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Foscam FI8904W User Manual

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Model: FI8904W/FI8905W
Ourdoor Wireless IP Camera
FI8904W
FI8905W

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  • Page 1 Model: FI8904W/FI8905W Ourdoor Wireless IP Camera FI8904W FI8905W...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents 1 Overviews ................................2 1.1 Key Features ..............................3 1.2 Read Before Use ............................... 3 1.3 Packing Contents .............................. 4 1.4 Physical Description ............................4 2 Surveillance Software GUI ..........................6 2.1 Login Window ..............................6 2.2 Surveillance Window ............................

  • Page 3: Overviews

    4.1 Frequently Asked Questions .......................... 53 4.2 Default Parameters ............................57 4.3 Specifications ..............................57 5 OBTAINING TECHNICAL SUPPORT ......................58 The IPCAM is an integrated wireless IP Camera with a color CMOS sensor. 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.

  • Page 4: Key Features

    ● Supports IR_CUT and the filter change automatically ● Supports Dynamic IP (DDNS) and UPnP LAN and Internet (ADSL, Cable Modem) ● Embedded FOSCAM DDNS (dynamic domain name service ) Service ● Motion detection activates alarm ● Supports image snapshot ●...

  • Page 5: Packing Contents

    ● IPCAM×1 ● CD×1 ● Wi-Fi Antenna×1 ● Quick Installation Guide×1 (only available for wireless model) ● DC Power Supply×1 ● Warranty Card×1 ● Mounting bracket×1(option) ● Network Cable×1 Front Panel Figure 1.1 Infrared LED: 24 IR LEDs (model 04)/60 IR LEDs (model 05) LENS: CMOS sensor with fixed focus lens WIFI Antenna: Wireless Antenna...

  • Page 6: Back View

    There are up to three labels located on the body of the camera; this is an important feature of original Foscam cameras. If your camera does not have labels as shown in Figure 1.3 ,it may be a clone one. Cloned Foscam cameras can not use original firmware and are not eligible for warranty or technical services.

  • Page 7: Surveillance Software Gui

    Please check the login window above, it was divided to 6 sections from no. 1 to 6. Section1 Select Language FOSCAM camera supports up to multi-languages, such as English, Spanish, Deutsch and so on. You can select the language you need via pull down the dropdown toolbar and click on the language to switch.
  • Page 8 Section2 FOSCAM Website Link There is an access link to Foscam website homepage, if you need tech support you can contact Foscam directly. Section3 ActiveX Mode If your PC is windows based OS, such as Windows XP, Windows7, Windows Vista and you are using IE-based browsers like IE6, IE7, IE8, please choose IE ActiveX Mode login mode.

  • Page 9: Surveillance Window

    2.2 Surveillance Window Select the ActiveX mode and you will enter the surveillance window. Figure 2.2 Section1 Device Name Default device name is Anonymous. You can define a name for your camera as you like (Please go to chapter 3.1 and read how to set it) Section2 Multi-Device Window The firmware inside the camera supports up to maximum of 9 cameras being monitoring at the...
  • Page 10 Figure 2.3 Section3 Image Parameters Settings OSD is used to add timestamp on the video. There are five text colors to choose from: Black, red, yellow, white, blue. Add OSD on record...
  • Page 11 Select this option if you want to add a timestamp to recordings. Resolution 1) 320x240-------QVGA 2) 640x480-------VGA There are two resolutions, the bigger one (VGA) is 640x480 pixels, and the smaller one (QVGA) is 320x240 pixels. The bigger the resolution, the better of the image quality is, but the lower the frame rate is.
  • Page 12 Section4 IR Lights Buttons : Click this icon, all the IR lights will turn on. : Click this icon to turn off IR lights. Section5 Device Management Device Management ------Path to Administrator Control Panel, Click it, and it will lead to Administrator Control Panel.
  • Page 13 Record and multi-device function are controlled by ActiveX controller, therefore Firefox or Google Chrome, Safari browsers will not allow these functions. For Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, you should select the Server Push Mode and you can see the following screen: Figure 2.4...

