No-Mo-Head

This is a fork of hrishioa's nomohead, it improves on the original project in a few ways:

• Support for both Unix and Windows
• Create tunnels to arbitrary ports
• Automatic executable downloading
• Bug fixes

Here's a bit of background: I'm a student that lives at a University without static local IP addresses, and where you can't port-forward for self-hosted servers. This script allows you to tunnel through a firewall on a port of your choice to negate the need to port-forward, and remotely check a device's IP address.

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/OscarVanL/nomohead.git
cd nomohead

2. Install dependencies (Unix only)

sudo apt-get install wget curl unzip

3. Run the setup script.

• Linux:

./setup.sh

• Windows:

Launch Powershell

./setup.ps1

Setup asks for the following parameters:

1. ngrok auth token - Go to https://dashboard.ngrok.com/get-started, create an account and enter the authtoken in part 3 "Connect your account".
2. Dweet Name - The name used to dweet your ngrok tunnel address to. Enter something you think is unique (i.e. not raspi). http://dweet.io/follow/
3. Port - the port you want the tunnel to access, for example port 22 for remote SSH access.
4. Delay - The amount of time between pushes to dweet.io, I set this to 1 minute, but it could be less frequent.
5. ngrok server location - Pick the nearest location to you

Once all values are entered, a cron job is created that runs the nomohead script at boot.

Dweets

In order to find your tunnel and IP information, you can go to

http://dweet.io/follow/<DweetName>

where is the Tunnel ID you gave during Setup.

Limitations

Only one ngrok tunnel can exist for a free account. In my case, I wanted to open two tunnels. To bypass this limitation, I found that I can open one tunnel on the US ngrok server and the other on the EU server to bypasses this limitation.