Can ISY Portal be used instead of dyndns? As dyn.com fails to update rapidly.

[Javi]

My surveillance app triggers groups of cameras based on my network connection (home/not at home) for a fast response time. The "not at home" group is routed through dyn.com but does not always update (from router) in a timely manner. This was really frustrating while on vacation last week and my wife could not check the cameras to see if our kids where sleeping and began to worry. The ISY was responding to commands through the portal but not through dyn.com so I was able to find our (new) i.p address on my.isy.io, to look at each camera separately but it took too much work. This seems to happen frequently with dyn.com but this is the first time it has almost ruined a good time.

 

Anyway is there a way to use the portal as an ip forwarding service as a backup for dyn.com?

[stusviews]

I use both DynDNS and the portal to access the ISY from off-site. I did forward a port for the DNS service.

[larryllix]

Does the camera app not use a common IP address/URL for the lot of the cameras? Should have been a change one IP Address:Port and done?

 

Does each cam have a custom IP:Port that needed to be individually setup?

[Javi]

The app (IP Cam Viewer Pro) has a separate setup for each camera. So making a group of cameras with direct IP addresses (which change) is not a quick task as there are 12 individual cameras. These cameras are not connected to the ISY.

 

I Have a Tasker created app which checks the network then launches a group of cameras via intent based on the network (home or not at home). My wife only has to touch the app icon and the correct group of cameras launches automatically. She does not know what to do when the group of cameras with the subdomain.dynhost.com address does not work, and according to our conversation while on vacation, has no interest in learning about how IP addresses work. It would be easy for me to check the dynhost and if it doesn't respond after a given amount of time, then launch a group of cameras with another host (such as my.isy.io) when not on the home network.

 

The cameras have the same username, password and port but are on different channels.

 

So my question is: Can the ISY portal be used as an IP forwarding service for my cameras in the same way as the dyndns.com forwarding?

[Michel Kohanim]

Hi Javi,

 

Unfortunately not. The reason is that different devices behave differently. The only reason you can get to ISY through the portal is that ISY has a persistent connection to the portal. Others don't.

 

With kind regards,

Michel