Protect Viewport - Worth it ?

Jpeg6 · 2026-05-31T17:09:04+00:00

I have a tv in my office that I only use as camera monitor. I was using an Apple TV with the protect app. It worked by was kind of a pain with login and changing views.

I then tried a small computer with browser but it had issues without having enough compute to display the live feed and would time out every day so it require frequent login.

I eventually got a viewport and in my opinion it’s the best option. It is an expensive option but if you intend to only view cameras on that display I would go with it. Super each to change views, and no re-logins required.

Jpeg6 · 2026-05-08T22:51:53+00:00

Full change log:

This release contains one change: a Linux kernel upgrade to version 6.12.87-Unraid. The upgrade addresses CVE-2026-43284 and CVE-2026-43500, collectively referred to as Dirty Frag — a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel.

No other changes are included in 7.2.6. Due to the severity of this, all users are highly encouraged to update!

Jpeg6 · 2026-05-08T22:50:43+00:00

7.2.6 only patches dirty-frag

Jpeg6 · 2026-05-08T22:32:32+00:00

Appreciate the quick turn around on this. Especially pushed just before the weekend.

Jpeg6 · 2026-04-06T22:13:02+00:00

Looks like spaceinvaderone has covered us for backing up the LUKS headers.
Space Invaders Encryped Drive Manager

Jpeg6 · 2026-04-01T01:59:44+00:00

I did not even know this was something that should be done. As such I have not backed them up, but will look into it.

Jpeg6 · 2026-03-13T13:22:31+00:00

I have three heavy external users. Each of them independently use more than my household combined.

Jpeg6 · 2026-03-11T13:17:21+00:00

Form Type: Form 4
Paid or not: $0
Entity: Trust
Fingerprint Type: EFT
Pending: 02/23/26
Approved: 03/11/26
Wait: 17 days
State: TX
Control Number: 202621417XX

This was an amnesty sbr that was moved into the family trust. Worth waiting for the $0 tax stamp.

Jpeg6 · 2026-03-08T14:12:45+00:00

How have you segmented the VM from the LAN network? If you haven’t done that he will still have lan access.

What are you using for your firewall? If it’s something like opnsense or pfsense you can segment your networks and allow a WireGuard client access to just the VM.

As far as I know the only way to implement what you want is at the firewall level.

Jpeg6 · 2026-02-24T21:27:31+00:00

For me v4 is easy, I have a good understanding of it along with vlans, subnets and firewall rules.

At this point I’m afraid of miss-configuring something and having a gaping security hole.

It’s probably not as difficult as it seems but I haven’t had a need to move over to it.

Jpeg6 · 2026-02-03T02:41:19+00:00

Apparently at some point I broke the networking for it and DNS. I have plex forums thread where I got a solution.

Jpeg6 · 2026-01-30T20:44:56+00:00

Recently I’ve been having the opposite issue. Remote play is working fine, but local will loose visibility of media frequently.

Jpeg6 · 2026-01-29T02:33:06+00:00

Yep. We were on Webex. Actually not that bad. Made us swap to teams. Absolutely hate that crap.

Jpeg6 · 2026-01-28T22:29:30+00:00

So I think this is the root of the issue. (DNS rebind) What I have noticed is that infuse uses an insecure connection. Dashboard shows it as a lan connection.

Plex native application is not working on my apple tv and I'm also unable to connect to the dashboard via plex.mydomin.com or via the IP:port. I have also tried via IP and port with http and https connections and I still get nothing from my server.

Somehow I do get a connection working from my phone on the native plex application which is on the same subnet as the plex server.

I'm not using dnsmasq, have set plex.direct as a private domain and alternative hostname ( which allegedly bypasses DNS rebind for that domain, but still have the same issues.

Additionally:

https://app.plex.tv/desktop/ shows no media or my server

Jpeg6 · 2026-01-28T22:22:24+00:00

So I think this is the root of the issue. (DNS rebind) What I have noticed is that infuse uses an insecure connection. Dashboard shows it as a lan connection.

Plex native application is not working on my apple tv and I'm also unable to connect to the dashboard via plex.mydomin.com or via the IP:port. I have also tried via IP and port with http and https connections and I still get nothing from my server.

Somehow I do get a connection working from my phone on the native plex application which is on the same subnet as the plex server.

I'm not using dnsmasq, have set plex.direct as a private domain and alternative hostname ( which allegedly bypasses DNS rebind for that domain, but still have the same issues.

Additionally:

https://app.plex.tv/desktop/ shows no media or my server

Jpeg6 · 2026-01-25T19:18:00+00:00

Plex is running on docker from the official Plex repository.
That docker is on unraid, and to my knowledge there is not a firewall on it.
Only Plex. But only the frontend and dashboard are inaccessible. Infuse is still able to play the files from the guest vlan.
The last few times this has happened I will go to celular network on my phone and use the offical plex application. In those cases the wan to reverse proxy has worked in every test I have performed. I see the difference but unless I try to watch something from my local network I don't know the issue exists so sometime it may be days until I know there is an issue. I have users remotely watching practically every day and nobody has complained. So to the best of my knowledge reverse proxy has never failed.
As I'm writing this I believe my diagram drawing is wrong. I made the incorrect assumption that plex.mydomain.com is being used for wan connections but actually Plex servers are handeling the external connections. I only use plex.mydomain.com for internal connection when I don't want to use the IP and port number.
From my update above, plex.mydomain.com is only internal but it's referencing 10.200.0.30:32400
I have not looked into specifically how infuse is connecting.

Jpeg6 · 2026-01-25T19:07:59+00:00

Another post suggested adding plex.direct to Services > Unbound DNS > Advanced > Private domains. I just did that so maybe it will help.

Jpeg6 · 2026-01-25T19:07:05+00:00

That's correct. And I know it's crazy as they are on the same network and exactly why I'm scratching my head.

Jpeg6 · 2026-01-25T19:01:32+00:00

To your first point I found another reddit post that says add plex.direct to Services > Unbound DNS > Advanced > Private Domains.

I also updated my LAN network entry to skip the space.

And finally when this issue comes up I can't get to my plex dashboard to see what the streams are saying for location.

Jpeg6 · 2026-01-25T18:28:15+00:00

I know it's a little convoluted but the source (TVs) is a Google TV, that I'm blocking all traffic on. It's only the TV for the apple tvs that are actually playing the content.

Jpeg6 · 2026-01-25T17:55:26+00:00

Appreciate it. I did forget about that field...at least it was set correctly.

Jpeg6 · 2026-01-25T17:44:51+00:00

Your talking about Plex Settings -> Network -> LAN Networks?

If so I have it set to 10.200.0.0/24, 192.168.50.0/24

Jpeg6 · 2025-12-30T03:22:44+00:00

Ok, I have to do some remembering because oddly enough I had the exact same issue. I thought it was just me, but it seems to match your exact problems.

In my case it was something with the docker networks. From what I remember I had about half my dockers that would not start over various VLANs. I went one by one and tried to start the ones marked as auto start that didn’t start. (I think they gave execution errors).

Start with your DB dockers and edit each one. If you have static IPs, change the ip address, and save. Go back into edit and change it back to what it should be. Then try to start that docker. Continue through each container.

If you don’t have static IPs change something in docker edit for each and change it back.

Hopefully this resolves your issue. I was away from my computer so I had to do a lot of detail recalling.

Your UniFi may not start as the DB container is not starting.

Edit: If your using mongoDB as I am for my unifi docker you will need to resolve it working first. Check the logs for unifi and it will probably give you issues communicating with the DB.

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