User Manual FDT 720P WiFi Cube Camera FD7904B/FD7904W V1.0.
Contents Welcome..................................................................................................................................... 3 1 Features .................................................................................................................................. 6 1.1 Overview ........................................................................................................................... 6 1.2 Features ................................................................
6 Web User Interface for operation ............................................................................................ 36 6.1 Login page......................................................................................................................... 36 6.2 Live page ........................................................................................................................... 36 6.2.1 OSD............................................................................................
Welcome Thank you for purchasing our FDT IP camera! This user manual will help you become familiar with our camera in a very short time. Here you can find information about the camera’s features and functions, as well as information to aid in troubleshooting. Before installation and operation, please read the below safeguards and warnings carefully. If you still have further questions, please visit http://fdt.us to get any supports from FDT team. Email: support@fdt.us Visit: www.fdt.
Environment The camera should be kept in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight, flammable materials, explosive substances, etc. This product should be transported, stored, and used only in the specified environments as stated above. Do not aim the camera at a strong light source, as it may cause overexposure of the picture, and may affect the longevity of the camera’s sensors. Ensure that the camera is in a well ventilated area to prevent overheating.
A. 1) Drill the hole in the position that wish the camera to be seated using a 3/16 drill bit. 2) Screw the mount on the wall with two screws . 3) Loosen the thumb screws to adjust the mount to the desired position . 4) Once the position is set, tighten the screws securely. Note: Please try to get the mount from the reseller which is not included . B. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
1) Drill the hole on the wall in the position . 2) Seat Drywall mounts in the pilot holes . 3) Hang on the camera with Drywall mount. 1 Features 1.1 Overview The FDT IP Camera is an excellent digital surveillance product that can be useful to a wide variety of users. The camera connects to any router, and uses an internet connection to allow the user to access all of its functionality from many internet connected devices. It’s easy to use and can be set up in a relatively small amount of time.
powerful web server, to bring clear video to your desktop and mobile devices no matter where by your local network or over the Internet. P2P function The FDT camera supports P2P function. You don’t need to make complicated Port Forwarding and DDNS settings, just need to add it into your mobile devices. Then you can remote access it easily. H.264 Encoding The FDT IP Camera provides users with more comprehensive controls over a monitored site. The camera supports H.
2 Device Overview Photo resistance Speaker Lens System LED Microphone Micro USB 3 Camera Connection and Installation To make your experience with the FDT IP camera easy and simple, we've provided multiple ways to set up, view, and operate it depending on your needs. Please set up your camera in the way works best for you. 3.1 Connection Guide The FDT camera can be accessed through the web browser in the computer or the App in the smart phone or tablet PC.
3.3 Default Username and Password To login to the camera for the first time, the default username/password is admin/admin. Once you’ve successfully logged in, it is highly recommended to change the username and password for security reasons. Note: 1. Logging in for the first time will force you to change the default password of the admin account. 2. The password is case sensitive. 4 Access the camera 4.
You can also edit some network configurations, camera name through the SearchTool. But you have to enter the correct camera’s username/password to make your modifications valid. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
4.2.2 SearchTool for Mac OS You can find the “FDT Mac SearchTool.zip” for Mac OS in the included mini CD. Please copy and install it on your Mac computer. Then run the tool named “SearchTool” to search the FDT camera in your LAN. From the tool, you can get the name, UID, IP address, Mac address, Http port and firmware version of the camera. By double left clicking the camera in the searching list, you can open the camera by your default web browser, such as Safari.
Here is a “Network Configuration” button in the right-clicking button list. From this button, you can modify the IP, Device display name and http port of the FDT camera. Please note: 1. The camera will reboot automatically if you modify its http port. 2. Please enter the right username and password of your camera before you modify any network configuration of the camera. 4.2.
Login to the camera using your correct credentials. If it is your first time logging into the camera by default account after it is reset, you will be forced to change the default password. Please select a password that is at least 8 characters long, and include a combination of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and numbers. For the IE/ Mozilla Firefox in Windows, when opening the camera’s interface, the browser will prompt you to install a plugin. The plugins are necessary to get camera’s video.
Note: Due to the limitations of NPAPI plugin, the web browser of Chrome/Safari does not support the features of playback, talk, motion-detection and privacy mask. 4.2.4 Remote access You can access the FDT camera remotely through web browsers by UPnP/DDNS features or Port forwarding. Go to the CONFIG/DDNS page to enable the UPnP and input the information for third-party DDNS, such as Dyndns.org/3322.org/dynddns.us/No-ip.com. Then you can access the FDT by DDNS remotely.
