However, I was just unable to connect from any PC remotely. Connection failedĪfter installing RS-BA1 v2 on the Mini-PC located at the radio station, I was quickly able to set up everything and verify, that I can connect locally to the radio.
You can open a support ticket, but it takes several weeks until they review your case and eventually put you on the free plan again.Ī solid alternative to Teamviewer is Anydesk, and that’s what I’m using currently for connecting to remote Windows machines. With this, all connections to remote Computers time out after 60 seconds. Teamviewer is supposed to be free for personal usage, but in my case, they falsely “detected” commercial usage twice already. For a long time, I used Teamviewer, but lately, it became very annoying. Fortunately, plenty of good Remote Desktop solutions are available. Therefore I have to do almost everything remotely. The radio is located at our radio station in Spain, but these days I’m living in Germany. As long as you are not on a corporate network, outbound connections are typically always allowed. On the client side, you don’t have to open any port since the RS-BA1 client will always initiate the connection. To access the IC-7300 via RS-BA1, you have to open on the server-side (where the radio is located) the three UDP ports in your firewall and forward them to the PC on which you are running RS-BA1. At the radio station, an Icom IC-7300 is connected via USB to the Mini-PC. They are fast enough, optimized for low power consumption, come with a Windows10 license, and are affordable (~200USD). After two years, I still believe that these Gemini Lake Mini-PCs are an excellent choice for this use case. Since RS-BA1 only runs under Windows, I opted for a Mini-PC with an Intel Gemini Lake CPU. For remote access, RS-BA1 Remote Utility uses 3 UDP connections. As you will read at the end of this post, the Remote Utility mixes parameters and makes implicit assumptions that are not documented. This is confusing, especially when you are trying to debug your setup.
The Remote Utility implements the server and client-side at the same time.
RS-BA1 Remote Control is the User Interface through which you interact with the radio.Ī Screenshot of the RS-BA1 Remote Utility softwareĪ Screenshot of the RS-BA1 Remote Control software The Remote Utility basically takes care of all the networking and radio setup. Icom’s RS-BA1 consists of two Windows programs. So if you are planning to buy the RS-BA1 software, make sure you buy version 2. As far as I can see, the main difference is that newer radios like the IC-9700 and IC-7610 with Dual VFO capabilities are only available in RS-BA1 v2. v1 (the latest version is 1.96) is most likely discontinued since this release dates back to 2018. It is also worth noting, that RS-BA1 exists actually in two versions v1 and v2. There are some 3rd party alternatives available like VA2FSQ’s Win4Icom Suite, but they couldn’t convince me so far. It gets the essential job done to control your radio(s) remotely - however it lacks interfaces that are needed for the integration with 3rd Party software (like Logging or Digital Mode programs). In this post, I describe the symptoms, the tools I used for network debugging (on Windows), and the possible solutions. During the setup, I stumbled over a few, mainly networking-related problems. To access Icom Radio remotely (over the internet), Icom sells the RS-BA1 software.