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FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to pro-vide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not in-stalled and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
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CONTENTS Chapter 1 About this Guide .................................................................................... 1 1.1 1.2 Conventions ................................................................................................................... 1 Overview of This Guide .................................................................................................. 1 Chapter 2 Introduction ............................................................................................ 2 2.1 2.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Chapter 1 About this Guide This User Guide contains information for setup and management of NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi. Please read this guide carefully before operation. 1.1 Conventions In this Guide the following conventions are used: The camera or NC250 mentioned in this Guide stands for NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi without any explanation. Bold font indicates a button, a toolbar icon, menu or menu item.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Chapter 2 Introduction Thanks for choosing the NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi! 2.1 Overview NC250 is a versatile solution for home & office monitoring to keep an eye on your home, kids or workplace; whatever it is that you care for most. NC250 has a complete system with a built-in CPU and web server that transmits high quality video images, which can fully meet the need of your small office or home’s security and surveillance.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 2.3 Appearance Description 2.3.1 Front Panel Light Sensor Microphone System LED Figure 2-1 Front Panel Light Sensor: The camera has a built-in internal photodetector. It is used to identify day or night. Microphone: The camera has a built-in internal microphone. This microphone is hidden in the pinhole located on the front panel. System LED: Status Flashing Red Solid Red Flashing Green Solid Green Indication The camera starts booting up.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 2.3.2 Rear Panel ETHERNET Port Power Jack WPS LED Heat Emission Holes WPS/RESET Button Figure 2-2 Rear Panel WPS LED: Status Indication The camera starts booting up. Flashing Green Off Solid Green The camera is connecting to a network by WPS function. This process will last in the first 2 minutes. The camera has boot up. The camera failed to be added to a network by WPS function. The camera has been successfully added to a network by WPS function.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Used as RESET button: With the camera powered on, press and hold the WPS/RESET button (more than 5 seconds) until both the System LED and WPS LED turn off. Then release the button and wait the camera to reset to its factory default settings. Used as WPS button: If your router supports WPS, then you can press the WPS/RESET button for 1 second to quickly establish a connection between the camera and router.
NC250 3. HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Drill two mounting holes and fix the 4. mounting base. 6 Put the base cover and camera head back.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Chapter 3 Managing the Camera The camera’s built-in web management page is designed to allow you to easily access and configure your camera. 3.1 1. 2. Login Find the management IP address of the camera via one of the following methods: Run the Setup Wizard. The IP address is displayed on the Select a camera screen. Find the IP address on the DHCP setting page of the front device such as a router.
NC250 4. HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Click Download to download and install the required plugin. Note: If the installed plugin doesn't work, set your browser security settings to allow plugins. Here we take the settings for IE browser as an example. Go to "Tools→Internet Options→Security". Click "Internet→Custom Level", find the item "Download signed ActiveX controls" and check Prompt. Click "Local Intranet→Custom Level", find the item "Download signed ActiveX controls" and check Prompt.
NC250 Symbols HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Meaning Note Click to capture a still image shot by the camera. The image file will be saved to your local computer and its default name is image-yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss. You can select a save path and rename the image file. Click to record the current video. The video file will be saved to your local computer and its default name is rec-yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss. You can select a save path and rename the video file.
NC250 Click to choose a camera working mode. You can set the camera working mode to Auto ), Day ( ( ), or Night ( ). Drag the slider to adjust the size of the current image. The maximum zoom ratio is 4 times. Mute off. You can hear the current sound by the camera. Click and it will become . Mute on. The current sound by the camera is turned off. Click and it will become . Drag the slider to adjust the sound volume. Click to enlarge current image to screen display.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 3.3.1 Basic → Status The Status page displays the current configuration information of the camera. You can find out camera’s settings such as wireless connection settings here. All the information is read-only.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 3.3.2 Basic → Network On this page, you can configure your camera’s IP address which is used to access and configure the camera. Dynamic IP: Select this option when a DHCP server is installed on the network to issue IP address assignment. With this setting, the IP address of the camera is assigned automatically. Static IP: Select this option when a static or fixed IP address is obtained for the camera.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Primary DNS Server: Enter a DNS address in dotted-decimal notation. Secondary DNS Server: Enter a DNS address in dotted-decimal notation. Click Save to save and enable the settings. 3.3.3 Basic → Wireless Connection The camera’s wireless function is enabled by default. This function helps to connect your camera to a wireless network wirelessly. If you don’t want to use this function, just select the Disable option.
NC250 3. HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi If the wireless network’s security mode is None, simply click Connect. If the security mode requires a password, enter the wireless network’s password and then click Connect. You can select Show password to display what you’ve entered. 4. A pop-up screen will prompt you for the network modification. Click Change to continue.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 5. Click OK on the pop–up screen to finish wireless connection procedure. 6. To start using camera wirelessly, unplug its Ethernet cable. 3.3.4 Basic → Cloud Setting A Cloud Camera can be viewed anytime and anywhere over the Internet with TP-LINK Cloud service. On this page, you can add your camera to an existing TP-LINK Cloud account or you can sign up for a TP-LINK Cloud account and then add your camera to it.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Camera Name: The default value is the camera model. You can change it to an easy-to-remember one. Camera name can contain up to 30 characters. It can only contain digits, letters, space and .-_@'. After your camera is registered successfully, you can go to www.tplinkcloud.com to view it. Sign Up for a TP-LINK Cloud Account If you do not have a TP-LINK Cloud account, click Don’t have an account? to sign up.
