Nice new avatar. Wish it weren't so but unfortunately we are, and have been for a time, living in a banana republic....I dont use it long term. I've toyed with it over the past 3-5 months just to learn it, but I'll be leaving it enabled when we take a short trip soon
When on, my firewall appliance shows the NVR contacting easy4ipcloud.com once until I trip an IVS rule. Then it sends a request to 165.154.178.105 for each tripped rule and one initial ping to push.messagepush.orgI just took the plunge and enabled P2P for seamless notifications. I have VLANs set up so that the NVR can only reach out to the Internet and can't access my trusted network. I have a crazy complex NVR password in my password manager, so brute force would never happen. I figure this is a risk I've mitigated to an acceptable level for the functionality I want.
I'm not going to have VPN enabled on my phone 24/7 just so I can get notifications.
Is port 8888 blocked by your firewall?Interesting. I only have an "Old" NVR (5216-16P-4KS2E) And when remote (not connected to local wifi which is the whole point), I do not get push notifications without P2P being enabled on the NVR. Enable P2P on the NVR and boom they work fine.
When P2P is not enabled, and I'm on wifi local (99% of the time) I also dont get notifications. (EDIT: I do get alerts on the phone, I dont get "dings" and messages with video/pic in the app)
I do watch the firewall, and like I said while enabled I'm seeing outbound requests to a certain IP (on any random port it decides to use) and their cloud server. No port forwarding of any kind on the router.
If P2P is working you have to have ports unblocked by your firewallI figure it’s more secure to use P2P vs opening ports to the Internet.
True but isn't it more like UPnP where they're only opened as needed when initiated from the inside? Open ports (i.e., port forwarding) were what I referring to as a less secure configuration since ANY one from the Internet could see it open, unless you whitelisted the source IPs from the outside and denied everything else.If P2P is working you have to have ports unblocked by your firewall