I installed Blue Iris v5 (my Dahua cameras from Andy are in the mail), and I set up the OpenVPN server on my brand new router.
Now how do I set it up so that I can access Blue Iris remotely, while keeping it secure? I'm confused on whether I should access my PC remotely through the VPN without using BI web server, or whether I should configure BI web server to go through the VPN port.
Looking around the BI Settings I saw Web Server tab:
Enable HTTP server on port: do I put here the service port number that I set for the OpenVPN server (UDP)?
then I also see the Internal address and the External address. Do I need to do anything with these?
Also, during installation, I authorized BI to access local networks (but not public) in Windows Firewall. I thought this was necessary for BI to access the cameras when I install them with the PoE switch, but please let me know if I was wrong.
I haven't run the "remote access" wizard yet. Should I?
Thanks for any help!
EDIT: I went into the firewall rules and there are 2 'inbound' rules that seem to allow all ports as remote - should I change the remote ports to the same VPN port I specified above? should I leave the local ports to "all"?
Now how do I set it up so that I can access Blue Iris remotely, while keeping it secure? I'm confused on whether I should access my PC remotely through the VPN without using BI web server, or whether I should configure BI web server to go through the VPN port.
Looking around the BI Settings I saw Web Server tab:
Enable HTTP server on port: do I put here the service port number that I set for the OpenVPN server (UDP)?
then I also see the Internal address and the External address. Do I need to do anything with these?
Also, during installation, I authorized BI to access local networks (but not public) in Windows Firewall. I thought this was necessary for BI to access the cameras when I install them with the PoE switch, but please let me know if I was wrong.
I haven't run the "remote access" wizard yet. Should I?
Thanks for any help!
EDIT: I went into the firewall rules and there are 2 'inbound' rules that seem to allow all ports as remote - should I change the remote ports to the same VPN port I specified above? should I leave the local ports to "all"?
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