The Blue Iris desktop application has a handy “Remote Access Wizard” to help you out, although it still requires a bit of technical know-how. This part requires a bit of firewall tuning to open a port up, and in my case I have a personal domain which meant I had to manually enter the connection info, but it shouldn’t be too hard if you have experience with firewalls.
Installing and connecting the mobile app is simple enough – you just enter part of your license key to pull your remote IP address and enter a user name and password. And then, for me at least (apparently this little gem has been around for almost 3 years!) I discovered the Blue Iris Mobile App (available for iPhone and Android), and it got even better. In fact, the application got even better since that original post with the release of Blue Iris 4.0, adding neat features like a timeline to the view. I’ve called the Blue Iris desktop application a “ must-have for Foscam security cameras owners“, and while I wasn’t happy with a broken firmware setting in the cameras, I still highly recommend the combination.
