User Manual Model: FI8918W Indoor Pan/Tilt Wireless IP Camera NIGHT VISION & REMOTE PAN / TILT ROTATE/ TWO WAY AUDIO Color: Black Color: White
CONTENTS 1 WELCOME..................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Features .................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Packing List ............................................................................................................................................. 2 1.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual 3.19 Log....................................................................................................................................................... 40 3.20 Back..................................................................................................................................................... 41 4 APPENDIX ...........................................................................................................................................
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual ● Motion detection activates alarm ● Supports image snapshot ● Supports multiple network protocols: HTTP/TCP/IP/UDP/STMP/DDNS/SNTP/DHCP/FTP ● Supports WEP/WPA/WPA2 encryption ● Supports Daylight Saving Time ● Supports MSN ● Supports Gmail as sender on mail service settings ●Supports audio on Firefox，Safari and Google Chrome 1.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual WIFI Antenna: Wireless Antenna Microphone: Built-in microphone Speaker: Built-in speaker 1.3.2 Back View Figure 1.2 LAN: RJ-45/10-100 Base T Power: DC 5V/2A Power supply Network Light: The LED will blink when power and network cable are plugged in Power Light: If the power adapter works well, the light will turn on Audio Input: This jack is used to plug an external microphone Audio Output: This jack is used to plug an external speaker 1.3.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual 1.4 Preparations before use 1.4.1 Software installation (1) Put the CD in the CD drive of your computer. Open the CD; find the software per instructions; (2) Double click IPCamSetup.exe and install the software per instruction. Figure 1.4 (3) Click Next to complete the software installation. Figure 1.5 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 1.6 The computer restarts upon installation completion and an icon automatically. appears on the desktop NOTE: If you use Windows7 and could not find the icon on desktop after installing the IP camera tool, please check if the path of the camera software is correct. For example, if it was pointing to C:\Windows\System32\IPCamera.exe. Then fix this by pointing the shortcut to the correct path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\IPCamera.exe.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual (network jack) will turn on and the small yellow light will flash. The network light will blink. (about 1~2 times per second) and the power light will also turn on. 2 SOFTWARE OPERATION 2.1 IP Camera Tool When the Device has been mounted properly, you can double click the icon “IP Camera Tool” and a dialog box as Figure 2.1 will pop up. Figure 2.1 The software searches for the IPcam automatically over the LAN. There are 3 cases: (1) If no Camera found in LAN.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 2.2 z Basic Properties There are some devices information in the Basic Properties, such as Device ID, System Firmware Version, and Web UI Version. (Figure 2.3) If there are several cameras on the list, you can choose basic properties to check the device ID and recognize the IP address belong to which camera you set up, For example Device ID is 00606E8C5058, the same MAC ID sticker is found at the bottom/back of the camera. Each camera has its own MAC ID.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 2.4 Obtain IP from DHCP server: If checked, the device will obtain IP from DHCP server. In other words, the camera will have a dynamic IP. (Make sure the Router which the camera connects has DHCP function and DHCP is enabled). Figure 2.5 IP Address: Fill in the IP address assigned and make sure it is in the same subnet as your computer or router. (I.e. the first three sections are the same) Subnet Mask: The default subnet mask of the equipment in our LAN is: 255.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Password: Default password is blank, no password. NOTE: If the prompt “Subnet doesn’t match, dbclick to change!” appears, please enable DHCP and choose obtain IP from DHCP server or set camera’s IP address and gateway once again. z Upgrade Firmware Enter the correct User and Password to upgrade system Firmware and Web UI. If you upgrade the camera, you must upgrade system firmware first and then upgrade web UI. Or it may damage the camera.