4.3 NVR access The FDT camera supports connecting to any NVR that ONVIF enabled. This allows the camera to view live, playback and to save recorded data to a network storage device. 4.4 RTSP access The FDT camera supports the RTSP standard protocol, you can access the video and audio from the camera directly by RTSP player such as VLC.
3) You may need to go through the rtsp authentication if you did not input the username/password in your RTSP RUL. 4) Then you can view the video from the VLC player by now. Note: you can also view the video remotely by the rtsp stream if you have the right DDNS or port mapping or forwarding. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
5 App for Mobile Device To access your device from a smart phone or tablet, please download and install FDT View. For iPhone and iPad users, please visit the App store to download the App. For Android user, please install the APP from the Google Play, or http://fdt.us. Note: For purposes of this guide, we will use iOS, though both apps have the same interface. The App Interface may differ slightly from the screenshots below as updates are released.
5.1.1 Set up a new camera. If you are the first time to set up the FDT camera, or your just reset your FDT camera. Please click the button “Set up a new camera” to add it into your smartphone or tablet. Please powered up your camera firstly. After you connect your smartphone or tablet to the same local network via wifi, then you can set up your camera to router by follow step : Set up your camera -Give your camera a name, and input right username and password to access it.
5.1.2 Set up an existing camera. For the FDT camera you have set up before, you can click the button “Set up an existing camera” to add it into your smartphone or tablet. There are also 2 ways to add it, by scanning or by manual. We do recommend you to scan and add the camera in your local network area, so you do not need to input the UID which is a long identifie and hard to remember. 1.
2. Manually connect If you want to add this existing camera to your smartphone or table by manual, please click the button “Manually Connect”. Enter in your camera’s UID, username and password, you can also give it a new name you like. Then you can start the live view and go to the setting page to access and control your camera. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
5.2 Camera list page You can go to the camera page to check what cameras you have added. Here are a camera list, and you can also delete or edit the login information for the camera. -Click the edit icon to edit the camera login information. For example, you can change the camera’s name in your smartphone or modify the camera’s username and password if you could not login your camera, even the UID.
5.3 Live view page After add the camera successfully, you can preview the video of your camera and set the configurations you want. This section will show you what the icons can do in the live view page of the FDT View. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
-The resolution (HD/SD or High/Low) The HD standards for the first/main stream of the camera, it is 720P as default. The SD means second/sub stream of the camera, it is VGA as default. You can also change the default settings as you want in the setting pages.
5.4 Settings pages 5.4.1 Edit Password You can change the password of the FDT camera in this page. 5.4.2 Alarm Settings You can set the configuration about motion-detection alarm of the camera in this page, such as enable or disable the alarm, set the sensitivity of the motion-detection like low/medium/high. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
5.4.3 Alarm link settings You can enable the linked actions once the alarm is triggered in this page, include the Push Notifications to your smartphone, record video to the SD Card, alarm emails with snapshot, save snapshot or recording to FTP server, and the count for the snapshot. 5.4.4 Timed recording settings You can set the scheduled recording settings in this page, include the recording length. 5.4.5 Audio settings You can set the configurations for audio in this page. 5.4.
5.4.7 Wifi settings You can search the wifi in the LAN and set it to your camera in this page. 5.4.8 SD Card settings You can get the space information about the SD Card in your camera and format it in this page. 5.4.9 Device time settings You can set the time of your camera to sync it with your smartphone in this page. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
5.4.10 Email settings You can set the email information in this page to enable the email alarm actions. Here is a test button for you to check the connection of the email settings, please save your settings and test it before you complete the email settings to make sure your email setting will work successfully.
If you want to use FDT App to sign in Gmail account for sending alarm events, please follow below steps: -Sign in your Gmail account via web browser like below. And click "My Account ". -Go to "Sign-in & Security". FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
- Go to “Connected apps & sites”, and enable “Allow less secure apps” Usually you will receive a notice email message from Gmail server as below after you enable the function of using app to sign in. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
In the future, if you fail to pass the email test in the camera settings or receive email alarms, please sign in your Gmail account via web browser to check whether your email service is disabled. And the service can be resumed after you pass its security verification. Now, you should enable motion alarm and set up email parameters in the Camera Setting. 1. Enable motion detection in “Camera Setting” -> “Alarm Setting”; FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
2. Set up Yahoo Email parameters: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ SMTP Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com Server Port: 465 Safe Link: SSL Authentication: Enabled Username & Sender: ***@yahoo.com， your yahoo account ♥ Password: ***, the password for signing in above yahoo account. ♥ Send To: Any email address for receiving the alarm emails; up to 4 email addresses separated with semicolon are allowed to be filled. ♥ Subject & Message: Any Tap “Test” after filling above parameters. Usually it will prompt “Test Success”.
