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  • Page 1 V1.1 User Manual User Manual Model: FI9805P Outdoor HD Wireless IP Camera...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    4.3 Basic Settings...................................26 4.3.1 Camera Name................................26 4.3.2 Camera Time................................26 4.3.3 User Accounts................................27 4.3.4 Multi-Camera................................29 4.4 Network....................................34 4.4.1 IP Configuration.................................34 4.4.2 Wireless Settings..............................36 4.4.3 PPPoE..................................37 4.4.4 DDNS..................................38 4.4.5 UPnP...................................41 4.4.6 Port....................................42 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 3 6.1.6 No Pictures Problems...............................67 6.1.7 Can’t access IP camera in internet........................68 6.1.8 UPnP always failed..............................69 6.1.9 Camera can not connect wireless.......................... 69 6.2 Default Parameters................................69 6.3 Specification..................................69 6.4 CE & FCC..................................70 7 Obtaining Technical Support...........................71 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 4: Security Warning

    FOSCAM provides Smart Phone APP for Android and iPhone users, please search and install Foscam Viewer on Google Play for Android devices, search and install Foscam Viewer on APP Store for iOS devices, then you can view your camera anywhere, anytime on your smart mobile devices.

  • Page 5: Key Features

     Supports image snapshot  Supports dual-stream  Supports IR-Cut and the filter change automatically  Embedded FOSCAM DDNS(dynamic domain name service) Service  Supports remote viewing & record from anywhere anytime  Multi-level users management with password protection  Motion detection alert via email or upload image to FTP ...

  • Page 6: Physical Description

    3） Audio output interface: The jack is used to plug external speakers. 4） LAN: 10/100M adaptive Ethernet interface. Through this interface, IPCAM can be connected with various network devices, such as hub, router, etc. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 7: Accessing The Network Camera

    Bottom View There are up to two 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 cameras can not use original firmware and are not eligible for warranty or technical services.

  • Page 8: Access The Camera In Wan

    How to Obtain the WAN IP address from a public website To obtain your WAN IP address, enter the following URL in your browser: http://www.whatismyip.com.The webpage at this address will show you the current WAN IP. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 9 LAN IP address is set, or you may have problems later with remote access and seeing the camera remotely if the camera loses power and reconnects on a different LAN IP address. Make sure you set a static LAN IP address! Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 10: Dynamic Ip Addresses

    ”Network Configuration”, this brings up the network configuration box as shown in Figure 2.4 and 2.5. Select which camera you’d like to change the port for, and right click Figure 2.4 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 11: How Do We Configure Port Forwarding

    Click this link to learn more about port forwarding: http://portforward.com/help/portforwarding.htm How do we configure Port Forwarding? For this section, we will be using an example: Let’s say the camera’s LAN IP address is http://192.168.1.110:2000 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 12 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 13: 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 14 Open the VLC, and go to MediaOpen Network Stream option, then enter the URL into VLC. Figure 2.9 Figure 2.10 Sometimes you may need to enter the user name and password again. Click OK and you can see the real-time preview. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 15: Ip Camera Connection To The Server

    VLC. 2.4 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. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 16: Surveillance Software Gui

    Input the new username and password, click "Modify" to complete the modification. You will now use the new username and password to login the camera in the future. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 17 IP configuration. Figure 3.3 Device Name: You could give name for your camera. Figure 3.4 System Time: Select the time zone you need to set the date, time,format, etc. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 18 Wireless networks: Click “Scan”, find the SSID of your wireless router, select and enter the password. 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. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 19: Surveillance Window

    .foscam. .foscam. Figure 3.7 NOTE: It needs about 1 minute to connect the camera to your router. 3.2 Surveillance Window Figure 3.8 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 20 .foscam. .foscam. Section1 FOSCAM Logo/ Live Video / Settings 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 21 Settings -> Video -> IR LED Schedule page. Section5 Image quality settings In this page, you can tune Hue, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Sharpness to get higher quality. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 22: Onscreen Mouse Control

    7------Full Screen Click it to make full-screen, or you can double click the surveillance screen to make full-screen. 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. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 23 Full Screen: Select it and Click it to make full-screen, press ESC and exit full-screen. Zoom up/down: 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 LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 24: Advanced Camera Settings

    2 For Mac OS, the plugin cannot support Onscreen Mouse function, so you cannot allow to use it. 4 Advanced Camera Settings Click the button “Settings”, goes to Administrator Control Panel to make advanced camera settings. 4.1 Setup Wizard The way to set it,you could refer to section 3.1. Figure 4.1 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 25: Device Status

    App Firmware version: Display the application firmware version of your camera. Plug-in version: Display the plug-in version of your camera. 4.2.2 Device Status On this page you can see device status such as Alarm status, NTP/DDNS status, WIFI status and so on. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 26: Session Status

    The log record shows who and which IP address accessed or logout the camera and when. 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 4.5 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 27: Basic Settings

    Sync with PC: Select this option to synchronize the date and time of the Network Camera with your computer. Manually: The administrator can enter the date and time manually. Please select the date and time format. use DST: Select the use DST, then select the daylight saving time from the drop-down menu. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 28: User Accounts

    Firstly, select the account which you want to change the password, then select “Change password”, enter the old password and the new password, lastly click modify to take effect. Figure 4.9 How to add account ? Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 29 Figure 4.10 Figure 4.11 Delete: Select the account which you want to delete, then click Delete button to take effect. NOTE: The default administrator account cannot be deleted, but you can add other administrator users. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 30: Multi-Camera

    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 31 .foscam. .foscam. Figure 4.13 Back to Surveillance Windows, and click Four Windows option, you will see four cameras you added. Figure 4.14 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 32 Use DDNS domain name and port to login Make sure each camera you need add could login with DDNS name and port Figure 4.16 Click Multi-Device Settings. Choose The 2nd Device. Fill in the 2nd camera’s name, DDNS domain name, Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 33 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 LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 34 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. Figure 4.19 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 35: Network

    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 LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 36 There are two DNS servers . You can set any of them . Same with gateway is also OK . Figure 4.22 If you don’t know the DNS server, you can use the same settings as the Default Gateway. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 37: 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 LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 38: Pppoe

    If you fail to make a wireless connection, please refer to your seller or contact us directly for assistance. 4.4.3 PPPoE If you are using a PPPoE connection, enable it and enter the User Name and Password for your PPPoE account. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 39: Ddns

    .foscam. Figure 4.25 4.4.4 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 40 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 4.28 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 41 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://192.168.8.100:2000...

