RTSP Port Forwarding

Port forwarding is needed when trying to connect a camera at your site to a cloud gateway. You will configure your router to forward incoming connections 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.

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.

1. On your web browser address bar, type your router's IP Address/Default Gateway or use your router's Mobile app.
2. Log in with your router's credentials (username and password) to view your router's firmware settings.
3. Navigate to the port forwarding section of your router.
4. Click on Port Forwarding.
5. Enter the IP address of your camera in your router in the correct box.
6. Put the destination RTSP TCP and UDP ports of the Camera in the boxes in your router. The default RTSP port number is 554.
7. 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.
8. And you're done. Restart your router to let the changes take effect.
9. Once your changes take effect, now you can use your public IP address and public port to setup a Stream. The final RTSP URL that you configure in Lumeo Console will look like following:

rtsp://username:password@public-ip-address:forwarded-port/....

ex. rtsp://admin:[email protected]:8554/onvif1