Remotely connecting into my home ip cams

[SeanJ]

HI, from my home i run x2 ANPR cams and it all works satisfactory using HIK Connect (on phone), and using either a browser to view them locally or also if using iVMS-4200 software, again locally. The time has come where i now want to allow a family member to access my cam streams remotely using either their browser or maybe iVMS 4200 on their pc (if that's possible?)

I am a bit confused about what might be the best secure and simplest way of going about it.

I can only imagine 2 ways of doing this it but i'm happy to be corrected about anything here.

1/ They connect using their browser by punching in a fixed ip address or possibly a hosted domain (I'm guessing a VPN would likely be employed in this scenario?) so i'm guessing they would be addressing my cams in their browser with something like: https://80.253.625.**/192.168.1.**:800 and i would using fowarded ports and maybe a VPN

2/ This may be wrong but am I right in thinking if the remote family member has iVMS-4200 prog on their PC that they could enter the serial numbers of my cams and connect to my cams remotely? . That sounds just too easy to me so I won't explore that yet without some feedback first.

thanks. Sean

 

[David]

HI, from my home i run x2 ANPR cams and it all works satisfactory using HIK Connect (on phone), and using either a browser to view them locally or also if using iVMS-4200 software, again locally. The time has come where i now want to allow a family member to access my cam streams remotely using either their browser or maybe iVMS 4200 on their pc (if that's possible?)

I am a bit confused about what might be the best secure and simplest way of going about it.

I can only imagine 2 ways of doing this it but i'm happy to be corrected about anything here.

1/ They connect using their browser by punching in a fixed ip address or possibly a hosted domain (I'm guessing a VPN would likely be employed in this scenario?) so i'm guessing they would be addressing my cams in their browser with something like: https://80.253.625.**/192.168.1.**:800 and i would using fowarded ports and maybe a VPN

2/ This may be wrong but am I right in thinking if the remote family member has iVMS-4200 prog on their PC that they could enter the serial numbers of my cams and connect to my cams remotely? . That sounds just too easy to me so I won't explore that yet without some feedback first.

thanks. Sean

I remotely connect to my home VPN server then access the cameras as I normally would at home.

 

[SeanJ]

I’ve no experience of VPN’s and wondered do you get a fixed ip from your VPN or can you assign it a type of domain name to access your home network remotely?

Thanks

 

[David]

do you get a fixed ip from your VPN

I use a fixed IP address that costs £2 a month, a good price as part of a deal. You could use something like No IP, where possible I don't like to use third parties. Using your own domain just adds unnecessary expense and hassle.

Have you tried the HikConnect App? You can search the HikVision forum for threads.

David