Specifications

address "127.0.0.1" always refer to your own PC. Note: your PC's LAN IP address (192.168.x.x)

is internal, and cannot be used in a browser outside of your local network.

Remote, external (Internet) access

The Router's IP address is the IP address that must be used from OUTSIDE of your LAN for

remote access to Blue Iris. In order to see Blue Iris via this IP address from the outside world,

you are going to have to configure your router and firewall to allow access. A great resource is

portforward.com

. This is a free site and offers router-specific step by step instructions. For

most Internet users, the IP address is "dynamic," that is, it changes each that you "dial-in" to

your ISP and may also occasionally be changed at any time by your ISP. The "Find address

now" button attempts to determine this number automatically. (If for some reason it fails, you

may have to use the "ipconfig" command from your system's command prompt.) If your IP

address is "67.1.2.3" for example, you may then use "http://67.1.2.3" in a web browser on any

PC on the Internet. If the port number is other than the default of 80 (See discussion in the

Advanced section below), that number will have to be added to the URL. If the port is 81, for

example, the URL becomes "http://67.1.2.3:81". If your ISP changes your IP address

periodically, you may wish to use the option provided here to periodically find the new address

automatically.

If you want to get a name to use instead of using your IP address when doing a remote

connection, you can click on the Get a domain name

link.

Advanced

The ActiveX encoder options button allows you to select and configure the video compression

technology that will be used for webcasting by the Blue Iris ActiveX control. This setting does

not affect Windows Media or Java/JPEG webcasting--these are configured on a per-camera

basis on each camera's Webcasting page. Here is the current options page: