1 Overviews FOSCAM Indoor HD Pan/Tilt Wireless IP Camera with P2P is an integrated wireless IP Camera with a color CMOS sensor enabling viewing in High Definition resolution. It combines a high quality digital video camera, with a powerful web server, to bring clear video to your desktop and mobile devices from anywhere on your local network or over the Internet.
Please note to change your default username and password once you have initially logged into your Foscam camera. Changing your default user settings enables better protection against any types of attacks against your camera.
When you plug in the SD card during the camera work process, please reboot the camera again, or else the SD Card may be cannot work well. SettingsDevice StatusDevice Status Go to the page, you can see the SD card status. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
The default Https port no. is 443. You can use the url to access the camera: https:// LAN IP + HTTPS port. Go to Settings - Network - Port panel , you can see and change the https port NO. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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Figure 2.3 Open Internet Explorer if it is not already opened. Click on Tools, then click Internet Options. Next, click the Security tab, then click the Trusted sites button.Finally ,click the Confirm button. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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.foscam. .foscam. Figure 2.4 For Firefox, you can add the trusted as the following way: Tools --- Options ---- Advanced --- View Certificates --- Servers Figure 2.5 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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.foscam. .foscam. Click View Certificates, and go to Servers option. Figure 2.6 Go to Add Exception panel. Figure 2.7 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
If your router has a Virtual Server, it can do port forwarding. Add the camera’s LAN IP and port which you had set earlier to your router’s port forwarding settings. Note: If you plug the camera into a router, it will have a dynamic IP address and you need to set DDNS service Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
Step 1: Open the IP Camera Tool, select the camera you would like to change the port of, right click on the IP address, and click on ”Network Configuration”, this brings up the network configuration box as shown in Figure 2.8 and 2.9. Figure 2.9 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
Click this link to learn more about port forwarding: http://portforward.com/help/portforwarding.htm How do we configure Port Forwarding? For this section, we will be using an example: Let’s say the camera’s LAN IP address is http://192.168.8.100:2000 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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Use the embedded DDNS to access the camera via the Internet Each Foscam camera has an embedded unique DDNS domain name, the format of this domain name is xxxxxx.myfoscam.org. On the bottom of the camera, you can see the domain name sticker with this information on it.
Note If you have set Third Party DDNS successfully ,the Foscam Domain Name will be invalid. The Third Party DDNS and the Foscam Domain Name cannot work at the same time, the last time you configured will take effect. 2.3 Using the VLC player This camera supports RTSP streaming, here you can view the camera using VLC player.
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Here I can enter one of the following URLs in the VLC. 1) rtsp://admin:123@192.168.1.11:88/videoMain 2) rtsp:// @192.168.1.11:88/videoMain 3) rtsp://:123@192.168.1.11:88/videoMain 4) rtsp://admin@192.168.1.11:88/videoMain Open the VLC, and go to MediaOpen Network Stream option, then enter the URL into VLC. Figure 2.14 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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.foscam. .foscam. Figure 2.15 Sometimes you may need to enter the user name and password again. Click OK and you can see the real-time preview. Figure 2.16 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
3 Surveillance Software GUI Please refer to the Quick Installation Guide if you install the camera at first time. After finishing quick installation, you can take time to learn the operation of the software. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
You can select the language you need via click on the language dropdown list to switch. Section4 Login the camera Click Login button and you will see the surveillance windows.(If login the camera for the first time, the page that modify the username and password will appears.) Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
When you log in for the first time, it will come to the operating of modify the username and password automatically. Figure 3.2 Enter the New Username, New password and Confirm the password. Click Modify button, you will see the login page again. 3.3 Surveillance Window Figure 3.6 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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.foscam. .foscam. Section 1 FOSCAM Logo/ LiveVideo / Settings/Playback buttons : FOSCAM LOGO : Path to surveillance window. Click this button and back to the surveillance window : Path to Administrator Control Panel, Click it, and it will lead to Administrator Control Panel and do advanced settings.
