1 Overview FOSCAM FI9828W is an integrated wireless IP Camera with a color CMOS sensor enabling viewing resolution 1280*960. It combines a high quality digital video camera, with a powerful web server, to bring clear video to your desktop from anywhere on your local network or over the Internet.
This camera supports I/O alarm, you can go to Settings – Alarm – I/O page to configure it. 2) Audio output interface The jack is used to plug external speakers. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
Bottom View There are up to three labels located on the body of the camera; this is an important feature of original Foscam cameras. If your camera does not have labels as shown in Figure 1.4 ,it may be a clone one. Cloned Foscam cameras can not use original firmware and are not eligible for warranty or technical services.
LAN IP address and port forwarding, you can access the camera directly from the Internet using the WAN IP address and port number. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
This means that even though your WAN IP address is constantly changing, you will have a fixed hostname you can use to access your cameras at all times. You can access the camera Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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”Network Configuration”, this brings up the network configuration box as shown in Figure 2.4 and 2.5. Select which camera you’d like to change the port for, and right click. Figure 2.4 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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.
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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.
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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Figure 2.9 Figure 2.10 Sometimes you may need to enter the user name and password again. Click OK and you can see the real-time preview. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
VLC. 2.4 IP camera connection to the server Device supports ONVIF2.2.1 protocol,You can easily access the NVR with ONVIF or server with ONVIF. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
Note: When the network bandwidth is badly you’d better select Sub Stream and the video will be more fluency. Section 3 Select the language Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
Device Name: You could give name for your camera. Figure 3.4 System Time: Select the time zone you need to set the date, time,format and so on. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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IP: Set IP address of the camera. You could choose to obtain an IP automatically or set the IP address according to your needs. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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If you are accessing the camera via internet and want to get more fluent video streaming, please select resolution VGA. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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1----- Up control button, 2----- Down control button, 3----- Left control button, 4----- Right control button, 5----- Up-Left control button 6------ Up-Right control button Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
Select one of these Secondly: Click Start cruise button, the camera will cruise following the predefined path. Thirdly: Click stop button and finish cruising. Preset settings Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Auto: Select it and the camera will adjust the infra led (on or off) automatically. Manual: Select it and you can turn on or turn off the infra led manually. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Press Esc button or double click right mouse and cancel the function. NOTE: For Mac OS, the plugin cannot support Onscreen Mouse Control, so you cannot allow to use it. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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 and when. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
The alias name cannot 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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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 adminstrator Manually. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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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3 Click Add to take effect. Figure 4.12 Camera Model: Our Company produces two series cameras: MJPEG and H.264. Here will show you which series the camera belongs to. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Figure 4.13 Back to Surveillance Windows, and click Four Windows option, you will see four cameras you added. Figure 4.14 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Use DDNS domain name and port to login. Make sure each camera you need add could login with DDNS name and port. Figure 4.16 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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5---- Click Add button and to take effect NOTE: Here the Host must be entered as the second camera’s DDNS domain name, not its LAN IP. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
DNS server, you can check your computer’s local area connection as follows: Control Panel Network Connections Local Area Connections Choose Support Details. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Figure 4.21 Figure 4.22 If you don’t know the DNS server, you can use the same settings as the Default Gateway. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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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Firstly: Login on www.no-ip.com and click No-IP Free to register. Figure 4.27 Click here to register Figure 4.28 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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. ② Do port forwarding within the router Example: The camera’s LAN IP address is...
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The default UPnP status is closed. You can enable UPnP, then the camera’s software will be configured for port forwarding. Back to the “Device Status” panel, you can see the UPnP status: Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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 4.32 and 4.33. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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LAN IP address is set, or you may have problems later with remote access and seeing the camera remotely if the camera loses power and reconnects on a different LAN IP address. Make sure you set a static LAN IP address! Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Next, click the Security tab, then click the Trusted sites button. Click here to add camera’s url. Figure 4.38 Click Sites then you can add the camera’s https web site to the internet explorer. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Enter the camera’s url. Figure 4.39 For Firefox, you can add the trusted as the following way: Tools ---- Options ---- Advanced --- View Certificates --- Servers Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Figure 4.40 Click View Certificates, and go to Servers option. Figure 4.41 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
1 and 65535(except 0 and 65534). But make sure they can not be conflict with other existing ports. 4.3.7 Mail Settings If you want the camera to send emails when motion has been detected, here Mail will need to be configured. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Test . 1) Cannot connect to the server 2) Network Error. Please try later 3) Server Error 4) Incorrect user or password Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
Port: Default is port 21. If changed, external FTP client program must change the server connection port accordingly. FTP Mode: Here supports two modes: PORT and PASV. Username/password: The FTP account and password. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
4.4.2 On Screen Display This page is used to add timestamp and device name on the video. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
Allow On Screen Display Mask: There are two options: Yes or NO. Select yes and draw a mask area on the video, the mask area will be black on the video. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Click Back button and return to the OSD page, click Save to take effect. Back to the surveillance window, you can see the mask area as the following picture: Figure 4.52 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
4.5.1 Motion Detection IP Camera supports Motion Detection Alarm, when the motion has been detected, it will send emails or upload images to FTP. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Click set detect area and it pop up a window, then you can draw the detection area. Click OK button after settings. When something moving in the detection area, the camera will alarm. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Click the black button up the MON, you will see all time range turn red. When something moving in the detection area at anytime, the camera will alarm. Click this button and select all time range. Figure 4.57 ② Specify an alarm schedule Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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The alarm device(door sensor, infrared sensor, smoke detectors, etc) send input command to the network camera, then the network camera send output command to the alarm output device(local audible alarm, lights alarm,etc.). Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Figure 4.60 There is an IO alarm input/output lines in the FOSCAM camera tails, as shown in Figure 4.608. Enable IO alarm need this cable to connect to the alarm device (door sensor, infrared sensor, smoke detector, etc.). I/O Alarm has four ports: ...
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Click "Clear IO alarm output" , the alarm output device will stop alarming. If IO alarm is triggered again after alarm interval, IO alarm output device will be restart. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
Figure 4.66 4.6.3 Local Alarm Recording On this page you can enable local alarm record, and select the local alarm record time. Figure 4.67 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
There are two default cruise tracks: Vertical and Horizontal. Vertical: The camera will rotate from up to down Horizontal: The camera will rotate form left to right. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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, Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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Goto Preset point: Select one preset position and save it. When rebooting, the camera will pan/ tilt and stops at the preset position you have set. Figure 4.76 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
, 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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
Figure 4.83 4.9.5 Reboot Click Reboot System to reboot the camera. This is similar to unplugging the power to the camera. Figure 4.84 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
5 Phone Apps FOSCAM provides APP for Android and iOS system, 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 APP Store for iOS devices.
When you use Windows7 or Vista, you may be not able to do manually record or change the record path because of the security settings of computer. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
“Enable”, The ActiveX programs read by the computer will be stored. As follows: Enable: Download unsigned ActiveX controls Enable: Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe Enable: Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins Figure 6.10 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
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) Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
This is a Class B product. In a domestic environment, this product may cause radio interference, in which case the user may be required to take adequate measures. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Limited Tel: 86 755 2674 5668 Fax: 86 755 2674 5168...
User’s Guide has not answered. If you have problem with FOSCAM IP camera, please first contact FOSCAM reseller for solving the problems. If our reseller cannot provide service, please contact our service department: tech@foscam.com...
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