Use ZeroTier with Blue Iris - view your cameras remotely and securely!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- My recommended way to view your security cameras remotely while utilizing Blue Iris security camera software is using ZeroTier. ZeroTier is an open source virtual private network (VPN) software and mesh networking technology that allows users to connect devices, services, and applications securely over the Internet. It is designed to be easy to set up and use, and can be used to connect both local and cloud-based services. It is particularly useful for creating secure connections between remote devices, such as those used for telecommuting, IoT, and cloud-based services.
ZeroTier also works for those who have an ISP (internet service provider) who utilizes "CGNAT" or carrier grade nat. CGNAT means you don'e get your own public IP address making it difficult to utilize a client VPN back to your network, or even standard port forwarding.
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I've been using ZeroTier for a number of years now. Pairing it with an app like Blue Iris is really next level, especially when thinking about home users and their typical security (or lack thereof).
Yessir! Love ZeroTier! Thanks for the comment.
Same here Jeremy! You just wrote my comment.
I've been trying for ages to get my BI to work remotely however no matter howI tried I could not get IP forwarding to work all ports were in stealth mode even if I opened the relevant ports no joy. Contacted my ISP they were useless beyond their remit. I saw this on utube, set it up and shazam!! it worked! thank you for your brilliant tutorial even a 70yr old like me understood it.
Outstanding. I'm on Starlink and have been trying to figure out how use BI when remote. This is so easy. Thanks!
Thank you very much. It has been a long road, trying out different brands of cameras and services. But having seen your videos and one other channel (where I decided on using an Amcrest turrett camera), I am now up and running, using Blue Iris, AND remotely viewing my cameras! Wow. No monthly subscription either! Sincere thanks for being a good teacher. You know not to talk too fast, you know how to explain this to people in simple terms. Much appreciated!
Great tutorial. I had to additionally disable Windows Defender Firewall for private (Windows 10 here)
Awwwwww yeeeaaahhh!!! Finally a video that helped solve my remote access problems especially with the Blue Iris app. Thank you for this detailed tutorial, most helpful!
You are a life saver, We have firewall and accessing cameras from outside of network have been hell. Thank you.
WELCOME BACK!!!! Your content is SUPER-USEFUL! Thanks so much for your detailed and easy to follow suggestions, explanations and guidance! All the best!!!!
Thank you! Happy to he back. Thank you for the kind words :)
You just saved me $120 a year by not having to pay an extra $10 a month for a static IP to VPN into Blue Iris. Thank you
Glad I could help! Thanks for watchingl
Awesome! You make it so easy and simple to understand. I am going to now try to set this up on my BI. I am able to port forward, but not able to access BI on my iPhone unless I am at home. I used to be able to make all this work well until my PCs crashed beyond recognition; it doesn't work well on the new PC at all. If I am able to do ZeroTier with the PC, it would bring the BI accessibility to a level of simplicity of operating a Mac. Thank you.
I was able to install the ZeroTier App and it seems to be working well. This video needs updating, since the web interfaces in ZT and in the iPhone app have changed slightly and one doesn't see everything these exactly as shown here. Also, the Mac application does not open.
This video is awesome. Thank you. I followed along step by step and had a small issue, but was able to quickly fix it and now my cameras work perfectly when remotely viewing them away from home. My other solution was to use a double ISP set up because my primary ISP (Starlink) blocks port forwarding. My secondary ISP is a MiFi device on the AT&T network, but my router (MikroTik) is WAY to advanced for me to figure out how to properly set it up that way after several TH-cam University videos and trials and errors. Thanks again!
Glad you were able to get it setup! ZeroTier is great. May I ask what the small issue was?
@@learnblueiris I believe it was a setting error in the mobile app from when I tried to get the program to work from the very start. At the time, I had not yet figured out that Starlink blocked port forwarding and made several changes in the mobile app settings, thinking I was doing something wrong. Once I realized the issue was with Starlink, I found your video, followed it step by step but still could not get it to work. I then, as a last ditch effort, deleted the set up on the mobile app, started over, and used the QR code on the PC app under the users tab and my cameras immediately started working.
Will this work to view Reolink cameras on Starlink network?
I did everything listed in the video and I cannot get this to work
Best tutorial I've seen yet. Thank you for taking the time and sharing!
