NextPVR - Access from Remote Location - Port Forwarding?

[TomasCremin]

I'm using NextPVR with the Kodi client. It works great inside my house on my home network, but I'd like to be able to use it from remote locations, through the internet.
So I set up the Port Forwarding through my router to the computer that is serving the NPVR, and I'm pretty sure I've got that right, because I got a Port Forwarding tester, and it finds the port through the internet (and if I turn off the Port Forwarding, it fails). Yet when I point my Kodi NextPVR client to the external IP address and port grow a garden, I get no response, like there is nothing there. Pointing to the server directly at its internal address, it works fine.
Am I missing something else here that needs to be set up? Or how can I diagnose this?

[mvallevand]

First for remote connections on the NextPVR web go to Settings->Access you need to enable access. While threre for Kodi you can't use PIN 0000 and a longer PIN is better. For web browser access you would need to change the user name and the password.

Martin

[boringgit]

Personally I wouldn't port forward.

I don't think anybody has ever suggested that NPVR is hardened to the point that it is safe to allow access over the internet.

Look at something like Tailscale - it is a really easy VPN and it is hardened...

There are plenty of other options such as reverse proxying through Nginx, Cloudflare tunnels etc... But easy works