Hi,
i would like to encrypt the stream for remote cameras, as the traffic passes the public Web before it gets to my zm server. I tried with cameras that work well by using http streaming, but i just get blue screens (with an fps=7, so it looks like the stream gets decrypted, no?) when trying to get the stream on port 443, on which the camera listens to stream in https.
Has anybody ever managed to do this with ZM?
connect camera via https
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jonathancnewcomb
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Re: connect camera via https
SSL has a timeout, you will most likely be able to use the secured stream for a limited amount of time before the connection must close. I take it when you say "Public Web" you are indicating the internet? You may want to offload the encryption onto a device (or devices) designed to create secured tunnels (IE VPN), that way your traffic is secured through a tunnel, but to your end devices, it is unencrypted:
Take the following scenario:
Camera -> VPN Device -> Internet -> VPN Device -> ZoneMinder Server
There are a lot of packages (openVPN for one) that can handle this locally on the zoneminder server, however, your processor will take a significant load increase.
You will have to take into account jitter, latency and throughput availability across the internet.
Take the following scenario:
Camera -> VPN Device -> Internet -> VPN Device -> ZoneMinder Server
There are a lot of packages (openVPN for one) that can handle this locally on the zoneminder server, however, your processor will take a significant load increase.
You will have to take into account jitter, latency and throughput availability across the internet.