I have setup a small Wireguard VPN network between 3 devices:
- Digital Ocean VPS (server, 10.222.0.1)
- Raspberry Pi on my home network (peer, 10.222.0.2)
- iPhone 11 (peer, 10.222.0.3)
From any device, I can ping the others. The VPN is functional. What I want now is for the iPhone (which is outside of my home network) to see an IP camera on my home network which has an IP address of 192.168.1.64. This is beyond my capabilities to do alone so I was looking for some assistance.
Ultimately, I need the iPhone which his entering the Pi to be connected/routed from the 10.222.0.x subnet to the 192.168.1.x subnet.
Would appreciate an suggestions, thanks.
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Hi,
I believe the most convenient way to get an access to your camera (and the other home LAN nodes) through VPN would be to configure your home router to interconnect your home LAN and VPN. In that case, your router must have WireGuard VPN software implemented or must give you a chance to download, install, and configure it. Good example of latter ones are routers based on OpenWRT OS. However, there are another ways for some network brands, e.g. for Ubiquity router you can check relevant project on GitHub, for MikroTik you can check their beta 7.xx RouterOS that includes WireGuard VPN (since release 7.1beta2), etc. Having a router that supports WireGuard VPN, its configuration would be similar to any other peer in your VPN network. Additionally, you would have to open a particular port in its firewall, and add a static route for traffic from LAN to VPN, however, it may be added automatically during WireGuard (wg) interface configuration. You need to allow IPs of your home LAN subnet in iPhone’s WireGuard configuration as well.
If your router does not support WireGuard VPN software, it may still be possible to access your camera through VPN. Check if your camera embedded software allows you to add a static route. Then, you might use your Raspberry Pi as a gateway to VPN.
Hi there,
What I would usually do in this case is to setup PiVPN on the Raspberry Pi. That way you will be able to connect to the PiVPN directly and access all of the devices on your home network.
Regards, Bobby
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