I am looking for some simple guidance on whether I can access an ASIAir controller remotely from outside my home network.
Particularly using Apple devices as those through which the remote connection is being made.
Appreciate that this question has no doubt been asked a great many times on a great many forums, but I have found the answers mostly either incomprehensible or downright contradictory. Some seem to suggest you can’t do this with Apple devices. I am very lost, so I thought I would turn to my AB friends, who are usually the most insightful and comprehensible.
I understand roughly what to do; have a VPN connection into my home router and put my ASAIR controller on a static IP address.
Now those are mostly just words to me.
But my local network provided did that, but I couldn’t connect. They implemented the VPN via Wireguard an a “tunnel” accessed by a QR code they gave me (again all these are just meaningless words to me). However that didn’t work. But it did with my network engineer’s Android phone. He also did port-forwarding and a direct IP address (although these are just words, apparently this is a no-no) which again worked for his Android but not my iPhone.
He said a few more incomprehensible words to me, but since he was on an hourly rate, I thought it best to cut my losses.
Is there anybody out there who has successfully put an ASIAir “on line” to world accessible via Mac hardware. If so, would you mind explaining to me how you did it in language that won’t melt my brain.
[In case anyone wonders: I am would like to offer observing with my telescopes to friends overseas and the local school. The latter, in particular, is important to me as they have a really switched on Yr12 who would love to use this.]