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General Category => Troubleshooting and Support => Topic started by: gcoupe on February 06, 2015, 02:14:24 PM

Title: Windows Firewall Settings?
Post by: gcoupe on February 06, 2015, 02:14:24 PM

I can't seem to reach HomeGenie over my home network unless I disable the Windows Firewall on the machine where HomeGenie is running (which of course is not acceptable).

I've looked in the Inbound rules of Windows Firewall, and I see that there's an entry for homegeniemanager.exe, and the rule will allow access between any local or remote address, for all local or remote ports, and just for UDP protocol port 17. And that's it, no other rule for HomeGenie, either in the inbound or the outbound rules.

Should there be a rule added? Thanks

Title: Re: Windows Firewall Settings?
Post by: bkenobi on February 06, 2015, 05:10:46 PM

I believe when I had HG set up on my Windows box I had the firewall rule on HomeGenie.exe rather than the manager.  Switch it over and everything should work.

Title: Re: Windows Firewall Settings?
Post by: hybridview on February 06, 2015, 05:17:17 PM

I had a big problem with this too when running on my Server 2012 instance. If the suggestion from bkenobu doesn't work for you, I'll log into my server and see what settings I applied.

Title: Re: Windows Firewall Settings?
Post by: gcoupe on February 06, 2015, 06:34:44 PM

Not having any luck here, so please can you post the settings used on your Server 2012? Thanks.

Title: Re: Windows Firewall Settings?
Post by: gcoupe on February 10, 2015, 09:03:03 AM

Can anyone please help?

I've tried adding rules for the HomeGenie programs, and rules for TCP/UDP to the HTTP port 80. Nothing seems to work. If I can't access HG over the network, then it's of no use to me.

Title: Re: Windows Firewall Settings?
Post by: nolio on February 10, 2015, 09:13:56 AM

Did you try this ?
http://www.homegenie.it/forum/index.php?topic=503.msg2940#msg2940 (http://www.homegenie.it/forum/index.php?topic=503.msg2940#msg2940)

Title: Re: Windows Firewall Settings?
Post by: gcoupe on February 10, 2015, 09:31:44 AM

You mean this:

Config panel -> Windows Firewall -> Advanced Settings -> Inbound Rules -> New Rule -> Port -> Next -> TCP -> "Specific local ports:" = 80 -> Next -> "Allow the connection" -> Next -> Domain+Private for LAN to work in all conditions (Public is optional or if you have your LAN configured weird) -> Next -> "Name" = HomeGenie -> Finish

Yes. As I said in the previous message, I've done that for both TCP and UDP for port 80 on both inbound and outbound rules. Nothing seems to help.

Title: Re: Windows Firewall Settings?
Post by: gcoupe on February 10, 2015, 12:53:12 PM

I've done the trick of last resort, and rebooted everything in sight. I now seem to be able to reach HG over the network, so whatever the problem was, it seems to have been resolved...

Title: Re: Windows Firewall Settings?
Post by: nolio on February 10, 2015, 02:20:10 PM

Great ! Have fun with HG !