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You can reset the stream type on “Settings-> Video-> Video Settings” panel. Figure 3.8 After changing, please re-login the camera and you can see the modification. Section 4 Pan/Tilt Control Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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If you want to define or change the cruise trace, please go to Settings Preset Settings panel. How to do cruise? Firstly: Select one track in the track dropdown list Select one of these. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
Manual: Select it and you can turn on or turn off the infra led manually. Schedule: Select it and the IR led light will be off at the schedule period. If you want to define or change the IR Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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Click again and stop recording. The default storage path is C:\IPCamRecord. You can change the storage path: Go to Settings- >Record->Storage Location panel. 7------Full Screen Click it to make full-screen, or you can double click the surveillance screen to make full-screen. Double click again and exit full-screen. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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Second Method: Click it and the live view will be digital zoomed up, then click Zoom Down and the live view back to original size. Figure 3.10 When you select the Full Screen, then click right mouse, there is a Screen PTZ button. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
Click the button “Settings”, goes to Administrator Control Panel to make advanced camera settings. 4.1 Status Device Status contains four columns: Device Information, Device Status, Session Status and Log, it will show you various information about your camera. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
Web version: Display the web UI version of your camera Plug-in version: Display the plug-in version of your camera 4.1.2 Device Status On this page you can see device status such as Alarm status/ Record Status ,DDNS status ,WIFI status and so Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
4.1.3 Session status Session status will display who and which IP is visiting the camera now. Figure 4.3 4.1.4 Log The log record shows who and which IP address accessed or logout the camera. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
Default alias is anonymous. You can define a name for your camera here such as apple. Click Save to save your changes. The alias name can’t contain special characters. Figure 4.5 4.2.2 Camera Time This section allows you to configure the settings of the internal system clocks for your camera. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
Here you can create users and set privilege, visitor, operator or administrator. The default user account is admin, with a blank password. You can enter the users accounts of visitor 、 operator and administrator Manually. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
How to add account ? Select one blank column, then enter the new user name, password and privilege, last click Add to take effect. You can see the new added account on the Account list. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
NOTE: The default admin account cannot be deleted, but you can add other administrator users. How to change the username ? Firstly, select the account which you want to change the username, then select “Change username”, enter the new password, lastly click modify to take effect. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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The firmware within the camera can support a maximum of 9 devices monitoring all at the same time. This page you can both add FOSCAM MJPEG and H.264 series cameras to the first camera and view multi-surveillance screen on one window.
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Camera Model: Our Company produces two series cameras: MJPEG and H.264. Here will show you which series the camera belongs to. Figure 4.13 Back to Surveillance Windows, and click Four Windows option, you will see four cameras you added. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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Firstly, make sure all of the cameras you added can be accessed through the internet. (Read How to configure DDNS settings in chapter 4.3.4) Login to the first camera using a DDNS domain name and port. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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3----- Fill in the 2nd camera’s DDNS host not LAN IP NOTE: The MJ series have the same HTTP Port NO. and Media Port NO. 4 ---- Enter the 2nd camera’s user name and password 5---- Click Add button and to take effect Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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Return to video window. You will see all of the cameras accessible through the internet. When you are away from home, you can use the first camera’s DDNS domain name and port to view all the cameras via internet. Figure 4.19 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
DNS server, you can check your computer’s local area connection as follows: Control Panel Network Connections Local Area Connections Choose Support Details. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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There are two DNS servers . You can set any of them. Same with gateway is also OK. Figure 4.22 If you don’t know the DNS server, you can use the same settings as the Default Gateway. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
You will only need to fill in the password of your network. Make sure that the SSID, Encryption and the password you filled in are exactly the same for your router. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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If you fail to make a wireless connection, please refer to your seller or contact us directly for assistance. 4.3.3 PPPoE If you are using a PPPoE connection, enable it and enter the User Name and Password for your PPPoE account. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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.foscam. Figure 4.25 4.3.4 DDNS FOSCAM camera has embedded a unique DDNS domain name when producing, and you can directly use the domain name, you can also use the third party domain name. FOSCAM domain name Here take test09.myfoscam.org for example. Go to option of DDNS on the Settings->Network panel, you can see the domain name.