3. Setup Gmail Email Parameters ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ MTP Server: smtp.gmail.com Server Port: 465 Safe Link: SSL or TLS Authentication: Enabled Username & Sender: ***@gmail.com， your gmail account ♥ Password: ***, the password for signing in above gmail account. ♥ Send To: Any email address for receiving the alarm emails; up to 4 email addresses separated with semicolon are allowed to be filled. ♥ Subject & Message: Any Tap “Test” after filling above parameters. Usually it will prompt “Test Success”.
5.4.11 FTP settings You can set the FTP account information for the video recording or alarm linked actions in this page. 5.4.12 System settings You can reboot, restore the camera in this page. And there is an icon “Version checking” for you to check the latest firmware for the camera and upgrade it online. 5.4.13 Device information You can obtain the information about the camera in this page. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
5.5 Local files page You can browse the pictures and videos saved in your smart phone in this page by clicking the chosen file. And you can delete these files if you want. For the video file you can delete by sliding the file you choosing from right to left. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
5.6 Playback page You can browse the recording stored in the SD Card of the camera in the playback page and playback it remotely by click the video file from the list. And you can also filter the files by assigning an exact recording time. 6 Web User Interface for operation Here details the FDT camera’s user interface for web browser, as well as all of the operations the camera can perform, including the Login, LIVE, PLAYBACK and CONFIG pages. 6.1 Login page FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
Username and Password: It is the account of your camera, the default username is “admin”, the default password is “admin” too. Please change the password the first time you use to prevent unauthorized users login the camera. Language: You can click on the language dropdown list to select the language for the web UI. Note: When setting up your camera for the first time, it will request you modify the default password, please input the new password and confirm it.
6.2.4 ImageSettings You can set the color parameters for the video image in this “ImageSet”, such as Hue, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Sharpness. : Hue. : Brightness. : Contrast. : Saturation. : Sharpness. 6.2.5 Tool bar Zoom in/Zoom out/Back to original size, 1x/1.5x/2x/3x. Open/Close the audio (Only for IE/Firefox browser in windows): Enable/Disable the talking.
This icon is for you to browser the content of the SD card in your camera, such as pictures or video recordings. You need to go through the authentication of the username/password of your camera to browser your SD card in the camera. You can also download files in your SD card through this icon. (Only for IE browser in windows): These icons are used to show you multiple-devices in your local network at the same time.
6.3 Playback page(Only for IE/Firefox browser in windows) 6.3.1 Search and playback videos In the playback page, you can browser the videos in your SD card recorded by the motion alarm or schedule or the videos stored in your computer recorded by manual. You can search these videos by date and time, then playback them online. 6.3.2 Tool bar There is a tool bar in the playback page for you to control your playback as your wish. Play or Pause the playback process.
Here you can set the configurations about the stream for both first and second stream in your camera, such as the resolution, bitrate, frame rate, key frame interval, bitrate control and the image quality level. Here you can enable/diable the OSD for camera time or name, and modify the camera name to one you like. 2) Image Here you can control the camera video status, such as mirror the video, flip the video, enable/disable the WDR. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
Here you can set an appropriate exposure mode for your camera, such as indoor, outdoor or let it change automatically as the change of the working environment. Here you can control the LED light status: Enable-Camera works at the night vision status always. Disable-Camera works at the day vision status always. Auto-Camera will change between the day and night vision status automatically according the change of the outside light. Note: To reset the default settings, please click the “Default” button.
2) Wireless Here you can search the WIFI AP around your camera, then select and apply one of them to your camera. Please make sure you enable the wifi before you start to use it. You can also check your settings by click the “Check” button after you save your settings. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
Note: The FDT camera use the wired Ethernet cable by default, it will work on the wireless status automatically if you disconnect the Ethernet cable. But the wireless will not work if you still connect the Ethernet cable in your camera. 3) DDNS Here you can set the third-party DDNS like Dyndns.org/3322.org/dynddns.us/No-ip.com and the status of the UPnP for your camera. You can get the public IP address of the LAN your camera works by click the “Query” button.
