VPN for security cameras

[Hanscento]

Hi, 

my isp only provide dynamic private IP address, I would like to see my security cameras from the internet with IP Cam Viewer Pro ( they are quite old so they doesn’t support cloud connection), which from my understanding needs port forwarding.

So I thought I would use a VPN hosted on my VPS and I would like to use the VPS IP address on my phone for connecting to my cameras.

NOT connect my phone to the VPN every time I want to use the app, but use the VPS IP as “relay” between my house and my phone maintaining the connection from my house to the VPS and from the VPS to my phone encrypted.

is there a way to do so?? ( I said VPN but I’m not sure that you have to use a VPN for what I’m trying to do)

 

Thank You

 

[m2kk]

How would the connection or IP discovery between the VPS and your home work in this case? You'd need some sort a box in the home network reaching out to the VPS and the have a VPN or something like that between them. I think that would just add unnecessary complexity. 

What I would do is to get a raspberryPi for the home network and run dynamic DNS updated and Wireguard on that. Just forward the Wireguard port on your router and then you could access your home network using a DNS name (updated dynamically when your IP changes) and connect to it using Wireguard. A quick google pointed me to this guide which seems to cover stuff that you'd need - https://www.joshualowcock.com/guide/how-to-setup-raspberry-pi-with-pivpn-wireguard-and-noip-com/ There are tons of different dynamic DNS providers so you could switch to a different one.