OK, my son was here and he got things fixed the way I wanted/needed. I now have my NVR streaming my cameras to NIC_2. NVR is isolated from the internet. I can access my NVR's GUI now. And once I updated my NVR's IP address's in Blue Iris, Blue Iris is up and running.
Once I try to copy/translate his notes, I will put some screen shot's up where he some IP Addresses in my NVR. I will have to Full around with some Network settings on NIC_2 if I want to Unplug one of my camera's that was assigned a IP Adress from my NVR. Hopefully I will remember the settings
I'm guessing for my son it's like riding a bicycle. Learned about IP Addresses in High School and College over 20 years ago. Took him a few minutes for him to figure out what I was trying to do.
A little off the beaten path from page ONE Settings, but it set-up and working for now.
I am setting up a Dual NIC for my Blue Iris PC and have some question. Also let me know what additional settings I would need to set the NICs on the Blue Iris PC beside setting the static IPs on each NIC. Is there anything else I am missing.
With the dual NIC setup can I access the cameras GUI from any PC on 192.168.1.XXX
Would there be an issue accessing the cameras on the Blue Iris mobile app connecting through Zero Tier
What IP would I access Blue Iris UI3 from any PC on 192.168.1.XXX
Would there be an issue with Home Assistant accessing Blue Iris
I am setting up a Dual NIC for my Blue Iris PC and have some question. Also let me know what additional settings I would need to set the NICs on the Blue Iris PC beside setting the static IPs on each NIC. Is there anything else I am missing.
With the dual NIC setup can I access the cameras GUI from any PC on 192.168.1.XXX
Would there be an issue accessing the cameras on the Blue Iris mobile app connecting through Zero Tier
What IP would I access Blue Iris UI3 from any PC on 192.168.1.XXX
Would there be an issue with Home Assistant accessing Blue Iris
On my setup, I have my IPCAM network locked down using VLANS such that the only way to access the cameras is to be on the Blue Iris PC with the dual NICs. I can remote into that pc using UVNC which makes it more convenient. I would suggest doing something similar.
I use Tailscale as my VPN and it works well accessing BI remotely. I assume ZeroTier would also work well if configured correctly.
According to your diagram, you would access BI ui3 at 192.168.1.121:81
I have HA and it communicates well with my dual NIC setup, but you have to make sure your firewall rules are correct. I have HA only access BI and not the IPCAM network.
It looks like your current setup has all your cams on your main network. yikes
As mentioned by prsmith777, you would access your 192.168.1.121 BI system from any computer in your 192.168.1.xxx address range, and set up ZeroTier to access 192.168.1.121. Also, to access your cams into your HA system, I use the BI IP Address, along with the camera name within BI. For example, my doorbell cam is called FrontDoor and set it up in the configuration.yaml file as shown below. Note that I'm using a real old version of HA and not sure what changes/improvements they've made, so it may be different but you can test the url like below using VLC.
I am setting up a Dual NIC for my Blue Iris PC and have some question. Also let me know what additional settings I would need to set the NICs on the Blue Iris PC beside setting the static IPs on each NIC. Is there anything else I am missing.
With the dual NIC setup can I access the cameras GUI from any PC on 192.168.1.XXX
Would there be an issue accessing the cameras on the Blue Iris mobile app connecting through Zero Tier
What IP would I access Blue Iris UI3 from any PC on 192.168.1.XXX
Would there be an issue with Home Assistant accessing Blue Iris
Your proposed setup is basically exactly like I have my network working past 8 years
accessing Camera GUI (at least in my setup) you have todo from the BI PC because the cameras are no longer connected to your primary network. I just pop open RDP (any remote desktop would work) on the "BI Server" and I can freely browse the camera UI's and setup things.
Accessing via ZeroTier I just connect my mobile to ZeroTier and then open the BI Servers ZeroTier IP in the apps.
any VPN should be possible with the right firewall rules once you "connect" which usually requires you to do something in an app.
I use OpenVPN to access home when away as a standard - my mobile IP is 192.168.99.5 when connected to OpenVPN, and I have firewall rule that allows traffic to 192.168.20.X from that network (BI server is 192.168.20.10)
I also have ZeroTier. ZeroTier will have it's own subnet and network, so (for example) my mobile is 192.168.196.252 (when connected to ZeroTier) and I have to access BI server at 192.168.196.10. You'll find all that setup in the ZeroTier app and website, but I find it more confusing & also slower than OpenVPN because the ZeroTier IP network addresses I don't have memorized. There will definitely be a 3rd IP address (ZeroTier) on the BI server, and whichever other devices you have on ZeroTier. As far as I know you have to "turn on" ZeroTier to access your network when away.
The important thing here is the Blue Iris mobile app is accessing the BI Server, and the SERVER is accessing the camera feeds. From the camera perspective, their "network" is a few other cameras and the 2nd NIC on your BI Server, and that's all they will ever see (provided you dont configure Internet sharing on that BI PC). You will probably want to configure the BI PC to also serve as the timeserver for that camera network to keep them synched since they cannot reach internet time servers after this change.
192.168.1.21 would be the BI IP Address other networked and wireless devices would interact with 100% of the time on your network. When accessing remotely through ZeroTier it would be the ZeroTier network address instead.
in my configuration I've split the wireless and wired networks onto separate subnets and BI mobile continues to work fine from both wired and wireless.
HA can access BI Server via it's 192.168.1.21 IP without problems, so show video like @concord recommended. They are on the same subnet and local to each other through that NETGEAR 2.5g switch.
