From a08967059bcb2d2233a45ae8ac393cce9b01a4b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: edr Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2025 11:04:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add VPN hint to README.md --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index da5d155..f9ee8c1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ and streams audio. Room for improvement includes: At the time this project was forked from _Protect Baby Monitor_ there was no obvious open source solution for a baby monitor for Android in F-Droid. +# Running on different networks +To use this App with two phones that are not connected to the same WIFI network a VPN can be used. +Since auto discovery is not supported in this scenario the child device's ip address must be entered manually in the parent device. You can find the VPN ip address among the listed ip addresses on the child device once the listen mode was entered. +The child device will usually bind to port 10000 (unless that port is already taken by another application). + # License information _Child Monitor_ is licensed under the GPLv3. The Ulaw encoding / decoding code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 and taken from the Android Open Source Project.