
Software User’s Manual Ver.A1D-502-V8.03.30-NB
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3.
Preparation
Connect the Equipment
To be able to connect to the camera firmware from your PC, both the camera and the PC have
to be connected to each other via Ethernet cable. At the same time, the camera has to have
its own power supply. In case of PoE cameras, you can use a PoE Injector or a PoE Switch
between the camera and the PC. The cameras that have the DC power connectors may be
powered on by using a power adaptor.
The Ethernet port LED or Power LED of the camera will indicate that the power supply for the
camera works normally.
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.
3-2-1 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.