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Model: FI9826P V2
Wireless IP Camera
（For Windows & Mac OS）

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  • Page 1 Model: FI9826P V2 Wireless IP Camera （For Windows & Mac OS）...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents s ...............................1 1.1 Key Features............................1 1.2 Read Before Use...........................2 1.3 Packing Contents ..........................2 1.4 Physical Description..........................2 1.5 SD Card ..............................4 a ........................5 2.1 Access the Camera in LAN ........................5 2.2 Access the Camera in WAN ........................8 2.3 Using the VLC player ..........................13...

  • Page 3: V E R V I E W S

    FOSCAM FI9826P V2 is an integrated wireless IP Camera with a color CMOS sensor enabling viewing resolution 1280*720. 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: Read Before Use

     Supports multiple network protocols: HTTP /TCP /IP /UDP /FTP /DHCP /DDNS / UPNP  Providing Central Management Software to manage or monitor multi-cameras 1.2 Read Before Use Please first verify that all contents received are complete according to the Package Contents listed below.
  • Page 5 Bottom View There are up to three labels located at the bottom 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. Cloned Foscam...

  • Page 6: Sd Card

    Reset button MAC address of wired connection FOSCAM domain name MAC address of wireless connection S/N of FOSCAM Figure 1.3 Reset button: Press and hold down the RESET BUTTON for 5 seconds. Wait for 20 seconds after released, the IP camera will reboot and it will be reset back to factory default settings. You must power on the camera before reset.

  • Page 7: C C E S S I N G T H E N E T W O R K C A M E R A

    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.
  • Page 8 Next, click the Security tab, then click the Trusted sites button.Finally ,click the Confirm button。 Figure 2.3 For Firefox, you can add the trusted as the following way: Tools --- Options ---- Advanced --- View Certificates --- Servers...
  • Page 9 Figure 2.4 Click View Certificates, and go to Servers option. Figure 2.5...

  • Page 10: Access The Camera In Wan

    Go to Add Exception panel. Enter the camera’s url , here take https://192.168.8.129:443 for example Click this button to add it Figure 2.6 2.2 Access the Camera in WAN 2.2.1 Static IP Addresses Users who have static IP addresses do not need to set DDNS service settings for remote access.
  • Page 11 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:// 183.37.28.254:85 Make sure port forwarding is successful. You can do port forwarding two ways.
  • Page 12 What is the HTTP Port no.? Default HTTP Port is 88 All cameras have the default HTTP port of 88. For example, if the LAN IP link of the camera is http://192.168.8.102:88, this means that the camera’s HTTP port is 88. You can change port 88 to another port if you’d like such as 2000 or 8090, which will not be conflict with other existing ports like 25, 21,10000.Here you...
  • Page 13 Figure 2.9 Step 2: Enter the username and password of the Administrator (default username is admin with a blank 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.
  • Page 14 Use the embedded DDNS to access the camera via the Internet Each Foscam camera has an embedded unique DDNS domain name, the format of this domain name is xxxxxx.myfoscam.org. On the bottom of the camera, you can see the domain name sticker with this information on it.

  • Page 15: Using The Vlc Player

    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. 2.3 Using the VLC player This camera supports RTSP streaming, here you can view the camera using VLC player.
  • Page 16 WAN or LAN IP address. Videostream: Here support three mode: videoMain, videoSub and audio. When the network speed is bad, here you had better select videoSub. If you select audio, you can only hear the sound but cannot see the video.
  • Page 17 Figure 2.14 Sometimes you may need to enter the user name and password again. Click OK and you can see the real-time preview. Figure 2.15...

  • Page 18: Surveillance Software Gui

    Figure 2.16 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. NOTE: If you modify the camera’s username or password, you had better reboot the camera, or else the new username and password cannot take effect when you enter the authentication in the VLC.

  • Page 19: Login Window

    3.1 Login Window Figure 3.1 Please check the login window above, it was divided to 5 sections from no. 1 to 5. Section1 Enter the User name and password The default administrator username is admin with a blank password, please reset the password at first using and prevent unauthorized users login the camera (read chapter 3.2.4 about how to change).
  • Page 20 Section3 Select the language You can select the language you need via click on the language dropdown list to switch. Section5 Login the camera Section4 Login the camera Click Login button and you will see the surveillance windows. Figure 3.2...

