---
title: "🛡️ Get the Remote Access status."
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/connect/status"
tags: ["Remote Access"]
---

# 🛡️ Get the Remote Access status.

`GET /api/v1/connect/status`

<h3>🛡️ Requires Capabilities: <code>ServerSettings.Update</code></h3>

## Response `200`

- ConnectStatusResponse
  - `enabled` boolean, required — Whether Remote Access is enabled on this server.
  - `state` 'disconnected' | 'connecting' | 'connected' | 'auth_failed', required — Live state of the control channel to the Remote Access Server.
  - `hostname` string, nullable, required — The hostname assigned by the Remote Access Server, once registered.
  - `signingKeyFingerprint` string, nullable, required — Truncated SHA-256 fingerprint of the probe signing key, for support diagnostics.
  - `tokenExpiresAt` string, nullable, required — Expiry of the stored cloud credential, ISO 8601.

## Other responses

- `401` — Possible reasons: The authorization token is invalid.
- `403` — Possible reasons: The user does not have sufficent capabilities.

## Changes

- **2026-08-07** `eca025445dda` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/cardinalapps/apis/cardinal-media-server-api/changes/api/v1/connect/status/get.md)

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