Hello, and thanks for your patience in advance. I know just enough to be dangerous with this stuff, but I'm truly stuck.
I purchased/activated two cheap Chinese GPS trackers, and have verified that both work via SMS. In addition, I sent the relevant config info to them.
I port forwarded the appropriate port, made a LAN IP address reservation, and a dynamic IP account, and have configured such in my Netgear Nighthawk router. The server logs show the attempts to connect/send data from the GPS trackers to the appropriate port 5002, which is forwarded to the LAN computer running the server.
In addition, I've verified the 0+IMEI last 11 for each device.
Both devices show "Offline". For awhile, I was getting an error like "unable to connect to port socket", but it seems to have gone away (or is intermittent enough that I'm not noticing it anymore).
I'm using port 8082/default settings for the server, and my devices are both on port 5002 (verified per the router log).
FWIW, when I try to ping those ports using an outside service, it comes back as "filtered", but that may be false info sent by the router? The traffic still shows on the logs.
Any idea what I'm missing? I've scoured the router firmware to ensure I have firewalls kept at bay, etc. but something is clearly amiss.
Thanks!
Groan. Figured it out - I needed to turn off Windows Firewall...even though it wasn't reporting that it was blocking the request, it was. I feel dumb. :)
Hello, and thanks for your patience in advance. I know just enough to be dangerous with this stuff, but I'm truly stuck.
I purchased/activated two cheap Chinese GPS trackers, and have verified that both work via SMS. In addition, I sent the relevant config info to them.
I port forwarded the appropriate port, made a LAN IP address reservation, and a dynamic IP account, and have configured such in my Netgear Nighthawk router. The server logs show the attempts to connect/send data from the GPS trackers to the appropriate port 5002, which is forwarded to the LAN computer running the server.
In addition, I've verified the 0+IMEI last 11 for each device.
Both devices show "Offline". For awhile, I was getting an error like "unable to connect to port socket", but it seems to have gone away (or is intermittent enough that I'm not noticing it anymore).
I'm using port 8082/default settings for the server, and my devices are both on port 5002 (verified per the router log).
FWIW, when I try to ping those ports using an outside service, it comes back as "filtered", but that may be false info sent by the router? The traffic still shows on the logs.
Any idea what I'm missing? I've scoured the router firmware to ensure I have firewalls kept at bay, etc. but something is clearly amiss.
Thanks!