B-38-V Bullet Camera
Hardware Manual
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Accessing the Camera
Configure the IP Addresses
In order to be able to communicate with the camera from your PC, both the camera and the PC have to
be within the same network segment. In most cases, it means that they both should have very similar IP
addresses, where only the last number of the IP address is different from each other. There are 2
different approaches to IP Address management in Local Area Networks – by DHCP Server or Manually.
Using DHCP server to assign IP addresses:
If you have connected the computer and the camera into the network that has a DHCP server running,
then you do not need to configure the IP addresses at all – both the camera and the PC would request a
unique IP address from DHCP server automatically. In such case, the camera will immediately be ready
for the access from the PC. The user, however, might not know the IP address of the camera yet. It is
necessary to know the IP address of the camera in other to be able to access it by using a Web browser.
The quickest way to discover the cameras in the network
is to use the simplest network search, built
in the Windows system – just by pressing the “Network” icon, all the cameras of the local area network
will be discovered by Windows thanks to the UPnP function support of our cameras.
In the example below, we successfully found the camera model that had just connected to the network.
Double-click the mouse button on the camera model name, the default browser of the PC is automatically
launched, and the IP address of the target camera is already filled in the address bar of the browser.
If you work with our cameras regularly, then there is even a better way to discover the cameras in the
network – by using IP Utility. The IP Utility is a light software tool that can not only discover the cameras,
but also list lots of valuable information, such as IP and MAC addresses, serial numbers, firmware
versions, etc, and allows quick configuration of multiple devices at the same time.
The latest Firmware can be downloaded here:
https://www.security.us.panasonic.com/advidia-
