[mythtv-users] controlling mythtv via mythweb and command line remotely

[James Abernathy]

For the last few years I've been controlling my MythTV backend remotely but
using the built-in OpenVPN Server on my TP-Link Archer AX50 WiFi 6 router.
All I had to do was set up a DDNS service with TP-Link and turn on the VPN
on the router. It generated a config file that I put on each client that
needed to run Openvpn and connect.  I can do that now with my Android phone
and Dell laptop running W11 or Linux Mint 21.1

I tried this on a Endeavour OS laptop (Archlinux based) and discovered that
Arch openvpn and openssl has moved to a version that is not compatible with
my 1 years old route's version of Openvpn. I can't easily make this work.

So I thought about an alternative solution. What about putting an Openvpn
server on the same server that is running MythTV backend? It is also the
same server that contains all my shared network files and is set up as a
cifs/smb server as my NAS for the home. This is the box I want to talk to
when I'm not at home.

I'm guessing I'd turn off the VPN server on the router and set up port
forwarding to forward only 1194 UDP packets to the Mythtv server once
Openvpn is set up on it.

>From a security point of view, I'd imagine that the Port forwarding port of
the router is more secure than an old out of date VPN server.

That way openvpn on the Mythtv server would be updated whenever Ubuntu
updates it and the same with the clients.

Thoughts and guidance please.

Jim A
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