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Model: FI9816P
Indoor HD Pan/Tilt Wireless IP Camera with P2P
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  • Page 1 V1.0 User Manual User Manual Model: FI9816P Indoor HD Pan/Tilt Wireless IP Camera with P2P （For Windows & Mac OS） Black White...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Security Warning................................... 1 1 Overview..................................... 1 1.1 Key Features................................2 1.2 Read Before Use..............................2 1.3 Package Contents..............................2 1.4 Physical Description.............................. 3 1.5 SD Card................................... 4 2 Access the IP Camera..............................5 2.1 Hardware Connection & Software Installation....................5 2.2 Access the Camera in LAN..........................

  • Page 3: Security Warning

    1 Overview FOSCAM Indoor HD Pan/Tilt Wireless IP Camera with P2P is an integrated wireless IP Camera with a color CMOS sensor enabling viewing in High Definition resolution. It combines a high quality digital video camera, with a powerful web server, to bring clear video to your desktop and mobile devices from anywhere on your local network or over the Internet.

  • Page 4: Key Features

    .foscam. .foscam. Please note to change your default username and password once you have initially logged into your Foscam camera. Changing your default user settings enables better protection against any types of attacks against your camera. 1.1 Key Features Standard H.264 video compression algorithm to satisfy the transmission of high definition video in narrow ...

  • Page 5: Physical Description

    .foscam. .foscam. 1.4 Physical Description Front Panel Figure 1.1 1.Speaker: Built-in speaker 2.LENS: Fixed focus lens. 3.Infrared LED: Infrared LEDs for night vision 4.Microphone: Built-in microphone Rear Panel Figure 1.2 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 6: Sd Card

    When you plug in the Micro SD card during the camera work process, please reboot the camera again, or else the SD Card may be cannot work well. SettingsStatusDevice Status Go to the page, you can see the SD card status. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 7: Access The Ip Camera

    Go to the folder “IP Camera Search Tool” and find the folder “For Windows OS”or “For Mac OS”. Copy and paste the IP camera tool file to your computer, or drag it onto your Desktop. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 8: Access The Camera In Lan

    The default HTTPS port NO. is 443. You can use the URL to access the camera: https:// LAN IP + HTTPS port Go to Settings - Network - Port panel, you can see and change the HTTP and HTTPS port NO. Figure 2.3 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 9 Make sure that the ethernet cable and the camera is disconnected.   Press and hold the WPS button for three seconds. The Network light of the camera begins to twinkle at high frequency. (every 0.4 seconds) Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 10: Access The Camera In Wan

    Login to your router to enable the “UPNP” function. You can then login to the camera as administrator, choose Network, and then choose UPnP to enable UPnP. Make sure that the status of UPnP reads “UPnP Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 11: Remote Access

    Gateway and DNS Server: Set it to the IP address of your router. Figure 2.6 2. Enable UPnP and DDNS in the camera’s settings page. We recommend you to use the DDNS by factory default. Select Yes and click Save. Figure 2.7 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 12  If there is no UPnP function in your router： You need to manually add port(HTTPS port) forwarding, refer to the following steps. You need go to the “Forwarding > Virtual Servers” panel for setup. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 13: Using The Vlc Player

    5. Now you can access your IP camera by https://domain name: HTTPS port via the Internet. 2.4 Using the VLC player This camera supports RTSP streaming, here you can view the camera using VLC player. RTSP URL rtsp:// [user name][:password]@IP:port number/videosream The part in the square brackets may be omitted. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 14 Here I can enter one of the following URLs in the VLC. 1) rtsp://admin:123@192.168.1.11:554/videoMain 2) rtsp:// @192.168.1.11:554/videoMain 3) rtsp://:123@192.168.1.11:554/videoMain 4) rtsp://admin@192.168.1.11:554/videoMain Open the VLC, and go to MediaOpen Network Stream option, then enter the URL into VLC. Figure 2.14 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 15 .foscam. .foscam. Figure 2.15 Sometimes you may need to enter the user name and password again. Click OK and you can see the real-time preview. Figure 2.16 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 16: Ip Camera Connection To The Server