  • Page 14: Advanced Camera Settings

    Click the bar “Device Management”, goes to Administrator Control Panel to make advanced camera settings. 3.1 Device Status Figure 3.1 1------Device ID MAC ID of the camera by wired connection 2-----Device Firmware Version System Firmware version of the camera 3-----Device Web UI Version Web UI firmware version of the camera 4-----Alias Name of the camera 5-----Alarm Status The status of Alarm Service Setting 6-----DDNS Status The status of DDNS Setting...
  • Page 15 Another Way: Double click the the icon “IP Camera.exe” , select the camera IP, right click and select the Basic Properties, you can also see the Firmware Version and MAC Address, such as the following screen: Figure 3.2 Figure 3.3...

  • Page 16: Alias Settings

    Alias Settings Default alias is Anonymous. You can define a name for your camera here such as apple. Click Submit to save your changes. The alias name supports special characters. Click the option here to Enter the device name as you modify the device name like.

  • Page 17: User Settings

    Here you can create users and set permission levels, visitor, operator or administrator. Click Submit to save these settings. The camera will reboot. different permission levels, but at least one administrator Figure 3.6 Here you can also set one important file locations for the camera, the Alarm Record Path. Simply click Browse and choose the path to the required folder.

  • Page 18: Multi-Device Settings

    3.5 Multi-Device Settings 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. Before you do multi-cams settings, you need to assign different port such as 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 to the cameras if there is 8 cams installed.
  • Page 19 Click Submit after add all cameras Figure 3.7b Back to Surveillance Windows, and click Four Windows option, you will see four cameras you added. Figure 3.8...
  • Page 20 Figure 3.9 3.5.2 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.
  • Page 21 Use DDNS domain name and port to login Make sure each camera you need add could login with DDNS name and port Figure 3.10 If you have several cameras, you can use the same DDNS domain name; you only need to set a different port number for each camera.
  • Page 22 Figure 3.11 1----- The 2nd camera’s name 2----- Fill in the 2nd camera’s DDNS host not LAN IP 3 ---- Enter the 2nd camera’s user name and password 4---- Click Add button and to take effect Add the other cameras in the same way. Click Submit to save.
  • Page 23 Click submit after finishing all settings Figure 3.12 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.

  • Page 24: Basic Network Settings

    Basic Network Settings If you want to set a static IP for the camera, select Basic Network Settings. Keep the camera in the same subnet of your router or computer. Figure 3.14 Changing settings here is the same as using the IP Camera Tool. (Figure 3.17/3.18) It is recommended that you use the subnet mask, gateway and DNS server from your locally attached PC.
  • Page 25 Figure 3.15 Figure 3.16 If you don’t know the DNS server, you can use the same settings as the Default Gateway.
  • Page 26 Another way to change the camera’s LAN IP and HTTP Port no. Open the IP Camera Tool, select the camera you want to change the port no, right click on the IP address link, and goes to Option ”Network Configuration”, it pops up another dialogue showed as the following screen Select the camera you want to change the LAN IP or port no, right...

  • Page 27: Wireless Settings

    Http Port: The default Lan port is 80.You can set another port number, such as port 8005, 8100.etc. User&Password: Default administrator user name is admin with no password. If the prompt “Subnet doesn’t match, dbclick to change!” appears, please enable DHCP set camera’s IP address and gateway once again.
  • Page 28 Click Scan Button to search WIFI device Figure 3.19 Step 02) Click the SSID of your router in the list, the corresponding information (SSID & Encryption) will be filled in the following boxes automatically. You will only need to fill in the share key. Make sure that SSID, Encryption and share key you filled in for the camera are exactly the same for your router Click the SSID of router and SSID, Encryption will be filled in the...
  • Page 29 of the camera will be showed again on the window of the IP Cam Tool. You have done wireless connection of the camera successfully. If the camera has a dynamic IP, after the wireless settings, the IP will be changed. If fail to make WiFi connection, please refer to seller or us for help.
  • Page 30 Step 01) Enable wireless and choose Adhoc mode. Fill in a SSID to identify the IPCAM and then set the security mode, you can choose none or others. Click Apply. Figure 3.21 Step 02) Plug out the network cable and the camera will restart.. Open the wireless network card of PC and search the wireless network around the area.