  • Page 21: Surveillance Window

    3.2 Surveillance Window Figure 3.3 Section1 FOSCAM Logo/ LiveVideo / Settings/Playback 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.
  • Page 22 (read chapter 4.2.5). Figure 3.4 Section3 Mode/ Stream / Mirror/ Flip buttons Mode 1) 50HZ ---------Indoor surveillance (Region: Europe, China) 2) 60HZ ---------Indoor surveillance (Region: USA, Canada) Stream The default Stream supports four modes: 0/720P/30fps/4M, 1/VGA/25fps/2M, 2/VGA/ 15fps/ 1M and 3/ VGA/10fps/200K.
  • Page 23 4) Bit rate Generally speaking, the larger the bit rate is, the clearer video will become. But the bit rate configuration should combine well with the network bandwidth. When the bandwidth is very narrow, and bit rate is large, that will lead to video can not play well.
  • Page 24 Cruise Settings 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. If you want to define or change the cruise trace, please go to Settings Preset Settings panel.
  • Page 25 Click this icon to save the position you need the camera to remember Select one preset position and click this button to delete it. Delete GO Select one preset position in the preset dropdown list and click Go to make the camera move the...
  • Page 26 Section8 If you have added time and camera name in the video, you can see it in the live window. Go to Settings ---Basic settings---Camera name panel, and you can change another device name. The default device name is anonymous.
  • Page 27 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 3.6 Keep ration: Select it and the camera will adjust the size of live window based on the the computer monitor automatically.
  • Page 28 Figure 3.7 When you select the Full Screen, then click right mouse, there is a Screen PTZ button. Figure 3.8 Click the Screen PTZ button and put the mouse on the screen to indicate the camera move direction you prefer, press the left mouse, the camera will move to the corresponding direction.

  • Page 29: Advanced Camera Settings

    4 Advanced Camera Settings Click the button “Settings”, goes to Administrator Control Panel to make advanced camera settings. 4.1 Device Status Device Status contains four columns: Device Information, Device Status, Session Status and Log, it will show you various information about your camera.
  • Page 30 4.1.2 Device Status On this page you can see device status such as Alarm status/ Record Status ,DDNS status ,WIFI status and so Figure 4.2 4.1.3 Session status Session status will display who and which IP is visiting the camera now.

  • Page 31: Basic Settings

    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 4.4 Reboot the camera and clear the log records. 4.2 Basic Settings This section allows you to configure your camera’s Name, Time, Mail, User account and Multi-Device.
  • Page 32 Figure 4.6 Time Zone: Select the time zone for your region from the dropdown 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.
  • Page 33 Figure 4.7 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.
  • Page 34 Test result Figure 4.8 If the test success, you can see the Success behind the Test, at the same time the receivers will receive a test mail. Figure 4.9 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 .
  • Page 35 5) The sender is denied by the server. Maybe the server need to authenticate the user, please check it and try again 6) The receiver is denied by the server. Maybe because of the anti-spam privacy of the server 7) The message is denied by the server.
  • Page 36 Figure 4.11 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 4.12...
  • Page 37 The firmware within the camera can support a maximum of 9 devices monitoring all at the same time. This page you can both add FOSCAM MJPEG and H.264 series cameras to the first camera and view multi-surveillance screen on one window.
  • Page 38 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 Figure 4.14 password of the 2nd camera Camera Model: Our Company produces two series cameras: MJPEG and H.264. Here will show you which series the camera belongs to.
  • Page 39 Back to Surveillance Windows, and click Four Windows option, you will see four cameras you added. Figure 4.16 Figure 4.17 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.
  • Page 40 Use DDNS domain name and port to login Make sure each camera you need add could login with DDNS name Figure 4.18 and port Click Multi-Device Settings. Choose The 2nd Device. Fill in the 2nd camera’s name, DDNS domain name, port number.
  • Page 41 1----- The camera model: MJ or H264. 2----- The 2nd camera’s name 3----- Fill in the 2nd camera’s DDNS host not LAN IP NOTE: The MJ series have the same HTTP Port no. and Media Port no. 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.

