Domoticz

philchillbill wrote: ↑Monday 22 February 2021 12:11

kitopopo wrote: ↑Monday 22 February 2021 11:08 I changed https by http in configdz-template.json or configdz.json in "url" https://myexternalip was replaced by "url" http://myexternalip.
making this change alexa works with my domoticz perfectly but I am afraid of security problems, either because I use http or because I give my username, password, public ip and port in that configuration file. I am giving all my data.

Do you think it is safer if I use https? Besides this, is it not dangerous to put all my data in that file? thanks in advance

Aha, that's allowed because you are not publishing the skill and it's for personal use only in your dev-account. It's a very bad idea though, as your Domoticz is fully exposed with no protection. It's not 'if' you will be hacked, but 'when'...

You already have an external IP address, right? Have you tried getting an SSL cert for it from LetsEncrypt?

kitopopo wrote:

philchillbill wrote: ↑Monday 22 February 2021 12:11

kitopopo wrote: ↑Monday 22 February 2021 11:08 I changed https by http in configdz-template.json or configdz.json in "url" https://myexternalip was replaced by "url" http://myexternalip.
making this change alexa works with my domoticz perfectly but I am afraid of security problems, either because I use http or because I give my username, password, public ip and port in that configuration file. I am giving all my data.

Do you think it is safer if I use https? Besides this, is it not dangerous to put all my data in that file? thanks in advance

Aha, that's allowed because you are not publishing the skill and it's for personal use only in your dev-account. It's a very bad idea though, as your Domoticz is fully exposed with no protection. It's not 'if' you will be hacked, but 'when'...

You already have an external IP address, right? Have you tried getting an SSL cert for it from LetsEncrypt?

Thanks for your answer,

No, I should start using the LetsEncrypt certificates as soon as possible. But even so, do you think it does not bring any security risk to give the public ip, port, user and password even if the LetsEncrypt certificates are used and it is via https?

this is my doubt, leave alexa running permanently delivering all my data.

thanks in advanced

philchillbill wrote: ↑Monday 22 February 2021 13:07

kitopopo wrote:

philchillbill wrote: ↑Monday 22 February 2021 12:11

Aha, that's allowed because you are not publishing the skill and it's for personal use only in your dev-account. It's a very bad idea though, as your Domoticz is fully exposed with no protection. It's not 'if' you will be hacked, but 'when'...

You already have an external IP address, right? Have you tried getting an SSL cert for it from LetsEncrypt?

Thanks for your answer,

No, I should start using the LetsEncrypt certificates as soon as possible. But even so, do you think it does not bring any security risk to give the public ip, port, user and password even if the LetsEncrypt certificates are used and it is via https?

this is my doubt, leave alexa running permanently delivering all my data.

thanks in advanced

When https, everything is safe. The data cannot be intercepted.

kitopopo wrote:

philchillbill wrote: ↑Monday 22 February 2021 13:07

kitopopo wrote: Thanks for your answer,

No, I should start using the LetsEncrypt certificates as soon as possible. But even so, do you think it does not bring any security risk to give the public ip, port, user and password even if the LetsEncrypt certificates are used and it is via https?

this is my doubt, leave alexa running permanently delivering all my data.

thanks in advanced

When https, everything is safe. The data cannot be intercepted.

But amazon aws have my data, public ip, password and port.

andromo wrote: ↑Wednesday 08 December 2021 20:01 Hi all,

I have been using alexicz for a while. It is very nice. I don't like to have a open port at home, so I added port knocking to the api() function in the lambda, so before adressing the domoticz port it knocks 3 different ports in the correct order. I dont't know much about python, but now it's working. My firewall (mikrotik router) has input firewall rules for acepting connections only from IPs that did the correct port knocking combination, and Alexicz is doing it right now (https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Port_Knocking)

By the way, I'm trying to control an AC split with an ESP8266 board and IR LEDs. Now I have a thermostat setpoint that can be cofigured with Alexa with no problem. But I want to change de mode also (HEAT, COOL). I have seen in the Alexicz code that if you set an ligth/switch selector with Alexa_extra:{ "OFF": 0, "HEAT": 10, "COOL":20} It should work, but I really don't know what I'm doing, and alexa says there is a problem with the discovered thermostat (from the Selector switch configured with alexa_extra).

Can some one who use or know about this feature help me please?

Thanks
Andrés

Jorn wrote: ↑Monday 16 May 2022 16:20 I've set up Alexicz successfully lasty week, the only strange thing than I'm heaving is when using scene's/groups, when I tell Alexa to activate a scene it responds with "I'm having trouble reacing null" but the scene is activated, so it's only the response that is faulty.
Is this a known issue?

Jpaul78 wrote:Hello all,

I finished to solve my problem selecting the right location in the console page and create again my lambda. So it was working but now I have a new problem...
When I ask :
"Alexa allume la chambre." (for : "Alexa turns on the bedroom.")
I have a reply telling :
"L'appareil chambre ne répond pas." (means : "Room device not responding.")

What is following is a Google translation :
The problem appeared after a previous socket failed and I replaced it with a new one. So I deleted the old socket in domoticz connected the new one. Checked it was OK with domoticz then reloaded the devices on alexa. Device rediscovery told me that it found a new device that I installed but when I ask to turn it on I have the problem telling that the device is not responding.
The other devices were working. I deleted all my devices on Alexa, asked again for device updates, Alexa found them all but none of them worked, I got the message that the device is not responding.

Am I alone to encounter this problem ?

Does anyone have a solution to this problem ?

Thanks in advance,
Jean-Paul

philchillbill wrote: ↑Sunday 04 December 2022 14:10
If you visit the Amazon Cloudwatch log for your Alexicz you will see the error message in the logs. Google how to access Cloudwatch.