Re: How to stream from outside the home network
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 3:16 pm
Has anyone EVER got this going reliably?
I am a network professional and I’ve never got it working outside my home LAN. Works a treat if I use a massively expensive VPN solution (Cisco Anytime Connect on my ASA) so it appears that my device is on the local LAN – but the “Allow external IP addresses” bit of the MM server just doesn’t work externally.
I have allowed the correct ports, tried my own ports and even used several different servers\installations of Mediamonkey over a few years now…it just doesn’t work.
As some other people have said in this thread; I have (several times) got as far as seeing the XML file on various external clients on different platforms. So I know my networking and routing is fine. I even had a dedicated external IP for a while and I put a server in a DMZ and that didn't work either. The same server had SQL and IIS running and serving pages and data to the world - so it was online no problem.
It’s a massive shame that I’ve had to resort to using Plex, looking at my MM library on another machine, to share my media with myself.
Mediamonkey with proper external sharing would kick plex into the long grass if it worked correctly. Everything else about MM is amazing, can we please have working streaming as a cherry on top.
I am a network professional and I’ve never got it working outside my home LAN. Works a treat if I use a massively expensive VPN solution (Cisco Anytime Connect on my ASA) so it appears that my device is on the local LAN – but the “Allow external IP addresses” bit of the MM server just doesn’t work externally.
I have allowed the correct ports, tried my own ports and even used several different servers\installations of Mediamonkey over a few years now…it just doesn’t work.
As some other people have said in this thread; I have (several times) got as far as seeing the XML file on various external clients on different platforms. So I know my networking and routing is fine. I even had a dedicated external IP for a while and I put a server in a DMZ and that didn't work either. The same server had SQL and IIS running and serving pages and data to the world - so it was online no problem.
It’s a massive shame that I’ve had to resort to using Plex, looking at my MM library on another machine, to share my media with myself.
Mediamonkey with proper external sharing would kick plex into the long grass if it worked correctly. Everything else about MM is amazing, can we please have working streaming as a cherry on top.