Remote access for your rig
Reach your telescope from anywhere.
Open your Polaris setup over the internet with no port forwarding, no dynamic DNS, and no router surgery.
Your rig dials out. Nothing is opened on your home network.
Three steps
Set it up once and leave it.
The relay is already built into Polaris. Turn it on with a token and your rig gets a permanent address on the internet.
Turn on the relay
In Polaris, open Settings → Remote access relay, paste the token we send you, and save.
Your rig opens a tunnel
Polaris dials out to the relay over an encrypted connection. It opens no ports and changes nothing on your firewall, so nothing at home is exposed.
Open it from anywhere
Go to your address, you.relay.polaris-astro.app.br, in any browser or the Polaris app, from any network.
Why a relay
The part your router makes hard, done for you.
No port forwarding
Nothing to open on your router, and your home IP is never exposed. The rig makes the connection outward.
A real certificate
Proper HTTPS with a trusted certificate, so the Polaris iPhone and Android apps connect without the self-signed warnings you get on the local network.
Works with the apps
Add your relay address in the Polaris app once. It stays in your list and reconnects on its own, right next to your local rig.
Passes through, keeps little
Traffic streams between your rig and your device. The relay logs only metadata, never your images or credentials. Privacy policy.
Pricing
In private testingThe relay is in private testing. Prices are set below and checkout opens soon; the Trial is by request in the meantime.
- 5 GB of traffic a month
- Your own
name.relay…address - Enough for status and short sessions
- 30 GB of traffic a month
- Live view, focusing, guiding, full control
- Works with the mobile apps
- 100 GB of traffic a month
- Higher throughput for streaming
- Cancel anytime
The honest bits
What to expect before you rely on it.
There is a little extra lag
The relay runs on a server in Europe, so expect a couple hundred milliseconds of round trip depending on where you are. That is fine for framing, focusing, and watching a session. For split-second manual slewing, a local connection is still best.
Video uses your allowance
Plans are sized by monthly traffic. Watching a live loop or streaming video through the relay adds up faster than plain monitoring, so keep an eye on it if you leave the live view running for hours.
Set a Polaris password
The relay carries the connection; it does not replace your app's login. Give Polaris a password so your public address is not wide open. It takes a moment in Settings.