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual opened automatically and display the camera login page. (Figure 2.8) (2) You can also access the camera by IE browser directly by typing in the camera’s IP address. For example: Figure 2.7 Figure 2.8 The default user is admin, no password. There are two modes to login. If you use IE browser, please choose activeX mode to login. If you use Firefox or Google Chrome, please choose Server Push Mode to login. (Figure 2.9) Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual If you use IE browser, select this login mode If you use Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari ,select this login mode Figure 2.9 For IE browser Fill in the user name and choose the first login button. Click right mouse and choose Run Add-on Figure 2.10 The first time you login the UI. You will receive an activeX prompt as in the picture above. (Figure 2.10) Right click on the active prompt and choose Run Add-on(Figure 2.11). Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 2.11 Select Run on the next prompt (Figure 2.12) which will return to the login screen. Figure 2.12 Fill in the user name and select login again. You will see a live video. (Figure 2.13) Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 2.13 NOTE: If you could not view living video after running the activeX. Only a red cross in the center of the video or just a black screen. Please change another port number to try. Don’t use port 80.Use port 85, 8005 or 8100 to try. Make sure all firewall or antivirus software on your computer does not block the active download and installation. If you are unable to run the activeX control, try shutting down the firewall or antivirus program.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 2.15 2.3 Device Status For IE browser If the camera is connected properly the light of the device status will show green. If the light show yellow check if the activeX is enabled or change another port number and try again. Figure 2.16 If you want to view the device information, choose For Administrator and then click Device info (Figure 2.17) . Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 2.17 For Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari When you login the UI, you will see Device Status which is the same as Device Info in IE browser. (Figure 2.14) 2.4 For Visitor For IE browser Figure 2.18 Multi-device window: The firmware inside the camera supports up to maximum of 9 cameras Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual monitoring at the same time. You can add cameras in multi-device settings. OSD: OSD is used to add timestamp on the video. There are five character colors to choose from.. Add timestamp on record: Select this option if you want to add a timestamp on record Alarm sound off: Select this option, you cannot hear the beep alarm sound when the motion is detected.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual If you click here, the camera will horizontally & vertically rotate and then stop at the center Turn off IR light Turn on IR light Pre-determined location Figure 2.19 : Click this icon; camera will rotate up and down. Click : Click this icon; camera will rotate left and right. Click : Click this icon, all the IR lights will turn on. Click to stop. to stop. to turn off them.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 2.20a audio: Connect speakers or earphone or other audio output device with PC. Click “audio” and you will hear sound from the IPCAM built-in microphone. Closeaudio: Click Close audio to turn off audio. NOTE: You must have installed VLC before using this function. If you have not,download and install the plugin from http://www.videolan.org (Figure 2.20b) and install it. Figure 2.20b During the installation, you must select Mozilla plugin as in Figure 2.20c.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 2.20c 2.6 For Administrator For IE browser Click For Administrator. You will see the Device Status. It contains device ID, firmware version of the camera and other status of the camera. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 2.21 For Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari Click Device Management and you will enter the settings page for administrator. Figure 2.22 We can see the difference from Figure 2.21 and Figure 2.22. IE has the three following options which are not the same in Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari: Device Info: This is similar to Device Status which will have the same information as IE.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual 3 How to configure settings in For Administrator 3.1 Alias Settings Default alias is anonymous. You can set a name for your camera here such as Ipcam. Click Submit to save your change. (Figure 3.1) Figure 3.1 3.2 Date & Time Settings Choose the clock timezone of your country. You can choose Sync with NTP Server (Figure 3.2a) or Sync with PC Time. (Figure 3.2b) If your country is implementing the Daylight Saving Time, here you can set it for your camera(Figure 3.2c).
