Anyone with techie knowledge of British Gas Remote Heating system?

itm · 25 Oct 2012 at 13:09

I've just ordered a British Gas Remote Heating Control installation, and was wondering if anyone knew anything about TCP/IP configuration options for it?
I'm guessing that the British Gas Hub will be installed on TCP port 80 for web access, but as I run a web server on my home server I'd prefer the British Gas Hub to use another port - e.g. 8080 or something like that. Does anyone know if that's possible??

newbiejim · 25 Oct 2012 at 13:11

I fancy one of these, how much was it?

bledd · 25 Oct 2012 at 13:13

Just forward another port to 80 on that.. Can't see an issue here.

RomanNose · 25 Oct 2012 at 13:15

Or create a folder on your webserver which proxies traffic to the remote heating control.

itm · 25 Oct 2012 at 13:18

bledd. said:
Just forward another port to 80 on that.. Can't see an issue here.

They're public-facing websites so need to come in on port 80. I could investigate filtering/forwarding to the hub from my existing web server (IIS) but suspect that it'll open a can of worms.

The cost was £229 - would have been £199 if I'd been a BG customer.

rG-tom · 25 Oct 2012 at 14:14

itm said:
They're public-facing websites so need to come in on port 80. I could investigate filtering/forwarding to the hub from my existing web server (IIS) but suspect that it'll open a can of worms.

The cost was £229 - would have been £199 if I'd been a BG customer.

what he means is put port 8080 on your router to forward to 80 internally on the BG stuff. Externally you put http://homeip:8080 but the BG thing doesnt know that.

itm · 25 Oct 2012 at 14:16

rG-tom said:
what he means is put port 8080 on your router to forward to 80 internally on the BG stuff. Externally you put http://homeip:8080 but the BG thing doesnt know that.

Yes that's what I thought was meant, but by "public facing" I mean that these sites are accessed by the public, not just me, so having a public URL of http://www.mysite.com:8080 isn't an option

PistolPete · 25 Oct 2012 at 14:51

itm said:
I'm guessing that the British Gas Hub will be installed on TCP port 80 for web access, but as I run a web server on my home server I'd prefer the British Gas Hub to use another port

Why does it matter if they are both on port 80??

itm · 25 Oct 2012 at 14:53

PistolPete said:
Why does it matter if they are both on port 80??

The firewall on the router can only redirect incoming traffic on port 80 to one internal server - it's unable to filter/redirect traffic based on URL or content.

danjah · 18 Jan 2016 at 20:56

I've just ordered a British Gas Remote Heating Control installation, and was wondering if anyone knew anything about TCP/IP configuration options for it?
I'm guessing that the British Gas Hub will be installed on TCP port 80 for web access, but as I run a web server on my home server I'd prefer the British Gas Hub to use another port - e.g. 8080 or something like that. Does anyone know if that's possible??

Hi, How did you resolve this?

itm · 18 Jan 2016 at 22:38

danjah said:
Hi, How did you resolve this?

In the end there was nothing to resolve. The web application which controls the Remote Heating functionality (now Hive) is actually hosted on the supplier's servers, not the customer's. The supplier's servers then communicate directly with a receiver which you plug into your broadband router.