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  • Page 1 User Manual User Manual Model: FI8919W Outdoor Pan/Tilt Wireless IP Camera...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    User Settings 3.5 Multi-Device Settings............................... 22 3.6 Basic Network Settings..............................28 Wireless Settings................................31 Wireless Settings ADSL....................................35 ADSL 3.9 UPnP Settings...................................36 3.10 DDNS Service Settings..............................37 3.11 Mail Service Settings..............................41 3.12 MSN Setting..................................44 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 3 3.19 Reboot Device................................58 3.20 Log....................................59 3.21 Back....................................59 APPENDIX.............................. 59 APPENDIX 4.1 Frequently Asked Questions............................59 4.2 Default Parameters................................64 4.3 Specifications..................................65 Phone Apps............................66 Phone Apps OBTAINING TECHNICAL SUPPORT....................66 OBTAINING TECHNICAL SUPPORT Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 4: Security Warning

    Overviews Overviews FOSCAM FI8919W 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 5: Key Features

    FI8919W is designed for outdoor surveillance applications such as gardens, courtyards or parks. Controlling the IPCAM and managing images are simplified by using the provided web interface across the network utilizing wireless connectivity. FOSCAM provides Phone APPs for Android and iPhone users, please search “Foscam ip cam viewer”...

  • Page 6: Read Before Use

    ● Network Cable×1 Physical Description Physical Description Front Panel Lens Infrared Led Infrared Led Figure 1.1 Infrared LED: 22 IR LEDs, night visibility up to 15 meters LENS: CMOS sensor with fixed focus lens Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 7: Back View

    Reset button: 1) Press and hold down the RESET BUTTON about 10 seconds. when released the IP camera will be reset back to factory default settings. You must power on the camera before reset. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 8: Bottom 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 9: Login Window

    You can select the language you need via pull down the dropdown toolbar and click on the language to switch. Section2 FOSCAM Website Link There is an access link to Foscam website homepage, if you need tech support you can contact Foscam directly. Figure 2.1 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC...

  • Page 10: Surveillance Window

    Section 1 FOSCAM Website Link There is an access link to Foscam website homepage, if you need tech support you can contact Foscam directly. Section 2 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 11 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 same time. You can add other cameras in multi-device setting (read chapter 3.5). Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 12 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. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 13 Brightness Default parameter is 6, you can adjust the brightness of the image by clicking plus or minus button. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 14 ,and click go button, the camera will go to position no.1. Flip & Mirror You can flip the image by enabling Flip button, or mirror the image by enabling Mirror button. Section4 Pan/Tilt Control Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 15 1------Record Button Click it and it pop-up a path-setting window, you can select the storage path and the record file name. At the same time the record icon changes to ,, Click it again and stop recording. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 16: Onscreen Mouse Control

    For example, double click right mouse, then left click on the up corner of the screen, you can see the arrow, press the left mouse, and the camera’s lens will moving towards the up direction. Double click right mouse again, cancel onscreen mouse control. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 17 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: Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 18: Advanced Camera Settings

    Figure 2.5 Advanced Camera Settings Advanced Camera Settings Click the bar “Device Management”, goes to Administrator Control Panel to make advanced camera settings. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 19: Device Status

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

  • Page 20: Alias Settings

    Figure 3.2 Figure 3.3 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. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 21: Date & Time Settings

    Choose the time zone of your country. You can choose Sync with NTP Server or Sync with PC Time. If your country implements the Daylight Saving Time, that option can also be selected. Go to Data &Time Settings. Select time zone belong to your region. Figure 3.5 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 22: User Settings

    Windows7 or Vista's security level is higher than Windows XP/2000.For "set record path" function, user should add the Device IP address to the Internet Explorer's 'Trusted sites' first. The step is: IE browserToolInternet ProperSecurityTrusted sitesSitesAdd Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 23: Multi-Device Settings

    Device List in LAN, the Alias, Host and 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. After all cameras have been added, choose Submit. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 24 2nd camera. 3 Click Add to take effect . Figure 3.7a Click Submit after add all cameras. Figure 3.7b Back to Surveillance Windows, and click Four Windows option, you will see four cameras you Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 25 Figure 3.8 Figure 3.9 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 26 Click Multi-Device Settings. Choose The 2nd Device. Fill in the 2nd camera’s name, DDNS domain name, port number. Enter user name and password and then choose Add. (Figure 3.11) NOTE: Here the Host must be entered as the second camera’s DDNS domain name, not its LAN Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 27 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. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 28 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 3.13 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 29: Basic Network Settings

    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 30 Figure 3.15 Figure 3.16 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 31 PC. Gateway: Make sure it is in the same subnet with PC’s IP address. The gateway is your router’s LAN IP. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 32: Wireless Settings

