User Manual Outdoor HD IP Camera Model: FI9803P V2
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Table of Contents Table of Contents.................................................................................................................................................................. 1 1 Overviews............................................................................................................................................................................3 1.1 Key Features...............................................................................
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 4.5.1 Video Settings........................................................................................................................................... 47 4.5.2 On Screen Display....................................................................................................................................48 4.5.3 Snapshot Settings.....................................................................................................................................
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 1 Overviews FOSCAM Outdoor HD IP Camera 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 from anywhere on your local network or over the Internet. FI9803P V2 support the industry-standard H.264 compression technology, drastically reducing file sizes and conserving valuable network bandwidth.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 1.2 Read Before Use Please first verify that all contents received are complete according to the Package Contents listed below. Before the Network Camera is installed, please carefully read and follow the instructions in the Quick Installation Guide to avoid damage due to faulty assembly and installation. This also ensures the product is used properly as intended. 1.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 1.4.2 Interface 1 2 3 4 5 Figure 1.2 1 LAN 10/100M adaptive Ethernet interface. Through this interface, IPCAM can be connected with various network devices, such as hub, router, etc. 2 Reset button Press and hold on the reset button for 5 seconds. Releasing the reset button, the password will back to the factory default administrator password. The default administrator user is admin with no password.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 1.4.3 Bottom View There are up to two labels located at the bottom of the camera, this is an important feature of original Foscam cameras. If your camera does not have labels, it may be a clone. Cloned Foscam cameras can not use original firmware and are not eligible for warranty or technical services. 1.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 2 Accessing the Network Camera This chapter explains how to access the network camera through web browsers and RTSP players. 2.1 Access the Camera in LAN This camera support HTTP and HTTPS protocols, so here will allow you to use HTTP and HTTPS port No. (1) Http:// LAN IP + Http Port No. Double click the IP Camera Tool icon and it should find the camera’s IP address automatically after you plug in the network cable. Figure 2.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com How to Obtain the WAN IP address from a public website ? To obtain your WAN IP address, enter the following URL in your browser: http://www.whatismyip.com.The webpage at this address will show you the current WAN IP. Figure 2.3 Access your IP Camera from the Internet You can access the IP Camera from the Internet (remote access). Enter the WAN IP address and port number in your standard browser. For example, you would enter http:// 183.37.28.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 2.2.2 Dynamic IP Addresses DDNS is a service that allows your IP Camera, especially when assigned with a dynamic IP address, to have a fixed host and domain name. 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 directly from the Internet using the hostname and port number. What is the HTTP Port no.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Modify the Http Port. Enter the Username and password, click OK . Figure 2.5 Step 2: Modify the Http Port and enter the username and password of the Administrator , and click “OK” to apply changes. Step 3: Wait around 10 seconds, you’ll see that the camera’s LAN IP address has changed. Also, the LAN IP address is now fixed at a static IP address of http://192.168.1.110:88.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com & Gaming menu. We would then click on the “Single Port Forwarding” sub-menu. Step 2: Create a new column using the LAN IP address & HTTP Port of the camera within the router as shown below, then push OK or Submit to save your settings: Fill the HTTP Port of the camera in the columns of External Port and Internal Port. Example: 2000 Fill in this section with the LAN IP of the camera; we would enter “100” for our example. Assign a name for the port forward setting here .
