[SOLVED] DDNS help?

[johnjtraynor]

Hi. I installed a new IP cam on my house and street, and it's up and working. I can control it with my iPhone etc when I travel.

I wanted to be able to share the RTSP stream via VLC with a neighbor, but I didn't want to give him control of the camera interface. I don't have a static IP, so I registered with no-ip for ddns. (I would prefer not to get into a discussion here about why I should purchase a static IP).

The ddns address works fine, and I can open it up in VLC and view the stream at rtsp://{myname}.{ddnsserver}.org:554/21.

All well and good so far.

However when I go to https://{myname}.{ddnsserver}.org on a browser it leads directly to my Linksys router page instead of the normal stripped down login pop up the router normally serves. That makes me nervous.
In fact, I don't really need to have the router index page on the ddns at all.... I just want the rtsp feed.. Is there any way of preventing my linksys router index page from showing up in the DDNS?
Thanks in advance

 

[gggplaya]

First of all, you should disable the router web UI from external control. I don't know about Linksys, but it's turned off by default on my Asus routers. By default you can only access the WebUI from inside the LAN or wifi, not through the WAN.

Second, no-ip is terrible. With the free account, you have to log in every 30 days to reconfirm you want to keep it. It's an extra pain. I recommend you use DuckDNS.org, it's free and owned by Amazon. You don't need to login every 30 days. They also have tons of free scripts for routers and linux machines and even a windows app which will automatically ping the server and keep it up to date.

Another alternative is both Netgear and Asus have their own DDNS services that are free. You also don't have to painfully log in every 30 days or risk losing it. But you need to own their router.

 

[johnjtraynor]

Thanks for the suggestions. I don’t recall seeing an option for disabling web login of the router.
Linksys has a Linksys Smart Wifi which should make web access unnecessary if I can find the option.
I will look at DuckDNS. Hopefully they have a better process for restarting the local client software on Raspbian after a reboot. When I travel I leave my pi running to manage some household functions and the documentation for auto run of their utility in Raspbian is pretty bad.

 

[SamirD]

You are missing a port forward to your camera. Or to just make sure it works, put the camera IP in your dmz.

 

[gggplaya]

Thanks for the suggestions. I don’t recall seeing an option for disabling web login of the router.
Linksys has a Linksys Smart Wifi which should make web access unnecessary if I can find the option.
I will look at DuckDNS. Hopefully they have a better process for restarting the local client software on Raspbian after a reboot. When I travel I leave my pi running to manage some household functions and the documentation for auto run of their utility in Raspbian is pretty bad.

Raspian is just Linux. You would just add another CRON job which will automatically run the script at the interval you set.

They have a Linux GUI that makes it really simple. I would edit the CRON to several hours instead of 5 minutes though.