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Noob question: Is it possible to stream video to a device outside your WiFi without needing a third party server in the middle? How does one do that?
by pj_mukh 3y ago
Noob question: Is it possible to stream video to a device outside your WiFi without needing a third party server in the middle? How does one do that?
- ssklash 3y agoA VPN tunnel into your home network is one way, or a VPS you control that has a similar connection into your home network is another.
- rolph 3y agoyes its possible, but a few things generate friction, major one is ISP based filtering. often you have to use port forwrding to connect, on ports not recognized for protocols your ISP filters out.
- asdff 3y agoYou can own the server yourself. Ask a buddy if you can plug in a box in their garage, now you have an off site solution.
- callalex 3y agoThere are two ways to accomplish this: poke a hole in your home firewall and expose the camera feed to the entire open internet, then attempt to add some kind of authentication system. This is very very hard to get right, don’t do it. The other option is to tunnel your internet connection on the remote device back into your home network so it looks to your remote device like it’s still at home. That’s called a VPN.
- packetlost 3y agoNeither of these options are great, IMO. I'd prefer to have a proxy that transparently forwards e2e encrypted traffic with out of band key exchange. You can blast video over a 3rd party if you trust the software on either end to not leak your encryption keys. Sadly I think few services care much about this.
- weeblewobble 3y agoWhat kind of device? They make IP cams that push their stream to a preconfigured remote endpoint (with TLS). It would have to be a server on the public internet though, your phone probably wouldn’t work