Separate cameras screen and users on findvera.com

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Could you guys add separate page for cameras? Sometimes while in the office I want to see what’s going on at home, but I don’t like to have full control panel open there, so any colleague can turn on or off something by mistake.

For the same reason it would also be nice to have a separate user with non-admin role, so he could only see cameras, without controlling devices

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Depending on the camera you are using (Panasonic and Linksys for certain) you can use a ddns service and connect to the camera’s web server.

The two cameras mentioned above allow view-only access depending on the assigned user so they can be left open without exposure to other people tinkering with the settings.

-Anthony

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Right, open non-SSH port right into my network.
Besides, why would anyone want to let strangers unrestricted view into your house? I mean it’s more less acceptable if you use cameras to monitor your backyard, or even a door entrance from outside, but not inside the house.

The good thing about findvera.com is that it relays images without giving direct access to your cameras and network. And access is password protected, so strangers won’t be able to see the cameras just for fun… or not just fun.

As with anything in security, you don’t need to make it impenetrable, but you do have to make it hard enough for intruders to get in, so they would need a good reason to do the effort.

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check out Yoics. www.yoics.com. I use this for access to devices and folders and even desktops while
I am away from my home. Its very cool and the new camera stuff they are designing with youtube
storage and twitter is interesting.

YOu would be able to set up each of your cameras for external access without DDNS, poking holes in
firewalls etc.

Frank

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This http://www.yoics.com/?cat=5 is interesting indeed. I’d be curious to find out how secure they really are - they’re VNC based, and among VNC implementations there where “good” and “bad” ones.

And this http://www.yoics.com/?cat=58 suggests that they offer embedded version, which means it can be ported to OpenWRT and run on any one of those cheap Linux routers or the plugcomputer, which makes it VERY interesting product, especially integrated with Vera.

EDIT: this http://support.yoics.com/viewtopic.php?t=283 should probably resolve my security concerns. Sound pretty good.

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hey, i’m from Yoics and we would definitely be interested in working with OpenWRT. We do have a version of our daemon that runs on Linux and embedded Linux. Both Lorex and Astak use Yoics as an ‘automated’ means of setting up remote access for their IP cameras.

The best way to think of yoics, is networking meets instant messaging, where secure tunnels (encrypted and random ports opened per session on the router) connect users with devices. devices can also be shared with other users. Yoics works on any TCP service, so you can essentially ‘virtualize’ different services on the same device.

In particular to VNC (as mentioned by the previous poster) we essentially serve as a VPN for VNC. We simply bundle UltraVNC for user setup convenience. We do the same for RDP and other services by default.

If someone want’s to ping me directly at ryo [at] yoics [dot] com - feel free. well also ping the board at OpenWRT.