DavidDavid
Getting comfortable
My push notifications have not worked in a long time. Like, 4-5 months. I thought it was because of an upgrade to the app back in September 2017, but now I'm not so sure (or it was fixed since then). I've kept an eye out here but it seems that nobody else was really having any issues, so I thought it was something with my network.
I replaced my shitty linksys wifi/router early January with a Ubiquity ERX router and successfully set up a firewall rule to block my Dahua NVR5216-4KS2 and all of my cameras from accessing the internet. Previously I had the parental controls on the Linksys router blocking internet access for them. I always wondered if that worked or not. Maybe it didn't.
Recently I've been trying to address the push notification issue and after spending most of today messing around with settings and such I finally just removed my NVR from the firewall rule that blocks any communication from the NVR/Cameras outside of my home network to the internet. Well, I immediately started receiving tons of push notifications on my phone. I quickly added it back to the firewall rule and they stopped.
Now, can anyone help me figure out what I can do to get push notifications working without letting the NVR see the Internet? Or maybe I'm doing it wrong and should set the firewall rule up so that nothing from the Internet can see the NVR/Cameras? That way it can still send the push notifications out, but if it "calls home" or something, nothing can reach it or the cameras.
Also, I do have a working VPN server on my network. I never thought it might be the fact that the NVR couldn't see the internet that was my problem, because weather or not I was at home on WiFi, away from home on my VPN or away from home not on my VPN, I never received any notifications.
I replaced my shitty linksys wifi/router early January with a Ubiquity ERX router and successfully set up a firewall rule to block my Dahua NVR5216-4KS2 and all of my cameras from accessing the internet. Previously I had the parental controls on the Linksys router blocking internet access for them. I always wondered if that worked or not. Maybe it didn't.
Recently I've been trying to address the push notification issue and after spending most of today messing around with settings and such I finally just removed my NVR from the firewall rule that blocks any communication from the NVR/Cameras outside of my home network to the internet. Well, I immediately started receiving tons of push notifications on my phone. I quickly added it back to the firewall rule and they stopped.
Now, can anyone help me figure out what I can do to get push notifications working without letting the NVR see the Internet? Or maybe I'm doing it wrong and should set the firewall rule up so that nothing from the Internet can see the NVR/Cameras? That way it can still send the push notifications out, but if it "calls home" or something, nothing can reach it or the cameras.
Also, I do have a working VPN server on my network. I never thought it might be the fact that the NVR couldn't see the internet that was my problem, because weather or not I was at home on WiFi, away from home on my VPN or away from home not on my VPN, I never received any notifications.
