Viewing IP Cameras in your home network from WORK!!!!!

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bradyboyy88

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Hello Everyone and thanks for your help! I have 2 hikvision IP cameras on my network which work great. However I recently purchased a 99 cents a month account for 1and1 own my first website !! I used 1and1 because I hate the security vulnerabilties of running the web server from my house. SO what I was curious about , was if it is possible to stream my ip camera to my website . The catch is at work I cannot download and install anything to the browser or computer so the solution needs to work around that? The camera supports RTSP and I can open the ports for each protocol needed.

I used blueiris web server locally and it generated a website which video did not need anything downloaded to view on even my tv's crappy crappy browser and ran perfectly. Is this same solution possible on a website hosted remotely? I am new to website development and this sort of networking so I come to you guys for some help!
 
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bradyboyy88

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That would definately work but I do not plan on keeping my computer running 24/7 and I do not know how secure that web server is so I wouldnt trust doing it publicly. I am more interesting in utilizing the web server hosted by 1and1 which i paid for.
 
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You still have to open the relevant port to allow the 1and1 website to see the cameras.
And if your ISP service is DHCP (probably is), your public IP address can and does change. The 1and1 website will need to know about that change.

Also, 24/7 video to outside your LAN can suck up a lot of bandwidth. Do you have a monthly bandwidth cap?
 
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bradyboyy88

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I mean I already have various ports opened up for the cameras , however I am not too worried about the cameras security vulnerabilities vs a webserver lol. I use the cameras built in ddns service so thats not really a problem for finding the cameras. Its a matter of how to put these streams onto a website thats player requires no downloading and utilizes the defaults of chrome or most commons browsers I guess. I dont even know if this is possible and as said before I am new to website development. Was hoping it wasnt that difficult given other website offer streams from their camera and dont reqjuire downloading any tools to view.
 
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If your camera's have DDNS enabled - set your router to forward e.g. port 1001 to the internal IP address of Camera1:port 80, port 1002 to Camera2:port80 etc. Then use any web browser (bypassing 1and1 completely) to watch what is going on.

I see no benefit of rerouting this thru external web site. Whether you can watch it or not depends on how the webcams stream - some support pure video formats, while other "stream" JPEGs every now and then (thus requiring browser add-on).
 
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bradyboyy88

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Thanks for the replies . However the solution u mention alabalcho is the problem haha.the ports are already forwarded such that I can access the camera. But to view the camera feed you have to download web components such as activex to view and thats not allowed. However other websited I have seen have live camera feeds embedded and I never have to download anything and I can see their stream. That is the kind of solution I am lookimg for but have no clue how to evem start. I can take snapshots viaa jpeg which I have thought about continously refreshing if possible haha
 
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