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Manual Setup Step 1: Assigning a permanent IP address for your camera
on your local network (Without UPnP)
Please note that if your router has UPnP, you already have an internet IP address for your camera and you
should skip over this setup step.
On your home network (LAN) all your computers, printers and other network connected devices have an IP
address. In every IP address there are 4 groups of digits that can each vary from 1 to 255. For your home network
the first 3 numbers are already determined by your router’s address, which is typically something like 192.168.0.1
or 192.168.1.1 or 10.0.1
To pick a permanent address for your camera you first need to know your router’s IP address. It is shown in your
camera’s
“system”
menu (at the top of the setting screen) if you scroll down to
“Default Gateway”
. The router’s IP
address determines the first 3 groups of digits for your camera’s IP address.
Now we need to select a valid number for the last group of digits. We don’t simply pick a random number because
we have to avoid numbers that are already taken or could be used by your router.
The router uses addresses in a range set aside for this purpose (called the DHCP range). For many routers, this
DHCP range is from 2 to 100 but you’ll have to check your specific router’s DHCP menu. Sometimes this is shown
as start and end address, or start address plus number of available addresses.
Why is this important? We want to select an address outside this range to make sure that your router would never
pick this address for another device.
For example, if your router uses the DHCP range from 192.168.0.2 to 100, You could choose 192.168.0.101 as a
permanent IP address. Conversely, if your router uses DHCP addresses from 100 to 255, you could use
192.168.0.50 to be outside the range. Never use addresses that end in .0 or .1, since that is reserved for your
router, and never use addresses that end in a number higher than 255 since that is the highest possible limit.
Now that you have picked a local IP address for your camera, you need some more information from your router.
Look in your router’s broadband (WAN) status or connection menu for a pair of IP addresses called DNS1 and
DNS2, or Primary DNS and secondary DNS. If your router has a third one, don’t worry about it.
Typically all network devices get this information direct from your router. However, many routers only supply this
info to network devices that ask for an IP address so in this case we need to copy and paste these numbers.
Once you have these pieces of information, go to the Camera Settings menu, then select “Network” and “TCP/IP
Setup” :
