Gents, I’ve given up on this for now. It’s too frustrating to try to get a live image going again. Works locally but not externally. I’m on vacation next week so may spend more time with it then. In the interim, I’ve gone back to 1 image and the daily video.
Hi Dan… when I put an external IP address there, the page never loads. I’ve opened the port on the firewall, but still I get nothing. Any ideas on how to fix that?
In your browser, for the URL enter “whatsmyip” and you should see your actual IP. That IP along with the actual port number should be part of the URL you would use for access. It should look similar to:
add: Forgot one thing…You need to port forward. In your router, port forward the port you select to the IP address of your webcam. The IP should match up with your internal net address’s…if you internal address’s are 192.168.1.1xx the on the router, set it to port forward requests from the external IP:Port to the IP of your webcam and include the port #.
Keep in mind that the directions I’ve given you are to allow people to connect directly to your webcam. AFAIK all the Amcrest cams run an internal webserver. If your using WD to serve the live feed then the setup would be different. Instead of pointing the router requests to your webcam you would instead point them to your WD computer. I am not familiar with using this method to serve up live video.
I’ve tried a few things and I can’t find anything to connect to on 4102 or 3193. Are you sure you have the port forwarded correctly in your router? I guess you must have done it OK with 80 'cause the website works :?
So, if you’re not familiar with this method, what method should I be using? In the “Connections” tab of the Amcrest setup console, it can handle TCP, UDP, HTTP, RTSP and HTTPS, and on the Multicast tab it can do Main Streams on port 36666, and Sub-Streams on 36667.
What’s the best method for doing this and how should I set it up?