Best way to give support access to a camera on the land?

[Coldair]

port forward using an obscure port? or use my camera website and port forward through that? I only have one dedicaited ip so giving it it's own IP would take an act of God or comcast.

thanks

 

[aristobrat]

In general, I would not feel comfortable exposing a camera/nvr through port-forwarding.

If it was a quick one-time thing and I was going to be around, I'd probably setup TeamViewer and let the person get to the camera via remote controlling my computer (with me watching everything).

If it's an on-going support thing <where I might not be available when they want to work>, I'd look into creating a VPN account for the person to be able to connect to my network.

 

[looney2ns]

Not really clear what you are attempting to do Mike.
Never a good idea to do port forwarding.

 

[bp2008]

If you need to give access to Blue Iris support, you could ask for his IP address so you can create a forwarding rule that only works from that one address.

 

[TonyR]

I only have one dedicaited ip so giving it it's own IP would take an act of God or comcast.

It's the WAN IP that you have only 1 of, assigned by your ISP, your router is able pass out dozens (LAN) and how & what is under your command.

Since you're on a Blue Iris forum, I echo @looney2ns : what is it you're wanting to do? Is it to allow someone to log in remotely over the Internet and view a specific cam or cams?

 

[Coldair]

I need to give BI access to one of my cameras

 

[TonyR]

I need to give BI access to one of my cameras

I screwed up, failed to see the title of your thread, now I understand (of course).

I'd go with what @bp2008 suggested in post #4 above.