"A man's got to know his limitations"
Not sure I'm posting this to the correct forum category, but here goes
I need help with my surveillance system. Some hand-holding until I get a better footing as I implement and better document what has been done.
I'm retired. My brain is old and tired, forgotten more than it learned and getting worse about remembering and comprehending things.
CRS comes to mind..
As with most of you here, I want this system to be secure from the web, concealed within the house, yet allow me to access the pc and blue iris at any distance remotely.
I'm stuck at the 'remote' and secure part.. but I did at one time have ZeroTier going, but I never got it working outside the range of my WIFI modem.
That became another abandoned / shelved project. I struggle a bit with Blue Iris too.
So far the architecture is an 8 camera system.
Most are PTZ and all are WIRED Ethernet (no WIFI) and various brands. Some ONVIF, RTSP or generic Foscam.
It runs on an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (almost but not an Intel NUC) pc (32Gb ram, 2TB M.2 SSD, gigabit Ethernet) [Win 11 / Blue Iris 5.9.9.61] and is powered by a home-made AC to regulated DC source with battery backup.
The camera array is hard wired into three, 1Gbps unmanaged switches, some of which are POE and are also on smart UPS.
At present, the system is connected to a cable modem [Arris SBG 8300]
This is a stable system albeit with possible undesirable points of access. We do use the modem WIFI for laptops, iphones, Nest, etc.
As you may see I'm good with hardware (my core knowledge), but lousy with network knowledge and more of a danger than a benefit.
I do have an older copy of Networking for Dummies 6th edition (2016?) but it is nearly 900 pages and does not list the more recent approach using DDNS. [which blows my mind!] I get lost too easily in this book. As said, I fail to remember from chapter to chapter.
Among the above, I want no-monthly-cost VPN.
Four years ago I was making a Raspberry Pi 3 VPN, but gave up due to a VPN feature offered by mcafee. That was a spaghetti project tangled with Linux and gave me a headache just thinking about it.
I fired Mcafee last month. Windows Defender is good enuf.
Today, there are other hardware and software options -such as managed switches with VPN and maybe DDNS capable? I'm not even sure I could comprehend how to 'manage' a managed switch.. jeez i suck
-edit-
I just discovered the 'wiki' here. Pardon me.
I will absorb these as best I can.
Tom's hardware reviewed an expensive Asus router with features, and I seem to recall here something about Ubiquiti, but who makes a box that works and is suitable to my simpleton needs?
Please share with me your suggestions and perhaps a personal mail where we can discuss the topic specifics.
Thank you.
kyle
Not sure I'm posting this to the correct forum category, but here goes
I need help with my surveillance system. Some hand-holding until I get a better footing as I implement and better document what has been done.
I'm retired. My brain is old and tired, forgotten more than it learned and getting worse about remembering and comprehending things.
CRS comes to mind..
As with most of you here, I want this system to be secure from the web, concealed within the house, yet allow me to access the pc and blue iris at any distance remotely.
I'm stuck at the 'remote' and secure part.. but I did at one time have ZeroTier going, but I never got it working outside the range of my WIFI modem.
That became another abandoned / shelved project. I struggle a bit with Blue Iris too.
So far the architecture is an 8 camera system.
Most are PTZ and all are WIRED Ethernet (no WIFI) and various brands. Some ONVIF, RTSP or generic Foscam.
It runs on an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (almost but not an Intel NUC) pc (32Gb ram, 2TB M.2 SSD, gigabit Ethernet) [Win 11 / Blue Iris 5.9.9.61] and is powered by a home-made AC to regulated DC source with battery backup.
The camera array is hard wired into three, 1Gbps unmanaged switches, some of which are POE and are also on smart UPS.
At present, the system is connected to a cable modem [Arris SBG 8300]
This is a stable system albeit with possible undesirable points of access. We do use the modem WIFI for laptops, iphones, Nest, etc.
As you may see I'm good with hardware (my core knowledge), but lousy with network knowledge and more of a danger than a benefit.
I do have an older copy of Networking for Dummies 6th edition (2016?) but it is nearly 900 pages and does not list the more recent approach using DDNS. [which blows my mind!] I get lost too easily in this book. As said, I fail to remember from chapter to chapter.
Among the above, I want no-monthly-cost VPN.
Four years ago I was making a Raspberry Pi 3 VPN, but gave up due to a VPN feature offered by mcafee. That was a spaghetti project tangled with Linux and gave me a headache just thinking about it.
I fired Mcafee last month. Windows Defender is good enuf.
Today, there are other hardware and software options -such as managed switches with VPN and maybe DDNS capable? I'm not even sure I could comprehend how to 'manage' a managed switch.. jeez i suck
-edit-
I just discovered the 'wiki' here. Pardon me.
I will absorb these as best I can.
Tom's hardware reviewed an expensive Asus router with features, and I seem to recall here something about Ubiquiti, but who makes a box that works and is suitable to my simpleton needs?
Please share with me your suggestions and perhaps a personal mail where we can discuss the topic specifics.
Thank you.
kyle
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