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  1. distilled

    Unable to stream camera out of LAN, have done loads before.

    It is. And you could ride a horse to the office instead of driving a car, and you could send telegrams instead of using a cellphone. But those things aren't the best way to go, in most situations. I would have to look at my router and figure out what to type where, and frankly that would feel...
  2. distilled

    Unable to stream camera out of LAN, have done loads before.

    It isn't. You are just doing it in the hardest way possible.
  3. distilled

    Unable to stream camera out of LAN, have done loads before.

    Valid point, just turn off WiFi on your phone and leave mobile data on. TinyCam can be configured to detect NAT and auto-switch configs, but let's not go there yet.
  4. distilled

    Unable to stream camera out of LAN, have done loads before.

    Yes, one port. We explained how to open 554 on each camera by mapping it to another external port. Port 554 on 192.168.0.4 on your LAN becomes port 55400 on the WAN.
  5. distilled

    Unable to stream camera out of LAN, have done loads before.

    I don't know what you mean by "Port range 10554" this is what I keep asking about. Why are you opening up a range? You likely only need one port - 554 - for each RTSP camera. I use a VPN which doesn't involve all this cumbersome port forwarding, IMHO doing that was made obsolete (at least for...
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    Unable to stream camera out of LAN, have done loads before.

    You can get that relative watching you in lots of ways. One would be to export your camera configuration to .XML and just edit the .XML file manually to cut out things you don't want that person to have. Alternatively, you can back up your own full config to .XML, wipe your config and re-add...
  7. distilled

    Unable to stream camera out of LAN, have done loads before.

    Why exactly are you opening a port range? Just open the port or ports that you need individually. You want to open 192.168.0.4 port 554 on the inside and port xyz (55400 or whatever) on the outside. Add 80 and, say, 8000 too, if need be (it shouldn't be needed, but...) No range is involved.
  8. distilled

    Unable to stream camera out of LAN, have done loads before.

    What you can do is change 554 in TinyCam to something else, and forward your camera's 554 to a different external port. This is how to open the same port for different LAN devices. 192.168.50.50:554 is just a way of describing the connection. Sorry for the confusion. Yeah TinyCam works...
  9. distilled

    Unable to stream camera out of LAN, have done loads before.

    I won't be much help with forwarding ports, that is a really cumbersome and complicated way of doing what you want, but for what it is worth: Say you have a camera that uses the standard RTSP port 554. That camera has an IP of 192.168.50.50. So you make a port forward that points...
  10. distilled

    Unable to stream camera out of LAN, have done loads before.

    You can certainly do it any way you like, it should function fine either way. Just know that cameras are notoriously insecure, so by opening up ports, you expose your entire infrastructure. There are still pretty severe ONVIF vulnerabilities in lots of cameras. The VPN route is actually easier...
  11. distilled

    Unable to stream camera out of LAN, have done loads before.

    bbunge gave solid advice, especially about a VPN. The easiest and certainly safest thing to do is just set up a VPN server on your router, export a config file and import it onto your phone. TinyCam can work with this, I do it myself. (TinyCam is AWESOME too, isn't it? I use Blue Iris for NVR...
  12. distilled

    If you use Alexa or Google Assistant, read this

    This. Voice assistants only make obvious what has been possible for a long time. Eavesdropping through computers, phones and tablets isn't new. Having said that though, Almond and Ada may not be as conversational as Alexa, but they present an open source option for voice interface, one of...
  13. distilled

    Automating a home water main shutoff valve

    YOU may be hard to hack, but many humans aren't. Consider 2016. ;)
  14. distilled

    Automating a home water main shutoff valve

    Why Lutron tho? You can flash any one of dozens of smart switches with Tasmota, and that gives it cloud and bridge free smart control from Alexa, Google Home, Almond/Ada etc. Tasmota also has password protected HTTP and MQTT control, Hue and Wemo emulation and all of the little bells and...
  15. distilled

    Automating a home water main shutoff valve

    Bluetooth itself has short range, but if you have Bluetooth dongles on HA and HA is internet exposed, then BT is internet exposed. I liked the idea of BT or NFC for presence detection, but range was the issue, like you said.
  16. distilled

    Automating a home water main shutoff valve

    Do you have Z-Wave gear already? You might consider using WiFi instead. Nothing in the world wrong with Z-Wave, but I have been really digging Tasmota, which is an open source firmware project for IoT gadgets using ESP36 or ESP8266 chips. It allows you to automate things without using the China...
  17. distilled

    Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

    Agreed. My VPN comes on automatically to stay connected to HA (which has Blue Iris integrated). The asuswrt: integration does pretty solid presence detection, and command_line: lets you reconfigure the LAN based on who is home. HA is my COVID time-killer lately. But yeah, I don't see...
  18. distilled

    Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

    I get that, but it seems a bit excessive, when (Android users) can just install Vanced. I am not saying Diversion blocking YT ads isn't a good thing, only that it will have no impact on Vanced, they are in entirely different ballparks.
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    Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

    In what way could Diversion make YouTube better for us when we aren't home?
  20. distilled

    Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

    Oh true enough, no question that having a YT adblocker on the router is a huge get. But Kingp1n implied that he is using Vanced himself, and would delete it when Diversion offers YT adblocking. I use Vanced when not behind my Asus, too, so I was curious about how advancements in Diversion - no...
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