RTSP.ME stream suddenly not working - cannot get it back up reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SixOhSixx · 2023-12-18 03:45 Hi there, a little context: I host a shitty little website with a camera feed of my birdcage on it. It's for the sake of letting people watch my bird whenever they want, and I recently got a second camera for a cat too. I'm getting an error 401 now on both cameras (it originally just was one, but I fucked up somewhere) and I cannot get them to come back up at all. I've done the following: - set port forward to 554 - created the correct URL that uses my IP as well as the credentials for the camera and the port forward -cried a little because it won't work all of a sudden I'm trying really hard to figure this out, but I just... can't? I'm so lost. If anyone has done this, if you can please provide me step by step what you did from the beginning I would appreciate it. I'm no master at this and am only learning. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- r_hcaz · 2023-12-18 16:05 Hey, ​ Are you forwarding port 554 to both cameras, or using different ports for each? If you already had port 554 open to the first camera then tried to open it to the second it will cause issues. You either need to use different ports, or use a reverse proxy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SixOhSixx · 2023-12-18 16:22 I tried it last night with opening 555 on the second one and it gave a different error, I think something about denying access? The port also won't open on my IP for some reason, but 554 opened fine??? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- r_hcaz · 2023-12-18 16:33 I would try going back to square one, only open port 554 on your router for camera 1 and see if that starts to work again. ​ If it does then move onto the second camera, you say you tried it, was this by changing the port on the camera and your router, or just on your router? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SixOhSixx · 2023-12-18 18:14 So it seems I've gotten the original cam to work. Port 554 opened. The second camera won't work. Port 555 won't open. I have Xfinity so I can't seem to remember if I'm missing a damn step, but on Xfinity routers I'm forced to go into the app and go under WiFi Settings > Advanced > Port Forwarding > Select device and port and its SUPPOSED to open both on the device and the router, but it just... didn't on the second camera for some reason? I'm unsure if I'm forgetting something. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SixOhSixx · 2023-12-19 03:48 So after doing some digging I found [this reddit thread comment](https ://www.reddit.com/r/TpLink/comments/15zpeld/comment/jxmik46/?utm_sourc e=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) with the reason it's not working. I don't know how to proceed from here, how I would get this working at all, or how I could use an NVR to fix this problem? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- r_hcaz · 2023-12-19 09:26 Yeah that makes sense, how comfortable with self hosting are you? You could setup something like MotionEye on a raspberry pi, add both cameras to that, then forward the port to MotionEye for access (Completely skipping [rtsp.me](https://rtsp.me)) ​ If you want to improve security a bit look into something like cloudflare tunnels to expose the web traffic instead of a port forward. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SixOhSixx · 2023-12-19 15:31 I'm not sure how to even begin with that, but I'll try and look into it! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lilfade · 2023-12-19 18:27 look for "port triggering" on the router, then essentially you setup port-forwarding on 554 as normal and port-triggering on 555 to trigger IP [192.168.0.20](https://192.168.0.20) on port 554 when accessed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SixOhSixx · 2023-12-19 20:26 Thank you so much! I look into this a little later :D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SixOhSixx · 2023-12-19 21:26 So I'm trying to do this now and it seems pretty straight forward, but I'm unsure what I should enter in certain fields here. I'm currently looking at the following fields: Trigger Port From: (I assume this would be 554) Trigger Port To: (and this would be 555) Target To Starting Port: (no idea) Target To Ending Port: (no idea) Is one of these supposed to be the IP? There's no field for an IP otherwise?