Remote veiwing Security Cameras with PIA installed on PFSense router

poconopaulpoconopaul
in Other Software Support
I have PIA installed on a PFSense built router. All traffic is going through the VPN. I have cameras installed at the location that I can view inside the LAN only. Is there a way to access the cameras remotely? I have Forscam and Amcrest Pan/tilt/zoom cameras and a Defender system that records to a hard drive. Before installing PIA, I just opened the port on the router and was abble to access. I understand that thats not an option but was looking for anykind of solution and still keep the entire router traffic on the vpn

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  • poconopaulpoconopaul
    Any suggestions? Im sure someone has IP cameras with a solution...
  • JoeJeJoeJe
    edited May 2016
    I'm assuming you control these IP Cameras on a web interface either by TCP port 80 (HTTP) or 443 (HTTPS). 

    At this current point in time, there is no way to port forward behind the PIA VPN service without using their watered down OpenVPN client, of course, any devices such as IP Cameras cannot run such software. I'm in a similar situation to you with my NAS which I also have behind a pfSense router which connects to the PIA service.

    PIA used to have this bash script that you could run on your device (That is if it was running some sort of version of Linux) that would do a JSON request to a particular page they hosted which returned a port number that you could port forward through, however a vulnerability was found with it and they took it down.

    The only way you can do this at this current point in time is to route traffic from TCP port 80 or 443 from your IP cameras to your ISP-issued router or modem. Frustrating, I know.

    PIA Tech Support: PLEASE provide a way for your customers to port forward without the PIA client!!!
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