TP-Link NC230 User Manual
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NC230
HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera
NC250
HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi
1910011378
REV1.0.0

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  • Page 1 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 1910011378 REV1.0.0...
  • Page 2 Specifications are subject to change without notice. is a registered trademark of TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. No part of the specifications may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative such as translation, transformation, or adaptation without permission from TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
  • Page 3: Fcc Statement

    FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to pro-vide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not in-stalled and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
  • Page 4: Rf Exposure Information

    RF Exposure Information This device meets the EU requirements (1999/519/EC) on the limitation of exposure of the general public to electromagnetic fields by way of health protection. The device complies with RF specifications when the device used at 20 cm from your body. National Restrictions This device is intended for home and office use in all EU countries (and other countries following the EU directive 1999/5/EC) without any limitation except for the countries mentioned below:...
  • Page 5: Industry Canada Statement

    1) l’appareil ne doit pas produire de brouillage; 2) l’utilisateur de l’appareil doit accepter tout brouillage radioélectrique subi, meme si le brouillage est susceptible d’en compromettre le fonctionnement. Radiation Exposure Statement: This equipment complies with IC radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment.
  • Page 6: Safety Information

    Продукт сертифіковано згідно с правилами системи УкрСЕПРО на відповідність вимогам нормативних документів та вимогам, що передбачені чинними законодавчими актами України. Safety Information  When product has power button, the power button is one of the way to shut off the product; when there is no power button, the only way to completely shut off power is to disconnect the product or the power adapter from the power source.
  • Page 7: Declaration Of Conformity

    TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY For the following equipment: Product Description: HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera Model No.: NC230 Product Description: HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Model No.: NC250 Trademark: TP-LINK We declare under our own responsibility that the above products satisfy all the technical regulations...
  • Page 8: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS Chapter 1 About this Guide..................1     1.1  Conventions........................1  1.2  Overview of This Guide ....................1  Chapter 2 Get to know about your camera ............2     2.1  Product Overview ......................2  2.2  Main Features.......................2  2.3  Panel Appearance ......................3  2.3.1 ...
  • Page 9: Chapter 1 About This Guide

    In this Guide the following conventions are used: The camera mentioned in this Guide stands for NC230 and NC250 without any explanation.  This User Guide is shared by NC230 and NC250. NC250 is used for demonstration in this  guide. The difference between them are: Max Frame Rate: 20 fps for NC230;...
  • Page 10: Chapter 2 Get To Know About Your Camera

    FTP whenever motion or sound is detected automatically, allowing you to remain aware of whatever is happening on the ground. With a stable high speed Wi-Fi connection of up to 300Mbps for NC250, and 150Mbps for NC230, you can enjoy fluid video streaming with ease. In addition, the TP-LINK Cloud Camera can also expand your Wi-Fi network with its Wi-Fi Extender functionality.
  • Page 11: Panel Appearance

    Wireless connectivity compliant with WPS button  Instantly eliminates the dead zones and expand your home’s wireless network  Support wireless 802.11b/g/n with speed up to 300Mbps for NC250, and 150Mbps for NC230.  Ethernet port for wired connectivity ...
  • Page 12: Rear Panel

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  System LED: Status Indication Flashing Red The camera starts booting up. The camera has boot up, but is not connected to any network. Solid Red Flashing Green The camera is in firmware upgrade procedure.
  • Page 13 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  ETHERNET Port: The ETHERNET port is used to connect the camera to a network via RJ45 cable.  Power Jack: The power jack is where you connect the AC adapter to the camera.
  • Page 14: Chapter 3 Set Up Your Camera

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Chapter 3 Set Up Your Camera 3.1 Set up the Camera with the tpCamera APP You can install your camera in minutes with the free tpCamera app. If your router has a WPS button, you can complete the setup wirelessly using WPS function.
  • Page 15: Position Your Camera

