RKE. Its all modular, so all you really need to do is to buy a new module, such as the SL2 in this case.