One steady address for every device

The Relayant box connects out from the site, and your monitoring software reaches each camera, recorder or controller at one address and port.

What it does

The site connects to you, not the other way round

The box dials out to Relayant over an encrypted WireGuard tunnel. Nothing is opened or forwarded on the site's router, so a site on 4G or Starlink is reached like any other.

In the portal you choose which devices your control room needs and which ports. Each one gets an address and port on Relayant. Enter it in your monitoring software once; it stays the same even when the device changes address at the site.

The connection runs through our cloud relay, or through local relays: PCs in your own control room that the boxes dial directly. With local relays, camera traffic does not pass through our servers.

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The box dials out to our cloud relay, to a local relay in your control room, or to both at once. Your monitoring software reaches each device at one address and port, and only from the addresses you allow.

How you use it

Three steps, and nothing at the site's router

  1. Plug in the box

    Connect the Relayant box to a LAN port of the site's router. It takes an address by DHCP and shows Online in the portal once it has connected. No box? The software agent runs on a Linux PC, a Raspberry Pi or a router already there.

  2. Choose the devices

    The box finds the cameras, recorders and other devices on the site's network and names the maker and model where it can. Pick the ones your control room needs, and their ports.

  3. Enter the address once

    Each device gets an address and port. Enter it in your monitoring software as you would any camera or recorder. It stays the same even if the device moves on the site's network.

The details

What a control room needs to know

Cloud relay, or relays of your own
Our cloud relay carries the connection between your control room and the site. Or run a local relay: a PC in your control room that the boxes dial directly, offering each camera as a local port.
Camera traffic can stay on your network
With local relays, camera traffic goes from the site straight to your control room and not through our servers.
Several relays, all connected at once
You can run two local relays; the limit can be raised, up to 20. Every box keeps a connection to every enabled relay, and each camera has the same port on every relay. When one relay is down, your monitoring software needs no change.
Up to four addresses per relay
Each relay has its own name, a port and up to four addresses, for a PC behind a dual-WAN router. It offers cameras on the PC only, on your office network, or anywhere.
Only your allowed addresses get in
Only the internet addresses you list can reach a device's address. On a local relay, beyond the relay's own PC only your office network and your allowed addresses get in. You can allow any address, and the portal warns you what that means.
The address follows the device
The box follows a device by its hardware (MAC) address when its IP changes at the site. Its Relayant address and port stay the same, and the box tells a device that has moved from one that has gone.
The portal tells you what to forward
For a local relay, the portal names the port, the PC's own address and each internet line to forward on your router. It also shows whether each site reaches each relay, naming any address that fails.
Where a local relay runs
On 64-bit Windows, or Linux on x86-64 or ARM64, a Raspberry Pi included. Your control room needs a fixed internet address and one port forwarded to that PC; the portal names it. The relay opens its own firewall rule, tries to forward its own router port, and updates itself from releases we sign. Setting one up is a download from the portal.
If the box loses contact with Relayant
Its connections to your local relays keep running. Today, local relays carry on for sites that already reach them while we are unreachable. The box reconnects to Relayant by itself, with nobody on site.
Every address, in one place
The portal lists each device's address and port on every relay, so the person at the monitoring software has them to hand.

What it does not do

Three things a reviewer will ask about

It does not open the site's network

The box connects outward only, over WireGuard. Nothing is opened or forwarded on the site's router, and the site's network is not exposed to the internet.

It reaches nothing you did not choose

The relay reaches only the device-and-port pairs you chose, never the site's whole network. We hold no device logins and do not sign in to a device.

It does not store video

The box relays video encrypted. We do not store, transcode or inspect it. We count bytes, nothing more. With local relays it does not pass through our servers.

Give your control room one address per device

Tell us how many sites you look after, how they connect and what monitoring software you use. We reply by email.

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