    Step 3. Add the camera to your TP-LINK Cloud account. Launch the tpCamera app, log into your TP-LINK Cloud account or create one if you do not have an account. Then follow the app instructions to add your new camera to your account.
  • Page 16 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Unscrew the camera head. Remove the base cover. Use two screws (not included) to secure Put the base cover and camera head back the base. After relocating your camera, face it towards the area you’d like to view, and then plug the power adapter into a power outlet.
  • Page 17: Chapter 4 Configure Your Camera

    HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Chapter 4 Configure Your Camera You can use the tpCamera app and TP-LINK Cloud (www.tp-linkcloud.com) to view and manage your camera remotely. To configure the camera’s settings, such as the network settings, cloud settings, notification delivery, you should use the camera’s built-in web management page in your local network.
  • Page 18 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  Note: For the administrator, the default password is “admin”. We recommend that you change it in the Account menu. (Go to “System > Account”) If you log in to the camera as an administrator, you can perform all the settings provided by the camera.
  • Page 19: Live View

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 4.2 Live View The Live View screen shows you the live video feed from your camera. On this screen, you can capture a picture, record a video and so on.
  • Page 20 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Symbols Meaning Note Click to capture a still The image file will be saved to your local image shot by the computer. You can select a save path and rename camera.
  • Page 21: Basic

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  Contrast: Drag the slider to adjust the contrast level of the camera. Large value will contrast the current displayed screen heavily.  Saturation: Drag the slider to adjust the saturation level of the camera.
  • Page 22 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi...
  • Page 23: Basic > Network

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 4.3.2 Basic > Network On this page, you can configure your camera’s IP address which is used to access and configure the camera.  Dynamic IP: Select this option when a DHCP server is installed on the network to issue IP address assignment.
  • Page 24: Basic > Wireless Connection

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  Primary DNS Server: Enter a DNS address in dotted-decimal notation.  Secondary DNS Server: Enter a DNS address in dotted-decimal notation. Click Save to save and enable the settings.
  • Page 25 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Click Scan to scan the available wireless network and to refresh the Wireless Network List. Select a wireless network from the wireless network list. If the wireless network’s security mode is None, simply click Connect. If the security mode requires a password, enter the wireless network’s password and then click Connect.
  • Page 26: Basic > Cloud Setting

     Note: You can register a TP-LINK Cloud account in the tpCamera app only. If you do not get a tpCamera app, please refer to the Step 2 Download and install the tpCamera app in Set up the Camera with the tpCamera APP.
  • Page 27: Basic > Led

    NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  Account: Enter your TP-LINK Cloud account, either E-mail address or username is allowed.  Password: Enter your TP-LINK Cloud account’s password. Camera Name: The default value is the camera model. You can change it to an ...
  • Page 28: Advanced > Status

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 4.4.1 Advanced > Status Refer to 4.3.1 Basic > Status. 4.4.2 Advanced > Network On this page, you can configure the network settings of the camera. IP Address On this section, you can configure your camera’s IP address which is used to access and...
  • Page 29 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  Fallback IP: If the camera cannot get a Dynamic IP address from a DHCP server within limited tries, the camera will assign a default IP address, 192.168.0.10, by itself as the Fallback IP address.
  • Page 30 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  PPPoE: To enable or disable the PPPoE service here. Status: Displays the PPPoE connection status.   Username: Enter the username for PPPoE service provided by your ISP.
  • Page 31: Advanced > Wireless Connection

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  UPnP Port Forwarding: To enable or disable the UPnP Port Forwarding service here. If this function is enabled and your router supports UPnP, the cameras and router can communicate with each other so that the router knows which ports are used by which camera.
  • Page 32 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Select Enable to enable your camera’s wireless function. Click Manually, and you will see the following screen. In the Wireless Network Name field, enter the name of the wireless network to which your camera is ready to connect.
  • Page 33: Advanced > Wireless Extender

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Select the wireless security mode used by your wireless network from the drop-down list. The security mode and its corresponding settings must be exactly the same as that used in the wireless network.
  • Page 34: Advanced > Cloud Setting

