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[LittleBill21]

This Is how my Reolink system is set up. My DVR is local, no cloud servers or anything like that.

yea if your using a app, and you haven't done port forwarding, you absolutely are dialing into a server in the cloud, where your dvr called home to...

 

[Wakey]

yea if your using a app, and you haven't done port forwarding, you absolutely are dialing into a server in the cloud, where your dvr called home to...

So lets say I get a notification while off property, select a camera, the video travels from my DVR to Reolink servers and then to my device?

 

[LittleBill21]

So lets say I get a notification while off property, select a camera, the video travels from my DVR to Reolink servers and then to my device?

yep, your connecting to reolink servers

 

[Wakey]

I don't know much about networks and whatnot, I just assumed that the video left my DVR and went to the device that requested it.

 

[LittleBill21]

I don't know much about networks and whatnot, I just assumed that the video left my DVR and went to the device that requested it.

and the point is, how do they know how to "find" each other? they don't, they both call home to reo, who gets both your phone and your dvr routed correctly.

 

[Wakey]

Chinaman see me in my drawers letting the dog out in the morning

 

[buckeyefarmer]

yea if your using a app, and you haven't done port forwarding, you absolutely are dialing into a server in the cloud, where your dvr called home to...

Yes, reolink is going out to the cloud. You get to it because it sets up a connection.

 

[BrierPatch]

and the point is, how do they know how to "find" each other? they don't, they both call home to reo, who gets both your phone and your dvr routed correctly.

MY system works a little different than this. I have Amcrest cameras and a Dahua NVR. My camera app (gDMSS) has 2 options to connect to my NVR. When at home and connected to the same network that my NVR is on, I can connect directly to it using it's IP address and not go thru their sever/host. When I'm away, I can connect thru their server/host, which is the up to cloud and back down. This connection runs at a lower resolution and bit rate so it is not such a data hog on the upload and download to and from the cloud.

This is why I was thinking that @metalheart was able to see his cameras while at home, but not when remote. I'm guessing it's a setting on the camera or app to allow the remote connection and not the SL connection.

 

[Alan W.]

Our county was one that received funds for high speed fiber expansion.
According to the map plans we will be getting fiber.
Yes it will probably be a year or so before it reaches us but in all probability will be here before SL. Could be sooner since the cable stops two miles down the road from us.
So with all the fiber expansion going on in the country now it will hurt SLs numbers which will mean higher prices.
I will be keeping my Crickett Wireless internet until the fiber arrives.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

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