Best way to give support access to a camera on the land?

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port forward using an obscure port? or use my camera website and port forward through that? I only have one dedicaited ip so giving it it's own IP would take an act of God or comcast.

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In general, I would not feel comfortable exposing a camera/nvr through port-forwarding.

If it was a quick one-time thing and I was going to be around, I'd probably setup TeamViewer and let the person get to the camera via remote controlling my computer (with me watching everything).

If it's an on-going support thing <where I might not be available when they want to work>, I'd look into creating a VPN account for the person to be able to connect to my network.
 

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If you need to give access to Blue Iris support, you could ask for his IP address so you can create a forwarding rule that only works from that one address.
 

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I only have one dedicaited ip so giving it it's own IP would take an act of God or comcast.
It's the WAN IP that you have only 1 of, assigned by your ISP, your router is able pass out dozens (LAN) and how & what is under your command.

Since you're on a Blue Iris forum, I echo @looney2ns : what is it you're wanting to do? Is it to allow someone to log in remotely over the Internet and view a specific cam or cams?
 
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