Remote access to your Crankk gateway with Tailscale

1. Go to https://login.tailscale.com/admin/settings/keys or visit your local dashboard and click on the Tailscale tab, then press on Authorization Keys.
2. Register a new account.
3. Go to Settings > Keys:
-Generate an Authentication key.

-Check both Reusable and Ephemeral

– Write down this key and keep it safe.

4. Install Tailscale on your gateway
– Go to your gateway local dashboard on the Tailscale tab

– Paste the key you just generated, set up a nickname for your device (if desired), and press install.
This will install everything necessary to connect remotely to your device.

5. Install Tailscale to the device you will be logged in your gateways – https://tailscale.com/download

– After the installation is complete, a pop-up window will appear, and you will be redirected to the Tailscale website to connect your device.

6. How to connect to a gateway remotely
When you go to Machines tab in your account, you can see all the registered devices and their IPs.

Disable key expiry if you don’t want to change the key every 90 days.
You can use separate key for every gateway or use one key to rule them all!

7. Connect to your local dashboard
You can also connect remotely to your device local dashboard, here is how to do it.
From PC or mobile phone (with installed Tailscale) open a new browser tab and type in your gateway IP
(as seen in your Tailscale account) followed by :17080 to access the local dashboard.

Here is an example connection to the local dashboard of the RAKv2 gateway above:

You can use the IPs to log in to your gateways via PuTTY (crankk@IP) or provide them to the Crankk technical support team if requested in the Discord ticket.