VPN Question

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Richdem

Getting the hang of it
May 12, 2015
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Hi All,

I have successfully setup a VPN connection so I can connect to my Blue Iris server securely. I have a couple of questions:

1) Is there a way to disable the web server or do I just not forward any ports?
2) I have noticed that there seems to be quite a delay when a push notification is sent to my phone after a trigger occurs. Is there something I can do to remedy this? When I was connecting through the web server the notifications were instant

Regards

Richard
 
Richdem said:
Hi All,

I have successfully setup a VPN connection so I can connect to my Blue Iris server securely. I have a couple of questions:

1) Is there a way to disable the web server or do I just not forward any ports?
2) I have noticed that there seems to be quite a delay when a push notification is sent to my phone after a trigger occurs. Is there something I can do to remedy this? When I was connecting through the web server the notifications were instant

Regards

Richard
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You always need the web server... disable port forward...
Notifications are not impacted by vpn
 
Thanks for the quick reply

I have set this up on a new router so no ports have been forwarded so all good there.

The odd thing about the push notifications is there definitely is a delay now.

Sent from my SM-G955W using Tapatalk
 
I am definitely only getting instant push notifications when connected to my local network. Anything other than that there is quite a delay

Any idea what has changed? Before I setup the VPN the push notifications worked flawlessly
 
Richdem said:
I am definitely only getting instant push notifications when connected to my local network. Anything other than that there is quite a delay

Any idea what has changed? Before I setup the VPN the push notifications worked flawlessly
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VPN has zero impact on push notifications as they are not passed via the vpn to your phone unless you are actually connected at the time. Even then, its a tiny bit of data...
 
I have an Asus RT-N66U Router running the latest Merlin firmware. I setup the DDNS & Open VPN Server on the router and then use Open VPN connect on my Android phone. I can connect to my VPN server and to Blue Iris server without any issues
 
Richdem said:
I have an Asus RT-N66U Router running the latest Merlin firmware. I setup the DDNS & Open VPN Server on the router and then use Open VPN connect on my Android phone. I can connect to my VPN server and to Blue Iris server without any issues
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do you have the delay when you are connected via the vpn, disconnected or both?
 
Just performed a test by sending a push alert to my phone:

LAN - Instant
Wifi Off (Using Data_ - 3 Minutes
Wifi Off (Connected to VPN with Data) - 2 Minutes
 
Richdem said:
Just performed a test by sending a push alert to my phone:

LAN - Instant
Wifi Off (Using Data_ - 3 Minutes
Wifi Off (Connected to VPN with Data) - 2 Minutes
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That confirms its got nothing to do with the vpn...
 
I am not sure what is wrong then as I said before I was getting instant push messages before I setup the OpenVPN server on this router.

I would assume that the outgoing push notifications are not going through the VPN server on my router? I am only using VPN for inbound traffic to my Blue Iris server
 
Richdem said:
I am not sure what is wrong then as I said before I was getting instant push messages before I setup the OpenVPN server on this router.

I would assume that the outgoing push notifications are not going through the VPN server on my router? I am only using VPN for inbound traffic to my Blue Iris server
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you are only using your vpn for communication between your phone client and blue iris pc...
 
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