  • Page 42: N E T W O R K

    Figure 4.21 This section will allow you to configure your camera’s IP, PPPoE, DDNS, Wireless Settings, UPnP and Port. 4.3.1 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.
  • Page 43 DNS server, you can check your computer’s local area connection as follows:     Control Panel Network Connections Local Area Connections Choose Support Details. Figure 4.23 Figure 4.24 If you don’t know the DNS server, you can use the same settings as the Default Gateway.
  • Page 44 Figure 4.25 4.3.3 DDNS 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 test09.myfoscam.org for example. Go to option of DDNS on the Settings->Network panel, you can see the domain name.
  • Page 45 Now you can use http:// Domain name + HTTP Port to access the camera via internet. Take hostname test09.myfoscam.org and HTTP Port no. 800 for example, the accessing link of the camera via internet would be http:// test09.myfoscam.org:800 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.
  • Page 46 Click here to register Figure 4.27 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.
  • Page 47 Secondly, select No-Ip as a server.. Thirdly, fill foscam as DDNS user, fill password foscam2012 as DDNS password, fill ycxgwp.no-ip.info as DDNS domain and server URL, Then click save to make effect. The camera will restart and to take the DDNS settings effective.
  • Page 48 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 o port forwarding within the router Example: The camera’s LAN IP address is...
  • Page 49 4.3.1 WiFi 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 (Figure 4.31).
  • Page 50 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 4.32 Step 3: Please click on the Save button after all settings have been entered and disconnect the network cable.
  • Page 51 WPS Button Step 02) Press the WPS button on your router within 60 seconds. The WPS button is usually on the back or side of your router. On some routers, you may need to log in to the web interface and click on an on-screen button to activate the WPS feature.
  • Page 52 Figure 4.33b The camera’s software will be configured for port forwarding. There may be issues with your routers security settings, and sometimes may error. We recommend you configure port forwarding manually on your router (Figure 4.30). 4.3.3 Port This camera supports HTTP Port and Media Port. The Media port is used to view the camera’s video stream, HTTP Port is used to access the camera remotely.
  • Page 53 4.35 and 4.36. Select which camera you’d like to change the port for, and right click Figure 4.35 Modify the Http Port. Enter the Username and password, click OK. Figure 4.36 Step 2: Enter the username and password of the Administrator (default username is admin with a blank password), and click “OK”...
  • Page 54 LAN IP address! Note: 1 Http port and Media port must be different. If the camera cannot be accessed, please make sure the port forwarding is succeed. HTTPS port: The default port is 443. You can use the url to access the camera: https:// IP + HTTPS port.
  • Page 55 Enter the camera’s url For Firefox, you can add the trusted as the following way: Tools ---- Options ---- Advanced --- View Certificates --- Servers...
  • Page 56 Click View Certificates, and go to Servers option. Go to Add Exception panel. Enter the camera’s url , here take https://192.168.8.129:443 for example Click this button to add it...
  • Page 57 RTSP function RTSP URL rtsp:// [user name][:password]@IP:HTTP port number/videosream The part in the square brackets may be omitted. user name & password: The user name and password to access the camera. This part can be omitted. WAN or LAN IP address.
  • Page 58 Sometimes you may need to enter the user name and password again. Click OK and you can see the real-time preview.

  • Page 59: Video

    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. NOTE: If you modify the camera’s username or password, you had better reboot the camera, or else the new username and password cannot take effect when you enter the authentication in the VLC.
  • Page 60 Resolution: The camera supports two types: 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. Bit rate: Generally speaking, the larger the bit rate is, the clearer video will become. But the bit rate configuration should combine well with the network bandwidth.
  • Page 61 The mask area Figure 4.39 Click Back button and return to the OSD page, click Save to take effect. Back to the surveillance window, you can see the mask area as the following picture: Figure 4.40...

  • Page 62: Alarm

    4.4.3 Snapshot Settings On this page you can set the snapshot pictures’ image quality and the storage path. Figure 4.41 Image Quality: Low, Middle and High. The higher the quality, the picture will be clearer. Save To: FTP or SD Card. If you have done FTP and Alarm settings, when alarming, the camera will snap pictures to the FTP automatically.
  • Page 63 To enable motion detection, follow the steps below: Step 01: Enable Motion detection Sensitivity---- It supports three modes: Low, Middle and High. The higher the sensitivity, the Step 02: camera will be more easily alarmed. Select one motion sensitivity.
  • Page 64 Capture interval: The interval time between two pictures. D Record If you select this checkbox, when the motion has been detected, the camera will record automatically and store the record files to the SD Card. Make sure the camera has inserted SD card and you have set the SD card as the Alarm record files storage path, please go to Record—>...
  • Page 65 Click this button and select all time range Figure 4.44 Specify an alarm schedule ② 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.

  • Page 66: Record

    Figure 4.46 Step 07: Click Save button to take effect. When the motion has been detected during the detection time in the detection area, 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.

  • Page 67: Pan/Tilt

    4.6.2 Alarm Record This page you can change the Pre-record time and Alarm record time. The default Pre-recorded time is 5s and the alarm record time is 30s, you can change another time, click Save button to take effect.
  • Page 68 All preset positions Figure 4.49 Figure 4.50 Add: Add one cruise track. Delete: Select one cruise track and delete it. How to do add cruise tracks ? Firstly, Click Add button and enter a descriptive name to identify the cruise track Secondly: On the lower left of the page, you can see all preset points you have added.
  • Page 69 The new added track name Here you can see the preset point has been added to one track 2 Click Add button 1 Select one preset point Figure 4.51 Thirdly: Click OK button and the cruise track will take effect.
  • Page 70 After add the cruise track, back to the surveillance window, click Cruise, her you can see all cruise tracks you have added. There are other buttons between the Preset points and Cruise track, you can use these buttons to adjust the order of preset points or add/delete one preset points in one cruise track, Figure 4.53...

