Local Port Forwarding into OEO Console

Overview

For Experimenters that wish to monitor the progress of the vehicles in development mode, two things are required:

a local install of QGroundControl, and
forwarding a local port from the Experimenter's computer to the OEO Console

This page shows how to do the local port forwarding for various OSs.

For Linux and MAC OS

The ssh command in Linux and MAC OS directly support local port forwarding with the -L <local-port>:<remote-host-ip>:<remote-host-port> command line arguments. For QGroundControl forwarding the correct values are:

local-port: 5760
host-ip: 127.0.0.1
host-port: 5760

For example:

ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_aerpaw -L 5760:127.0.0.1:5760 root@192.168.1xx.62

For Windows

Both putty and MobaXterm support local port forwarding.

For putty instructions, see this page, or this one, or this one. Once configured, the port line should read: L5760 127.0.0.1:5760

For MobaXterm, see instructions below, or see this page or this page, or this one.

The configuration for MobaXterm can be done as follows: Go to Menu -> Tools-> MobaSSHTunnel (port forwarding). Click on "New SSH tunnel" and configure the tunnel as shown below by replacing the OEO-CONSOLE IP address and the port number with the actual values then click "Save".

After saving the tunnel setting, name the tunnel (any name works), set the ssh key (same key as for accessing anything in AERPAW), and start the tunnel as shown below.

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