ATO being hacked.

[butcherman]

What can I do about someone hacking my RA unit. I will get home after work and the ato is stuck in the on position and all my ro has been dumped and the pump is running dry. if I access the unit via my cell it need the green dot cleared in order to stop. Please help asap

[lnevo]

Click on the green dot?

[butcherman]

Well done! I click the dot and its stops. That does not explain why the dot came up in the first place. Ir the fact that the entire ro tank has been dumped or that the pump has run dry for 7 hours

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[butcherman]

Ie someone other that me is turning the ato pump on

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[butcherman]

correct me if I am wrong but all that is needed to access and remote control another persons RA is the DNS name and the portal name no password or authentication?

[KRavEN]

You can set a password on it. Also possible you accidentally clicked the ATO manual override when you were using the web interface. More plausible than someone maliciously accessing your RA and knowing to dump your ATO.

Perhaps Roberto would consider adding a new feature to confirm manual override?

[lnevo]

correct me if I am wrong but all that is needed to access and remote control another persons RA is the DNS name and the portal name no password or authentication?

They would also need to either download the app or understand the RA api to control it through an http interface. You can set a portal key which would require that be added to the http strings and set inside the app. This is effectively the password and the only way someone could get that is sniffing your traffic. The portal is already password protected by your forum password. Your best method is to add a security key.

What KraVen said is probably accurate. You most likely hit the button by mistake and overrode it yourself.

What I've done for critical ports (like dosers) is add a variable called OverridePorts that you can set which ports can not be overriden manually. This would be good to add on your ATO pump. It would still run the normal program but anytime someone tries to manually change the port it will get removed automatically.

You can set another condition like a memory variable change or another relay being on/off to change the OverridePort variable and then allow you to control the port you want.

[butcherman]

Its happened several times I did not hit it by mistake. Once was while I was sleeping at night

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[butcherman]

I belive is a vindictive reefer

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[lnevo]

I would definitely add a portal key and then I would look at using my OverridePorts functionality to ensure it can never happen again key or no key

[lnevo]

The only issue with the override ports is that it may not work right if you are disabling the ato during feeding or water change modes. A one line piece of code would fix that too.

[ReEfnWrX]

The only issue with the override ports is that it may not work right if you are disabling the ato during feeding or water change modes. A one line piece of code would fix that too.

There is a difference between overriding and coding for the ATO to turn off during certain events.... So I don't see that being an issue.

[lnevo]

You dont understand how that is working...

When you go into feeding mode or water change modes, whatever ports you have set to go off get an override off command. After that you can do whatever you want so if you cancel one of those overrides the device will turn on.

With the OverridePorts option any override mask will be removed before it gets power. So if you disable ATO as part of you water change ports then when you go into water change mode the override will get removed. Therefore you will need a line of code to hard code the port off during water change mode... Does that make sense?

[mls228]

Also check for noisy wiring. I had a similar situation where the pwm signal wiring was tripping my ato. I isolated the two and no more issues.

[butcherman]

Changed my dns name. Has not happened since. Happened a total of 9 times in 6 days.

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