This is a fork of hrishioa's nomohead, it improves on the original project in a few ways:
- Support for both Unix and Windows
- Create tunnels to arbitrary ports
- Automatic executable downloading
- Bug fixes
Here's a bit of background: I'm a student that lives at a University without static local IP addresses, and where you can't port-forward for self-hosted servers. This script allows you to tunnel through a firewall on a port of your choice to negate the need to port-forward, and remotely check a device's IP address.
- Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/OscarVanL/nomohead.git
cd nomohead- Install dependencies (Unix only)
sudo apt-get install wget curl unzip- Run the setup script.
- Linux:
./setup.sh- Windows:
Launch Powershell
./setup.ps1Setup asks for the following parameters:
- ngrok auth token - Go to https://dashboard.ngrok.com/get-started, create an account and enter the authtoken in part 3 "Connect your account".
- Dweet Name - The name used to dweet your ngrok tunnel address to. Enter something you think is unique (i.e. not raspi). http://dweet.io/follow/
- Port - the port you want the tunnel to access, for example port 22 for remote SSH access.
- Delay - The amount of time between pushes to dweet.io, I set this to 1 minute, but it could be less frequent.
- ngrok server location - Pick the nearest location to you
Once all values are entered, a cron job is created that runs the nomohead script at boot.
In order to find your tunnel and IP information, you can go to
http://dweet.io/follow/<DweetName>
where is the Tunnel ID you gave during Setup.
Only one ngrok tunnel can exist for a free account. In my case, I wanted to open two tunnels. To bypass this limitation, I found that I can open one tunnel on the US ngrok server and the other on the EU server to bypasses this limitation.