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Apple Airport Remote Access Setup
If you have a router other than Apple Airport, skip ahead to the next section.
In order to access the camera remotely from outside your network, you have
to tell your Airport to allow access to the network ports used by the camera.
This is called “port forwarding” and is done with Airport Utility 5.6 as follows:
In the Airport utility, go to manual setup and select the gear-shaped
“
Advanced
” icon. Click on “
Port Mapping
”, then click on the
+ (add)
icon at
the bottom of the box, and enter the following info:
Service
:
(don’t change this, leave at “Choose a service” or “Custom…”)
Public TCP port: 8150
(your 2
nd
camera would have 8151 here, 3
rd
8152 etc)
IP address
:
(add the IP address for your camera, e.g. 10.0.1.4)
Private TCP port: 80
Leave other entries blank, then “
Continue
”, and add a description like
“SharxCam1HTTP”, then “
Done
”, and click on the
+ (add)
icon again. This time
use the following settings:
Service:
(again don’t change)
Public UDP port: 30000-30001
(next camera would have 30002-30003 etc)
IP Address:
(again the IP address for your camera)
Private UDP port: 30000-30001
(same as public UDP port)
Leave all other entries blank, then “
Continue
”, and add a description like
“SharxCam1RTP”, then click on “
Done
” and “
Update
” to restart your Airport.
Now someone from outside your network should be able to access your
camera using your external IP address with
:8150
added to the end. For
example, if the Airport summary screen shows your IP address as 12.34.56.78,
you would enter the following in your browser:
http://12.34.56.78:8150
This assumes your Airport is your only router. You can check this by going to
www.checkip.org
. The IP address shown there should be the same as shown in
your Airport. Otherwise you have multiple routers and networks. In that case
you would need to forward ports through the preceding routers with DMZ or
“Static NAT”. Or you could set your other routers to “bridge mode” to avoid
complications of multiple sets of local IP addresses.
After completing this section, your Airport is set up to allow remote access to
your camera. If you have DSL, proceed to “Choosing a name for your camera”.
