WAN IP Changes - How to get Alerted?

captainkaboom · Feb 23, 2018

To all,

We have BlueIris setup at a 2nd home. While it doesn't happen often, from time to time the IP Address gets changed. Any recommendations for a tool that periodically looks at the WAN Address - and if it changes - can send an email/text/alert notifying us what the NEW IP is ?

fenderman · Feb 23, 2018

captainkaboom said:
To all,

We have BlueIris setup at a 2nd home. While it doesn't happen often, from time to time the IP Address gets changed. Any recommendations for a tool that periodically looks at the WAN Address - and if it changes - can send an email/text/alert notifying us what the NEW IP is ?

Why hassle with this... Either set up a ddns service or use blue irises built in ddns Type function

Mike · Feb 27, 2018

This is built into Blue Iris Tools in the DDNS feature. Click "Enable IP Monitor Watchdog" in the DDNS section.

captainkaboom · Feb 27, 2018

Not to sound dumb, but where are the tools located ?

looney2ns · Feb 28, 2018

captainkaboom said:
Not to sound dumb, but where are the tools located ?

Top of this page, click on Blue Iris Tools.

robertsig · Mar 4, 2018

If your firewall supports dynamic DNS, that's the place to put it. Look up dyndns.org or a similar service.

gawainxx · Mar 9, 2018

Yup, totally recommend ddns, I use my ASUS router's built in DDNS but there are other free options such as duck DNS etc.

6890 · Mar 15, 2018

I personally use duckDNS to solve this issue for me, it works well.

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