register_with_find.sh --> What does this script do?

[larhedse]

So I notice that I have a register_with_find.sh run every 5 minutes trying to reach checkip.homeseer.com:8245 and then find.homeseer.com:911.

What is this, and why is it run?

Any ideas?

homeseer@HomeTrollerZeeS2 /var/log $  more /usr/local/HomeSeer/register_with_find.sh
#!/bin/bash
host=`/bin/hostname`
ip=`ip addr | grep 'state UP' -A2 | tail -n1 | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f1  -d'/'`
wanip=`wget http://checkip.homeseer.com:8245 -q -O -`
re="[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}"
if [[ $wanip =~ $re ]]; then
    wanip=${BASH_REMATCH[0]}
fi

while [[ $x -le 5 ]]
do
x=$(( $x + 1 ))
sleep 5
done

url=http://find.homeseer.com/findhomeseer/default.aspx?srcip=$wanip\&localip=$ip\&machine=$host\&tools=true\&port=911
sudo wget $url --spider -q -O -

[zwolfpack]

This is what allows the find.homeseer.com service to work. Each instance of homeseer (HS3, z-net) runs this or equivalent.

You can run the line
wget http://checkip.homeseer.com:8245 -q -O -
and see that it returns your 'WAN address', for most of us is the IP address assigned by our ISP. Then the last line of the script sends this along with the local IP address to the find.homeseer.com server. That server collates all the responses from the same WAN address into the table displayed when the search from http://find.homeseer.com/findhomeseer/ is performed.

[larhedse]

Okay, Well then why is it run on my HomeSeer since I have NOT allowed "Enable remote access through MyHomeSeer service" - that is I have disabled MyHomeSeer...

So this should not run at all then.

[Rupp]

Okay, Well then why is it run on my HomeSeer since I have NOT allowed "Enable remote access through MyHomeSeer service" - that is I have disabled MyHomeSeer...

So this should not run at all then.

This script is a local executable and has nothing to do with myHS.

[kenm]

I know this post is really old but I'm stunned that people haven't made a bigger deal about this. Basically, every time an HS system boots, it informs HST as to the WAN and LAN IP addresses of the system. This is equivalent to spyware.