How can I make remote access IP-independent?

[Happy2Play 9780]

11 minutes ago, Q-Droid said:

Why would Emby Connect not stay up to date with server IP changes?

It does but don't know the exact update interval though, but looking at my server log for yesterday it looks like an hourly checkup.

[Luke 42078]

It's every few hours. But there can be a gap of time from when the ip address changes until the next time it reports. If the server becomes aware of it, then it will report immediately and not wait the three hours.

[Q-Droid 989]

3 minutes ago, Luke said:

It's every few hours. But there can be a gap of time from when the ip address changes until the next time it reports. If the server becomes aware of it, then it will report immediately and not wait the three hours.

No bueno. The polling cycle for server WAN IP should be minutes, not hours. It only needs to notify Emby Connect when it detects a change. Pretty much how DDNS clients handle this.

- Detect WAN IP on startup.
- Notify Emby Connect.
- Poll the WAN IP every 5-10 minutes.
- Notify Emby Connect on change.

Otherwise you're looking at an outage that can range from minutes to a few hours.

[Luke 42078]

4 minutes ago, Q-Droid said:

No bueno. The polling cycle for server WAN IP should be minutes, not hours. It only needs to notify Emby Connect when it detects a change. Pretty much how DDNS clients handle this.

- Detect WAN IP on startup.
- Notify Emby Connect.
- Poll the WAN IP every 5-10 minutes.
- Notify Emby Connect on change.

Otherwise you're looking at an outage that can range from minutes to a few hours.

Again if a change is detected, it happens immediately.

[Q-Droid 989]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

Again if a change is detected, it happens immediately.

But the detection...

[TheMovieJerk 0]

On 11/23/2024 at 4:09 PM, rbjtech said:

ok - so assuming you have setup a dyndns name (the dropdown I presume gave you a choice of suppliers and you have chosen to use dyndns?) - and you enter a username and password that dyndns have given you - now you can simply use this DNS name instead of the IP address in anything related to your public ip.

so if your dyndns name was 'myembyserver.dyndns.org'

then on the remote emby clients - you would simply configure - 'http://myembyserver.dyndns.org:8096' - or 'http://myembyserver.dyndns.org' and the port as 8096 for some clients.   (no quotes..)

Any changes to your public IP - will be automatically sent by your router as DNS changes and the remote client (the world..) will pick this up and use the new ip address.  There may be a few minutes delay - but usually it's very quick to update even globally.

The DDNS Service state update box above is nice - as it will show you when it last sucessfully updated.    It's currently empty, so it hasn't done anything yet - as you need a valid dyndns username and password.

What are the other options in Service provider ?  Some may be free, others may be cost options.

Thank you again for your response, @rbjtech. No, I haven't set up a DynDNS name, nor do I know how to do that . Could you please provide me with step-by-step instructions on how to do it? Also, will there be any costs involved?

On 11/24/2024 at 4:32 PM, visproduction said:

This is the original request:
 

If you have access to a personal website and you know HTML, you could add a hidden page, put up a few random images on the page, perhaps family shots and link one or part of one using a mapped area of one, back to your Emby IP access.

Image map area link creator:  Make only one spot on the image linkable.  https://www.image-map.net/ 

Don't include this hidden page in any sitemap nor post the link anywhere. Once you do this, just give your member this private link to the page and tell them it's secret, and not to email, not to text nor post it to anyone.  The member would have this bookmarked link, know to click on the cute dog or whatever and they get access to your Emby server.  They don't need to know an IP address.  When your IP happens to change, you update the image link on your private hidden page.  The member won't even know anything changed.  You will still be protected by Emby sign in.

Don't do this on any social media or someone's else's site.  The site has to belong to you where you can create a new page in some subdirectory with a hidden encrypted names:
Something like this:
www.mypersonalwebsitename.com/picketfence/alt.html
 

Thank you for your response as well, @visproduction. No, I don’t have access to a personal website and I don’t know anything about HTML . Would a blog work too? Could you also explain to me step by step how to do it?

Thank you both for your patience!

[visproduction 315]

Movie J,

A Blog is insecure, because anyone can see it.  Even if you hide a link in an image, you would be revealing the IP address and port to your Emby server.  We don't want that.  This trick is only secure with a hidden page that is not linked from anywhere else.  You need a proper website.