Since there seem to be quite a few posts of people having problems using their iPhone with HSTouch (I was one of them), I thought I'd share Step by step instructions on how I got it working. This was on a Windows XP desktop running Homeseer 2.2.0.66 and an Iphone 3GS.
1. Make sure you have a user with admin privledges set up on Homeseer webserver. (select SETUP then WEB USERS on the tabs at the top of the Homeseer web page.) Make a note of the user name and password.
2. You have to install the HSTouch server on Homeseer. You do this by running updater (select UPDATER on the tabs at the top of the Homeseer web page) You'll find HSTouch Server listed in the USER INTERFACES section.
3) After you have installed HSTouch server and restarted Homeseer, go to the Homeseer application (the application, not the web page) and select the HELP then SYSTEM INFORMATION menu.
4) Write down the following:
A. Your LAN IP address. This will be something like: 192.168.1.5
B. Your External IP address. This will be something like: 34.21.21.200
5. Open your router configuration.Usually this is done simply by opening an internet browser window and putting in 192.168.1.1 in the address bar, then when the router login window comes up, entering the username and password for your router. If you need help with this you can find quite a bit online, just search for your router name and "configuration" or something like that.
6. Go to the Port Forwarding portion of your router configuration. Forward port 10200 to the address from step 4A. In my example, the address would be 192.168.1.5
7. Save your settings & exit the router config.
8. Install the HStouch app on your Iphone.
9. Go to the SETTINGS page on your iPhone. (The gear icon). Select the HSTouch app.
10. Configure it as follows:
LOCAL SERVER
ADDRESS: This is where you put the LAN IP address from step 4A
PORT: 10200
REMOTE SERVER
ADDRESS: Put the External IP address from step 4B
PORT: 10200
CONNECTION MODE: ASK
USERNAME: The homeseer webserver user name from step 1
PASSWORD: The homeseer webserver password from step 1
CLIENT
NAME: default (thats right, it is the actual word "default"
Configuration: sample.xml
That's it! Just back out of the setting screen, go to your HStouch app, and both the remote and the local methods should work. If not, you might want to try disabling your local firewall, although on my system that wasn't necessary.
Good luck!
1. Make sure you have a user with admin privledges set up on Homeseer webserver. (select SETUP then WEB USERS on the tabs at the top of the Homeseer web page.) Make a note of the user name and password.
2. You have to install the HSTouch server on Homeseer. You do this by running updater (select UPDATER on the tabs at the top of the Homeseer web page) You'll find HSTouch Server listed in the USER INTERFACES section.
3) After you have installed HSTouch server and restarted Homeseer, go to the Homeseer application (the application, not the web page) and select the HELP then SYSTEM INFORMATION menu.
4) Write down the following:
A. Your LAN IP address. This will be something like: 192.168.1.5
B. Your External IP address. This will be something like: 34.21.21.200
5. Open your router configuration.Usually this is done simply by opening an internet browser window and putting in 192.168.1.1 in the address bar, then when the router login window comes up, entering the username and password for your router. If you need help with this you can find quite a bit online, just search for your router name and "configuration" or something like that.
6. Go to the Port Forwarding portion of your router configuration. Forward port 10200 to the address from step 4A. In my example, the address would be 192.168.1.5
7. Save your settings & exit the router config.
8. Install the HStouch app on your Iphone.
9. Go to the SETTINGS page on your iPhone. (The gear icon). Select the HSTouch app.
10. Configure it as follows:
LOCAL SERVER
ADDRESS: This is where you put the LAN IP address from step 4A
PORT: 10200
REMOTE SERVER
ADDRESS: Put the External IP address from step 4B
PORT: 10200
CONNECTION MODE: ASK
USERNAME: The homeseer webserver user name from step 1
PASSWORD: The homeseer webserver password from step 1
CLIENT
NAME: default (thats right, it is the actual word "default"
Configuration: sample.xml
That's it! Just back out of the setting screen, go to your HStouch app, and both the remote and the local methods should work. If not, you might want to try disabling your local firewall, although on my system that wasn't necessary.
Good luck!
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