  • Page 71: Path Settings

    It supports three modes: No self test, Goto home position and Goto preset point. No self test: When rebooting, the camera will not pan / tilt. Goto home position: When rebooting, the camera will pa Providing Central Management Software to manage or monitor multi-cameras n / tilt and stops at center.

  • Page 72: Firewall

    FTP server: If your FTP server is located on the LAN, you can set as Figure 3.54. If you have an FTP server which you can access on the internet, you can set as Figure 3.55. Port: Default is port 21. If changed, external FTP client program must change the server connection port accordingly.
  • Page 73 4.10.1 Back up& Restore settings 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.
  • Page 74 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.
  • Page 75 2) Please ensure you have download the correct firmware package for your camera before upgrading. Read the upgrade documentation (readme.txt file) in the upgrade package before you upgrade. 3) Upon downloading the firmware check the sizes of the .bin files. They must match the size in the readme.txt file.

  • Page 76: Playback

    5 Playback On this page you can view the record files stored in the SD card. Section 1 Define the Record files time and Type : The storage path of record files : Here supports three types: current day, current month and All records. Another way, select the time on the time&date manually.

  • Page 77: Appendix

    : Click this button to search all record files satisfy the conditions you selected. Section 2 Search record files On this panel you can see all record files satisfy the conditions you set. Section 3 Play/Stop/Audio/Full screen buttons Please select one record file before use these buttons.
  • Page 78 Click here to download the plugin Figure 6.1 Drag the download file to Firefox web page and it will prompt you to Install it. Reboot the Firefox after the plugin installation is successfully completely, then relogin the camera again, you...
  • Page 79 Download the plugin and drag it to the Extensions page of Google Chrome. Click Add button to install the Plugins. Reboot the browser and relogin the camera, you will see the surveillance window. 6.1.3 I have forgotten the administrator password To reset the administrator username and password, press and hold down the RESET BUTTON for 5 seconds.
  • Page 80 6.1.5 Subnet doesn’t match Check whether your ipcamera in the same subnet of your computer. The step is Control PanelNetwork ConnectionsDbclick Local Area Connections  Choose GeneralProperties.(Figure 3.23/3.24) Check subnet mask, IP address and gateways. When you set IP address please make sure they are in the same subnet. Otherwise you can't access camera.
  • Page 81 If you allow the ActiveX running, but still could not see living video. Please change another port number to try. Don’t use port 88. Figure6.7 NOTE: Make sure that your firewall or anti-virus software does not block the camera or ActiveX. If you could not see video, please shut down firewall or anti-virus software to try again.

  • Page 82: Default Parameters

    IP. (For more details see: How to add cameras in WAN) 6.2 Default Parameters Default network Parameters IP address: obtain dynamically Subnet mask: obtain dynamically Gateway: obtain dynamically DDNS: Embedded FOSCAM domain name Username and password Default admin username: admin with a blank password 6.3 Specifications ITEMS FI9826P V2 Image Sensor 1/4"Color CMOS Sensor...

  • Page 83: Ce & Fcc

    Audio Input/Output One audio input jack, One audio output jack. Interface Reset Buttons One Reset Ethernet One 10/100Mbps RJ-45 Wireless Interface WIFI antenna Operate Temper. 0° ~ 55°C (32°F ~ 131°F) Environment Operating Humidity 10% ~ 80% non-condensing Storage Temper.
  • Page 84 ShenZhen FOSCAM Intelligent Technology Limited.("FOSCAM") values your business and always attempts to provide you the very best of service. No limited hardware warranty is provided by FOSCAM unless your FOSCAM product ("product") was purchased from an authorized distributor or authorized reseller. Distributors may sell products to resellers who then sell products to end users.

  • Page 85: Warranty

    Abuse firmware upgrade without the authorized technician’s guidance.  Normal wear and tear. Return Procedures Please read FOSCAM warranty policy & policy of your reseller first before sending items  back to point-of-purchase. Customer must first contact point-of-purchase to obtain a Return Merchandise ...
  • Page 86 (For example, improper temperature, humidity, unusual physical or electrical stress or interference, failure or fluctuation of electrical power, static electricity, using wrong power adapter, etc.) Warranty is void if damaged by the use of parts not manufactured or sold by FOSCAM.  Damage caused by improper installation of third-party products.

  • Page 87: Obtaining Technical Support

    Purchaser's exclusive remedy, as against FOSCAM, shall be the repair or replacement of defective parts. If FOSCAM lists a product on its website specification in error or that is no longer available for any reason, FOSCAM reserves the right to explain it without incurring any liability.

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