Accessing The Web Configurator; Set The Date And Time; Configuring Ip Video - FLIR F-Series Installation Manual

3—F-Series Camera Configuration
3.3.2

Accessing the Web Configurator

To make configuration changes with software, use a web browser to connect with the camera.
If the IP address of the camera is known, you can type the IP address into the browser. As
shipped from the factory, the F-Series camera has an IP address of 192.168.250.116 with a
netmask of 255.255.255.0.
The Web Configurator will start at the Login screen, which shows an
image of the camera. When this screen appears, the PC is
successfully connected to the camera over the IP network.
Select Login as Basic User, or type "basic" as the User and click on
Login (there is no password for the Basic user). Initially, the Help
screen will be displayed.
After logging in, the Help screen is displayed. This screen has
information about the camera including hardware and software revision numbers, part
numbers, and serial numbers. If you need to contact FLIR for support, this information will be
useful to the support engineer. Use the Menu entries at the left of the screen to configure the
F-Series camera.
The following paragraphs show the pages for setting serial communication parameters and
setting a new IP address for a camera on a local area network.
3.3.3

Set the Date and Time

Step 1 Click Server Status. The screen at
the right will be displayed.
Step 2 Set the Timezone from the pull
down menu. Click Set.
Step 3 Set the Date Format from the pull
down menu. Click Set.
Step 4 Set the Date by typing in the dialog
boxes. Click Set.
Step 5 Set the Time by typing in the dialog
boxes. Click Set.
3.3.4

Configuring IP Video

The following descriptions apply to the configuration parameters related to video streams. In
general, for most installations it will not be necessary to modify the default IP video parameters.
However in some cases, such as when a video stream is sent over a wireless link, it may be
useful to "tune" the video stream to try to reduce the bandwidth requirements.
Unicast/Multicast
By default, the video streams from the camera are sent using unicast packets rather than
multicast. This means a given packet of IP Video will be sent separately to each client that has
a video stream open (for example, FSM clients, nDVR, and so on), and therefore each
additional client will cause the bandwidth consumption to go up and cause more overhead on
the system in comparison to multicast. On the other hand, video packets sent using multicast
3-6 January 2012
F-Series Installation Manual
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