Port forwarding IP-Cam (DCS-5222L)

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hi :slight_smile:

I’m new here and I have a big problem how to use my IP-cam directly from outside my home.
I tried hours to make that port forwarding in my Mikrotik 750… but I don’t want to make something wrong.
If someone could help me what exactly I have to enter in the NAT section…that would be great.
Please have a look to my attachments. I tried to write down everything important.

I also made the DDNS at no-ip.org and the script in Mikrotik seems to work.

Thank you very much.

Markus :smiley:

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Here the DDNS setup…

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Have you tried turning on upnp port forwarding on your camera and making sure upnp is turned on in your router? The camera should create the NAT entries it needs by itself.

Otherwise I can check them when I’m at a computer.

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Hi… thanks
I activated UPnP in Mikrotik and in the IP-Cam…
And now?

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Now it should be working. The camera should use uPnP to add the entries in the NAT section of the firewall.

If you want to do it manually, you need to create a NAT entry like this for each port you want to forward. Keep in mind that your camera has a dynamic IP address, so, if it gets a different one, this won’t work. I would change the camera to static in DHCP (not necessarily on the camera).

uPnP should do the job automatically, though.
nat1.png
nat2.png

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Thanks… I will try this..
And how do I connect from outside to the cam over a web browser?

using cactuscam.no-ip.org ?

greets
Markus

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When I entering cactuscam.no-ip.org into the browser I come to the Mikrotik interface now. But only when I’m logged in my own network. From outside (smartphone) nothing comes.

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Did you make entries for both ports 80 and 443?
Did you enter them exactly as shown?
Are you sure the Web cam is still at the address you put in the NAT rules?

If so, it’s possible that your ISP is blocking incoming Web traffic.

try, first, using https://, which uses the port 443 entry instead of the 80.

If that doesn’t work, you could try changing the dist. ports to something else, like 8080 and 8043, while leaving the To ports 443 and 80, and try getting there with https://cactuscam.no-ip.org:8043

If that doesn’t work, then either they are blocking you completely, or you’ve configured something wrong.

EDIT: I can connect to https://cactuscam.no-ip.org, so it’s working. Either you made a mistake in the port 80 rule or your ISP is blocking 80, so check that and change it to 8080 as described, if you really need to.

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Thank you so much! Now I’m getting closer. I can reach the cam interface. But there is no stream… only black frame.
Probably because I did not make the NAT for port 80… I only did it for 443.

I will give feedback when I come home after work.

Have a nice day

Markus

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Do you know your streaming port?

e.g. mine is 8000

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It’s not 80?

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I don’t know how your’s is working. But my DVR has streaming port which is 8000.
so when I dst-nat 80 port for opening DVR page from remote computer still my streaming port is needed because how the browser should know where is your data? Browser requesting for streaming port but because you didn’t dst-nat it so there is nothing except black frame.

So I dst-nat 2 rule:
1st for opening dvr page.
2nd for streaming page.
both IP who destinationed show be same.


This is what I’ve done. hope useful for you too.

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Hi
I made the same for port 80 now.
I will see tomorrow at work what happens.
Greets
Markus :smiley:

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With my Handy App (IP-Cam Viewer) it works now… cool

I will give feedback tomorrow if it also works in webbrowser. :slight_smile:

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Thank you so much! It works perfectly now. Also when I connect in the browser.