ESP8266 Community Forum

- Thu Apr 30, 2015 10:29 pm #16152 This video below does not show how to connect the esp to the internet. It show how to connect the esp to the intranet. i.e. on local Lan or Wifi.

I was wondering if anyone is able to really access the esp board from web online. I am sure you will have to do some port forwarding on the device but since i am such a Noob you have to hand hold me through the process.

You should perhaps watch this for more information, that pretty much explains how it works with lua.

- Fri May 01, 2015 1:07 am #16155 port forwarding set up differs from one router to another. you need to check your router.

also, you need to have a public ip provided by your isp so your router will be publicly accessible

- Thu Aug 13, 2015 8:31 am #25888 Hi, I just want to share. I have tried this one and it works pretty well. You dont need any port forwarding anymore.
I have controlled my lightings and appliance for almost 3 months already now.
http://thinkingparts.blogspot.com/2015/ ... et_13.html

- Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:12 pm #26636 If you have a web interface working on your ESP8266 locally, you are just a couple of steps away from getting it working on the larger Internet. Just set up port forwarding on your router. Depending on your ISP, you might have to use an obscure port (ie. something other than 80) as they might not allow web servers running at home. However, if you care about security, you are going to want to do more.

For read-only access, with no parameter processing, to something I really don't care about, I wouldn't have issues port forwarding from the Internet to an ESP8266 on my local network. However, for anything with parameters, anything at all, I would want a login page and all communications to/from the outside world to go through an SSL proxy (ie. nginx). If this were to be something that could become popular, I'd want a genuine SSL certificate, but if it were just for my own access, a self-signed certificate would do.