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I contributed a system to Wippies community, Wippies Feature Requests System, that can be used for keeping better track about requested new features.

WFR is created for Wippies community to help the developers and users to keep better track about requested new features of Wippies services and products. The main idea is that users vote the features they prefer the most important and Wippies developers can get a proper vision which new features are the most wanted ones by majority. Users are allowed to vote each feature only once.

Note that this is completely unofficial and official requests should still be written to Wiki. I’m hoping this will help tracking the feature requests users hope and that users would start to use the system actively and give their votes.

OpenID is an open, decentralised single sign-on standard, allowing users to log onto many services with the same digital identity.

Wippies provides OpenID at https://openid.wippies.com where you can sing in with your Wippies email address and your password and setup your OpenID profile and settings in the My Profile section.

The default Wippies OpenID is https://openid.wippies.com/?user=your_alias@wippies.com but Wippies OpenID also provides using your own www site as your OpenID by adding OpenID relay/delegate tags into your HTML sourcecode. This is explained on the service after you login.

I wrote a little about Wippies OpenID in Finnish to Wippies Wiki too, requires translating to other languages still.

More info about OpenID can be found on Wikipedia.

Edit: Wippies OpenID has now been removed. It was only for testing.

Hi all, noticed few features that people frequently end up searching from here thru Google search results so I thought it would be a good idea to guide those visitors to correct tracks:

1) 3G Uplink and Port Forwarding

- Port forwardings doesn’t work thru 3G Uplink, this is a known limit not a bug. Let’s hope it will be possible to use port forwarding with 3G Uplink in future.

2) Wippies Dynamic DNS walkthrough

a) Enable from My Wippies > Device Settings > Misc. Settings > Dynamic DNS > check the checkbox Oman palvelimen nimi and enter the alias of your choice to the field and click Save.

b) After this, wait until the settings get updated and receive status Settings successfully updated on the device settings status page.

Note! Do not refresh the page with your browser’s refresh button or F5 after you’ve saved the settings since doing that will resubmit the form and you’re actually trying to apply the same changes/updates again. Relocate to the device settings page via Device Settings link for a refreshed view and then refresh the page normally with F5 etc. if needed.

c) After your settings have been updated, your_alias.wippies.net is now forwarded to the public IP address of your Homebox (you can check the IP from the local settings http://192.168.0.1). The DynDNS address is updated to Elisa/Saunalahti DNS servers almost instantly but with a short delay to other DNS servers so note this if you’re using other than Elisa’s or Saunalahti’s Internet Connection.

A great easy-to-use tool for checking if your DynDNS address is already updated to the world or not is Domain Dossier. Just enter your DynDNS and click Go (no need to check any checkboxes). If you get a canonical name line showing your DynDNS address for the address lookup, everything is cool. If you don’t, wait still and check again.

d) Now, depending on the target you want to use your Wippies Dynamic DNS for you also need a port forward from your public IP/Homebox to your LAN IP/computer for the port your service or software uses. Port forwardings are also done from My Wippies and Device Settings, under Port Settings.

e) Once you’ve forwarded the correct port and the port changes have been updated you need to allow traffic from any IP (or just from some specific IP or IP’s depending on what you’re up to) thru the port you added a port forward rule for from WAN to LAN/your computer in your local firewall. After this, you’re done! Whippii.

Possible problems with Wippies DynDNS

I had an issue that my new changed IP didn’t get updated to the DynDNS service when I kept my Homebox off for few days and switched it back on. For some reason my old IP was somehow stuck on my Homebox and it didn’t get clear from its memory not until I gave a 10 seconds reset for the box from the reset slot of the backpanel. I rebooted the box several times and disabled/enabled DynDNS from My Wippies again and again. Was using Sauna29 at that time.

So reset your Homebox in first place if you get into similar situation that your new IP doesn’t get updated to the DynDNS service and you’ll save time and your nerves.