Wondering if anyone has a good solution for this.
I had planned on having a headless mac mini/indigo home automation install to both keep costs down as well as keeping the customer from hosing up the setup. This creates problems for them allowing me to have access to their computer.
Right now I THINK I have a somewhat clumsy solution, but I was hoping someone would have some advice on a better one?
So I would be using iTeleport VNC server on the clients computer and iTeleport client on my work mac. iTeleport uses a google service for authentication. I could set this up with a mutually known password, then I could have the customer go to gmail and change their password to something that only THEY know.
This works as long as I sign out of the client after I am done, otherwise it holds onto the connection. I'm not sure HOW long it holds onto it (I just tested it for a few minutes and then manually signed out) but it does seem to hold onto it for some period of time.
So my solution right now, is that if the customer is uncomfortable with trust (I wouldn't trust someone who had total control of my house and cameras!) I could use something like Join.me service so THEY could see MY screen. Heck, they could even watch what I'm doing during the changes I make. They could change their password, could watch me sign out and try to sign back in with an error and I'm hoping that would set their mind at ease.
As I said, this is clumsy and I don't know if it is real great, but it is at least something. Any ideas others may have would be GREATLY appreciated!