Using Camera Companion software and Axis cameras, no longer do security dealers need to invade their clients’ routers and ISP boxes to set up port forwarding and open firewall ports. The MAC address of the camera is then associated with the customer’s MyAxis end-user account, and their requests to view the cameras hits the intermediary server on the Internet, connecting the camera(s) to the end-user with no port forwarding/firewall settings needed. The way this works is that Axis is providing the use of free intermediary servers on the Internet to which Axis cameras can be set to communicate. Within just a few minutes I had the camera up on my Camera Companion Android app and didn’t have to do anything to my router or ISP box. I decided to get up off my sorry backside and grabbed an Axis Communications M1013 wired IP camera and gave the new version of Camera Companion a try. He was telling me just how easy it is to use the new Axis Camera Companion version 3 software to connect to their cameras, and that their new remote access eliminates the need to do any port forwarding or firewall manipulation to get a camera up onto a smart device or Internet-connected PC. What jumpstarted my joy was a phone call from Jim Murray at Axis Communications. After I moped around the house for a while, things turned around in a big way.
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