Recent content by kcrawford

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    Blue Iris monitoring through Uptime Kuma

    Agreed, I monitor alerts for my day job and their is an astounding amount of noise. I setup the Raspberry Pi with Uptime Kuma to monitor the Blue Iris webui through http ping as well as ping on all the cameras. I have all the cameras connected to a router that doesn't have internet access so I...
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    Blue Iris monitoring through Uptime Kuma

    Hi folks, long time lurker of the fourms here. I have an installation of Blue Iris and 6 Dahua/EmpireTech cameras that I setup for someone else. I also set them up with the Blue Iris app on their phone to be able to monitor the video feed remotely and get notifications from the app. Last...
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    How insecure is port forwarding for Blue Iris if you have an incredibly strong password?

    There is a way to do this, it's called port knocking. An example of this would be to configure a machine to listen for connection attempts on tcp port 8000 and 8002. When it receives a connection attempt on port 8000 then 8002, that machine can add a firewall rule to then allow traffic from that...