Questions about how to use the Windows version

Hi there,

I’ve been using Grocy for Windows and it’s great so far, thanks 👍. I’m having some issues with reaching the Grocy interface over my internal network and setting the language, was hoping you could shed some light on the following:

• I’m able to reach Grocy in a browser on the same machine that Grocy for Windows runs on (via e.g. http://localhost:$PORT_NUMBER). And I’ve allowed all ports on both incoming and outgoing UDP and TCP connections for the Grocy app in the Windows security center. Yet I’m not able to reach them from other machines on my local network, even though I’m serving several other webapps (e.g. Home Assistant and Plex) from the same machine without any issues. Could you give me some pointers in how to get this to work?
• When Grocy for Windows starts, it allways overwrites the files in the settingoverrides folder. For instance it sets the CULTURE value to the language of the OS automatically. I’ve tried to overwrite it manually (my Windows is in Dutch but I want Grocy in Enlish) but each time when I restart Grocy, it overwrites it with the OS language again. Also it seems to randomize the port number in BASE_URL on start. Could you perhaps give some pointers how to be able to override both in a way that persists through restarts of the app?

Thanks so much, and kind regards!

[berrnd]

This fits not completely for grocy-desktop, as also authentication is disabled, no built-in SSL, and so on…

However, it would be possible to expose the localhost-bound port via a reverse proxy or similar - also Windows has something like that built-in (portproxy) - so assumeing that there is no other php.exe running on your machine, the following little PowerShell script searches for the port of the currently running PHP server and exposes it on port 8080, accessible from everywhere:

# Define the exposed port
$exposedPort = 8080

# Search for the used port of grocy-desktop, resp. the one of the php.exe process
$grocyPhpServerPort = (Get-NetTCPConnection | Select LocalPort,@{Name="Process";Expression={(Get-Process -Id $_.OwningProcess).ProcessName}} | Where Process -eq php).LocalPort

# Create the portproxy ($grocyPhpServerPort@localhost -> $exposedPort@AllInterfaces)
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=$exposedPort listenaddress=* connectport=$grocyPhpServerPort connectaddress=127.0.0.1

# Create a firewall rule to allow accessing $exposedPort from anywhere
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="grocy-desktop exposed" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=$exposedPort




# Delete the portproxy and the firewall rule
# netsh interface portproxy delete v4tov4 listenport=$exposedPort listenaddress=*
# netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name="grocy-desktop exposed" dir=in protocol=TCP localport=$exposedPort

# Show all portproxies
# netsh interface portproxy show all

[berrnd]

So this is about grocy-desktop, not a custom setup of grocy on Windows, right? I’ve moved this to grocy/grocy-desktop.