User Manual FDT 1080P 4x Outdoor Speed Dome Camera FD8903W, FD8903B, FD8918W, FD8918B V1.0.
Contents Welcome ................................................................................................................... 4 1 Features ................................................................................................................. 7 1.1 Overview.......................................................................................................... 7 1.2 Features ..........................................................................................................
5.4.4 Timed recording settings................................................................................... 29 5.4.5 Audio settings.................................................................................................... 29 5.4.6 Video settings.................................................................................................... 29 5.4.7 Wifi settings ....................................................................................................... 30 5.4.
7. Frequently Asked Questions ............................................................................... 53 3 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
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.
All the examination and repair work should be done by qualified service engineers. We are not liable for any problems caused by unauthorized modifications or user-attempted repair. 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.
1) Drill pilot holes in the position that you wish the camera to be seated using a 3/16 drill bit. 2) Seat the included drywall mounts in the pilot holes that you drilled. 3) Screw the mount on the drywall mounts with the screws provided. Once the position is set, tighten the screws securely. 6 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
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. It has various functions such as recording, playback, and monitoring functionality and it synchronizes audio and video by default.
install it on App Store or Google Play, then you can access your camera on your mobile devices. Advanced Playback Function The FDT IP camera supports real-time recording and can support search, fast forwarded playback, recorded searches, and downloading of videos and snapshots. It can also playback frame by frame as needed. When recording, the Camera shows a date/time overlay to ensure accurate viewing of events when they occurred.
2 Device Overview 9 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
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. Before accessing, you should connect the camera to your router by Ethernet cable or WiFi after it is powered on. 3.
4 Access the camera 4.1 Mobile device access The FDT camera can be accessed through FDT View app on either iOS or Android mobile devices. To access your device from a smart phone or tablet, please search and install FDT View app first from App Store or Google Play. 4.2 Web browser access The FDT camera can be accessed through web browser for both windows and Mac OS. It supports the IE/Chrome/ Mozilla Firefox in windows and Safari/Chrome in Mac.
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. 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 12 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
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. You can find the button “Refresh Camera List” and “Flush Arp Buffer” by right click the search tool or the camera in the searching list, then you can refresh the searching list by 13 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
these 2 buttons. 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.
bar of the browser by manual to login your camera. You can access the FDT camera by HTTP protocols as below: http://LAN IP Address + HTTP Port No. For example: http://192.168.1.108:80. You can find the LAN IP Address and http port of your camera through the SearchTool. The default port is 80. 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.
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 16 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
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. Go to your router settings page to make the appreciate port forwarding, then you can access your camera remotely through the public IP address and its corresponding port. 4.
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. 18 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
Note: you can also view the video remotely by the rtsp stream if you have the right DDNS or port mapping or forwarding. 19 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 first, and connect your camera to your router with an Ethernet cable. After you connect your smartphone or tablet to the same local network via wifi, then you can go to add your camera into the App by scanning the camera in the LAN or by inputting its UID by manual.
2. Manually connect Once you chosen to add the camera by manual, you can follow the NEXT or text instructions to complete the adding of camera. Here are the screenshots to show you this 22 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
process. -Enter in your camera’s UID first, you can find it on the sticker of your camera’s bottom or side. Give your camera a name, and input right username and password to access it. The default username is admin, the default password is admin too. -Change the initial admin/admin username/password for the consideration of account security. Give your camera a private username and password that known only by you, and keep it secret.
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. 5.2 Camera list page You can go to the camera page to check what cameras you have added.
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. 26 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. 5.4.
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. 5.4.6 Video settings You can set the configuration about video encoding for the first/second stream in this page, like bitrate/frame rate and video quality. The top on is for first stream, the second one is for second stream. 29 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
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. 30 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. 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.
5.4.13 Device information You can obtain the information about the camera in this page. 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. 32 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. 33 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
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 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.
6.2.1 OSD -Camera Name: -Camera Date & Time: 6.2.2 Pan/Tilt control No. Remark No. Remark No. Remark 1 Go to up 2 Go to right-up 3 Go to right 4 Go to right-down 5 Go to down 6 Go to left-down 7 Go to left 8 Go to left-up 9 Back to center : Cruise for horizontal, from up to down. : Cruise for vertical, from left to right. : Zoomin. : Zoomout. 6.2.3 View First Stream: the main stream, default is 720P/960P or 1080P. Second Stream: the sub stream, default is VGA-640x480. 6.2.
The FDT camera can support max 8 preset positions, from 1 to 8. You can click the “Set” button to save one preset point named by number 1-8, and click the “Go” button to let the Pan/Tilt go to the preset you saved before. 6.2.5 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. 6.2.6 Tool bar : Zoom in/Zoom out/Back to original size, 1x/1.5x/2x/3x.
through the web browser. It will pop up a folder browser windows for you to select the folder path in your computer. Note: If your windows OS is windows 10, please run the web browser as administrator, or it will forbit you to generate the folder in your computer, then you will be failed to snap pictures or record video through the web browser. (Only for IE/Firefox browser in windows): Capture pictures by manual. (Only for IE/Firefox browser in windows): Record video by manual.
Note: For the Chrome in windows and Chrome/Safari in Mas, there are something limitations for the plugins. They have different tool bar show as below and some features are forbited. : Open/Close the audio. : Enable the full screen for the live view video. 6.3 Playback page(Only for IE/Firefox browser in windows) 6.3.
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. : Open the local file in your computer to playback. : Stop or close the playback process. : Playback next frame in the video. : Adjust the audio volume when you playback the recordings. 6.
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. 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. 40 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
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. 42 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. 4) Schedule Here you can set the schedule for the motion detection alarm, red means enable and 45 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
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. You can select to save the picture to SD card, FTP server or both of them.
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. 49 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
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. 2) Maintenance 50 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.
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.
Here you can query the history operation or running log for your camera. 52 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. 54 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.
7.3 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. Upon releasing the reset button, the camera will reboot and the username and password will be restored to the factory default settings. Default username: admin Default password: admin Note: The password is case sensitive. 7.4 Could not record videos or snap pictures in IE 11 or Firefox of Windows 10 OS.
4. Please make sure you have enabled the wireless. 5. Please make sure your wifi password is correct, you can display the password by click the eye-icon beside the input box. 7.6 The plugin is blocked by Firefox. Firefox will block the NPAPI plugin by default, it will prompt you to allow this plugin when you access the camera or you can active the plugin after you login the camera.
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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. Note e: This equip pment has been b tested and found to comply wiith the limitss for a Class B digittal device, pursuant p to part p 15 of the e FCC Rules.
