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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 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 KCM-8211 camera that has just been connected to the network is
successfully found.
When the left mouse is clicked on KCM-8211, 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.