NGROK to tunnel to your NVR or Camera

[Revo2Maxx]

So I had a someone reach out to me and ask about the best way to access the NVR if they didn't want to use P2P and have to install ASP while away from home. I got to thinking why not NGROK seeing it is a free. They have paid accounts as well and more then likely something I will be upgrading too here in 2024.. However for now the free works Great! Why do I say Great? For my setup my computer at this location is sitting behind 2 routers. I have tested it to my 3rd router as well and works there. 4th and 5th are out in the cold and I didn't test it there lol.. Anyway for now behind 2 routers and 2 switches I have my computer setting with NGROK installed. I turn on the tunnel and instead of just doing the http 81 for my Blue Iris, I use http 10.0.0.223:80 and once I connect to the link it gives there is no issue making a connection. This can be done using your Cell phone or using another computer as long as you know the address it setup. There is no ports exposed to the internet and again it has no issue pushing the hole though the 2 routers..

here is a Picture of one of my AI NVRs using NGROK and you can see that the phone is using 5G and not my local Wifi...

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[Revo2Maxx]

So first picture was of my Dahua NVR here is using the same NGROK on my 8ch A2 AI NVR and my 8ch HS NVR and even show the A2 with 4 window view opened so it is able to do that.

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