Blue iris with ngrok

[brad2388]

Im running ngrok on my blue iris machine because im behind att lte.

What id like to do is have blueiris pickup the ngrok link instead of the external ip. So that when the ngrok refreshes or gets a new link i dont have to manually update blueiris.

Is there a way to do that?


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[fenderman]

Im running ngrok on my blue iris machine because im behind att lte.

What id like to do is have blueiris pickup the ngrok link instead of the external ip. So that when the ngrok refreshes or gets a new link i dont have to manually update blueiris.

Is there a way to do that?


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BI would have no way of knowing....you will have to pay the monthly ngrok fee or try to get hamachi working.

 

[Michael Sesto]

Im running ngrok on my blue iris machine because im behind att lte.

What id like to do is have blueiris pickup the ngrok link instead of the external ip. So that when the ngrok refreshes or gets a new link i dont have to manually update blueiris.

Is there a way to do that?


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Sorry to bring back an old thread but I was able to accomplish this using a powershell script, i am more than happy to make a tutorial for all interested.

 

[Old Timer]

Would be interesting to see how you did it.
I figured a way to take a screen shot and emailing it every day.

 

[Michael Sesto]

Would be interesting to see how you did it.
I figured a way to take a screen shot and emailing it every day.

Sure, I’ll post the script Tommorow morning as well as a walk through of sorts to make it run at boot time.

 

[Michael Sesto]

So the board wont work right now for a new topic, I assume because of my post count but here is the script in powershell:



just modify the filepaths to match as well as args

You need to download jq from stedolan.github.io/jq

As for startup:

Task manager :
Command Powershell.exe
Arguments: -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -command "c:\ngrok\ngrokfree.ps1" obviously change patch and script name to match

Run as: Admin rights

Also in Blue Iris turn off the auto renew ip where the wan settings are.

Another option if you don't want the service to restart is call the console open and closed in powershell so it refreshes.

#Set Your Ngrok Parameters Here#
$filepath = 'c:\ngrok\ngrok.exe'
$args = 'http 127.0.0.1:9880'

Start-Process $filepath $args

timeout 10
#jqwin-64 path needs to match#
cmd /c curl -s localhost:4040/api/tunnels | c:\ngrok\jq-win64 -r .tunnels[0].public_url > C:\ngrok\NgrokURL.txt ##Adjust path as needed##
timeout 5
$filecontent = [IO.File]::ReadAllText("c:\ngrok\NgrokURL.txt")
$regkey = "HKLM:\Software\Perspective Software\Blue Iris\server" #This is correct for version 5#
$regprop = "ip"
$NewString = $filecontent -replace ".*/"
$NewString = $NewString.Trim()
if(Test-Path ($registryPath + "\" + $regprop))
{
New-ItemProperty -Path $regkey -Name $regprop -Value $NewString
}
else
{
Set-ItemProperty -Path $regkey -Name $regprop -Value $Newstring
}
Restart-Service -Name BlueIris #Optional if this process runs before blue iris

 

[ibrujo]

Hi:
I just saw your post
Is ngrok working? I am with AT&T fiber.
I had everything working with ngrock and since 3 weeks ago I my ios app doesn't load, it just keeps trying to open, no error message.
I am not to use my public IP to login either.
Thank you
Mario