Foscam FI9816P Operation & User’s Manual

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Security Warning...................................................................................................................................................................1 1 Overview............................................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Key Features........................................................... ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 1 Security Warning Safeguarding Your Privacy Foscam cameras require good security practices to safeguard your privacy. You can help protect your camera by changing the default username and/or password. Input a username and/or password that is at least 8 – 10 characters or longer. Try to use a combination of lower-case and upper-case letters as well as numbers and specia ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 2 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. 1.1 Key Features  Standard H.264 video compression algorithm to satisfy the transmission of high definition video in narrow bandwidth network � ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 3 1.4 Physical Description Front Panel Figure 1.1 1.Speaker: Built-in speaker 2.LENS: Fixed focus lens. 3.Infrared LED: Infrared LEDs for night vision 4.Microphone: Built-in microphone Rear Panel Figure 1.2 ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 4 1.LAN: 10/100 Mbps RJ-45 port for wired connection 2.Power: DC 5V/2A Power supply 3.Network Light: The LED will blink slowly in wired connection, blink two times faster in wireless connection, blink four times faster when WPS 4.Power Light: If the power supply works fine, the light will turn on 5.WPS: Push the WPS button on the camera and wireless router in 1 minutes, t ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 5 Figure 1.4 The default storage path of alarm record files is SD card, when the available size of SD card is less than 256M, the old record files will be deleted automatically. 2 Access the IP Camera 2.1 Hardware Connection & Software Installation Figure 2.1 1. Mount the antenna and make it stand vertically. 2. Connect the camera to the LAN network (Router or Switch) via ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 6 Shortcut icon for Windows OS Shortcut icon for Mac OS Notes:  If your computer ( Windows OS ) supports autorun function, you can find the corresponding file in the opened control panel.  If your computer doesn’t have CD drive, you can download the IP camera tool from our website for free. This chapter explains how to access the camera through browser and RTSP pl ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 7 NOTE： When logging in for the first time, you will need to download and install the add-on. Figure 2.4 There are two ways of wireless connection: EZLink or WPS. WPS (WI-FI Protected Set-up) Before using WPS wireless connection, you need to:  Make sure that your wireless router has the WPS function, and has been properly connected to the Internet.  WPS button on ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 8  Press and hold the WPS button for three seconds on your wireless router within 60 seconds. Then the camera will automatically create a secure wireless connection to your router in about 60 seconds.  The IP Camera Tool will search the camera’s LAN IP. Make sure the PC and the camera share the same subnet. NOTE : The security mode of router cannot be WEP, or else ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 9 Successful” on the Device Status page. 2) Do port (HTTP port and Media port) forwarding manually. 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 ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 10 Figure 2.8 3. You can see the port of your camera here. If you want to set Remote Access for several cameras on the same network, you will need to change the HTTPS port for each camera. Figure 2.9 4. If the UPnP of the router has been enable, you do not need to perform following steps. Otherwise, you need to select one of the following methods to configure port forwar ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 11 Figure 2.11 Figure 2.12 Figure 2.13 5. Now you can access your IP camera by https://domain name: HTTPS port via the Internet. 2.4 Using the VLC player This camera supports RTSP streaming, here you can view the camera using VLC player. RTSP URL rtsp:// [user name][:password]@IP:port number/videosream The part in the square brackets may be omitted. Click Add New. Input ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 12 user name & password: The user name and password to access the camera. This part can be omitted. IP: WAN or LAN IP address. Port number: RTSP port number. Videostream: Here support three mode: videoMain, videoSub and audio. When the network speed is bad, here you had better select videoSub. If you select audio, you can only hear the sound but cannot see the video. For ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 13 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 ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 14 Figure 2.17 If you cannot play the video in the VLC player, please check the port mapping. You can read Quick Installation Guide about How to configure port forwarding. NOTE: If you modify the camera’s username or password, you had better reboot the camera, or else the new username and password cannot take effect when you enter the authentication in the VLC. 2.5 IP ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 15 3.1 Login Window Figure 3.1 Section1 Enter the User name and password The default administrator username is admin with no password, please reset the password at first using and prevent unauthorized users login the camera (read chapter 3.2.4 about how to change). Section2 Stream The camera supports two stream modes: Main stream and Sub stream. If you want to access the ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 16 Figure 3.2 Enter the New Username, New password and Confirm the password. Click Modify button, you will see the login page again. 3.2 Setup Wizard After logging in for the first time, you will go to “Setup Wizard”automatically. Here you can set the basic parameters of camera, such as camera name, camera time, wireless settings, IP configuration. Figure 3.3 Device ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 17 Figure 3.4 System Time: Select the time zone you need to set the date, time,format and so on. Figure 3.5 Wireless networks: Click “Scan”, find the SSID of your wireless router, select and enter the password. ...

Telephone: 1-800-930-0949 18 Figure 3.6 IP: Set IP address of the camera. You could choose to obtain an IP automatically or set the IP address according to your needs. Figure 3.7 ...