GeoVision Port Forwarding

Whenever you are going to set the geovision surveillance system up for remote viewing access, you are going to need to do what is called, "Port Forwarding". You do this if you intend to use the webcam, iphone viewer, RPB or other similar remote feature that the geovision dvr card supports. You will have the internet coming into your home or office which will be connected to your router. Depending on the brand of router that you have you will need to know how to access your router so that you can complete the port forwarding. Each brand of router, such as Linksys, Netgear, Cisco, D-Link will have a different way to access it.

Understanding Port Forwarding... In Basic Terms

You can look at it this way...The router is the gateway between you and the internet, with your IP address being similar to a street address. What we want to do is to tell the gateway where the traffic needs to go from the outside world (the internet) to the inside world (your network). This way, we can adjust the router so that when traffic visits your IP, the router will send them to the correct location inside your network, which in this case it will be the PC that hosts the DVR.

We can use this example.. Say for instance that you have a office network with many computers on it. You install your new Geovision DVR Card PC system on the network and it has the internal address of 192.168.1.120 ( Bring up a command prompt and type in " ipconfig" to find out the internal IP address of the surveillance system )

Then you access the router and find the section that is commonly refered to as, "port forwarding" or "pinhole" - depending on the brand that you have, you may need to google the users manual to find the exact location of the port forwarding section.

From here, let's say you are going to want to use the Geovision iPhone viewer to access the live video remotely. You will then select to forward ports 5566 and 8866 to the internal ip address of 192.168.1.120

Go to www.ipchicken.com and find out the static IP address that is given to you by the internet service provider.

Geovision port forwarding list

Geovision Port Forwarding

This is one of the most asked about facets of the Geovision dvr card surveillance system. Since there is quite a bit of remote features, there are many different ports that you will need to open and forward in the router to your geovision dvr card surveillance system.

The tricky thing about port forwarding is that you will need to know how to access the router that is between the internet and the network.

If you are doing this for a customer or client, you may want to just let the network administrator do the port forwarding for you. If this is not the case, you will need to do some brief research on the make and model of the router to find out how to access the router and then forward the ports.

The first thing that you must do it is to identify the internal IP address of the PC that the Geovision DVR Card is located. you can do this by going to Start > Accessories > Command Prompt

When the command prompt pops up, you will need to type in, "IPCONFIG".

What you want to look for is the line that says:

IPv4 Address......................... :192.168.1.XXX  


Now that you have the IP address of the DVR, you can then access the router and then forward the appropriate ports to the DVR's IP address.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Geovision WebCam Port Forwarding

The Follwing (4) ports are all that is needed to access the Geovision webcam server:

  • Http: 80
  • Command: 4550
  • Data: 5550
  • Audio:6550

These remaining ports are what is needed to access or take advantage of other features within Geovision:

  • SSL:443
  • Mobile:8866
  • Mobile RPB: 5511
  • 3G RTSP/TCP: 8554
  • 3G RTP/RTCP UPP: 17300-17380
  • Multicast: 8300
  • Audio Broadcast: 8400

For the most part, when you want to just access the surveillance system remotely, the only ports you need to be concerned with is 80,4550 and 5550. However if in the even that you have a microphone installed and want to hear audio remotely, you will need to open and forward 6550.

If you have a speaker or PA installed in the audio-out of your geovision surveillance PC, then you will need to open and forward 8400.



Geovision iphone port forwarding

Geovision iPhone Port Forwarding Geovision iphone port forwarding

The Follwing (4) ports are all that is needed to access the Geovision surveillance system from your iPhone:

  • Http: 80
  • Mobile: 8866
  • Data: 5511

You will need to download and install the GV-iView software to your iPhone first. You can learn more about this application by visiting this link, or simply go to the AppStore on your phone and search for, "GV-iView".

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gv-iview/id314532692?mt=8

 

 

Geovision RPB Port ForwardingGeovision Remote Play Back (RPB) Port Forwarding

  • RPBSvr: 5066

This on is fairly easy, all you need to forward is 5066 to the PC in order to have the Geovision Remote Playback Server be accessable externally.

