OpenVPN with Blue Iris

ssddd65

I am trying to set up OpenVPN with Blue Iris. I have OpenVPN working and I can connect on my iPhone.

If I am on my home network, I can connect to Blue Iris.

If I disconnect and use LTE with VPN, it doesn't work.

My setup is a Server with both Blue Iris and OpenVPN Server on it, and my iPhone has the OpenVPN client.

My two questions are:

1. If Blue Iris is on the same Server as OpenVPN, will Blue Iris be available on the network by default? Do I have to also run the Client? Do I have to do something else?
2. If #1 isn't an issue, is there any IP address magic that happens that would make the Blue Iris server have a different IP when connected to through the VPN? Or that would be blocking traffic? I've verified my iPhone is connected to the VPN but haven't been able to verify it can access anything on the LAN with the same IP it would have if I was directly on WiFi.

Thanks for any help! Much appreciated.

Pippin

1. Try connecting to BI on the server tunnel IP.
2. https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?t=22603
2a. This diagram might help: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/AvoidRoutingConflicts

ssddd65

@pippin Thanks for the response! Sorry for my denseness here: is the default server tunnel IP always 192.168.171.1? If so, that did not work. I tried that on port 81 which is the Blue Iris port.

As far as sharing configs, do you just want to see OpenVPN\config\server.ovpn? It's the default one copied from OpenVPN\sample-config\server.ovpn.

Please let me know what else I can share, I appreciate the help.

ssddd65

There is a comment I saw elsewhere that said:

"You need to push routes to you internal network. Add something like below to server.conf:

push "route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0"

Or whatever your LAN is."

I will try that as well, I haven't done the "push" anywhere. Will that keep IP addresses the same?

TinCanTech

A great place to learn how openvpn works is the howto.

ssddd65

Thanks! I will take a look there to learn more.

I did two things:

Add push "route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0"

To server.conf.

Then I noticed the server said "Assigned IP 10.0.8.1" so I connected to 10.0.8.1:81 and it worked! Thanks so much for the help, I really appreciate it.