Has anyone ever port forwarded cameras and then connected them to a BI server behind another WAN IP? I have attempted this but it isn't very secure. I port forwarded both the onvif port and the rtsp port and I was able to connect even though I entered in the wrong password for the camera (on purpose). Is there a more secure way to do this?
Record over the WAN
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You have 2 options:
- VPN - you have to setup a VPN server and connect to it, but make sure to configure it to not redirect all internet traffic through it - which is one of its uses, perhaps this should help https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Easy_Windows_Guide
- SSH tunnel - http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/46235/how-does-reverse-ssh-tunneling-work - I use https://www.bitvise.com/winsshd both as server and as client, it is quite good, although I am having some issues with it - command line client does not seem to be reconnecting properly, and forwarded port gets sometimes stucked, so I have to go to my NAS(SSH server) and kill the connection - but that might be an issue of my Synology NAS, it is quite rare so I did not bother solving it. But it has a nice GUI and is very user friendly. BTW use generated key instead of password.
- VPN - you have to setup a VPN server and connect to it, but make sure to configure it to not redirect all internet traffic through it - which is one of its uses, perhaps this should help https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Easy_Windows_Guide
- SSH tunnel - http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/46235/how-does-reverse-ssh-tunneling-work - I use https://www.bitvise.com/winsshd both as server and as client, it is quite good, although I am having some issues with it - command line client does not seem to be reconnecting properly, and forwarded port gets sometimes stucked, so I have to go to my NAS(SSH server) and kill the connection - but that might be an issue of my Synology NAS, it is quite rare so I did not bother solving it. But it has a nice GUI and is very user friendly. BTW use generated key instead of password.
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dalepa
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I do this for at my bay house. I only have 1mbit uploads, so I use the cam's second sub stream and connect from my home BI server. I can't get PTZ to work remotely, however it works locally fine. Not sure how PTZ communicates.
Not sure why the wrong password worked for you.
I wish BI had a way to connect to BI server to BI server.
Not sure why the wrong password worked for you.
I wish BI had a way to connect to BI server to BI server.
fenderman
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you can forward a camera stream from one BI server to another. /h264/cam1 where cam1 is the camera name
I have been trying to connect a remote camera to BI and having issues. I have used Milestone to connect to remote cameras with some struggle but eventual success. Milestone requires the http port and RTSP port to be forwarded. However, Milestone only has a place to specify the Http port. So that was confusing.
I just wanted to get a confirmation that the above solutions are the only options (VPN, SSH Tunnel). Is this correct?
Thanks!
John
I just wanted to get a confirmation that the above solutions are the only options (VPN, SSH Tunnel). Is this correct?
Thanks!
John
Hmm. I will give it another try. I have forwarded numerous ports and tried them in BI. I will look up what changes I need to make to the RTSP stream connection string and try that route. (I can't look at BI or cams at the moment)
Thanks!
Thanks!
fenderman
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if you are streaming direct from a camera, you would set it up EXACTLY the same way you would locally...except the ip address will be the remote address..