    Device supports ONVIF 2.2.1 protocol,You can easily access the NVR with ONVIF or server with ONVIF. 3 Surveillance Software GUI Please refer to the Quick Installation Guide if you install the camera at first time. After finishing quick installation, you can take time to learn the operation of the software. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 17: Login Window

    Input the new username and password, click "Modify" to complete the modification. You will now use the new username and password to login to the camera in the future. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 18: Setup Wizard

    After logging in for the first time, you will go to “Setup Wizard”automatically. Here you can set the basic parameters of camera, such as camera name, camera time, wireless settings, IP configuration. Figure 3.3 Device Name: You could give name for your camera. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 19 Figure 3.4 System Time: Select the time zone you need to set the date, time,format and so on. Figure 3.5 Wireless networks: Click “Scan”, find the SSID of your wireless router, select and enter the password. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 20 .foscam. .foscam. Figure 3.6 IP: Set IP address of the camera. You could choose to obtain an IP automatically or set the IP address according to your needs. Figure 3.7 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 21: Surveillance Window

    3.3 Surveillance Window Figure 3.8 Section1 FOSCAM Logo/ Live Video / 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 You can reset the stream type on Settings-> Video-> Video Settings panel. Figure 3.9 After changing, please re-login the camera and you can see the modification. Section4 Pan/Tilt Control Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 23 : Start cruise. : Stop cruise. If you want to define or change the cruise trace, please go to Settings---> PTZ---> Preset Settings panel. How to do cruise? Firstly: Select one track in the track drop-down list Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 24 If you want to see one preset position you have set, only select the preset position name from the preset drop-down list, and click go button, the camera will go to the preset position. Section6 IR LED Lights Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 25 PC, people around the camera can here your voice. Click the icon again and stop talking. 4------ Audio Click this icon, the icon will become to you can hear the sound around the camera by the Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 26 Mouse pulley, or by press the CTRL key and click the mouse left button. Second Method: Click it and the live view will be digital zoomed up, then click Zoom Down and the live view back to original size. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 27 Loosen the mouse and stop moving. Press Esc button or double click right mouse and cancel the function. NOTE: For Mac OS, the plugin cannot support Onscreen Mouse Control, so you cannot allow to use it. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 28: Advanced Camera Settings

    Camera Time: The system time of the device. Click Basic Settings and go to Camera time panel and adjust the time. System Firmware version: Display the System Firmware version of your camera. Application Firmware version: Display the application firmware version of your camera. Plug-in version: Display the plug-in version of your camera. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 29: Device Status

    4.1.3 Session Status Session status will display who and which IP is visiting the camera now. Figure 4.3 4.1.4 Log The log record shows who and which IP address accessed or logout the camera and when. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 30: Basic Settings

    Default alias is anonymous. You can define a name for your camera here such as apple. Click Save to save your changes. The alias name cannot contain special characters. Figure 4.5 4.2.2 Camera Time This section allows you to configure the settings of the internal system clocks for your camera. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 31: User Accounts

    4.2.3 User Accounts Here you can create users and set privilege, visitor, operator or administrator. The default user account is admin, with a blank password. You can enter the users accounts of visitor, operator and administrator Manually. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 32 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. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 33 8 cams installed. 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 Foscam Digital Technologies...
  • Page 34 Http Port will be filled in the boxes below automatically. Enter the correct username and password then click Add. Add more cameras in the same way. Figure 4.11 Camera Model: Our Company produces two series cameras: MJPEG and H.264. Here will show you which series the camera belongs to. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 35 .foscam. .foscam. Figure 4.12 Back to Surveillance Windows, and click Four Windows option, you will see four cameras you added. Figure 4.13 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 36 Login to the first camera using a DDNS domain name and port. Use DDNS domain name and port to login. Make sure each camera you need add could login with DDNS name and port. Figure 4.15 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 37 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. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 38: Network

