I've been searching through the forums. I'm starting to learn enough to be dangerous to myself.
I have an urgent situation, a work situation in which work may bleed back to my residence and attack family members or burn my house down. Who I work for and what I do isn't relevant and would likely put me at further risk, public service has its downfalls... But hopefully someone will read this and sense my urgency. I'm simply trying to harden up my property to give me ample forewarning so I can coordinate a response. This isn't a project I'm just toying around with at my leisure. I've gone through great lengths of increasing lighting, installing driveway sensors, etc.
I have Axis security cameras at every entry point in and around my residence running via POE back to Uniquiti tough switches and then to a router. The cameras aren't supported with firmware updates anymore due to their age (they're as updates as they can get) and I'll eventually be upgrading when funds permit. However, its what I got and I have to make do. They've all been locked down, no UPNP enabled, static IP's assigned, decent passwords, etc.
Running a router and have now figured out to run a VPN (it's working nicely). I do have a DNS service I pay for that I can tap into, but rarely use it. Had it for a business thing. Not sure how I can incorporate that into my overall scheme, if at all.
Have dedicated PC running Blue Iris 24/7, works well. Footage is saved local and then archived on a Synology NAS inside the home. I haven't gone through great lengths to customize the features in it that its capable of, that will come with time. Right now it does what I need it to do. View/Record footage.
I need the ability to use the Blue Iris App on my iPhone (or any type of similiar App). I've set up my iphone to use my VPN, so I can access my LAN from wherever I am, that's pretty handy. When my 25 Uniform and I went to try to set up the Blue Iris App on the phone via the Blue Iris program on the desktop, the setup wizard wanted us to use UPNP - big red flag. So we stopped. It was his experience (and further backed up with the research I've done on this site) UPNP bad bad bad. So we didn't do it. I'm not a network guy, so I still don't understand the science behind it all. If you guys say its bad and he says its bad, nuff said.
At the moment, the only way I can see my cameras on my phone is if I log into the IP address given to me by the Blue Iris program on my desktop via the use of Firefox or Safari on my iphone (it acts as if my iphone is on wifi inside my house on my local LAN). But I can only see one camera at a time via drop down menu. I don't get the luxury of iOS App functionality like I was hoping. No pop notifications means I literally have to pay attention to my phone constantly, and that's just not feasible based on what I do. I don't sit at a desk very often, sometimes my only connectivity is my iphone.
Can someone please explain to me another way of getting the Blue Iris App to work? Or am I SOL? Is there another App out there that will work? I wish I could use Crossfire like we do at work, but work won't let me have a license since its for certain customers only and I don't qualify as an individual entity...
I'm trying to find the right balance of being secure, but having access. I'm willing to take risk in some areas, but how much of a risk is something I still need to be educated on, thus my asking you all. I highly doubt the would-be-bad-actors I'm beefing security up against are going to be hacking me - its just not realistic, but at the same time I don't want to take the risk of being exposed to some college kid combing for targets with ample time to do some damage such as format my NAS after penetrating my network due to something like UPNP related setups...
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I have an urgent situation, a work situation in which work may bleed back to my residence and attack family members or burn my house down. Who I work for and what I do isn't relevant and would likely put me at further risk, public service has its downfalls... But hopefully someone will read this and sense my urgency. I'm simply trying to harden up my property to give me ample forewarning so I can coordinate a response. This isn't a project I'm just toying around with at my leisure. I've gone through great lengths of increasing lighting, installing driveway sensors, etc.
I have Axis security cameras at every entry point in and around my residence running via POE back to Uniquiti tough switches and then to a router. The cameras aren't supported with firmware updates anymore due to their age (they're as updates as they can get) and I'll eventually be upgrading when funds permit. However, its what I got and I have to make do. They've all been locked down, no UPNP enabled, static IP's assigned, decent passwords, etc.
Running a router and have now figured out to run a VPN (it's working nicely). I do have a DNS service I pay for that I can tap into, but rarely use it. Had it for a business thing. Not sure how I can incorporate that into my overall scheme, if at all.
Have dedicated PC running Blue Iris 24/7, works well. Footage is saved local and then archived on a Synology NAS inside the home. I haven't gone through great lengths to customize the features in it that its capable of, that will come with time. Right now it does what I need it to do. View/Record footage.
I need the ability to use the Blue Iris App on my iPhone (or any type of similiar App). I've set up my iphone to use my VPN, so I can access my LAN from wherever I am, that's pretty handy. When my 25 Uniform and I went to try to set up the Blue Iris App on the phone via the Blue Iris program on the desktop, the setup wizard wanted us to use UPNP - big red flag. So we stopped. It was his experience (and further backed up with the research I've done on this site) UPNP bad bad bad. So we didn't do it. I'm not a network guy, so I still don't understand the science behind it all. If you guys say its bad and he says its bad, nuff said.
At the moment, the only way I can see my cameras on my phone is if I log into the IP address given to me by the Blue Iris program on my desktop via the use of Firefox or Safari on my iphone (it acts as if my iphone is on wifi inside my house on my local LAN). But I can only see one camera at a time via drop down menu. I don't get the luxury of iOS App functionality like I was hoping. No pop notifications means I literally have to pay attention to my phone constantly, and that's just not feasible based on what I do. I don't sit at a desk very often, sometimes my only connectivity is my iphone.
Can someone please explain to me another way of getting the Blue Iris App to work? Or am I SOL? Is there another App out there that will work? I wish I could use Crossfire like we do at work, but work won't let me have a license since its for certain customers only and I don't qualify as an individual entity...
I'm trying to find the right balance of being secure, but having access. I'm willing to take risk in some areas, but how much of a risk is something I still need to be educated on, thus my asking you all. I highly doubt the would-be-bad-actors I'm beefing security up against are going to be hacking me - its just not realistic, but at the same time I don't want to take the risk of being exposed to some college kid combing for targets with ample time to do some damage such as format my NAS after penetrating my network due to something like UPNP related setups...
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.