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Second method : Use the Third party DDNS to access the camera via the Internet Step 1, Please go to the third party DDNS website(such as www.no-ip.com) to create a free hostname. Step 2, DO DDNS Service Settings within the Camera Please set DDNS Settings within the camera by hostname, a user name and password you’ve got from www.no-ip.com Take hostname ycxgwp.no-ip.info, user name foscam, password foscam2012 for example.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 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 Media(Open Network Stream option, then enter the URL into VLC. Figure 2.9 Figure 2.10 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Sometimes you may need to enter the user name and password again. Click OK and you can see the real-time preview. Figure 2.11 Figure 2.12 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.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 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. 3.1 Login Window Figure 3.1 Section1 Enter the Username and password The default administrator username is admin with no password, please change the password at first using and prevent unauthorized users login the camera.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com modification. You will now use the new username and password to login the camera in the future. Figure 3.2 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 Name: You could give name for your camera. Figure 3.4 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com System Time: Select the time zone you need to set the date, time,format, etc. Figure 3.5 Wireless networks: Click “Scan”, find the SSID of your wireless router, select and enter the password. 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. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Figure 3.7 NOTE: It needs about 1 minute to connect the camera to your router. 3.2 Surveillance Window 1 2 8 3 4 5 6 7 9 Figure 3.8 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Section1 FOSCAM Logo/ LiveVideo / Settings 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. Section2 Multi-Device Window The firmware inside the camera supports up to maximum of 9 cameras being monitoring at the same time. You can add other cameras in multi-camera panel. Figure 3.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com The lowest resolution is QVGA. The bigger the resolution, the better of the image quality is. If you are accessing the camera via internet and want to get more fluent video streaming, please select resolution VGA. 3) Maximum frame rate When the video format is 50Hz, the maximum frame rate is 25 fps. When the video format is 60Hz, the maximum frame rate is 30 fps. You should lower frame rate when the bandwidth is limited.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 3------Left control button, 4------Right control button, Click this button and go to center Section5 Cruise settings ( FI9803P V2 haven’t this section) If via RS485 interface to connect an external PT device, you can use this feature. The default cruise tracks have two types: Vertical and Horizontal. Vertical: The camera will rotate from up to down. Horizontal: The camera will rotate from left to right. : Start cruise. : Stop cruise.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Auto: Select it and the camera will adjust the infra led (on or off) automatically. Manual: Select it and 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 led lights schedule time, please go to Settings→Video→IR LED Schedule page. Section7 Image quality settings In this page, you can tune Hue, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Sharpness to get higher quality.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 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. Onscreen Mouse Control Right click the mouse and you can adjust the screen ration, full screen and Zoom up. Figure 3.11 Keep ration: Select it and the camera will adjust the size of live window based on the computer monitor automatically.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Full Screen: Select it and Click it to make full-screen, press ESC and exit full-screen. Zoom up/down: Click it and the live view will be digital zoomed up, then click Zoom Down and the live view back to original size. Figure 3.13 NOTES: 1 This camera don’t support Pan/Tilt function, so here cann’t allow to use Screen PTZ. 2 For Mac OS, the plugin cannot support Onscreen Mouse function, so you cannot allow to use it. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 4 Advanced Camera Settings Click the button “Settings”, goes to Administrator Control Panel to make advanced camera settings. 4.1 Setup Wizard The way to set it,you could refer to section 3.1. Figure 4.1 4.2 Device Status Device Status contains four columns: Device Information, Device Status, Session Status and Log, it will show you various information about your camera. 4.2.1 Device Information Figure 4.2 Camera Model: The model of the device.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Camera ID: Display the MAC address of your camera. For example Device ID is 008414350787, the same MAC ID sticker is found at the bottom of the camera. Camera Time: The system time of the device. Click Basic Settings and go to Camera Time panel and adjust the time. System Firmware version: Display the System Firmware version of your camera. App Firmware version: Display the application firmware version of your camera.