  • Page 42: Upnp

    Figure 4.31 The default UPnP status is closed. You can enable UPnP, then the camera’s software will be configured for port forwarding. Back to the “Device Status” panel, you can see the UPnP status: Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 43: Port

    Step 1: Open the IP Camera Tool, select the camera you would like to change the port of, right click on the IP address, and click on ”Network Configuration”, this brings up the network configuration box as shown in Figure 4.34 and 4.35. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 44 LAN IP address is set, or you may have problems later with remote access and seeing the camera remotely if the camera loses power and reconnects on a different LAN IP address. Make sure you set a static LAN IP address! Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 45: Mail Settings

    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 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 46 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. Maybe because of the anti-spam privacy of the server 8) The server does not support the authentication mode used by the device Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 47: Ftp Settings

    If you have an FTP server which you can access on the internet, you can set as Figure 4.40. Port: Default is port 21. If changed, external FTP client program must change the server connection port accordingly. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 48: P2P

    Figure 4.41 Search and install Foscam Viewer on Google Play and App Store for for Android and iOS devices. If you want to know more details of the iOS APP or Android APP, see the iOS App User Manual or Android App User Manual.

  • Page 49: On Screen Display

    Bit Rate Value (2Mbps). Select NO and the bit rate is constant with Bit Rate Value (2Mbps). 4.5.2 On Screen Display This page is used to add timestamp and device name on the video. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 50: Privacy Zone

    This page is used to set some mask as privacy zone on the video. Figure 4.44 Allow On Screen Display Mask: There are two options: Yes or NO. Select yes and draw a mask area on the video, the mask area will be black on the video. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 51 The mask area Figure 4.45 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 4.46 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 52: Snapshot Settings

    On this page you can set the schedule time for switching IR LED lights. When parameter Mode is set to the Schedule on the Live Video window, at these schedule time, the IR LED lights will be turned off. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 53: Alarm

    The interval time between two motion detections. Here supports 5s/6s/7s/8s/9s/10s/11s/12s/13s/14s/15s. Select one interval time. 4 Select the alarm indicators When the motion has been detected, the alarm status will turn to Detect alarm. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 54 5 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 LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 55 Click the week day words, the corresponding column will be selected. For example, click WED, 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 LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 56: Record

    You must set the detection area and detection schedule, or else there is no alarm anywhere and anytime. 4.7 Record 4.7.1 Storage Location On this page you can change the manually recording storage path, the default storage path is C:\IPCamRecord. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 57: Alarm Record

    Figure 4.56 4.7.3 Local Alarm Location On this page you can enable local alarm record, and select the local alarm record time. Figure 4.57 4.7.4 Record Schedule On this page you can enable schedule record. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 58: 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 LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 59: System

    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. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 60: System Upgrade

    Click “Download the latest firmware”, you will see the following screen. And click “save” to save the firmware on your computer locally. Figure 4.61 Your current firmware version will be displayed on your screen. You may go to the Status  Device Information page to check for the latest firmware versions available. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 61 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 4.63 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 62: Patch Installation

    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 4.65 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 63: Factory Reset

    Figure 4.67 5 Phone APPs FOSCAM provides APP for Android and iOS system, which helps to view and listen to your world anywhere..anytime. Search and install Foscam Viewer on Google Play for Android devices, search and install Foscam Viewer on APP Store for iOS devices.

  • Page 64: Appendix

    .foscam. .foscam. 6 Appendix 6.1 Frequently Asked Questions 6.1.1 Install the ActiveX of Firefox browser, Google Chrome and IE Chrome. Figure 6.1 Figure 6.2 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 65 .foscam. .foscam. Figure6.3 Figure 6.4 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 66 .foscam. .foscam. Figure 6.5 Figure 6.6 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 67: Uninstall The Activex Of Firefox Browser, Google Chrome And Ie Chrome

    .foscam. .foscam. 6.1.2 Uninstall the ActiveX of Firefox browser, Google Chrome and IE Chrome. Figure 6.7 Figure 6.8 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 68: I Have Forgotten The Administrator Password

     Tool  Internet Proper  Security  Custom Level  ActiveX control and Plug-ins. Three options of front should be set to be “Enable”, The ActiveX programs read by the computer will be stored. As follows: Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 69: Can't Access Ip Camera In Internet

    2 The port which camera used is blocked by Firewall or Anti-virus software. Please change another port number and try again. 3 Port forwarding is not successful. Check these settings and make sure they are correct. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 70: Upnp Always Failed

    Make sure broadcast your SSID; use the same encryption for router and camera. 6.2 Default Parameters Default network Parameters IP address: obtain dynamically Subnet mask: obtain dynamically Gateway: obtain dynamically DDNS: Embedded FOSCAM DDNS Service Username and password Default username is admin with a blank password 6.3 Specification Specification FI9805P...

  • Page 71: Ce & Fcc

    6.4 CE & FCC Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) FCC Statement This device compiles with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions.  This device may not cause harmful interference, and Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 72: 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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