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  1. Kenneth Anderson

    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    The socat solution is merely an alternative one can use. No harm in it. Nothing to fear. Enough said, except that the nohup with '&' might not be necessary when using socat due to it may perform that functionality on its own.
  2. Kenneth Anderson

    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    So I just looked again into VPN. As I understand it, I would become dependent on yet another third party and their limitations and their future decisions for every single freaking packet. ABSOLUTELY AGAINST MY DESIRE FOR INDEPENDENCE AND SIMPLICITY! Enough said. I'm the one who has to...
  3. Kenneth Anderson

    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    No VPN needed for me, like I say. You're the one who said you had "no idea" in your last post, remember? I'm not at all curious.
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    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    Oh I'm quite happy the way things are with the socat line. Just went all night long with all four cameras streaming to me over the internet, a happy milestone! I have a very plausible explanation and have no reason to question it. It is not all that easy to firewall off Communist Momma...
  5. Kenneth Anderson

    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    I do receive your kind sentiments. Thank you!
  6. Kenneth Anderson

    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    I can talk in terms of any scripting language you're familiar with. Just show me some code that taps into the alerts the cams send to an NVR.
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    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    You haven't given me enough context about your setup to continue here.
  8. Kenneth Anderson

    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    This ONVIF is all new since I installed the cams for their first existence. Not that it didn't exist at all, but it just wasn't a front and center thing back then. How would bash scripting interface to the event detections? That would be a very good thing for me to learn.
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    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    I'm learning from you. Let's compare our setups. Mine is a headless (CLI) Linux re-purposed server with one of the interfaces connected to the Internet - a ISP-owned cable modem that puts an external IP address on the server. The other interface is intranet centered around a simple...
  10. Kenneth Anderson

    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    The way you see this is: DON'T allow your cameras to contact momma, request an rtsp connection DIRECTLY between it and an external IP address. When the camera realizes it is being asked to stream to an external address but can't communicate with COMMUNIST MOMMA COMPANY, it enforces the EVIL 5...
  11. Kenneth Anderson

    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    The 300 in the socat command was arbitrarily chosen by me. I see now that it lends itself to getting confused with the evil 5 minute Hikvision rtsp stream time limit. My bad for the confusion.
  12. Kenneth Anderson

    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    Yes, you have the main point there!!!!!!!
  13. Kenneth Anderson

    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    Oh but they sure do with plain port forwarding or even DNAT, the old ones, at least. They've always timed out for me at 4:59, 5:00 or 5:01. Now I am so smiling to be free from that.
  14. Kenneth Anderson

    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    Do a google search on "hikvision 5 minute". It seems to be meant to pressure users into buying Hikvision NVR products.
  15. Kenneth Anderson

    socat lets me connect from off-site directly to stream rtsp PLUS defeat 5 min limit

    I have multiple users in the family, each needs flexibility to use the device best suited for the moment, and everyone but me has no patience for setup. Setup is done transparently by an Android app called Onvifer. It knocks ports on launch, and my system uses the knocking to whitelist their...
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