blue iris - watching your cameras when off of wifi

[RWDM3]

is there any tutorial on how to set up VPN so can watch the cameras from your phone while not on home network?
trying to understand everything but the description is pretty vague for an amateur (at best)

So i have cyber ghost, but lets just say i want to use the openVPN
-- i download open VPN on my home pc, made a cloud account
(is there anything i have to do in any settings there, there is shit ton of stuff that i dont understand lol)

--i download open VPN on my phone, made a cloud account
(is there anything i have to do in any settings there, there is shit ton of stuff that i dont understand lol)

and finally how do i allow my phone to connect to blue iris

 

[wittaj]

Cyber ghost won't help you as that is hiding your ip for illegal streaming and porno LOL.

You need something that puts you back onto your IP.

OpenVPN is simple, but we make it way more difficult than it needs to be lol.

I was there too once with OpenVPN...tried to do all this research to find directions and got to the point I said screw it and just enabled it and kinda of followed what it was asking and it worked.

If your router supports it, just go to OpenVPN and enable it and see what it says - probably asks you to create a user/PW, DDNS name, encryption method, and create certificate. Then copy and paste that certificate on your mobile device. Then install the OpenVPN app and select the certificate and then connect and you are on your home network.

It really is simpler than our minds make it out to be.

A big mistake people make is installing OpenVPN on their computer and trying to host it there, yet they are trying to follow the steps on enabling it on a router and screw it all up. Only install it on the computer to host if your router does not have it built-in, but then follow those directions.

This is for an Asus router, but the steps are kinda the same.


OpenVPN on a Asus router


Or go with ZeroTier

 

[RWDM3]

man im not gonna lie
for an amateur to set this stuff up is a mission!!!
i hope after this im done and can enjoy the system lol
all i got left is getting the AI alerts to work on the 5442s and secure network so i can view it from anywhere other then home
will check this open vpn procedure a little later
i already installed on my phone and pc

 

[matthyne]

Tailscale !!!