Trying to setup collaboration and failing

Hey. I've read other threads on here and wanted help.

Before I start, seems like this isn't made completely or intended for over the internet but rather only within a lan.

In my country, there was always a challenge of opening ports to the Internet unless we buy Dedicated IP or Dedicated lines from the ISP. Basic home internet from ISP doesn't give liberty to its subscribers to communicate over custom ports, probably for security reasons. At first, I was able to install Postgres and create a project but my buddy could not connect to my localhost Postgres due to the same reason mentioned above. I decided to host Postgres on AWS instance. Installed Postgres 9.5 on Ubuntu 18.0, now we both can connect, create projects but both get an error message about "NOT USE VPN and firewall error....", when we enable Collaboration.

Something to note here, this error only pops up on the machine that connects second and not the first one to open the project. I.e. if I open the project and buddy opens after that, buddy will get this error after like 10 seconds. And if buddy opens the project and I open after that, I will get the error.

I want to understand how Resolve collaboration works. Does it not write all collaboration actions into Postgres realtime? Does Resolve open 50059 port for a buddy to communicate? Remember, I cannot open 50059 on my network to allow public or whitelisted IPs into my system due to ISP restrictions.

Kindly help

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Even if this works, there is also then a problem of still and cache location not being same on my and buddy's machine.

This is quite important as in covid we have to work from homes and right now we are emailing projects and timelines which gets quite confusing.

Help is greatly appreciated.

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[Collaboration] isn't made completely or intended for over the internet but rather only within a lan.

Staff have said exactly that here in the forums.

Hmm. Well is there a way for me to make it work over the internet? Or any other suggestion how I can collaborate on a single project than sharing projects and timelines separately?

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A new feature in 17 allows us to export/import individual bins and timelines. You don't have to do whole projects any more.

Maybe that helps?

https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/ ... 4240010000

Well not really. The confusion starts with various instances on separate machines. And hence was trying to get the collaboration to work. Hopefully someone with more network ideas will have some workaround?

Let's see. Hoping there is a solution to this

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Replying to get this up. Anyone has any workarounds or ideas?

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Setting up a VPN into the LAN and from there do collaboration is the proper way of doing it.
OpenVPN is solid and do work and scale well. Wireguard have some performance benefits and works superbly for small teams.

I fixed it.
github.com/jonnyhyman/ResolveCollaboration

This program I wrote last week streamlines the VPN creation and makes it simple (and secure!) to get up and running with a Wireguard VPN and some visibility inside the Resolve shared database.

With that said, this does require that you set up a port forward on UDP port 51820 and TCP port 4444, but ONLY on the server-side network. Clients don't set up a port-forward

I hope this solves your problem, and let me know if not!

I fixed it.
github.com/jonnyhyman/ResolveCollaboration

This program I wrote last week streamlines the VPN creation and makes it simple (and secure!) to get up and running with a Wireguard VPN and some visibility inside the Resolve shared database.

With that said, this does require that you set up a port forward on UDP port 51820 and TCP port 4444, but ONLY on the server-side network. Clients don't set up a port-forward

I hope this solves your problem, and let me know if not!

Thank you very much!
Magnificent work.