    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. Figure 4.18 4.3 Network This section will allow you to configure your camera’s IP, PPPoE, DDNS, Wireless Settings, UPnP and Port. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 39 It is recommended that you use the subnet mask, gateway and DNS server from your locally attached PC. If you don’t know the subnet mask, gateway and DNS server, you can check your computer’s local area connection as follows:     Control Panel Network Connections Local Area Connections Choose Support Details. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 40 .foscam. .foscam. Figure 4.20 Figure 4.21 If you don’t know the DNS server, you can use the same settings as the Default Gateway. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 41: Wireless Settings

    You will only need to fill in the password of your network. Make sure that the SSID, Encryption and the password you filled in are exactly the same for your router. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 42 If you fail to make a wireless connection, please refer to your seller or contact us directly for assistance. 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.
  • Page 43 User can also use third part DDNS, such as www.no-ip.com. ,www. 3322.com Here take www.no-ip.com for example: ① Step 1, Go to the website www.no-ip.com to create a free hostname Firstly: Login on www.no-ip.com and click No-IP Free to register. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 44 .foscam. .foscam. Figure 4.25 Click here to register Figure 4.26 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 45 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. Figure 4.27 Figure 4.28 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 46 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...
  • Page 47 HTTP port : By default, the HTTP and Media port is set to 88. Also, they can be assigned with another port number between 1 and 65535. But make sure they can not be conflict with other existing ports like 25, 21. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 48 ”Network Configuration”, this brings up the network configuration box as shown in Figure 4.33 and 4.34. Select which camera you’d like to change the port for, and right click Figure 4.33 Modify the Http Port. Enter the Username and password, click OK. Figure 4.34 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 49 HTTPS port: The default port is 443. You can use the url to access the camera: https:// IP + HTTPS port. RTSP port: The default port is 554. 4.3.6 Mail Settings If you want the camera to send emails when motion has been detected, here Mail will need to be configured. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 50 4----- Receiver Mailbox for receiver need not support SMTP,you can set 4 receivers 5-----Save Click Save to take effect 6-----Test Click Test to see if Mail has been successfully configured. Click Test to see if Mail has been successfully configured. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 51: Ftp Settings

    7) The message is denied by the server. Maybe because of the anti-spam privacy of the server 8) The server does not support the authentication mode used by the device 4.3.7 FTP Settings If you want to upload record files and images to your FTP server，you can set FTP Settings. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 52 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. FTP Mode: Here supports two modes: PORT and PASV. Username/password: The FTP account and password. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 53: Video

    This section allows you to configure Video stream settings, On screen display and Snapshot settings. 4.4.1 Video Settings There are two ways to set the stream video settings. They are main stream video settings and sub stream video settings. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 54: On Screen Display

    Bit Rate Value (2Mbps). Select NO and the bit rate is constant with Bit Rate Value (2Mbps). 4.4.2 On Screen Display This page is used to add timestamp and device name on the video. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 55 Pictures 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. If select SD Card as the save path, make sure the camera has inserted Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 56: Alarm

    Schedule on the Live Video window, at these schedule time, the IR LED lights will be turned off. Figure 4.44 4.5 Alarm IP Camera supports Motion Detection Alarm, when the motion has been detected, it will send emails or upload images to FTP. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 57 The interval time between two motion detections. Here supports 5s/6s/7s/8s/9s/10s/11s/12s/13s/14s/15s. Select one interval time. Step 04: Select the alarm indicator When the motion has been detected, the alarm status will turn to Detect alarm. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 58 Step 05: Set detect area Click set detect area and it pop up a window, then you can draw the detection area. Click Back button after settings. When something moving in the detection area, the camera will alarm. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 59 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. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 60: Record

    You must set the detection area and detection schedule, or else there is no alarm anywhere and anytime. 4.6 Record This section will allow you to change the record files storage path and the record time. 4.6.1 Storage Location On this page you can change the alarm and manually recording storage path. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 61: Alarm Record