I don't use blue iris but this is a great tutorial on zerotier. tyvm 👏
Excellent tutorial! I either needed to be a little more patient or restarting the Blue Iris service helped get the new adapter recognized. Thank you for putting this together!
Thanks! I had trouble using port forwarding and I'm kinda glad so I could stumble upon this
My Xfinity router no longer supports port forwarding for Blue Iris. Thanks for the perfect solution to view Blue Iris remotely.
Thank you so much for this video. I’m up and running remotely now.
I was having issues with the remote server for a while and I gave up! I just happened to stumble across your channel this morning and was able to solve the issues I was having. Thanks a lot! Liked and Sub'd
Had probs with my router DMZ and also didn't like the open window. Your vid got me up & running with BI on my phone. Very helpful!
i'm in IT for nearly 25 years.. I always despite PFW.. Let me try ZT and see. thx for the video
😃😄😄😄Thank you for this wonderful, extremely helpful video!!!!! Blue Iris its a powerful software, but for sure not easy to setup for the regular guy. I´ve been struggling to set access out of my LAN, and with the information of this useful video i was all set in a couple hours.
Thank you and please keep working for the community!!!!
this is awesome im going to try it!
but if u consider this technology can so easily allow access between machines
its makes me think what if this technology was already on our machines maybe coded into the cpu providing access to others just we didn't know about it
Followed all the way up to the last 2 IPs and couldn't connect to the app.
Same here the wlan connection doesn't seem to detect the zerotier ip
@@livn-vr6223 same issue. i can't detect the Zertier adaptor ip from the dropdown?
Just wanted to thank you for this video. It works great!
Thank you so much!
Really great explanation.
Gonna have to look into zerotier vs tailscale and probably pick one
Thank you! I need to look deeper into Tailscale.
ZeroTier uses a proprietary inhouse protocol. Wireguard uses a published protocol. And Wireguard is FAST. It works nice for video.
Amazing thank you. Clear, quick and concise.
Will give Zerotier a try
Hey Alonzo! Good to hear from you. Yes, would suggest ZeroTier even for things other than Blue Iris.
@@learnblueiris What kind of other things can you use zero tier for? Can it be used to map drives on a PC in different physical/geographical locations?
I got it working. BI PC and iphone. The remote access Wizard in BI insisted on an IPV6 IP address for the router LAN address. So i turned off IPV6 in the router and it still assigns that address. ( verizon 5G Home internet box) but whatever....it still connected to the BI App after a short wait.... thank you.
Had trouble reopening Blue Irish in the last step
Well done, thanks for tip. CGnat on 5g data share sim to blue iris. Perfect
I am glad someone has done a video on this. Thanks! I am curious why you selected Allow Global, Allow Default and Allow DNS. I did a bunch of Googling and can't really find a good explanation of what these options do. And as they are not defaulted I have never used them.
I have ZT set up with Blue Iris and with one remote location using DSL it works great but another behind a cellular ISP its terrible. I only have used the Allow Managed option on my setups and so if you have some info to share as to why the other options are desirable that would be most helpful.
I will look into the allows. I recorded that portion a while back. I'll check back in. Thanks for watching.
Did you ever find out? I also used only the Allowed Managed Option for connecting to another Windows PC with success but can't get BI to work. Anyway you can post your settings here with sensitive info redacted? I followed the video but something is wrong. What are your Windows Defender Firewall settings for BI as well?
Hi. I need help. I am at final step. I do not now where is internal IP addresss and port and ZEROtier wan IP address and port. Please explain where to find them.
great video. I've tried to get it to work but no joy. I followed the video to a tee
I figured it out.....forgot to add the port number on the WAN
Love your video! High quality content well produced. Can you please tell me if I will get push notifications on my Android phone from Blueiris when I connect via zerotier?
do you know the answer now? :)
I love that Zerotier is now part of pfsense.
Yeah I need to play with that.
@@learnblueiris me too
Interesting! Last time we tried it on OPNSense the plugin was trash and we had soooo many problems.
I was able to accomplish this. My question is the VPN on the phone is always ON. Is all phone traffic now going through zero Tier? I also have a home vpn server on firewalla using wiregaurd ,what’s the difference? I manually turn this on and off in the phone when I need to reach certain things on the network. Ultimately I only want the BI to auto-connection to be VPN. Not all traffic. So ON Demand VPN when trying to reach a specific local IP Address when not on the local network. I’m sure I need a better education on this, but I’m not sure how to accomplish this.
