Nest Protect wants multiple ports per device IP Address
Hi All
Rather a strange one this...
I have 4 x Nest Protect smoke/fire alarms. All appear to be working correctly, and talking to each other. I THINK (but am not sure) that they are actually connecting to Nest/Google via the internet because the software has been getting updated. Therefore I am not even sure I have a problem to solve...
i have configured each one to have a static IP Address, and I have set port forwarding for each IP address to have Public and Private TCP and UDP ports of 80 for device 1, 443 for device 2, 9543 for device 3 and 11095 for device 4. These port numbers were given to me by Nest support.
BUT - when I asked for confirmation that these four setting were correct I received this instruction:
I understand that you have assigned port 80 to your first Protect, 443 to your second Protect and 9543 to your third Protect (Or some variant of this).
I'm sorry for not giving you a full example of what you should do prior to this. As I said in the above paragraph, all ports apply to all devices.
So if your Static IP for your 1st Protect is 192.168.1.10 you will assign TCP+UDP 80, TCP+UDP 443, TCP+UDP 9543 and TCP+UDP 11095 to it.
You must then do the exact same for the following 3 Nest Protects that you have. I appreciate its a bit long-winded but I assure you there is no further configuration required for this.
How is it possible to assign 4 ports to one static P address?!? When I queried this with Nest Support, the response was "I'm really sorry to say this but it was already beyond my scope of support to assist you like I have with the router as I was using personal knowledge of port forwarding and was hoping that it would be possible for you to apply my instructions using the apple supplied instructions that I shared with you"
Ideas anyone? Or should I just leave it alone as there might not even be a problem to solve?