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 4.2.4 Log The log record shows who and which IP address accessed or logout the camera and when. Click the page number and go to the corresponding page to see more logs . Fill in one page number, click Go button and go to the corresponding page . Figure 4.5 Reboot the camera and clear the log records. 4.3 Basic Settings This section allows you to configure your Camera Name, Camera Time, Mail, User Accounts and Multi-Device. 4.3.1 Camera Name Default alias is anonymous.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Figure 4.7 Time Zone: Select the time zone for your region from the drop-down menu. Sync with NTP server: Network Time Protocol will synchronize your camera with an Internet time server. Choose the one that is closest to your camera. Sync with PC: Select this option to synchronize the date and time of the Network Camera with your computer. Manually: The administrator can enter the date and time manually. Please select the date and time format.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com old password and the new password, lastly click modify to take effect. Figure 4.9 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. Figure 4.10 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Figure 4.11 Delete: Select the account which you want to delete, then click Delete button to take effect. NOTE: The default administrator account cannot be deleted, but you can add other administrator users. 4.3.4 Multi-Camera If you want to view multi-surveillance screens on one window, you need to login one camera, and set it as the main device, and do Multi-Device Settings, add other cameras to the first one camera.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 1 Click it, camera model, alias, host and HTTP Port will be filled in the following boxes automatically . 3 Click Add to take effect . 2 Enter the User name and password of the 2nd camera . 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. Figure 4.13 Back to Surveillance Windows, and click Four Windows option, you will see four cameras you added.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Figure 4.14 Figure 4.15 Add cameras in WAN If you want to view all cameras via the internet(remote computer), you will need to add them using DDNS domain name. Firstly, make sure all of the cameras you added can be accessed through the internet. (Read How to configure DDNS settings in chapter 4.4.4) Login to the first camera using a DDNS domain name and port. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 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 Click Multi-Device Settings. Choose The 2nd Device. Fill in the 2nd camera’s name, DDNS domain name, port number. Enter user name and password and then choose Add. 1 2 3 4 5 Figure 4.17 1----- The camera model: MJ or H264. 2----- The 2nd camera’s name Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 3----- Fill in the 2nd camera’s DDNS host not LAN IP 4 ---- Enter the 2nd camera’s user name and password 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. Figure 4.18 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.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Figure 4.19 4.4 Network This section will allow you to configure your camera’s IP, PPOE, DDNS, Wireless Settings, UPnP, Port, Mail Settings and FTP Settings. 4.4.1 IP Configuration If you want to set a static IP for the camera, please go to IP Configuration page. Keep the camera in the same subnet of your router or computer. Figure 4.20 Changing settings here is the same as using the IP Camera Tool. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com It is recommended that you use the subnet mask, gateway and DNS server from your locally attached PC. If you don’t know the subnet mask, gateway and DNS server, you can check your computer’s local area connection as follows: Control Panel--Network Connections--Local Area Connections --Choose Support--Details. Figure 4.21 Set the same Subnet Mask and gateway of the camera with your PC . There are two DNS servers . You can set any of them . Same with gateway is also OK .
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com If you don’t know the DNS server, you can use the same settings as the Default Gateway. 4.4.2 Wireless Settings Step 1: Choose “Settings” on the top of the camera interface, and go to the “Network” panel on the left side of the screen, then click “Wireless Settings.” Click the Scan button and the camera will detect all wireless networks around the area. It should also display your router in the list. Click the Scan button to search for wireless networks.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 2 Enter the password of your router . 1 Click the SSID of your router and the relevant information will be filled in the fields automatically. Figure 4.24 Step 3: Please click on the Save button after all settings have been entered and disconnect the network cable. Never shut down the power of the camera until the IP camera is able to connect to the wireless network.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Figure 4.25 Now you can use http:// Domain name + HTTP Port to access the camera via internet. Take hostname cp4911.myfoscam.org and HTTP Port no. 8000 for example, the accessing link of the camera via internet would be http://cp4911.myfoscam.org:8000 Restore DDNS to factory: If you have configured Third Party DDNS successfully, but you want to use Manufacturer’s DDNS again , here click this button and start Manufacturer’s DDNS Service.