You can use the same wireguard server with some firewall tables to accomplish that and make port forward to your device and not need to open zerotier and wireguard vps so you can only open wireguard and it will work
Cool!
Thanks for your video.
My question is how to expose those connected nodes in ZT to public internet with a domain name?
Will it not work without the blue iris app? Can we not access with a browser on iPhone?
Great video!!! Thank you so much!
How do I make sure my port forwarding is disabled now?
Do you have to use the blue iris phone app or can you use the web viewer from phone also?
Explained very good. Thank you!
Is this only applicable for BI mobile app users? Im thinking applying this in Web UI.
I would like to do that too, I don't want to pay for the Blue Iris app for android since most people say it doesn't work very well.
hello love the video just a quick question followed instructions to the end everything looks good except I try to view my cameras on easy viewer away from home network and they cannot connect. vpn button green on iPhone and zerotiuer dashboard sees iPhone
Long night idk, but I cant figure out what ips go into lan and wan on bi app.
Same problem here with Blue Iris nandroid app..WAN?
Thank you. I had to watch the video twice, but got it working with some playing. Took some time to recognize the ZeroTier IP. Now working great thanks. Is there some way to monitor multiple Blue Iris Locations?
an excellent question
@@dirkdetrou7563Thank you.
WOW! That video is very helpful!
I tried zerotier, and it was to unstable. For example switches between WiFi and 5G on my phone never worked, zerotier stayed disconnected. Now using tailscale, and it is working without any issues.
Easily followed all steps until last screen showing lan and wan settings in Blue iris web server. Not clear what goes where. Still can not connect with cellular device only wifi
Thank’s for the videos. I recently got my Starlink to replace Uverse (was only getting lesa than 6meg). I also bought an RT-ax86U Pro router. Using the Starlink ethernet adapter, I hooked up the Asus router using DHCP. everything working fine as far as getting internet from Starlink to wireless devices. Then I made the move of switching my computer and cameras from AT&T modem/router to Asus. Computer has internet but my cameras won’t even come back online locally. So I can’t even try to get them working remotely. What am I doing wrong? Also, I am currently using ZeroTier under my current Uverse setup. Thanks for any input.
How can i do that with Emby app on Android TV ? I have CGNAT problem and i can not acess my server outside my local network. Help me please.
Is it feasible to use Zero Tier to send the feed from one or more cameras on network A, to be monitored by Blue Iris on network B? I'm trying to avoid running two instances of BI for this situation as both locations will eventually be on one network.
So I have a weird issue. My honeywell thermostat wifi gets intercepted when I have BI web server configured for zerotier. When I point web server to my IP its a non issue. Whats weirder yet, is I have a honeywell wifi sat in my garage that doesn't have a remote gateway that doesn't share this issue. Only my home stat that connects via stand alone gateway (redlink).
I have onll 1 IP camera and i need to remotely access it using rtsp it is possible in zerotier?
Really struggled - as another said (THANK-YOU) had to manually change the Managed Ip address of Zerotier in the BI Wan address. Also had to add DNS to the ZT adapter as it was empty.
Can you please explain how did you do that?
Thank you for all of your Blue Iris videos! I followed your directions on adding Zerotier (but obviously missed a step) The app is on my phone anddownloaded into my desktop blue iris, but still cannot see cameras on my Android phone , is there an extra something in Windows 11 (what I have) ? Thank you
Next stage Headscale: compute (GNU/Linux), networking (Headscale) and data (GNU and FOSS) sovereignty 😉👑✊
Very interesting.
Please i need some help, followed the instructions, zeroteir can communicate with my phone and blue iris server, the ble iris phone app detects my LAN n WAN ip, but app say unable to reach server, using windows 11 pro and android phone.
I really wanted this to work. I'm so disappointed. As best as I can tell I have everything configured correctly based on your settings but I cannot connect to Blue Iris on my PC from my android phone or tablet. I have authenticated all my devices on the ZeroTier website and have my BI web settings properly configured on my mobile devices based on your video, but when I try to connect I get "Unable to connect. Please try again. Reason LAN access only" Unless there are router or firewall setting preventing this connection I can't find a reason why this won't connect.
