Remote streaming not working?

[terabitz]

Hello,

This issue did not pop up until version 5.1.0.201216, but I have not been able to watch the direct streams of my channels outside of my home network ever since the latest release came out a couple of months ago.

I'm talking about the stream access via http://ip:8866/live?channel=x which still works fine on my LAN, but not outside of my home network.

This cannot be an issue with my firewall since I am able to access the web UI just fine outside of my LAN, as well as the transcoded streams from inside the web UI.

I've set <AllowRemoteStreaming>true</AllowRemoteStreaming> in my config.xml file as well at C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\

I'll attach my latest logs as well.

Thanks again!

[mvallevand]

Non-secure access to this API outside is being addressed in the next release, it is too risky for general use.

Martin

[terabitz]

So will there be any way to access the direct stream in a secure manner instead of being forced to use the transcoding option?

[mvallevand]

Only using direct play clients like Kodi that already authenticate.

Martin

[terabitz]

Gotcha. Haven't tried Kodi in a while so I will report back if that doesn't work.

[terabitz]

Thank you again. Kodi is working even outside of the home network.

Do you think it could be possible to somehow get VLC integration, even with the PIN?

[mvallevand]

I'm positive there is, but I personally have zero interest in spending any time on it.

Martin

[sub]

I have added a method to do this in the next release, using 'basic authentication' style urls.

ie you can remotely open http://<username>:<permanent_sid>@ipaddress:8866/live?channel=123

Where username must match the <Username> tag in your config.xml, and permanent_sid is one of the comma separated <PermanentSIDs> in your config.xml.