How to access 8 IP cam on lan from wan

jahonix

I'm on holidays starting tomorrow.

Kris.J

How about an entirely different approach? ZoneMinder!

Setup a Linux host on your private network running ZoneMinder to create a single centralized point to access all cams.

Then you only have a single host to worry about when it comes to providing public access via your pfSense firewall. :)

Oh, and you want per-parent user access control, I would go a step further and setup OpenVPN connectivity - I always perfer VPN to poking holes in a firewall when it comes to providing access to hosts on my private network. If you are going to control user access instead of just have open public access, you should always implement VPN rather than poke holes in my opinion.

You could then create your time-of-day requirements on pfSense (rule only allows the OpenVPN connections during certain time frame) and manage your user access accounts on the ZM box.

hadi57

thanks a lot for the advice, i download zm long ago, but never tried it, so i ll follow your advice and try it and post here what happens.

thanks again

hadi57

i was trying today to log in to one ip cam, it started to log but it took very long almost 10 minutes, i see the image frame but not the image itself, i mean white image.

hadi57

hi

it is working i changed the IP cam model # and working perfectly.

thanks a lot for all the help

hadi57

hi again

now i requested to make schedule rule for each cam to be available at a certain time of the day to be accessible publicaly, so i went to firewall > schedules to create a time rule for one of the cameras, i saw schedule name and description, how do i make this related to camera a or b or c etc…

thanks in advance for the help

jahonix

You need to create a rule for each cam and assign the schedule to it.

Beware that schedules work a bit differently from the rest of the rules. It's mentioned when creating them, IIRC.

hadi57

hi

i saw the schedule, but time is quarterly based is there any other option like 5 minutes base. one more thing caw we add yearly based rule too.

thank you
haddi57

hoba

No and No. Actually these rules are on a per year basis iirc. So if you block let's say on January the 1st it will block on that day every year (2008, 2009, 2010,…). Why is a 15 minute slice not enough? A Cronjob will run every 15 minutes to see if the ruleset has to be changed and recreate and reload the filter if needed. Making smaller slices will put additional load on the firewall as it would have to check for changes more often. We thought 15 minutes intervals should be enough usually.