Port forwarding is needed when trying to connect a camera at your site to a cloud gateway. You will configure your router or firewall to forward incoming connections from Lumeo's cloud gateway on a specific port to your camera within your network. If you have multiple cameras to process, you will need to forward multiple ports, one for each camera.

Basic Setup

Here are some basic instructions to complete this. Please check with the manual for your specific router. After you have completed the steps below you can go to https://www.whatismyip.com/ to find your public ip for your router to use in the Stream setup section of the Camera & Streams guide.

On your web browser address bar, type your router's IP Address/Default Gateway or use your router's Mobile app.
Log in with your router's credentials (username and password) to view your router's firmware settings.
Navigate to the port forwarding section of your router.
Click on Port Forwarding.
Enter the internal network IP address of your camera in your router in the correct box.

Put the destination TCP and UDP ports of the Camera in the boxes in your router, following the table below.

Protocol	Camera Types	Destination (Camera) Port
RTSP	IP Cameras that support RTSP streams. Most ONVIF / IP cameras fall in this category.	554 TCP and UDP
HTTP	Cameras that support HTTP(s) streams, such as Rhombus Cameras which support Secure Raw Streams.	8000 TCP (or 80 / 443 if your camera is listening on those ports)

Pick a unused public port as the source port (the first one can be 554, but if you are mapping multiple cameras, each will need a different public port). And then click the apply button.
And you're done. Restart your router to let the changes take effect.
Once your changes take effect, now you will use your public IP address and public port instead of the default camera IP address/port to setup a Stream. The final URL that you configure in Lumeo Console will look like following:

Protocol	Camera Type	Stream URL Format	Example
RTSP	IP cameras, ONVIF camera	`rtsp://username:password@public-ip-address:forwarded-port/....`	`rtsp://admin:[email protected]:8554/onvif1`
HTTP	Rhombus Cameras, or other cameras that support HTTP(s) streams like Secure Raw Streams	`https://public-ip-address:forwarded-port/...`	`https://162.122.3.21:9089/0pw0oihqoi1h1/asdjajassad/h264`

Additional Security

If your router or firewall allows it, you can additionally restrict access to the public port to just the IP address of your Lumeo Cloud gateway.

Find your Gateway's public IP address under Deploy -> Gateways -> Specific Gateway detail page.