Using a dynamic DNS service with Hughesnet
Hello everyone. I am new to the community but a long-time Hughesnet user. Recently upgraded to Gen5 and in the process lost our static ip so are now making an attempt to remotely access security ca...
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Thank you for the quick response. After checking the cameras, which are of differing ages (Mobotix brand cameras), I see that one does appear to support IPv6 and the older one does not. So...in order to at least contact the one camera would I not need to employ some Dynamic DNS service to monitor the v6 IP address if I hope to contact the camera remotely? Not sure what you were suggesting re. "recording software?" Maybe I don't understand how these services work.
Typically people use either an NVR (Network Video Recorder) or DVR (Digital Video Recorder) and all cameras send the video to that device... That device would typically be the central device to access to see the cameras.
From the sounds of things, your cameras are all IP-Cameras and aren't being recorded by anything like an NVR or DVR?
That aside, you would need to use something like DynDNS or no-ip to access easily (by a url), but, unless that camera can run the software to tell those services the IPv6 address it's using, you will have to manually update the DNS entry each and every time it changes. With IPv6, each device gets it's own unique public IP address, very different from how IPv4 worked... So the IP a computer reports to those services, is going to have a different IPv6 address than what your camera would have.
Earlier when I stated recording software, many people that have multiple cameras in a house tend to use something like BlueIris on a computer to record what all their cameras see, if using BlueIris, one could in theory connect to the computer via IPv6, and the computer keep the IPv6 address on no-ip updated, and still be able to view the cameras.
Liz do you know if Hughes ever plans to offer Static IPv6 addressing to residential customers, like they did with IPv4 on Spaceway3 long ago? That would solve half the headache that some users like jcope have...
