FAQs - Routers & Firewalls:

The camera is installed behind a Router. How do I set up the Router to access the camera from Internet?

You have to create a PORT FORWARDING (sometimes referred to as ADDRESS TRANSLATION or VIRTUAL SERVER) in the Router configuration.

External port 80 -> forward -> camera local IP : port 80 (TCP)
External port 8080 -> forward -> camera local IP : port 8080 (TCP)
("80" and "8080" are the default ports.)

If you have changed the ports to 82 / 8082 (as an example), then your Router setup must look like:
External port 82 -> forward -> camera local IP : port 82
External port 8082 -> forward -> camera local IP : port 8082


-> The camera must have a static local IP address for the port forwarding to work correctly.

You can setup multiple local Network IP Cameras in your LAN which can all be accessed from the Internet with just one public IP Address. The key is to assign different ports to the local cameras.

Example:

Camera1:
External port 81 -> forward -> camera local IP : port 81
External port 8081 -> forward -> camera local IP : port 8081

Camera2:
External port 82 -> forward -> camera local IP : port 82
External port 8082 -> forward -> camera local IP : port 8082

Camera3:
External port 83 -> forward -> camera local IP : port 83
External port 8083 -> forward -> camera local IP : port 8083

[ ... ]

Camera9:
External port 89 -> forward -> camera local IP : port 89
External port 8089 -> forward -> camera local IP : port 8089

You then can access the camera from the Internet using the following URLs:
http://your_ip_address:81
http://your_ip_address:82
http://your_ip_address:83
[...]
http://your_ip_address:89

Of course, those ports must not neccesarily be assigned as shown above, you can choose totally different ports, as long as they are in a valid range.


The PTZ Camera requires to open and forward port 10000 (UDP) in addition to the web server port and image transfer port.


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