Home automation help!!

Other Hardware Home Automation
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I'm currently working on setting up home automation using arduino UNO and a raspberry pi to run the programming software. I've got it working at the moment turning a simple LED on and off over the web but it only works on my home network.

I REALLY want it to work anywhere over 3G from my phone or for my work computer but I can't figure out how to set that part up..

PLEASE HELP

Thank you in advance....

(Ps I'm fairly new to this as well so not that technical at the moment)

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Look up Port Mapping. That is how you tell your home router to make some servers and ports reachable from the outside world.

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Thanks for that, still can't seem to get it right. Setting up a virtual server as I am using a Bellini router and it doesn't have port mapping/forwarding setting. I tried changing the ports from the norm 80 but that hasn't done anything either.

I read somewhere when you enter the address you type the port as well eg: 192.168.2.1:80 but that still makes no difference.......

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I got it working. Figured out in the address bar where I type in the ip plus the port I need to type my public ip plus the port.

THANKS for you help Johnwasser!!!!