5) P2P Here you can query the UID of your camera for P2P, and you can enable or disable the P2P feature of your camera as you need. 6.4.3 Alarm 1) Audio Alarm Here you can enable/disable the audio alarm of your camera. You can set the sensitivity of the audio alarm for the responding of your camera. 2) Motion Detection(Only for IE/Firefox in windows) Here you can set the areas for the motion detection and the sensitivity of each area.
3) Alarm link Here you can enable or disable the alarm actions once the alarm triggered, including send email with picture, save alarm picture or video to SD card or FTP server, go to one certain preset point and also the picture numbers for capturing. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
4) Schedule Here you can set the schedule for the motion detection alarm, red means enable and white means disable. You can select certain one or several days or hours you like to enable or disable the motion detection features. 6.4.4 Advance 1) User Here you can edit the account information of the FDT camera, such as change the username or password, the default account is admin/admin. 2) Auto Snap Here you can set the save path and time interval for the feature of capture pictures automatically.
4) Email Here you can set the sending or receiving email for your email alarm. Note: SMTP port is usually set as 25. Some SMTP servers have special port, such as 587 or 465. Authentication is used for transport layer security, it is usually none. If you use gmail and enable the authentication with TLS or STARTTLS, the SMTP port must be set to 465 or 587, it depends the authentication type you selected. You can click the “Test” button to check whether your email settings is valid or not.
6) PTZ Here you can set the configurations about Pan/Tilt motion for your camera. Cruise cycles decide the time for your vertical and horizontal cruise. If you enable the “Return to center preset”, it will go to the center preset when the cruise is complete. The “Indicator Display Mode” decides the status for the system LED status in the front-head of the Pan/Tilt. 7) Multiple Setting(Only for IE in windows) Here you can search the FDT cameras in your LAN and add them into your multiple device group.
8) Privacy Mask(Only for IE/Firefox in windows) Here you can set the area and color for the privacy mask of your camera, it up to 4 areas. You can set the color of the mask, change the size of the area by dragging the right-bottom corner, change the position of the area by dragging the area. 6.4.5 System 1) Time Here you can set the time and date, the status for NTP and DST, the time zone for your camera. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
2) Maintenance Reboot: reboot the camera. Factory Default: restore the camera settings to the factory default settings. Backup Configuration: backup the current settings of the camera, it will generate a file name “config_backup.bin” for you to save. Restore Configuration: Import and restore the configuration file you backup before. Please browse and select the file you want to import, then click the “Import” button. Upgrade: Upgrade the firmware.
4) System Log Here you can query the history operation or running log for your camera. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
7. Frequently Asked Questions 7.1 How to start the live view in computer by web browser? Before you start the live view in windows OS by IE browser or Mozilla Firefox. Please install the plugin first. But for the Google Chrome in Windows/Mac OS and Safari in Mac, you can start the live view directly by accessing the IP address of your camera, no need to install the plugin. 7.1.
3. Refresh the IP address when it is ready to login and access your camera. FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
7.1.2 How to install the plugin for Mozilla Firefox browser in Windows OS? When you login the camera in your computer at the first time by Firefox browser, it will show you to download the plugin. Please click the text link to download and save this plugin in you computer, and install it by manually. 1. Click and download the plugin from the login page, save it to your computer 2. Double click the WebCam_Plug.exe file to install it in your computer. 3.
7.2 How to uninstall the plugin in your computer? Please go to Control Panel->Uninstall a program to find the program named WebCam_Plug, then uninstall it directly. Note: Please make sure you closed the web browser who is using this plugin, or it may could not be uninstalled completely. 7.3 Forgotten the username or password of the camera. Here is a hard reset button in the camera. Please press and hold the reset button for 5-10 seconds.
7.5 Camera could not connect the wireless network by wifi. 1. Please go to the CONFIG->Network->Wireless page through web browser, here is a check button, you can check whether your wifi settings are right or not by this button. If your settings are correct, it will show you success. 2. Please make sure these special characters did not be included in your wifi password, such as & = ’ ’’ \ % +. 3. The camera only support 2.4G wifi, did not support 5G.
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FC CC State ement Thiss device com mplies with Part P 15 of the FCC rules s. Operation is subject to o the followiing two conditions: 1) this devicce may not cause c harmfful interferen nce, and 2) this device must m acce ept any interference recceived, including interferrence that may m cause undesired operation. e: This equip pment has been b tested and found to comply wiith the limitss for a Class B Note digittal device, pursuant p to part p 15 of the e FCC Rules.