    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. 4.6.3 Local Alarm Record This page you can enable the local alarm record and Local Alarm record time. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 62: Schedule Recording

    When the parameter Recording Location is set SD Card on the Storage Location page, you can configure parameters as shown in follow figure. When the video is selected as SD card, the device supports pumping frame recording. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 63: Sd Card Management

    You can refer to "alarm schedule." in "Alarm" about editing the time of recording Schedule.  4.6.5 SD Card Management This camera supports SD Card and the max size of SD card must be under 32G. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 64: Ptz

    The default storage path of alarm record files is SD card, when the available size of SD card is less than 256M, the old record files will be deleted automatically. 4.7 PTZ This page will allow you to change the pan/tilt speed and do cruise tracks settings. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 65: Cruise Settings

    This section explains how to add/ delete one cruise track. Figure 4.57 Setting the Cruise Mode There are two cruise mode: Cruise time and Cruise Loops. Cruise time: Select Cruise time from Cruise Mode drop-down, then you can set the Cruise time of the Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 66 Add button, you can see the preset point has been added to the cruise track on the cruise track page. You need to add two or more preset points to the cruise track. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 67 For example: I have added three preset points to the “track 1”, that means : When I select the “track 1” on the surveillance window, the camera moves as the following track: upright then Right Most last downleft. You can add preset on the left of the surveillance window. Add the preset. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 68 Figure 4.61 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 4.62 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 69: Firewall

    This section explains how to control the access permission by checking the client PC’s IP addresses. It is composed of the following columns: Block access from these IP addresses and Only allow access from these IP addresses. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 70: System

    Click Back-up 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. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 71: System Upgrade

    Information page to check for the latest firmware versions available. Click Browse, choose the correct bin file and then click System upgrade. Don’t shut down the power during upgrade. After upgrading, you can see the upgrade result. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 72 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. Figure 4.68 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 73 Click "Browse" to select the correct patch file, and then click "Install Patch" to install the patch. Do not turn off the power during it installing. After installing is complete, you will receive a system prompt. Figure 4.70 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 74: Playback

    Click Reboot System to reboot the camera. This is similar to unplugging the power to the camera. Figure 4.72 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 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 75: Appendix

    Click this button to stop the record files Open or stop audio Click this button to make full screen, and double click left mouse to exit full screen. 6 Appendix 6.1 Frequently Asked Questions NOTE: Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 76 Any questions you would meet, please check Network connections firstly. Check the working status revealed by the indicators on the network server, hub, exchange and network card. If abnormal, check the network connections. 6.1.1 Install the add-on of Firefox browser, Google Chrome and IE Chrome. Figure 7.1 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 77 .foscam. .foscam. Figure 7.2 Figure 7.3 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 78 .foscam. .foscam. Figure 7.4 Figure 7.5 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 79 .foscam. .foscam. Figure 7.6 6.1.2 Uninstall the add-on of Firefox browser, Google Chrome and IE Chrome. Figure 7.7 Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 80 When you use Windows7 or Vista, you may be not able to do manually record or change the record path because of the security settings of computer. There are two ways to resolve this problem: Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 81 Enable: Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe Enable: Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins Figure 7.10 If you allow the ActiveX running, but still could not see living video. Please change another port number to try. Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 82 If you want to view all the cameras via the WAN, verify that each camera added in the multi-device settings can be accessed by using the DDNS name and port number. Use the DDNS domain name not the camera’s LAN Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 83: 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 username is admin with a blank password 6.3 Specifications ITEMS FI9816P...

  • Page 84: Ce & Fcc

    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 provide reasonable protection against harmful Foscam Digital Technologies Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 85: Obtaining Technical Support

    While we hope your experience with the IPCAM network camera is enjoyable and easy to use, you may experience some issues or have questions that this User's Guide has not answered. Please contact support via e-mail at support@foscam.us. You can also reach technical support at 1-800-930-0949 by following the automated instructions.

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