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Please register an account step by step according to instructions on www.no-ip.com After registration, please login your email which used to register. You will receive an email from website, please click the link to activate your ACCOUNT as indicated in email. Secondly: Login the link with the registered username and password to create your domain name. Figure 4.27 Figure 4.28 Please create the domain name step by step according to instructions on www.no-ip.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Step 2 DO DDNS Service Settings within the Camera Please set DDNS Settings within the camera by hostname, a user name and password you’ve got from www.no-ip.com Take hostname ycxgwp.no-ip.info, user name foscam, password foscam2012 for example. Firstly, goes to option of DDNS Settings on the administrator panel. Secondly, select No-Ip as a server. Thirdly, fill foscam as DDNS user, fill password foscam2012 as DDNS password, fill ycxgwp.no-ip.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com ③ Use domain name to access the camera via internet After the port forwarding is finished, you can use the domain name+ http no. to access the camera via internet. Take hostname ycxgwp.no-ip.info and http no. 2000for example, the accessing link of the camera via internet would be http:// ycxgwp.no-ip.info:2000 4.4.4 UPnP Figure 4.30 The default UPnP status is closed. You can enable UPnP, then the camera’s software will be configured for port forwarding.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Figure 4.32 Another way to change the HTTP port no. 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 4.34 and 4.35. Select which camera you’d like to change the port for, and right click . Figure 4.33 Modify the Http Port . Enter the Username and password, click OK. Figure 4.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com password), and click “OK” to apply changes. Step 3: Wait around 10 seconds, you’ll see that the camera’s LAN IP address has changed. In our example it was changed to 2000, so we see http://192.168.8.102:2000 in IP Camera Tool. Also, the LAN IP address is now fixed at a static IP address of http://192.168.8.102:2000. This IP address will not change even if the camera is powered off and back on, the camera will remain on this LAN IP address.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Figure 4.36 1----- SMTP Server/ Port /Transport Layer Security Enter SMTP server for sender. SMTP port is usually set as 25. Some SMTP servers have their own port, such as 587 or 465, and Transport Layer Security usually is None. If you use Gmail, Transport Layer Security must be set to TLS or STARTTLS and SMTP Port must be set to 465 or 25 or 587, which port you choose should be decided by which Transport Layer Security you select.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 8) The server does not support the authentication mode used by the device 4.4.7 FTP Settings If you want to upload record images to your FTP server，you can set FTP Settings. Figure 4.38 Figure 4.39 FTP server: If your FTP server is located on the LAN, you can set as Figure 4.40. If you have an FTP server which you can access on the internet, you can set as Figure 4.41. Port: Default is port 21.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com FTP Mode: Here supports two modes: PORT and PASV. Username/password: The FTP account and password. Click Save to take effect. Click Test to see if FTP has been successfully configured. 4.4.8 P2P Access the camera by smart phone (Android or iOS operating system) First of all, you need to open the P2P function of the camera at “Settings-->Network-->P2P.” Figure 4.40 Search and install Foscam Viewer on Google Play and App Store for for Android and iOS devices.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Figure 4.41 Stream type: There are four types to identify different streams you have set. Resolution: The camera supports multiple types, For example: 960P, 720P, VGA. The higher the resolution is, the clearer video will become. But the code flux will become larger too, and it will take up more bandwidth. (Different models support different specific types. ) Bit rate: Generally speaking, the larger the bit rate is, the clearer video will become.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com Figure 4.42 Display Timestamp: There are two options: Yes or NO. Select Yes and you can see the system date on the video. Display Camera Name: There are two options: Yes or NO. Select Yes and you can see the device name on the video. 4.5.3 Snapshot Settings On this page you can set the snapshot pictures’ image quality and the storage path. Figure 4.43 Image Quality: Low, Middle and High. The higher the quality, the picture will be clearer. Alarm Pictures Save Path: FTP.
www.foscam.co m www.foscam.com 3 Select the capture time Capture anytime 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 capture. Specify an capture schedule Click the week day words, the corresponding column will be selected. For example, click TUE, the all column of TUE turns to red, that means during Tuesday whole day, the camera will capture.
