I thought you had to go into the router and change to port forwarding and do something with the mac address?Originally posted by William Blackwell:
Did you ever have any more problems with it?
Not smartalec but I agree on infrastructure mode. It was easy and doesnt require all that port forwarding stuff, If you don't want to see it outside your home network.
I connected to cyberQ with adhoc and changed the setting to infrastructure and rebooted cyberQ.
Find the address for your router settings. Mine were 192.168.1.254. Then I just
Looked for the cyberQ address and typed that in the browser. It will be almost the same as the router but the last digits will be different. mine was 192.158.1.64
Now you can use any computer or phone on your home network to see it and not have to switch your laptop or computer back and forth.
Hope this helps.
I kinda did want to access the CQ from outside the home, however to start with, perhaps I could set it up without port forwarding, then add it later. Is that possible?Originally posted by William Blackwell:
Mine works fine without the port forwarding. I think that is a big misunderstanding and that port forwarding is only required if you want to access it from outside your home network. Like from work or the grocery store.
Bobby, thanks for the tips. Looks easy enough even for me. I'll give that a try ASAP. Thanks again!I run the CyberQ wifi on my Linksys (310, I think, is the model -- Cisco/Linksys) without a problem. It's probably 100 feet or so from my router. I agree with what folks are saying here -- no need for the port forwarding if you run it in your home network. In fact, I ditched the DHCP option on the CyberQ, too, and simply gave it a static IP: 192.168.1.111 -- easy to remember.
I simply went to the CyberQ wifi setup, changed it to infrastructure mode, made sure DHCP was off, set it to static 192.168.1.111, gave it the name of my home network in the SSID field, changed it to WPA2 passphrase, gave it my password, reset the CyberQ, and gave it up 60 secs to turn back on and recognize my network. Very easy to do, and now I can see it on all of my iPhone and iPad so long as I'm on my home wifi. Since the current firmware has no password, I'd recommend *NOT* forwarding any ports to it. I mean, you probably don't want someone finding that you're running a webserver and then realizing they can screw with your pit temperature. It's actually a bit surprising that they lock it down with no password -- especially since someone could easily set the pit temp to 475F or something and cause (potentially serious) issues with your pit and your food.
Bobby, thanks for the tips. Looks easy enough even for me. I'll give that a try ASAP. Thanks again!
I run the CyberQ wifi on my Linksys (310, I think, is the model -- Cisco/Linksys) without a problem. It's probably 100 feet or so from my router. I agree with what folks are saying here -- no need for the port forwarding if you run it in your home network. In fact, I ditched the DHCP option on the CyberQ, too, and simply gave it a static IP: 192.168.1.111 -- easy to remember.
I simply went to the CyberQ wifi setup, changed it to infrastructure mode, made sure DHCP was off, set it to static 192.168.1.111, gave it the name of my home network in the SSID field, changed it to WPA2 passphrase, gave it my password, reset the CyberQ, and gave it up 60 secs to turn back on and recognize my network. Very easy to do, and now I can see it on all of my iPhone and iPad so long as I'm on my home wifi. Since the current firmware has no password, I'd recommend *NOT* forwarding any ports to it. I mean, you probably don't want someone finding that you're running a webserver and then realizing they can screw with your pit temperature. It's actually a bit surprising that they lock it down with no password -- especially since someone could easily set the pit temp to 475F or something and cause (potentially serious) issues with your pit and your food.