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 3.2c 3.3 User Settings You can set permission for visitor, operator and administrator. Click Submit to save these settings. The camera will reboot. Figure 3.3 Here you can set the record file path and the alarm record file path for the camera. Click Browse and choose the path. Record Path will store the file of the recording when you record manually. (Click record icon to record. Figure 2.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Windows7 or Vista's security level is higher than Windows XP/2000.For "set record path" function, add the Device IP address to the IE's 'Trusted sites' first as follows: IE browserÆToolÆInternet ProperÆSecurityÆTrusted sitesÆSitesÆAdd 3.4 Multi-Device Settings The firmware inside the camera can support a maximum of 9 devices monitoring at the same time. 3.4.1 Add cameras in LAN In Multi-Device Settings page, you can see all devices searched in LAN.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 3.5 Choose For Visitor and then click the four windows option. You will see all four cameras you added. Figure 3.6 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 3.7 3.4.2 Add cameras in WAN If you want to view all cameras via internet. (remote computer), you will need to add them use DDNS domain name. First, make sure all of the cameras you added can be accessed through the internet. ( read How to set DDNS settings in Quick Installation Guide) Login the first camera using a DDNS domain name and port. Figure 3.8 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual If you have several cameras, you can use the same DDNS domain name; you only need to set a different port number for each camera. Click Multi-Device Settings. Choose The 2nd Device. Fill in the 2nd camera’s name, DDNS domain name, port number. Enter user name and password and then choose Add. (Figure 3.9) NOTE: Here Host must be filled in the second camera’s DDNS domain name, not its LAN IP. Figure 3.9 Add the other cameras in the same way. Click Submit to save.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual view all the cameras via internet. Figure 3.11 3.5 Basic Network Settings If you want to set a static IP for the camera, select Basic Network Settings. Keep the camera in the same subnet of your router or computer. Figure 3.12 It is the same result if set these settings in IP Camera Tool. (Figure 2.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 3.13 Figure 3.14 If you don’t know the DNS server, you can use the same settings as the Default Gateway. 3.6 Wireless LAN Settings Please view How to set Wireless LAN Settings in Quick Installation Guide. Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual 3.7 ADSL Settings Figure 3.15 When connected to the Internet through ADSL directly, you can enter the ADSL username and password obtained from your ISP. Figure 3.16 3.8 UPnP Settings Choose Using UPnP to MAP Port and then click Submit. Figure 3.17 The camera’s software will be configured port forwarding. We recommend you configure port forwarding manually on your router. 3.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 3.18 Make sure your mailbox for sender supports SMTP. Four recipients can be added to receive images. SMTP port is usually set as 25. Some SMTP servers have their own port, such as 587 or 465 and Transport Layer Security usually is None. If you use Gmail, Transport Layer Security must be set to TLS or STARTTLS and SMTP Port must be set to 465 or 25 or 587, which port you choose should be decided by which Transport Layer Security you select.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual 6) The receiver is denied by the server. Maybe because of the anti-spam privacy of the server 7) The message is denied by the server. Maybe because of the anti-spam privacy of the server 8) The server does not support the authentication mode used by the device Report Internet IP by Mail—If selected, you will receive emails which contains internet IP information such as When the camera is powered or the Internet IP has changed. (For example: IPCAM's urls is http://119.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual “foscam13”(see Figure 3.20a,it is contained in the MSN Friends List) login MSN, double click the icon of “ foscam31 “(it is the MSN ID you applied for camera ,Figure3.20a) ,he or she can chat with IPCAM(Figure 3.21) Figure 3.21 So,add your MSN ID to the MSN Friend List ,you can chat with camera and get the access address and then access the camera. Note: When you login the camera by IP Camera Tool, you can’t login MSN of camera at the same time. 3.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 3.22 Figure 3.23 FTP server: If your FTP server is set up in LAN, you can set as Figure 3.22 If you have a FTP server which you can access on the internet, you can set as Figure 3.23 FTP Port: Usually the port is 21 FTP Upload Folder: Make sure that the folder you plan to store images exists. For camera couldn’t create the folder itself. Also, the folder must be erasable.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual You cannot change the name of the alarm image. Click Submit to save these settings. Click Test. The following screen displays if it succeeded. (Figure 3.24) Figure 3.24 The following errors may occur: 1) Can not connect to the server. Check if the FTP Server is correct. 2) Network Error. Please try later. 3) Server Error. 4) Incorrect user or password. Check the username and password. 