Unable to open port 8883 for MyQ garage opener
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Installing a myQ device and they sai I need to open up port 8883. Did exactly that but when I go to port checker it doesn't report to be open. I have no issues opening other ports.
Does anyone have a MyQ garage that is working?
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Yes. It needed nothing special (unless you are doing outbound filtering. I am not). All of the connections are outbound.
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@derelict my PFsense box is mostly stock with just a couple port forwarding to my cameras and homeseer.
when I do port checker it shows that port 8883 is closed. Support said this needs to be open for it to work. WTH
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Outbound, not inbound.
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If an IoT device requires inbound port forwards or rules, return it.
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@derelict I'm about to do just that.
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I think they are being typical support monkeys.
I remember it took a while to get them on the wifi but since I got that worked out they've been working fine. Opened the garage for my daughter while I was on the beach a couple states away. :)
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These are the states:
IOT tcp 172.29.98.227:51798 -> 20.62.215.172:8883 ESTABLISHED:ESTABLISHED 4.391 K / 4.387 K 191 KiB / 178 KiB IOT tcp 172.29.98.228:61648 -> 40.83.217.203:8883 ESTABLISHED:ESTABLISHED 1.067 K / 1.064 K 47 KiB / 43 KiB IOT tcp 172.29.98.229:54858 -> 13.88.21.103:8883 ESTABLISHED:ESTABLISHED 240 / 237 12 KiB / 10 KiBAll outbound connections....
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it's showing connected on my Wifi I can ping it and all. In fact it sits 3 ft from one of my AP. It's been showing online for awhile but the app says that it's offline.
It's annoying is that it would drop in and out. I'd send a command and it would not do anything and then in the middle of no where it would open or close the garage
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btw I did a test port and received this. 171 is the address of the myq device
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8883 is the port the cloud servers listen on, not the door openers. They connect to My-Q on TCP/8883 not the other way around. You might want to talk to the people who installed the opener to see if they understand how it all works.
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@cheapie408 said in Unable to open port 8883 for MyQ garage opener:
Support said this needs to be open for it to work
As @Derelict stated this connection is outbound. I have a MyQ and I have NO Inbound ports to it at all. Works great..
What are you outbound rules?
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@johnpoz The wisdom of doing this at all can be questioned lol. I can only hope that they are using something like a private key from the secure enclave to sign requests to open the doors and that they did it all right.
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@derelict said in Unable to open port 8883 for MyQ garage opener:
that they did it all right.
I found this - does seem like there are some local stuff you can do via rf, etc.
IoT stuff is always a question.. But overall from this finishing comment, it seems to be one of the better implementations.
We would like to finish by commenting that the likelihood of a real-world attack on this target is low, based on the complexity of the attack and installation footprint. We have discussed this with Chamberlain, who has validated the findings and agrees with this assessment. Chamberlain has made clear efforts to build a secure product and appears to have eliminated much of the low-hanging fruit common to IoT devices
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@johnpoz Good article. Thanks.
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@derelict I'll have to dig into this. I already have an existing remote garage opener tied to HomeSeer this MyQ was an impulse buy more or less a backup so not critical. Maybe I'll hack it up and see if I can make it local.
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@cheapie408 said in Unable to open port 8883 for MyQ garage opener:
Maybe I'll hack it up and see if I can make it local.
I don't know what that means but good luck.
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Since I last posted this, I gave up and turned off my PFSense and moved to use the Xfinity Xfi router as my last resort. After several months, it was unbearable to deal with the Xfi router so I moved my network back to the PFSense.
While I was using the Xfi router and even an old Asus router the garage opener worked flawlessly. As soon as I moved it to the PFsense it acted up again.
Still looking for a solution to this. :(
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@cheapie408
So when you check the states in pfSense, did you see your device connected to anything on destination port 8883?Is the device on a segmented network?
Are there other devices in its subnet, which can successfully connect to the internet?Possibly pfBlockerNG or something else is blocking the connection?
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@cheapie408 Set up a VPN and stop opening ports for anything.
You'll be glad you did!