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User can also use third part DDNS, such as www.no-ip.com. ,www. 3322.com Here take www.no-ip.com for example: ① Step 1, Go to the website www.no-ip.com to create a free hostname Firstly: Login on www.no-ip.com and click No-IP Free to register. Figure 4.27 Figure 4.28 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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ACCOUNT as indicated in email. Secondly: Login the link with the registered username and password to create your domain name. Figure 4.29 Figure 4.30 Please create the domain name step by step according to instructions on www.no-ip.com Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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NOTE : If you have set Third Party DDNS successfully ,the Foscam Domain Name will be invalid. The Third Party DDNS and the Foscam Domain Name cannot work at the same time, the last time you configured will take effect.
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HTTP port: By default, the HTTP is set to 88. Also, they can be assigned with another port number between 1 and 65535. But make sure they can not be conflict with other existing ports like 25, 21. Figure 4.34 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
4----- Receiver Mailbox for receiver need not support SMTP,you can set 4 receivers 5----Save Click Save to take effect 6----Test Click Test to see if Mail has been successfully configured. Click Test to see if Mail has been successfully configured. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
7) The message is denied by the server. Maybe because of the anti-spam privacy of the server 8) The server does not support the authentication mode used by the device 4.3.8 FTP Settings If you want to upload record files and images to your FTP server,you can set FTP Settings. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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Click Test to see if FTP has been successfully configured. 4.3.9 P2P Access the IP Camera by Smart Phone (Android or iOS operating system) First of all, you need to open the P2P function of the IP Camera at “Settings-->Network-->P2P”. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
.foscam. Figure 4.1 Search and install Foscam Viewer on Google Play for Android devices, search and install Foscam Viewer on APP Store for iOS devices. If you want to know more details of the iOS APP or Android APP, see the iOS App User Manual or Android APP User Manual.
This page is used to set some mask as privacy zone on the video. Figure 4.41 Allow On Screen Display Mask: There are two options: Yes or NO. Select yes and draw a mask area on the Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
Back to the surveillance window, you can see the mask area as the following picture: Figure 4.43 4.4.4 Snapshot Settings On this page you can set the snapshot pictures’ image quality and the storage path. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
On this page you can set the schedule time for switching IR LED lights. When parameter Mode is set to the Schedule on the Live Video window, At these schedule time, the IR LED lights will be turned off. Figure 4.45 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
The interval time between two motion detections. Here supports 5s/6s/7s/8s/9s/10s/11s/12s/13s/14s/15s. Select one interval time. Step 04: Select the alarm indicator When the motion has been detected, the alarm status will turn to Detect alarm. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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Step 05: Set detection area Click set detect area and it pop up a window, then you can draw the detection area. Click Back button after settings. When something moving in the detection area, the camera will alarm. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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Click this button and select all time range Figure 4.49 ② Specify an alarm schedule Click the week day words, the corresponding column will be selected. For example, click TUE, the all column Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
4.6 Record This section will allow you to change the record files storage path and the record time. 4.6.1 Storage Location On this page you can change the alarm and manually recording storage path. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
Figure 4.54 Select the Enable Alarm Record. Set the Local Alarm Record Time. Click Save button to take effect. 4.6.4 Record Schedule When the video is selected as FTP, the device supports scheduled recording. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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.foscam. .foscam. Figure 4.55 Figure 4.56 When the video is selected as SD card, the device supports pumping frame recording. Figure 4.57 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
This camera supports SD Card and the max size of SD card must be under 32G. When you plug in the SD card during the camera work process, please reboot the camera again, or else the SD Card may be cannot work well. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
There are five Pt speed types: very fast, fast, normal, slow and very slowly. Select the desired PTZ speed type and click save button . Figure 4.60 4.7.2 Cruise Settings This section explains how to add/ delete/ alter one cruise track. Figure 4.61 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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Add button, you can see the preset point has been added to the cruise track on the cruise track page. You need to add two or more preset points to the cruise track. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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For example: I have added three preset points to the “track 1”, that means : When I select the “track 1” on the surveillance window, the camera moves as the following track: upright then Right Most last downleft. You can add preset on the left of the surveillance window. Add the preset. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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There are other buttons between the Preset points and Cruise track, you can use these buttons to adjust the order of preset points or add/delete one preset points in one cruise track. And you can set the Dwell time of the preset point. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
