Recent content by Switchgear

I’m glad it helped. The people on this forum are very informative and I appreciate the help I got on here. This is so far a way better setup than a big box system. I’m ready to add my fourth camera, I’ll need to get a hold of Andy soon. As far as how mine works my open vpn works until I...

Want to thank everyone who helped me on this. I finally got it after I read back on SouthernYankee's response about the LAN and WAN. I used the IP from my VPN for LAN then used that same IP for the WAN with :81. Now if I'm at home on my wifi I don't need the VPN to be active to log in from my...

Yeah I disabled the dmz and my open ports. I just need to get this vpn login going on my cell network.

Just got home. Turned off my cellular with only WiFi and it worked. Disconnected the openvpn on my pc and it stopped. I did get push notifications to my phone today at work, just couldn’t see the cams.

After turning off port forwarding and checking my network vulnerability with shields up everything was good until I switched to my LTE and now I can’t connect. I feel better that I am now down to this and maybe figuring out some settings on the VPN or the web settings.

Yeah there’s something I’m missing. The OpenVPN says it is running, and the LAN IP matches the openvpn lan IP number but I’m not using my openvpn app to log in from my phone. I think I’m missing something in the web server settings. the main thing I want to use is the push notifications so...

Yeah it disables all of the firewall (demilitarizes) and lets everything through. I did it for a second to finally get a connection just out of desperation. My vpn is still running on my pc and I used the lan address that the open vpn gave me to do my blue iris log in. I had to port forward 81...

Thanks for all of the help. I put the pc on dmz in my router and it finally connected. Is there a safer way to do this. I’m finally a little relieved that I can actually use my phone.

Does it matter that’s what the vpn setup gave me for an IP?

Now it says check network connectivity

I copied the addresses in the blue iris remote setup. But even in the setup I get the operation has timed out in the verified server box

I have read through the VPN noob primer and I cannot figure this out. I used the open vpn on my asus router then connected with the open vpn app on my iphone. When I try to connect my blu iris app it never connects. Also going through the remote setup wizard and the server always times out...

Very nice, thank you. At first I was pretty close to buying a really cheap 4th gen I5 Optiplex, now I've been looking into the 6th gen used HPs and Dells because I want to be futureproof. I'm sure that is overkill for the setup I'm going for. Ill probably start with one or two cameras, and I...

I've looked at those, I've never managed a switch before but I can't image being much more difficult than a router. Is it a web log in or do I have to get software from HP? The biggest drawback I might see is the noise. I built a network/media closet next to my living room when I remodeled my...

Is the garage door circuit fed from the house and not the garage? If the circuit is coming from the house can you re feed it from the 100 amp garage circuit (which I’m guessing is a panel feed.) If you can do that now you have a spare conduit that you can run whatever in. As a side note it...