    If there is no wireless router, please go to chapter 3.7.3 and connect the IPCAM directly to a host in a peer_to_peer environment. 3.7.1 Infrastructure Mode Step 01) Please choose “Device Management” and goes to the option Wireless LAN Settings , click “Wireless LAN Settings”. Then enable “Using Wireless LAN”. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 33 Click the SSID of router and SSID, Encryption will be filled in the following box automatically. Enter the same share key with your router. Figure 3.20 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 34 While connecting, the green network light will blink quickly and the wireless settings will take effect. The IP Camera Tool will search the camera’s LAN IP. Make sure the PC and the camera share the same subnet. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 35 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. You can find the SSID you filled for the camera (Figure 3.21). Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 36: Adsl

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

  • Page 37: Upnp Settings

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

  • Page 38: Ddns Service Settings

    (Figure 3.30). 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.
  • Page 39 Enable: Open or close the FOSCAM domain name. The default status of FOSCAM domain name is open. Validity Queries: Check the validity of embedded domain name. Now you can use http:// Domain name + HTTP Port to access the camera via internet.
  • 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 3.28 Figure 3.29 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 41 Note The Third Party DDNS and the Manufacturer’s Domain Name cannot work at the same time. If you have set Third Party DDNS and meanwhile you enabled the Foscam Domain Name, the Third Party DDNS 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 42: Mail Service Settings

    3.11 Mail Service Settings If you want the camera to send emails when motion has been detected, Mail Service Settings will need to be configured. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 43 5----Submit Click Submit to take effect 6----Test Click Test to see if SMTP has been successfully configured. NOTE: Click Submit first before choosing Test. Click Test to see if SMTP has been successfully configured. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 44 Report Internet IP by Mail—If selected, you will receive emails which contains internet IP information such as When the camera is powered or the Internet IP has changed. (For example: IPCAM's urls is http://119.123.207.96:8068). Make sure the port is mapped to the router correctly. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 45: Msn Setting

    ID you applied for your camera. MSN ID in this list can chat with the camera. Figure 3.33 Click Submit and go to the “Device Status” screen and verify the MSN settings are succeed. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 46 (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 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 47: Ftp Service Settings

    When the camera login uses the MSN account, this account cannot be used for anything else when the camera works. 3.13 FTP Service Settings If you want to upload images to your FTP server，you can set FTP Service Settings. Figure 3.36 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 48 Click Submit to save these settings. Click Test, the following screen displays if successful. Figure 3.38 The following errors may occur: 1) Can not connect to the server. Check if the FTP Server is correct. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 49: Alarm Service Settings

    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 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 50 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 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 51 Settings(Figure 3.36/3.37) first and then set motion alarm as pictured below 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 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 52 Here are two ways to set the alarm. 1) Alarm at any time when motion is detected. Don’t select Scheduler. Click Submit and the camera will alarm at any time when motion is detected. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 53 Another Way: select Scheduler, and click “set All”, you will see all time boxes turn blue as in the following picture. Click Submit and the camera will alarm at any time when motion is detected. Figure 3.46 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 54 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. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 55: Pt Settings

    You can set pan/tilt speed. Normally, PT speed is 3. The larger the setting number, the lower speed. Don’t enable the checkbox “disable preset” if you want to use the function of preset, it will be effective after you reboot device. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 56: Upgrade Device Firmware

    Click the Vertical patrol button, the camera will patrol the rounds vertically you set and then stop if you don’t click Stop vertical patrol button. 3.16 Upgrade Device Firmware When you upgrade the camera, please upgrade system firmware first and then upgrade the Web Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 57 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 3.51 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 58: 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. The bin file can be reloaded to restore the parameters that were set. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 59: Restore Factory Settings

    3.18 Restore Factory Settings All parameters will return to factory settings if selected. Figure 3.54 3.19 Reboot Device Click Reboot Device to reboot the camera. This is similar to unplugging the power to the camera. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 60: Log

    This will take you back to the surveillance window. APPENDIX 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. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 61: No Pictures Problems

    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 Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 62 If you allow the ActiveX to run, but still can not see living video and a red cross in the centre of the video. Please select another port number. Don’t use port 80, use port 85, 8005.etc. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 63 Make sure that the firewall or anti-virus software does not block the camera. You can add the camera as a trusted site on your firewall or anti-virus software. 4.1.6 UPnP always failed UPnP only contains port forwarding in our recent software. Sometimes, it may be fail to do port Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...
  • Page 64 Usually, camera can’t connect wireless mainly because of incorrect settings. Verify that the SSID is correct; use the same encryption for router and camera. Share key should not contain special characters, only word and number will be better. Disable MAC address filtering. Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 65: Default Parameters

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

  • Page 66: Specifications

    2150g（Color Box Size: 314 x271 x162mm ） Net Weight 1535g Power Power Supply DC 12V/2.0A (EU,US,AU adapter or other types optional) Power Consumption 13.5Watts (Max.) Environment Operate Temper. 0° ~ 55°C (32°F ~ 131°F) Foscam Digital Technologies LLC Telephone: 1-800-930-0949...

  • Page 67: Phone Apps

    Phone Apps FOSCAM provides iOS App for iOS users, 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.

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