Remote control web interface

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Does anyone have any ideas on how we could set up a webpage that would let school pupils easily access a Pioreactor interface remotely?

Would it be a bad idea to put
<iframe src="https://YOUR_NGROK_URL.ngrok.io" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> in a password protected web page?

If not, does anyone familiar with NGROK happen to know whether their personal account would suffice to allow up to 24/7 use of one remote pioreactor interface?

Sorry to post this while Cam’s on Paternity, but we just got a request from the Davidson Inventors Challenge (more background here).

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:wave: baby is sleeping. You can set up either Ngrok or Tailscale: Setting up remote access | Pioreactor Docs

In either case, you can also put the UI behind a basic auth: GitHub - Pioreactor/pioreactor-basic-auth-for-ui

Would that work?

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Brilliant, thanks @CamDavidsonPilon - hope you’re getting enough sleep too.

Tailscale seems more secure than NGROK, but harder for the schools to set-up.

I might try Tailscale Funnel in the first instance and see how easy that is on the client end. If that fails I may look into a cloud gateway server that they can log into so the server is connected to the Pioreactor via Tailscale rather than the students machine.