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Q26 Camera Manual: Operating the Camera
3 OPERATING THE CAMERA
3.1 Manual and Automatic Operation – Overview
MOBOTIX cameras do not require any extra software. Thus, you can set up and operate the
MOBOTIX camera using a JavaScript-enabled browser on all common operating systems
(such as Windows, Linux, Macintosh, etc.). As an alternative, you can also use the MOBOTIX
application MxManagementCenter. Follow these steps to set up the camera:
1.
Connect the camera to the network.
Power is supplied directly via the Ethernet cable (see Section 2.9, «Network and Power
Connection, Additional Cables»)
2. Establish a connection to the camera and adjust the network settings, if required.
By factory default, MOBOTIX cameras are booting as DHCP client with an additional
fixed IP address in the 10.x.x.x range (e.g., 10.16.0.128). Local computer networks usually
have IP addresses in the 172 or 192 ranges. Depending on whether a DHCP server is
present on the local network (e.g., a DSL router) or if the network has been set up to
use fixed IP addresses, there are several possibilities for establishing a connection to
the camera and to change its network parameters:
•
Network with DHCP server
–
Using a browser:
If you know the IP address that the DHCP server assigned to the camera, simply
enter that address in the browser address bar to directly connect to the camera
(see Section 3.2.2, «First Images and the Most Important Settings in the Browser»).
– Using MxManagementCenter:
With MxManagementCenter, you can show and integrate the camera without hav-
ing to know its current IP address (see Section 3.2.3, «First Images and Network
Parameter Configuration in MxMC»).
• Network with fixed IP addresses
In order to access the camera, it must have an IP address within the range of the local
network. To set the camera’s network parameters, you can use one of these methods:
–
Manually using a browser:
First, you need to change the network parameters of your computer (see Section 3.2.1,
«Manually Setting Up the Network Parameters in a Browser» and following …).
– Integration into MxManagementCenter with automatic adjustment of the cam-
era’s IP address:
The camera is displayed in MxManagementCenter despite the fact that the IP address
is not part of the local network. The application allows reconfiguring the network
parameters accordingly (see Section 3.2.3, «First Images and Network Parameter
Configuration in MxMC»).
Download the free-of-charge
MxManagementCenter soft-
ware at www.mobotix.com