5) Cannot access the folder.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Select it If the number is bigger and the sensibility is higher This will reduce false alarms such as light changes. Figure 3.25 Figure 3.26 If motion is detected after you enable Motion Detect Armed, the Alarm Status will turn to Motion Detect Alarm. There are five alarm indicators: 1) The light turns red when motion is detected. Figure 3.27 2) A beep sound when the light turns red. 3) The camera will record automatically for one minute after motion is detected.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Select this option Figure 3.28 If you want to specify when the camera sends mails in a specific time when motion is detected, You can choose Scheduler and set the time range for motion alarm. (Figure 3.31-3.33) 5) Upload images via FTP server when motion trigger. To upload images to an FTP server when motion is detected, you must set FTP Service Settings first and then set motion alarm as pictured below (Figure 3.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 3.30 2) Specify an alarm schedule. If you want the camera to alarm during the time you set select Scheduler and set time range. If you want to select one serial area, you can click any number between 00 and 23 at the first row, the corresponding column will be selected and it will turn blue. For example, click the number “06” at the first row, you can see the column turn blue.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual blue. If you want to delete it, just click the left button and It will turn gray. Figure 3.32 If you want the camera alarm at most time, you can select set All first and then click left button at the box you don’t want the camera alarm even when the motion is detected. The box will turn gray. Click Submit and it will take effect. Figure 3.33 Shenzhen Foscam Intelligent Technology Co.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual 3.14 PTZ Settings You can set pan/tilt speed. Normally, PT speed is 3; The larger the setting number, the lower speed. Don’t enable the checkbox “disable preset” if you want to use the function of preset, it will be effective after you reboot device Figure 3.34 Patrol rounds horizontal: Set the round between 1 and 10, then click Submit. Back to “For Operator”.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual find your camera’s IP before you choose upgrade in browser. The Web UI only can be upgraded by IP camera tool after you upgrade the system firmware. Click Browse, choose the correct bin file and then click Submit to upgrade. Don’t shut down the power during upgrade until the IP camera tool finds the camera again. 3.16 Backup & Restore Settings Click Submit to save all the parameters you have set. These parameters will be stored in a bin file for future use.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual 3.19 Log The log record shows who accessed the camera (Figure 3.38). Figure 3.38 3.20 Back This will take you back to the video window. 4 APPENDIX 4.1 Frequently Asked Questions NOTE: Always verify network connections are working by checking the status of the indicators on the network server, hub, exchange and network card. 4.1.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual 4.1.3 No Pictures Problems The video streaming is transmitted by the ActiveX controller. If ActiveX controller isn’t installed correctly you will see no video image. There are two ways to resolve this problem: 1) Re-install “IP Camera Tool” and activeX control（recommended） (Figure 2.10~Figure 2.12) 2) Download ActiveX controller and set the security setting of IE: IE browserÆToolÆInternet ProperÆSecurityÆCustom LevelÆActiveX control and Plug-ins.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual Figure 4.2 NOTE: Make sure that your firewall or anti-virus software does not block the camera or activeX. If you can not see live video, try shutting down the firewall or anti-virus software and try again. 4.1.4 Can’t access IP camera on internet Possible reasons why camera is not accessible on the internet: 1 ActiveX controller is not installed correctly (see more details: Figure 2.10~Figure 2.12).
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual check the path of IP Camera program. For example, as it was pointing to C:\Windows\System32\IPCamera.exe. Please fix this by pointing the shortcut to the correct path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\IPCamera.exe. After this you could use the shortcut without any problems. 4.1.8 I can’t change the record path When you use Windows7 or Vista, you may be not able to change the record path for the security settings of computer.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM FI8918W User Manual 4.2 Default Parameters Default network Parameters IP address: obtain dynamically Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: obtain dynamically DHCP: Disabled DDNS: Disabled Username and password Default administrator username: admin Default administrator password: No password 4.3 Specifications ITEMS FI8918W Image Sensor High Definition Color CMOS Sensor Display Resolution 640 x 480 Pixels(300k Pixels) Lens f: 3.6mm Mini. Illumination 0.
WWW.FOSCAM.COM PC Requirements Certification FI8918W User Manual Storage Humidity 0% ~ 90% non-condensing CPU 2.0GHZ or above Memory Size 256MB or above Display Card 64M or above Supported OS Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows7 Browser IE 6.0, IE7.0, IE8.0,IE9.
