ipWhitelist HowTo

lavolp3

How long ago was your last update?

Just to be sure, have you tried @Mykle1’s solution, which seems to help in most of the cases this has happened in recent months?

var config = {
    address: "0.0.0.0", 
    port: 8080,
    ipWhitelist: [],

adding the “address” part on the top of the config? This seems to be mandatory for the newer versions of MM.

Also, be sure to have no syntax error in your config.
Run

npm run config:check

from your MM directory and see of there are no errors.
Done all that?

illskool

@lavolp3

Thanks for the quick response. I’m not sure if I just overlooked it or if I’m just exhausted from trying to figure this issue out for the past several hours, but either way your tip solved my problem. I thank you very much.

I’ve been working on a new project to stream a camera I have setup on another raspberry pi on my local network to the magic mirror. My oil tank is under my house in a crawl space and I’m tired of making the crawl every couple of weeks to see how much oil I have left. I was able to use an infrared camera to stream the video and display it on the mirror using Iframe. I didn’t want it to be visible on the mirror unless I wanted to do a quick check and thats when I realized that the remote module would solve my issue but I couldn’t access it. You have helped finish my project. I can now go to sleep:)

Cheers

svenr

I tried everything wich is written in this post but i cant make it all the time it says:

This device is not allowed to access your mirror.
Please check your config.js or config.js.sample to change this.

Mykle1

@svenr said in ipWhitelist HowTo:

Please check your config.js

Are you saying that this is in your config.js file and you still cannot connect?

var config = {
    address: "0.0.0.0", 
    port: 8080,
    ipWhitelist: [],

svenr

@Mykle1 alt text
Yes right but maybe i have another mistake i am a beginner and i have not really a idea about it
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Mykle1

@svenr

Looking at the picture you provided shows your ipWhitelist: [], is populated. Can you try it just like this? ipWhitelist: [],

svenr

@Mykle1 like this it works. Thank you for your help!

Mykle1

@svenr

Good. Now all the devices on your network have access. If you want to limit access to specific devices then you should search this forum for ipWhitelist info. This topic has been discussed at length

ToddKlindt

@lavolp3 said in ipWhitelist HowTo:

Maybe I have missed this from someone else, but one important thing about the whitelisting message:

“This device is not allowed to access your mirror.
Please check your config.js or config.js.sample to change this.”

The EXACT SAME message appears (in my case) if the config.js has syntax errors. Locally your mirror will tell you that there is no config file or just give you a black screen, but if you try to reach it from outside through a browser (Firefox and Chrome in my case) with a broken config.js, you will get the whitelisting message above.

So, before trying to get your ipWhitelist in the right shape, make sure you have no other syntax errors with the mirror, e.g. using

npm run config:check

If you had some and had them corrected, be safe and restart the mirror.
Below you can see the example in my case.

pi@magicmirror2:~ $ tail ~/.pm2/logs/mm-out-0.log
No helper found for module: helloworld.
All module helpers loaded.
Starting server on port 8080 ...
Server started ...
Connecting socket for: updatenotification
Sockets connected & modules started ...
Launching application.
Access denied to IP address: 66.249.93.64
Access denied to IP address: 80.157.5.50
Access denied to IP address: 80.157.5.50
pi@magicmirror2:~ $ cd MagicMirror/
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $ npm run config:check

> magicmirror@2.1.2 config:check /home/pi/MagicMirror
> node tests/configs/check_config.js

Checking file...  /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js
Line 260 col 9 Expected ']' to match '[' from line 26 and instead saw '{'.
Line 261 col 16 Expected '}' to match '{' from line 11 and instead saw 'module'.
Line 261 col 22 Missing semicolon.
Line 261 col 16 Unrecoverable syntax error. (95% scanned).
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $ sudo nano config/config.js
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $ npm run config:check

> magicmirror@2.1.2 config:check /home/pi/MagicMirror
> node tests/configs/check_config.js

Checking file...  /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js
Your configuration file don't containt syntax error :)
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $ pm2 restart mm
Use --update-env to update environment variables
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [mm](ids: 0)
[PM2] [mm](0) ✓
┌──────────┬────┬──────┬─────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬──────────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem      │ user │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼──────┼─────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼──────┼──────────┤
│ mm       │ 0  │ fork │ 901 │ online │ 6       │ 0s     │ 18% │ 2.3 MB   │ pi   │ disabled │
└──────────┴────┴──────┴─────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴──────────┴──────┴──────────┘
 Use `pm2 show ` to get more details about an app
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $

I wanted to quote this as it just happened to me. MM was working fine remotely. I made some edits to config.js and got the dreaded “This device is not allowed to access your mirror…" message. I hadn’t edited the whitelist, so I started doing all of the network troubleshooting. Seeing this post reminded me I had done some edits and sure enough, I missed a comma somewhere and the screwed it all up. Fixing that unrelated entry in the config.js made this error go away.

lavolp3

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AndrewVircks

I have tried all of the suggestions to get MMM-Remote-Control to work and I cannot figure anything out. Any help would be appreciated. I keep getting Cannot GET /remote.html and I’m not sure what to do from here.

mochman

That doesn’t sound like an ipWhitelist problem. Did you install MMM-Remote-Control per the instructions? If so, what exactly are you getting your error message on and what are the IPs of your magicmirror and device?

AndrewVircks

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payal09

Please help me out, i do all the things whatever consulted in forum to access the remote control, but it is not working from my phone, or any other devices.
It just working on the pc from where raspberry pi is operated through vnc.
Please, help me. My project submission date is too close, please help.

gjones444

Re: [[Remote-Control] Shutdown](Configure and Update your MagicMirror)

Has anyone found a fix for the issue below? I tried hardcoding my raspberry pi IP address and creating a range of acceptable IP addresses but still not able to access the MagicMirror from my desktop or phone. Any advice?

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lolobyte

@gjones444
hi
you must configure your config.js and maybe your interent router.

This is my adress for global access to the mm2 via internet browser

http://raspi-mm2.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.myfritz.net:8116/

an this is a part of my configuration in my config .js

var config = {
        address: "0.0.0.0",
        port: 8116,
        ipWhitelist: [],

Port forward configuration for my router for global access

screenshot browser:

screenshot VNC Viewer:

veejae

Anyone can help me please?
I tried everything but still cant get an access granted to my IP 192.168.254.107
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sdetweil

@veejae addess: “localhost”, means listen ONLY inside (from myself)…

change to address: “0.0.0.0” (listen from anywhere)

ertopps

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leem2000

Hi

I recently installed MM and am viewing on screen rather than on a mirror. I’m unable to view MM in a web browser from another machine in the network. I get

This site can’t be reached
192.168.0.113 refused to connect.

I’ve gone through this topic and tried the various suggestions including turning off IPv6. No joy.
No errors or connection refused messages in the pm2 logs. I’ve run config:check and it runs clean.

netstat -lnpt
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5900            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -                
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8080          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1861/electron.js 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -

I’m trying to access with http://192.168.0.113. Ssh to the pi is fine.
Any ideas?