Hello, I was reading about the ST setup process and saw that I need to open some ports with port forwarding on my router. I’ll have to do this manually as I don’t have UPnP enabled on my router setup any more. I’ve searched the FAQ’s, the KnowledgeBase, the forums but I don’t see any info or tutori…

From a quick look around this post suggests the ports that need forwarding: [image] Hub Offline but General Discussion My best guess would be your router is blocking some type of traffic. Here is what I would do. Unplug your internet modem. Unplug your router. Unplug …

I’ll try that setup forwarding to the hub! I feel like a total dope that I missed that post. Did multiple searches with different expressions and everything. Thank you so much for taking the time to post that and for not flaming me for missing it. Such a great community.

For what it’s worth, I’ve never needed to expose anything on my hub to the internet. Unless you’re having problems, and unless support asks you to, I’d recommend against doing this.

OK, that makes sense. I have the info to use to forward the ports now so I can try without first and always check with support no ensure it’s the best option at that time. Great idea. Thank you so much for sharing!

yes I have an extensive firewall and have not had to open any ports… I believe it communicates over port 80 or something which is normally open or you could not surf the web

Also here :smile: [image] What do the LED colors on the Hub v2 mean? The Hub v2’s LED displays a series of colors during its initial setup. A solid green LED indicates everything is connected and ready to go. This should result within just a few minutes of connectin... …

Yes! Exactly. That’s the one I had read initially. I can manage port forwarding but I’m still a bit of a newbie with it and wasn’t sure if I forwarded it to the ST hub ip address. That’s why was looking for additional information. I know it seems obvious that it would forward there but my router has…

Outbound traffic for probably 99% of home routers is by default allowed and port forwarding is only needed for inbound connections. ST doesn’t initiate connections to your hub, your hub initiates connections to the ST cloud and the cloud talks back on this existing connection. Port forwarding isn’t…

right I was just going to say normally outbound works (is wide open) for most firewalls and allows inbound for established connections with rules like the following so normally no port forwarding needed… ie /put “input established connections” add chain=input connection-state=established action…

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Kriskit (Chris) December 10, 2015, 11:30am 2

From a quick look around this post suggests the ports that need forwarding:

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Help with port forwarding Connected Things hubv2	21	12627	May 1, 2019
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Set up SmartThings hub on a university network Devices & Integrations hubv2	2	1731	December 18, 2015
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New User with connection issues General Discussion uncategorized	24	1436	October 27, 2019

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