Foscam FI8909 User manual

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IP Wireless / Wired Camera

Quick Installation Guide

(For Mac OS)

FI8909/FI8909W

ShenZhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd

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Quick Installation Guide-For MAC users

PackingList

1) IP CAMERA X 1 2) Wi-Fi Antenna (only available for wireless model)

3) DC Power Supply X 1 4) Network Cable X 1

5) Mounting bracket ×1 6) CD X 1 (Include user manual、IP camera tool)

7) Quick Installation Guide X 1

Quick Installation Guide Flow Chart

1 Hardware Installation

(1) Open the package

Software Installation

Login the camera

Wireless LAN Settings

DDNS Service Settings

Hardware Installation

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Figure 1.0

(2) Connect the Antenna.

Screw the antenna to the back of the camera, make sure it attached well.

Figure 1.1

(3) Plug the network cable and power.

Use network cable connects with the camera and your router. Plug in the power.

The green network light will blink and the red Power light will turn on too.

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Figure 1.2

2SoftwareInstallation

Please put the small CD in your CD driver of your laptop and find the folder “For

MAC”, then open the folder “IP Camera Tool”. Copy the IP camera tool to your

MAC and you can use the tool.

3Loginthecamera

Dbclick the IP Camera Tool and you could see the following picture.

Figure 1.3

The IP camera tool could find the cam’s IP automatically after you plug the

network cable. If not, Please make sure that DHCP is enabled in your router.

Don’t enable MAC address filter. Or disable firewall or antivirus to try again.

Dbclick the IP address on the IP camera tool and you will enter the login UI.

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Figure 1.4

Fill in user name and password and choose the second login.

Figure 1.5

The browser will prompt you enter the camera’s user name and password. Please

fill in admin and choose Log in. You can see the device status.

Default user is admin

No password

Choose here to login

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Figure 1.6

Click Live Video. You can see living video.

Figure 1.7

4 Wireless LAN Settings

(1) Please choose Device Management and click Wireless LAN Settings.

Then choose Using Wireless LAN.

Click Scan button and the camera will detect WIFI device around it.

It could also find your router and show it in the list. (Figure 1.9)

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Figure 1.8

If the camera could not find some WIFI device, please click the scan button again.

Make sure that the time between the first scan and the second scan is more than

1~2 minute.

Figure 1.9

(2) Click the SSID of your router in the list, the corresponding information (SSID

& Encryption) will be filled in the following boxes automatically.

You only need fill in share key.

Figure 2.0

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Make sure that SSID, Encryption and share key are exactly the same with your

router.

Figure 2.1

Figure 2.2

Please click Submit after finish these settings, the camera will reboot.

Plug out the network cable after you click submit about 10 seconds.

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The camera will work on WIFI after reboot.

Note: If your camera could not connect WIFI, please see FAQ in user manual.

5DDNSServiceSettings

5.1 Static IP user

Static IP users need not set DDNS service settings for remote access. When

finished the connection of camera in LAN and port forwarding. (Figure 3.6/3.7)

You can access the camera directly from Internet by the WAN IP and port number.

There are two ways to obtain your WAN IP.

zObtain the WAN IP from Website

Please enter these strings in your browser: http://www.whatismyip.com.The

webpage at this address will show you the current WAN IP.

Figure 2.3

zObtain the WAN IP address from the router

You can find the WAN IP in your router. Normally, it is in system status.

Take the WRT54G router of LINKSYS for example,

1) Obtain the IP address of the router(LAN gateway address),user name and

password for login the router from the network administrator,

2) Enter the LAN IP address of the router (LINKSYS WRT54G, such as:

default LAN IP is 192.168.1.1) in the address bar of the IE to login the router;

Open the Status page to find out the WAN address of the router. In this

example, the address is 183.37.28.254.

Access the IP Camera from the Internet

You can access the IP Camera from the Internet. (remote access)

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Enter WAN IP address and port number in the browser to login the camera.

For example: Http:// 183.37.28.254:85

Note: Make sure the Port mapping is success. You can do port mapping by two

ways.

1) Enter setting page of the router which camera connect with to enable

UPNP function. Then login the camera as administrator, choose UPnP

Settings to enable UPNP and make sure the state is “UPnP success”.

2) Do port forwarding manually. (details: Figure 3.6/3.7)

If your router has Virtual server, it is used to do port mapping. Please add the

camera’s LAN IP and port which you set in basic network settings to the Virtual

map list.

Note: If you plug the camera in a router, the camera will have dynamic IP address,

you need set DDNS service settings to view it remotely.

5.2 How to set DDNS Service Settings (For dynamic IP user)

(1) Please first visit www.dyndns.com to get an account.

Choose Sign up FREE to get a free account.

Figure 2.4

Please set as the following picture.