Never mind. I figured out my problem. Of course it was user error on my part. Thanks for posting this video. You have now made my day!
If you run Blue Iris in a VM in Unraid, would you rather setup ZeroTier in a docker container or install the Windows app on the Blue Iris server?
Is this any different from Tailscale?
❤️ ZeroTier
I agree! Thanks for watching Willie.
I use something similar called tailscale
How do I make all this work with starlink router on on bypass and have a third party router
for the internet which works fine.
so why not a link in the description for Zerotier? Links for Western D drives and blue iris but not for the actual product that is the subject matter of the content here. How odd.
so if the webhost (me) that has Blue Iris on pc and has all the cameras..is there an easy way without the need for a friend to have blue iris app nor the ZeroTier app on their mobile? just to check some camera? Prior of Zero Tier i had to give my Public IP (loging via UI3) but the problem was that the public IP was Changing all the time... thats why im trying now ZeroTier but the need to make them download an setup a program is a bit of a hassle specially cause the have zero skills to do so by themselfs
So... I have ZeroTier on all of my computers, and am accessing BlueIris via my iPhone (which also has ZeroTier). I am wondering if having Kaspersky 'Total Security' on my PCs is still needed. Am I misunderstanding what ZeroTier does...?
Issue with this is if I for instance want to share a nextcloud file to the public, there's absolutely no way to access it without setting up zerotier on each device.
Can't connect with app :-( Followed video to a t . even with using the connection wizard and scanning the qr code, no go. Even opened port forwarding on ISP, no go, zerotier all connected on phone , bi computer also no go, just the spinning wheel. No error message so no idea where it goes wrong, highly frustrated.
If i have two homes eg one in USA and one in UK, can i use zerotier to connect UK home cameras to my USA home NVR? Because i want camera to record off site with backup
Cant seem to edit the LAN ip in settings (Blue iris desktop app -> settings -> web server ). Meaning, i cant edit the LAN ip on the remote desktop. Ive already setup the blue iris machine at the store, now i just need to remotely connect to it from this remote desktop but nothing is working
Hi, Love the Vid and I've followed the same steps before. My BI machine took a dump and I had to reload windows on a different drive but on the same machine. Everything is back up except getting it to work on my phone via the app on cellular data. I've tried deleting app/updating, re-adding zerotier, deleting zerotier from desktop. The phone app works fine on my local network pointing to the local IP but once I attempt to use zerotier network, it fails. Any suggestions? Windows Firewall? I've even tried turning it off. My home network has not change just the BI Drive failed.
Did you select use mobile data in the zero tier settings on your phone?
Followed steps, but BlueIris does not show the ZeroTier Virtual Port so, I don't have an option to switch it. Any suggestions on the fix? I'm using Win11 Pro.
I have been unable to get this to work, I have tried twice. Perhaps it won't work with my setup? I am running the Verizon router in pass thru mode, then to my Linksys router set in DHCP mode, with ports forwarded to my 4 IP Cameras. All I want to be able to do is connect to my cameras remotely while using the Verizon ISP router/gateway. It works great otherwise. Do I need to change my setup, or should it work the way it is? Thanks, Chuck
What if you have multiple sites you need to remotely access? Can you just simply create a zerotier network for each site, and then remotely connect to each of those zerotier networks from 1 remote computer?
Well I believe I followed your instructions and cannot connect to my cameras remotely. What have I done wrong? At one point you used the zerotier ip address of the lan in the lan spot on BI, but then later you say use the internal ip of bI pic in the lan spot. Needs clarification please.
I tried ZeroTier and couldn’t get it to work either. I switched to Tailscale and it worked perfectly for me. Thinking ZeroTier is buggy on iOS at the moment.
I've been playing with this slowly to learn it and possibly do a video on it for OPNsense, of course my lame way because how i learn LOL !
You'll love ZeroTier once you dive in more. It is really cool.
@@learnblueiris Sent email to you :)
If you join your router you don't have to have any of this on your BI server.
Will this work the same if I setup an IOT VLAN?
Everything working great except I can't login to UI3 web interface using the the remote/external/WAN ip shown on Blue Iris machine.
