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Accessing the Camera

Configure the IP Address

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 address

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 the 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

order to access it 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, the camera that has just been connected to the network is successfully

found.

When the left mouse is clicked 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.

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