  • Page 31: Adsl

    same subnet. Open the IP Camera Tool, you can search the camera LAN IP again. Figure 3.23 If you are connecting the camera directly to a ADSL modem, you can do ADSL settings with your ADSL account &password provided by the ISP, then make the camera connected to the network. Enter the ADSL user and password Figure 3.24...

  • Page 32: Upnp Settings

    UPnP Settings Choose Using UPnP to MAP Port and then click Submit. Figure 3.25 The default UPnP status is closed. You can select the checkbox and open UPnP, then the camera’s software will be configured for port forwarding. Back to the “Device Status” panel, you can see the UPnP status: There may be issues with your routers security settings, and sometimes may error.

  • Page 33: Ddns Service Settings

    3.10 DDNS Service Settings FOSCAM camera has embedded a unique DDNS domain name when producing, and you can directly use the domain name, you can also use the third party domain name. FOSCAM domain name Here take camera.myfoscam.org for example. Go to option of DDNS Service Settings on the administrator panel, you can see the domain name.
  • Page 34 Click here to register Figure 3.27 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.
  • Page 35 Figure 3.28 Figure 3.29 Please create the domain name step by step according to instructions on www.no-ip.com Step 2, DO DDNS Service Settings within the Camera Please set DDNS Service Settings within the camera by hostname, a user name and password you’ve got from www.no-ip.com...
  • Page 36 Note If you have set Third Party DDNS successfully ,the Foscam Domain Name will be invalid. The Third Party DDNS and the Foscam Domain Name cannot work at the same time, the last time you configured will take effect. ② Do port forwarding within the router Example: The camera’s LAN IP address is http://192.168.1.35:88 ,...

  • Page 37: Mail Service Settings

    Figure 3.30 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. 88for example, the accessing link of the camera via internet would be http:// ycxgwp.no-ip.info:88 3.11 Mail Service Settings...
  • Page 38 Figure 3.31 1----- Sender Mailbox for sender must support SMTP 2----- Receiver Mailbox for receiver need not support SMTP,you can set 4 receivers 3----- SMTP Server/ Port 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.
  • Page 39 Figure 3.32 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.

  • Page 40: Msn Setting

    3.12 MSN Setting If you want the camera send its current internet IP address to you or your friends, please set MSN settings. Acquire an MSN ID for the IPCAM first, then follow the instructions as per Figure 3.33. Fill in the user and password of the MSN ID you applied for your camera...
  • Page 41 Figure 3.34 When the MSN ID in the Friends list login the MAN, he can chat with camera. For example: Foscam13(this account contained in the Friends list) log in MSN, and double click the camera’s account (foscam31), then enter “url?”, the camera will send it’s current IP address to you. Figure 3.35 Note: Create a new MSN account for the camera, do not use the same MSN account as you would like to chat with your friends.

  • Page 42: Ftp Service Settings

    3.13 FTP Service Settings If you want to upload images to your FTP server，you can set FTP Service Settings. Figure 3.36 Figure 3.37 FTP server: If your FTP server is located on the LAN, you can set as Figure 3.36. If you have an FTP server which you can access on the internet, you can set as Figure 3.37.
  • Page 43 FTP Upload Folder: Make sure that the folder you plan to store images exists as the camera can’t create the folder itself. Also, the folder must be read/writable. FTP Mode: The camera supports standard (POST) mode and passive (PASV) mode Upload Image Now: This option will upload images continuously when you enable the checkbox Enable Set Filename: When you enable this option the uploaded image will be named according to the filename you enter.