Any idea what I should be looking at to solve this? Chrome just says: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
Wonderful videos as are all yours. I watched the Zerotier video a dozen times but still can’t connect outside my home only on my wifi. Works great on my Iphone if I’m on wifi at home. So I’m missing something somewhere any suggestions as to what? iPhone’s Zerotier is enabled with the proper Code as is the BI app software.
Hey thank you! In your iPhone BI app, does the WAN IP (external IP) show the IP of the ZeroTier interface from the Blue Iris PC? That is what should be there.
@@learnblueiris
Yes it does but still doesn’t work. I’m just going to delete the program. Really not worth the effort. Not as simple as your video shows but it’s a great video none the less.
@@thomasdumas3686 Not sure if you fixed your problem, but I followed his video as well and at first I could not get BI to work on my phone off of the WiFi either. What did work was that I opened the BI app on the phone, I clicked "edit" and then removed that server. I then went back and clicked "add a new server", followed all of the prompts, and finally got to the screen where it allowed me to take a picture of a QR code. Your QR code is on the BI PC under settings -> users, then just click once on your user name. I scanned the QR code and my cameras popped up almost instantly. I made sure my WiFi was turned off so that I was connected through the phone carrier. I am guessing there might have been an error in my original set up. You might give this a try and see if it works for you too.
@@k9erv I tried this one too but doesn't work for me...
Love your videos. I have Zerotier set up on my blue iris computer and my android phone. Zerotier recognized both and are both active. I have Zerotier on my phone and turned on. For some reason i can't connect to the blue iris server through the app on my phone. I've used the setup button and the ip addresses populate. Still no connection. Any ideas what to look for?
Same problem here..no mention in vid of remote app being used.
I just switched to fiber and not able to bridge the ONT. When I setup ZeroTier it never populates the IP address and says it's inactive. When I check the tray icon it says "STATUS: ACCESS DENIED" I stopped and went no further, any ideas?
I followed the steps exactly but got cannot connect to server. Any ideas? I have been able to get ZT working for Remote Desktop for Windows so IMO its a BI config issue. But I followed all steps in the video. Any suggestions?
Got it working from my android phone to my camera pc but it only stays connected for about 3-4 min then i get disconnected. Have to disconnect and reconnect zero tier on my android to get it to connect again. Any idea what could be?
Is this possible to do if you only have an NVR?
A question. Is it possible to configure ZeroTier to launch on restart?
I love the idea of this but I’m curious how it will cooperate with having other VPNs on a mobile device. I assume I’d have to switch back and forth to access zerotier vs other vpn resources? I want to do a little more research on the security aspect but this sounds like something I might like to tinker with.
I found that it is either zero tier or vpn. I use nord and both can't run at the same time.
is there anyway to use DDNS with Zerotier?
Any idea if this could be used to remotely view cameras through the Reolink app?
Hi, you need the NVR to also take part in the virtual VPN, so I don't think the Reolink NVR supports this. Best option in your situation is setting up a VPN on your router/gateway
for some reason, my file download speed is slow.
I went through all the steps with no success, I deleted everything and tried again. everything look good, shows connected etc, the app on my iPhone opens, the LAN and WAN are correct, when I click connect I get a spinning waiting icon that does not stop. Any ideas anyone?
In my BlueIris I don't see adaptors under webserver. Where else would it be?
I can see my Phone and Blue Iris on ZeroTier page, they are connected.
I had the same issue, and once I upgraded to Blue Iris 5 it was there.
Maximum 25 clients now.
Really want to use this but the ZeroTier adapter is not showing in the adapter drop-down in BI. It have ZeroTier set up ok and rebooted the BI machine to no avail.
Hmm, odd. I assume you installed the client successfully on the PC? Also, you added the PC to the ZeroTier network? ZeroTier creates a new adapter on your PC when it is installed.
@@learnblueiris Yes everything was installed nicely. Instead of changing the adapter, I changed the WAN IP to match the ZeroTier and that worked. Up and running now. Thanks for the quick response and the video that inspired me to do this. Keep them coming!
In my BlueIris I don't see adaptors under webserver. Where else would it be? I'm running BlueIris 4
I had the same issue, and once I upgraded to Blue Iris 5 it was there.
So this is essentially hosted (cloud) vpn instead of point to point vpn, and you are entrusting access to your devices to a 3rd party .