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.com 5 1 2 6 3 4 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.com Test result . Figure 4.37 If the test success, you can see the Success behind the Test, at the same time the receivers will receive a test mail. If the test fails with one of the following errors after clicking Test, verify that the information you entered is correct and again select Test . 1) Cannot connect to the server 2) Network Error. Please try later 3) Server Error 4) Incorrect user or password 5) The sender is denied by the server.
www.foscam.com 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. 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. Click Save to take effect.
www.foscam.com 4.4.9 P2P (FI9803P/FI9803EP/FI9903P/FI9900P) Access the camera by smart phone (Android or iOS operating system),please refer to the Quick Installation Guide. First of all, you need to open the P2P function of the camera at “Settings-->Network-->P2P.” Figure 4.40 4.5 Video This section allows you to configure Video stream settings, On screen display and Snapshot settings. 4.5.1 Video Settings There are two ways to set the stream video settings.
www.foscam.com Figure 4.41 Enhanced Night video Definition: The camera will automatically drop the frame to extend the recording time in the night. Stream Type: There are four types to identify different streams you have set. If select the HD Mode, the clearer video will become, and it will take up more bandwidth; If select the Smooth Mode, the bandwidth is very narrow, and bit rate is large, that will lead to video can not play well. The Equilibrium Model is a value between HD Mode and Smooth Mode.
www.foscam.com VBR: Variable Bit Rate, the camera will change the video bit rate according to the situation, but will not more than the maximum parameter "Bit Rate". LBR: Low Bit Rate. If you can select the LBR, then you can slide the scroll bar to choose percentage of the bit rate. By reducing the bit rate, so that the camera can obtain a better image at low bandwidth. 4.5.2 On Screen Display This page is used to add timestamp and device name on the video. Figure 4.
www.foscam.com The privacy zone Figure 4.44 Click OK button and return to the Privacy Zone page, click Save to take effect. Back to the surveillance window, you can see the privacy area as the following picture: Figure 4.45 4.5.4 Snapshot Settings On this page you can set the snapshot pictures’ image quality and the storage path. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
www.foscam.com Figure 4.46 Image Quality: Low, Middle and High. The higher the quality, the picture will be clearer. Alarm Pictures Save Path: z FTP: If you have done FTP and Alarm settings, when alarming, the camera will snap pictures to the FTP automatically. z SD(FI9803EP/FI9900P): If select SD Card as the save path, make sure the camera has inserted in the SD card.
www.foscam.com Figure 4.47 4.5.6 Lens Distortion Correction On this page you can set the distortion correction. There are three options: Low, Medium, High. Figure 4.48 If you replace the lens, the image has found distortion, uneven and so on, you can modify the Select The Distortion Correction Parameter to calibration images. 4.6 Alarm 4.6.1 Motion Detection IP Camera supports Motion Detection Alarm, when the motion has been detected, it will send emails or upload images to FTP.
www.foscam.com Figure 4.49 To enable motion detection, follow the steps below: 1 Enable Motion detection 2 Sensitivity---- It supports three modes: Low, Middle and High. The higher the sensitivity, the camera will be more easily alarmed. Select one motion sensitivity. 3 Trigger interval--- The interval time between two motion detections. Here supports 5s/6s/7s/8s/9s/10s/11s/12s/13s/14s/15s. Select one interval time.
www.foscam.com B Send E-mail If you want to receive alarm emails when motion is detected, you must select Send E-mail and set Mail Settings first. C Take Snapshot If you select this checkbox, when the motion has been detected, the camera will snap the live view window as a still picture and load it to the FTP. Make sure you have set FTP and set FTP as the storage path in Video->Snapshot settings panel. Time interval: The interval time between two pictures.
www.foscam.com Click this button and select all time range . Figure 4.52 ② Specify an alarm 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, when something moving in the detection area, the camera will alarm. Figure 4.53 ③ Press the left mouse and drag it on the time boxes, you can select the serial area, Figure 4.54 7 Click Save button to take effect.
www.foscam.com the camera will alarm and adopt the corresponding alarm indicators. NOTE: You must set the detection area and detection schedule, or else there is no alarm anywhere and anytime. 4.6.2 IO Alarm(only FI9805E) This IP camera provides a IO alarm terminal block which is used to connect to external input / output device.
www.foscam.com Figure 4.56 Setting IO alarm On the IO page, Enable the I/O alarm, select the “Send E-mail”and ”Snapshot” before you have configured the mail and FTP. Click this button and select all time range. Figure 4.57 If an IO alarm is triggered and IO alarm output device will always alarm (sound alarm is issued a warning sound, alarm lights in flash etc.). Click "Clear IO alarm output" , the alarm output device will stop alarming.
www.foscam.com Figure 4.58 Note: motion detection alarm can also be triggered IO alarm output. Figure 4.59 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
www.foscam.com 4.7 Record 4.7.1 Storage Location Figure 4.60 Recording Location : SD card, FTP. z SD card(Only FI9803EP/FI9900P): The video will be saved in SD card. Make sure the camera has been inserted the SD card. On this page, you can see the available space of the SD card. z FTP: The video will be saved in FTP. Please refer to "FTP settings." Local Recording Location: For Windows OS, the manual recording path is C:/ IPCamRecord, you can change another one.
www.foscam.com 4.7.3 Local Alarm Location On this page you can enable local alarm record, and select the local alarm record time. Figure 4.62 4.7.4 Schedule Recording When the video is selected as FTP, the device supports scheduled recording. Figure 4.63 Figure 4.64 When the video is selected as SD card, the device supports pumping frame recording.(only FI9803EP Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
www.foscam.com and FI9900P support SD card). Figure 4.65 Figure 4.66 Record frame: There are six frame selections, such as 1/30, 4/30, 8/30, 15/30, 24/30, 30/30. Recommended default is 4/30. The greater the Frame rate is, the sharper picture quality is, and the greater of storage space is, the shorter the storage time is. Record full strategy: When the SD card is full, you can choose to cover the previous recording, or stop recording. Audio Record: You can choose "yes" or "no".
www.foscam.com 4.7.5 SD Card Management(FI9803EP/FI9900P) The SD card Slot inside the camera, if you want to install or remove the SD card, you need to open the camera. When you plug in the SD card during the camera work process, please reboot the camera again, or else the SD Card may be cannot work well. Go to the SettingsÆStatusÆDevice Status page, you can see the SD card status. Figure 4.
www.foscam.com 4.8.2 RS485 Configuration This camera supports the standard 485 cradle head protocol (PELCO-D and PELCO-P). Please configure the RS485 protocol corresponding information first, or else the cradle head may cannot work. Figure 4.69 4.9 Firewall This section explains how to control the access permission by checking the client PC’s IP addresses. It is composed of the following columns: Block access from these IP addresses and Only allow access from these IP addresses. Figure 4.
www.foscam.com 4.10 System In this panel, you can back up/restore your camera settings, upgrade the firmware to the latest version, restore the camera to default settings and reboot the device. 4.10.1 Back-up& Restore 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. Figure 4.71 4.10.
www.foscam.com Figure 4.72 Upgrade Firmware by IP Camera Tool Double click the IP Camera Tool shot icon , 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. Figure 4.73 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.