This section explains how to control the access permission by checking the client PC’s IP addresses. It is composed of the following columns: Block access from these IP addresses and Only allow access from these IP addresses. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
Click Backup to save all the parameters you have set. These parameters will be stored in a bin file for future use. Click Browse and select the parameters file you have stored, then click Submit to restore the restore the parameters. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
Double click the IP Camera Tool shot icon , select the Camera IP that you want to upgrade the firmware. Then select Upgrade Firmware and enter the username and password, choose the firmware file, and upgrade. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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1) Never shut down the power of the camera during upgrade until the IP camera restart and get connected. 2) After upgrade successfully, please uninstall the old plugin and re-install it, then reset the camera to the default factory settings before using the camera. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
Click Reboot System to reboot the camera. This is similar to unplugging the power to the camera. Figure 4.74 5 Playback On this page you can view the record files stored in the SD card. Section 1 Define the Record files time and Type Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
Click this button to make full screen, and double click left mouse to exit full screen. 6 Phone Apps FOSCAM provides iOS App for iOS users, which helps to view and listen to your world anywhere..anytime. Search and install Foscam Viewer on Google Play for Android devices, search and install Foscam Viewer on...
7.1.1 Install / uninstall the ActiveX of Firefox browser. 7.1.1.1 Install the ActiveX of Firefox browser. For the first time login the camera, it may prompt you to download plugin. Click here to download the plugin. Figure 7.1 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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Make sure all firewall or antivirus software on your computer does not block the active download and installation. If you are unable to run the ActiveX control, try shutting down the firewall or antivirus program. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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ActiveX before, and then install a new one. TO uninstall the old ActiveX, you could do as follows: 1. Click on the top left of the Firefox browser menu bar, and then click "Add-ons". Figure 7.6 2. Click “Remove”. Figure 7.7 3. After the ActiveX is removed, click “Restart now”. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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7.1.2.1 Install the ActiveX of Google browser. For the first time login the camera, it will prompt you to download the ActiveX. Figure 7.9 Download the plugin and drag it to the Extensions page of Google Chrome. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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After upgrading the camera’s software version, in order to experience the new version better, you may need to uninstall the old ActiveX before, and then install a new one. TO uninstall the old ActiveX, you could do as follows: Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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1.Click on the top right corner of the Google browser menu bar, it will pop-up the drop-down menu, then click "Tools" -->”Extensions”. Figure 7.12 2. Select “ IPCAM ”, and click the trash canon on the right side. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
3. Click “Remove”, then restart the browser. Figure 7.14 7.1.3 Install / Uninstall the ActiveX of IE Chrome. When logging in for the first time, you need to download and install the ActiveX add-on. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
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1. Close the IE browser, and then re-open it, making sure the IE does not load ActiveX (The IE browser will automatically load the ActiveX when using it to open the IPC website.) 2. Click the settings icon in the top right of the IE browser, find and click "Manage add-ons." Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
There are two ways to resolve this problem: ( 1 ) Please add the camera as a trusted site to resolve this issue. The steps are IE browserToolInternet PropertiesSecurityTrusted sitesSitesAdd Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
Enable: Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe Enable: Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins Figure 6.6 If you allow the ActiveX running, but still could not see living video. Please change another port number to try. Don’t use port 88. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
If you want to view all the cameras via the WAN, verify that each camera added in the multi-device settings can be accessed by using the DDNS name and port number. Use the DDNS domain name not the camera’s LAN IP. (For more details see: How to add cameras in WAN) Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
FCC Caution Any changes or modification not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate this equipment. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
While we hope your experience with the IPCAM network camera is enjoyable and easy to use, you may experience some issues or have questions that this User’s Guide has not answered. Please contact support via e-mail at support@foscam.us. You can also reach technical support at 1-800-930-0949 by following the automated instructions.
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