 

 

 Geovision Geovision Vital Sign Monitor Port ForwardingVital Sign Monitor (VSM) Port Forwarding

  • Server: 5610

Yet another simple port to forward. The Geovision Vital Sign Monitor (VSM) is an excellent tool used to keep an eye on the health and status of your remote surveillance system. If there is any camera failure or internet service interruptions the VSM will keep an eye on it and alert you when there are any problems.

This is an excellent feature to use when you have multiple locations and need to take a proactive apporoach to any service problems.

 

 

 

 Geovision twin server port forwardingGeovision Twin Server Port Forwarding

  • Server: 9650
  • Multicast: 19650

 Quite honestly, this is one of the most least used features in the Geovision software feature set. Basically it is an application that will help out the sharing of network bandwith when you have multiple geovision dvr systems on one network. There are two ways you can set them up... one is by using TCP/IP mode and the other, which is multicast more (more complicated and I don't recommend it) 

Once you have this setup, you will need to start the TwinDVR application. I recommend reading the users manual for all of this... It's not something that you can just flip a switch and get it running. :)

 

 

 

 

 

Geovision Twin DVR Port ForwardingGeovision Twin DVR Port Forwarding

  • Http: 80
  • Command: 4550
  • Data: 5550
  • Audio:6550
  • SSL:443
  • Mobile:8866
  • Mobile RPB: 5511
  • 3G RTSP/TCP: 8554
  • 3G RTP/RTCP UPP: 17300-17380
  • Multicast: 8300
  • Audio Broadcast: 8400

Again, I recommend that you read the users manual on this one. It's not difficult to setup, but you will need some guidance on it with reference to the way your network is setup.

geovision authentication server port forwardingGeovision Authentication Server Port Forwarding

  • Server: 3663

The authentication server is a password and account management system for multiple Geovision dvr systems. WIth this you can create the accounts with different access rights to a group of geovision dvr card systems.

Once the Geovision system is connected to the Authentication server, the previous password setting in the local Geovision system will be invalid - this is where the local Geovision systems will submit to the full control of the Authentication server.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geovision SMS port forwardingGeovision SMS - Short Message Service Port Forwarding

  • Server: 6886

This feature will let you send a SMS or Text message when an alert condition is triggered. You can use this feature with a GSM/GPRS mode. This makes the alert very convenient if you would just like to get a text message.

In order to use this, you will need to install this application from the DVD that is supplied with your DVR Card

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

geovision centerv2 port forwardingGeovision CenterV2 Port Forwarding

At the Subscriber/Client Site

  • Port: 5547
  • Command: 5548
  • Data: 5549
  • Connection: 5545

At the CenterV2 Server Site

  • Center V2: 5547
  • GV IP Device: 5551

 

 

geovision dispatch server port forwardingGeovision Dispatch Server Port Forwarding

  • Server: 21112

The GV-Dispatch Server connects 25,000 GV-Systems to 50 GV-Center V2 Pro servers and distributes the workload between online and offline GV-Center V2 servers. It utilizes load-balancing technique that distributes requests from event-triggered GV-Systems evenly across a GV-Center V2 network. If one GV-Center V2 server starts to get swamped, the GV-Dispatch Server forwards requests to another GV-Center V2 server with more capacity. When one GV-Center V2 server fails to work, another can take over in the processing activity.

 

 

 

 

geovision ddns port forwardingGeovision Dispatch Server Port Forwarding

  • Server: 80 & 81

The Dynamic DNS service you will be able to connect to your geovision dvr card surveillance system without the fear of your dynamic IP address changing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

geovision control center port forwardingGeovision Control Center Port Forwarding

At the DVR Server Site

  • Command Port: 3388
  • Data Port: 5611
  • Log Port: 5552

At the CenterV2 Server Site

  • Command Port: 3388

 

 

 

Geovision UPNP Port Forwarding

  • TCP/IP: 5201
  • Multicast: 5200

 

 Wiegand Capture Server Port Forwarding

  • Server: 5612

 

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