Question for the group as I'm rather new to setting up a VPN for an added layer of security for my cameras and NVR I'm in the process of installing. Promise I've read a ton of documentation on this site, but still a little confused.
So far I've only gotten the DB2
doorbell from Nelly's installed and working well in the variety of apps: Guarding Vision, Hik-Connect and iVMS-4500. I did install iVMS-4200 3.1 and BatchConfig on my desktop, as well as a first few steps of adding a Hikvision IP cube cam (wifi & POE), but stopped after entering the wifi info when I quickly connected it via POE and accessed the web portal. Mainly stopped because I wanted to make sure I'm secure before fully installing and I don't want to open ports, but use OpenVPN rather.
Weird thing is, in the last day since I installed the doorbell and initial step or two of the cube cam, my internet usage when through the roof. I don't have an NVR connected yet either.
I have an all Araknis network (with Control4) and my Araknis 110 router has OpenVPN build in, which
I THINK I've got installed and working. This leaves me to my question from a newbie: How can I tell the OpenVPN is working properly? As I understand it, I won't need any device with it running when I'm at home and on my network (i.e. iPhones, laptop, desktop, etc.). However, I've I'm away from our home and iPhone is on LTE
WITHOUT OpenVPN turned on my iPhone, should I be able to access these apps (i.e. Hik-Connect) to see the doorbell live? I ask because currently I can turn wifi off my cell phone and still access the doorbell when OpenVPN isn't turned on.
Any newbie help would be greatly appreciated.