  • Page 44: Alarm Service Settings

    3.14 Alarm Service Settings IP Camera supports Motion Detection Alarmed, when the motion has been detected, it will send email alerts or upload images or record. Figure 3.39 1---- If you want to set Motion Detection Alarmed ,select the checkbox 2---- The larger the number, the higher the motion sensitivity will be 3---- Select this option to reduce false alarms when light changes If motion is detected after you enable Motion Detection Armed, the Alarm Status will turn to...
  • Page 45 Here you can see the alarm status Figure 3.40 There are four alarm indicators: 1) Camera will send emails when motion is activated. If you want to receive images when motion is detected, you must set Mail Service Settings first. (Figure 3.31) Then set motion alarm as follows: Figure 3.41 2) Upload images via FTP server when motion trigger.
  • Page 46 Select this option Set an interval for images to upload Figure 3.42 You can hear the beep sound when the alarm has been detected. Select this option Figure 3.43 4) The camera will record automatically for one minute after motion is detected. You can find the recording file in the folder which you set previously.
  • Page 47 Select the checkbox When you enable motion alarm, the camera will record automatically and store the recording file to the folder you Figure 3.44 configured. This icon is used to control whether the folder opens or not. Alarm Scheduler: Here are two ways to set the alarm. 1) Alarm at any time when motion is detected.
  • Page 48 Figure 3.46 2) Specify an alarm schedule. If you want the camera to alarm during set times select Scheduler and set time range. If you want to select one serial area, you can click any number between 00 and 23 on the first row, the corresponding column will be selected and it will turn blue.
  • Page 49 Figure 3.47 If you want to select discrete area, you click the left button on the box of time range. It will turn blue. If you want to delete it, just click the left button and it will turn grey. Figure 3.48...

  • Page 50: Upgrade Device Firmware

    3.15 Upgrade Device Firmware When you upgrade the camera, please upgrade system firmware first and then upgrade the Web Upgrade system firmware Upgrade Web UI Figure 3.49 Click Browse, choose the correct bin file and then click Submit to upgrade. Don’t shut down the power during upgrade until the IP camera tool finds the camera again.
  • Page 51 Figure 3.50 Enter the User name and password Figure 3.51 CAUTION: If your camera works well with the current firmware, we recommend not upgrading. Please don’t upgrade the firmware unnecessarily. Your camera may be damaged if misconfigured during an upgrade. NOTE: 1) Please ensure you have download the correct firmware package for your camera before upgrading.

  • Page 52: Backup & Restore Settings

    4) Never shut down the power of the camera during upgrade until the IP camera restart and get connected. 3.16 Backup & Restore Settings Click Submit to save all the parameters you have set. These parameters will be stored in a bin file for future use.

  • Page 53: Reboot Device

    3.18 Reboot Device Click Reboot Device to reboot the camera. This is similar to unplugging the power to the camera. 3.19 Log The log record shows who accessed the camera and when. (Figure 3.54). Figure 3.54 3.20 Back This will take you back to the surveillance window.

  • Page 54: Appendix

    4 APPENDIX 4.1 Frequently Asked Questions NOTE: Always verify network connections are working by checking the status of the indicators on the network server, hub and network card. 4.1.1 I have forgoten the administrator username and/or password To reset the administrator username and password, press and hold down the RESET BUTTON for 10 seconds.
  • Page 55 4.1.3 No Pictures Problems Video streaming is managed by the ActiveX controller. If the ActiveX controller isn’t installed correctly you will see no video image. There are two ways to resolve this problem: 1) Reinstall “IP Camera Tool” and ActiveX controller（recommended）. 2) Download ActiveX controller and set the security setting of IE: IE browserToolInternet ProperSecurityCustom LevelActiveX control and Plug-ins.
  • Page 56 Change another port number Figure 4.2 NOTE: Make sure that your firewall or anti-virus software does not block the camera or ActiveX. If you cannot see live video, try shutting down the firewall or anti-virus software and try again. 4.1.4 Can’t access IP camera on internet Possible reasons why camera is not accessible on the internet: 1) ActiveX controller is not installed correctly 2) The port which the camera uses is blocked by a Firewall or Anti-virus software.
  • Page 57 4.1.7 Couldn’t find the shortcut on the desktop after install IP camera tool If you use Windows7 or Vista and the shortcut is missing after installing the IP camera tool, check the path of IP Camera program. For example, if it was pointing to C:\Windows\System32\IPCamera.exe. Please fix this by pointing the shortcut to the correct path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\IPCamera.exe.

  • Page 58: Default Parameters

    Wi-Fi. 4.2 Default Parameters Default network Parameters IP address: obtain dynamically Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: obtain dynamically DHCP: Disabled DDNS: Embedded FOSCAM domain name Username and password Default administrator username: admin Default administrator password: No password 4.3 Specifications ITEMS FI8904W/FI8905W...

  • Page 59: Obtaining Technical Support

    User’s Guide has not answered. If you have problem with FOSCAM IP camera, please first contact FOSCAM reseller for solving the problems. If our reseller cannot provide service, pls contact our service department:...

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