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Remote.It Overview

What does Remote.It do?

Remote.It provides simple and secure on demand connections
- No need to port forward. As a result, this removes the attack surface for port scanning and DOS attacks.
- Provides access for hard to reach devices on cellular, satellite or other CGNAT networks where public IP addresses are not available or transient.
Supports LAN Sharing and Jump Box (Jump Host)
Can cross multiple NATs/firewalls
Supports cloud resource management like AWS to eliminate complicated IAM roles.
Can eliminate the need for costly VPNs or be used in conjunction with a VPN to harden the access
Supports many protocols and applications such as SSH/SCP, VNC/RDP/Screen Share, web servers and node-red, SMB, UDP, and most other TCP protocols such as MQTT.
Connect from your Mobile device to your other devices e.g. SSH
Push scripts and execute them on your Linux devices using bash, Python, php, etc.
Manage access to your devices by Remote.It email accounts rather than IP allow lists and only to the devices or services you determine

Simply put, we enable management of your remote devices by supporting connections, script execution, and access control

Our applications (Desktop, ScreenView, CLI, Device Package, etc.)

Remote.it provides several applications which vary on functionality and package size. Choose the one right for you.

Desktop - Provides support to start connections and optionally support inbound connections. Supports P2P and proxy connections as well as remote configuration of your other devices. Manage your account and access to your devices as well.
ScreenView - View and control Android devices from any browser. Download and install Android ScreenView app along with the Remote.It app on your Android device.
CLI - Provides support to start connections and optionally support inbound connections via a command line interface. Supports P2P and proxy connections as well as remote configuration of your other devices. Use this when you want machine programming without a user present.
Device Package - Installs our smallest package, the Remote.It agent. Use this option when you only need to support inbound connections and/or script execution on the device. Install our device package for cloud or linux environments using our 1-line installer.
Web portal - Use this option when you cannot install the Desktop or CLI on the device you want to use to connect. Connections are proxy only. Manage you account and access to your devices as well.
Mobile - Use this option on your mobile devices on the go to connect to your devices and receive notifications about your devices and account. Android can support P2P or Proxy connections. iOS devices are proxy only

Remote.it provides several applications which vary on functionality and package size. Choose the one right for you.

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Connection support for your needs

Peer to Peer (P2P) vs. Proxy
- P2P connections are ready when you want to work with them
- Work in your applicaitons with a persistent P2P URL on initiating machine
- Proxy connections available from your browser with no additional software needed
LAN Sharing
Jump Box (Jump Host)
Cloud resource access (AWS) without complicated IAM rules.‍
Native support of services such as SSH, VNC, HTTP(s), OpenVPN, Minecraft/Terraria + many more
No open ports - remote.it works without requiring port forwarding in the router, significantly reducing your network's vulnerability‍
Cellular, Satellite and CGNAT support

Access control

It is recommended that you use one of the methods below to instantly add or remove access for individuals, rather than sharing a user login to keep your remote.it accounts secure. Learn more about managing access

Organizations

At a high level, organizations allow you to give access to users to all of your Remote.It Devices that exist now and in the future. This access can be limited to specific services, all Remote.It Services of the Devices within the organization. You can also have delegated management of your organization such as allowing users to manage devices, tags, and user access and roles. Organizations are available for use in the portal, desktop and mobile applications. Learn more.

Sharing

With sharing, you control precisely which Remote.It Devices and/or Remote.It Services are shared and can be accessed to run scripts. Sharing is controlled individually on Devices and if desired for individual Services. For example, you may want to share the entire Device (all Services) to Mary and only allow Bob access to the HTTP service on the same Device. You have the control. Learn more.

Device state, notifications, and activity logs

Get in-app notifications when your devices come online and offline, have connections started and ended. You can also sign up for email notifications or use our webhook integration.

We also provide logs of the activities on the account including sign in, sharing, device online/offline, and connections. Available history is variable based on subscription with 7 days for personal plan and 30 days for professional.

APIs

Remote.It offers a graphQL API which supports flexible queries to retrieve and update the information you want and nothing else. Check out our github repository for Insomnia collections of example queries.

Fetch your devices
Update device and service attributes
Update sharing
Create proxy connections

Scripting

Remote.It provides a mechanism to push script files and execute them on selected devices. This takes the place of repetitive actions you may be doing on each device. Support is available for Linux based OS. Learn more.

OEM support

Need to install Remote.It on many devices with the same hardware and software profile? You can create as many images as you need for different hardware and OS combinations that you need. We have a couple of methods to fit your needs. Get started here

Security

Remote.It uses encrypted tunnels to establish Peer to Peer connections between devices which is in addition to the encryption of the service protocol. This is a zero trust connection with authentication and authorization between users and devices with connections supported at Layer 3 of the OSI model.

The Remote.It principles of security follow the recognized security principles of “AIC” or Availability, Integrity, and Confidentiality. One of the most important features of the Remote.It system is the complete elimination of open ports.

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YouTube - We have a number of detailed how-to videos

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