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  Max Clients: Set the maximum number of clients that are allowed to connect to the extended network. Click Save to save and enable the settings. 4.4.5 Advanced > Cloud Setting Refer to 4.3.4 Basic >...
  • Page 35: Advanced > Video

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  Service Provider: Select one of the built-in DDNS servers from the drop-down list: No-IP (www.noip.com), DynDNS (www.dyn.com), and Comexe (www.comexe.cn).  Note: If you have not registered for any of the listed DDNS servers, please select one and click Go to register…...
  • Page 36: Advanced > Motion Detection

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  Image Quality: Select the image quality from the drop-down list: Normal and Low. Normal settings offer better quality, but it may require more bandwidth to stream.
  • Page 37: Advanced > Sound Detection

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  Motion Detection: To enable or disable the motion detection function. The area with blue mask indicates that it is the area with motion detection on. All areas are selected by default.
  • Page 38: Advanced > Notification Delivery

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  Sound Detection: To enable or disable the sound detection function.  Sensitivity: Specify the level of difference between current sound and the threshold you set. Select one of the three levels of sensitivity from the drop-down list: High, Medium, and Low.
  • Page 39 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Select FTP, you can configure your camera to send snapshots to a specified FTP sever on the following screen:  FTP Server/ Port: Enter the IP or the domain (IP/domain without prefix ftp://) and the port of the FTP server that you will be connecting to.
  • Page 40 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Enter an IP address or domain of your FTP server, e.g. 192.168.1.168 Remain the FTP port number as the default value: 21. Enter your username to log in to the FTP server, e.g. test.
  • Page 41 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  Recipient E-mail Address: Enter the receiver’s E-mail address that the notification E-mail will be sent to. Click Add recipient to add receiver’s E-mail addresses. You can specify up to four recipient E-mail addresses.
  • Page 42: Advanced > Led

    HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Enter the receiver’s E-mail address in Recipient E-mail Address, e.g. test@tp-link.com. Enter your E-mail address in Sender E-mail Address, e.g. test@gmail.com. Enter the password required to access the SMTP server.
  • Page 43: Account

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 4.5.1 Account On this page, you can change the administrator’s password and manage the user account(s) that are allowed to access to your camera.  Username: Displays the name of user account.
  • Page 44 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Enter a username for your new account. Enter a password for your new account. The password should contain 5 to 20 characters. Enter the password again to confirm it.
  • Page 45: Date/Time

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Enter the current password in the Old Password textbox. Enter a new password. Enter the new password again to confirm it. Click Save to save and enable the settings.
  • Page 46 NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  Current Time: Displays the current date and time of the camera.  Time Zone: Select the time zone for the region where the camera is installed from the drop-down list.
  • Page 47: Management

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi  NTP Server: You can either enter a domain name of the NTP server or select one which will be filled in automatically from the drop-down list.
  • Page 48  Update: Before update, download the latest firmware from the product page at http://www.tp-link.com, and then use decompression software to extract the file. Click Browse to locate the latest downloaded software file, and then click Upgrade to update the camera’s software to the latest version.
  • Page 49: System Log

    NC230 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi not necessary. 4.5.4 System Log On this page, you can review any changes and events happened to your camera. The system starts logging automatically after startup. ...
  • Page 50: Appendix: Specifications

    10x Digital Digital Zoom Video/Image Video Compression H.264 NC230: Up to 20 fps at 1280*720 (HD) Frame Rate & Resolutions NC250: Up to 30 fps at 1280*720 (HD) Video Streaming Controllable frame rate and bandwidth Rotation: Mirror, Flip, Mirror Flip...
  • Page 51 HD Day/Night Wi-Fi Cloud Camera NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi TCP, UDP Security Multiple password-protected user levels Wireless NC230: IEEE 802.11b/g/n, Up to 150Mbps Wireless Data Rate NC250: IEEE 802.11b/g/n, Up to 300Mbps Frequency 2.4-2.4835GHz WEP, WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK Wireless Encryption...

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