NC250 3.4 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Advanced Click the Advanced menu to display the submenus including Status, Network, Wireless Connection, Wireless Extender, Cloud Setting, DDNS, Video, Motion Detection, Sound Detection, Notification Delivery, and LED. 3.4.1 Advanced → Status Refer to 3.3.1 Basic → Status. 3.4.2 Advanced → Network On this page, you can configure your network settings.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi IP Address On this section, you can configure your camera’s IP address which is used to access and configure the camera. Dynamic IP: Select this option when a DHCP server is installed on the network to issue IP address assignment. With this setting, the IP address of the camera is assigned automatically. Fallback IP: If the camera cannot get a Dynamic IP address from a DHCP server within limited tries, the camera will assign a default IP address, 192.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi MAC Address: Displays the Ethernet MAC address of the camera. The MAC address is read-only. IP Address: Enter a fixed IP address for the camera in dotted-decimal notation. Subnet Mask: Enter the subnet mask in dotted-decimal notation. The default value is “255.255.255.0.” Default Gateway: Enter the default gateway in dotted-decimal notation. Primary DNS Server: Enter a DNS address in dotted-decimal notation.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi PPPoE: To enable or disable the PPPoE service here. Status: Displays the PPPoE connection status. Username: Enter the username for PPPoE service provided by your ISP. Password: Enter the password for PPPoE service provided by your ISP. HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) This feature allows you to access and manage your camera via its IP address. Web browser access normally uses the standard HTTP service port 80.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi UPnP Port Forwarding: To enable or disable the UPnP Port Forwarding service here. If this function is enabled and your router supports UPnP, the cameras and router can communicate with each other so that the router knows which ports are used by which camera. UPnP Name: Displays the camera name. Bonjour Bonjour, also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 1. Select Enable to enable your camera’s wireless function. 2. Click Manually, and you will see the following screen. 3. In the Wireless Network Name field, enter the name of the wireless network to which your camera is ready to connect. Note: The name must be exactly the same as that used in the wireless access point, or the connection will not be established. Leaving this field blank means the camera will attempt to access the nearest open network.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 5. Click Connect and a screen will pop up. Click Change on the pop-up screen. 6. Click OK on the pop–up screen to finish wireless connection procedure. 7. To start using camera wirelessly, unplug its Ethernet cable. 3.4.4 Advanced → Wireless Extender On this page, you can setup and configure the wireless network extending feature of your camera. Wireless extender function allows your camera to extend the range of your existing wireless network.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Max Clients: Set the maximum number of clients that are allowed to connect to the extended network. Click Save to save and enable the settings. 3.4.5 Advanced → Cloud Setting Refer to 3.3.4 Basic → Cloud Setting. 3.4.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Service Provider: Select one of the built-in DDNS servers from the drop-down list: No-IP (www.noip.com), DynDNS (www.dyn.com), and Comexe (www.comexe.cn). Note: If you have not registered for any of the listed DDNS servers, please select one and click Go to register… and follow the instructions provided on the official website to register. Username: Enter the username that is used to log into DDNS.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi rate (and therefore requires more bandwidth) to be allocated to dynamic scenes while less bit rate to be allocated to static scenes. Image Quality: Select one of the three levels of image quality from the drop-down list: High, Medium, and Low. Higher settings offer better quality, but will require more bandwidth to stream. Backlight Compensation: If enabled, this feature will compensate for bright backgrounds so foreground objects aren't silhouetted.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 3.4.8 Advanced → Motion Detection Motion detection allows you to specify areas of your camera’s video to monitor for motion, which can be used to trigger snapshots. Refer to 3.4.10 Advanced → Notification Delivery for more details. Motion Detection: To enable or disable the motion detection function. Sensitivity: Specify the level of difference between two sequential images that would indicate motion.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Sound Detection: To enable or disable the sound detection function. Sensitivity: Specify the level of difference between current sound and the threshold you set. Select one of the three levels of sensitivity from the drop-down list: High, Medium, and Low. Threshold: Select the threshold of sound level. Snapshots will be triggered when current sound exceeds this threshold. You can also drag the arrow in the diagram to set the threshold.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi FTP Select FTP, you can configure your camera to send snapshots to a specified FTP sever on the following screen: FTP Server/ Port: Enter the IP or the domain (IP/domain without prefix ftp://) and the port of the FTP server that you will be connecting to. The port is 21 by default. Note: The FTP server you set and the camera should be in the same LAN. Username: Enter the username that is used to log in to your FTP server.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 1. Enter an IP address or domain of your FTP server, e.g. 192.168.1.168 2. Remain the FTP port number as the default value: 21. 3. Enter your username to log in to the FTP server, e.g. test. 4. Enter your password to log in to the FTP server. 5. Enter the path to the destination on the FTP server, e.g. /test 6. Enable Passive Mode. 7. Click Save to save and enable the settings.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Recipient E-mail Address: Enter the receiver’s E-mail address that the notification E-mail will be sent to. Click Add recipient to add receiver’s E-mail addresses. You can specify up to four recipient E-mail addresses. Sender E-mail Address: Enter the sender’s E-mal address that is used to send the notification E-mail. Password: Enter your password if the SMTP server uses authentication.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 1. Enter the receiver’s E-mail address in Recipient E-mail Address, e.g. test@tp-link.com. 2. Enter your E-mail address in Sender E-mail Address, e.g. test@gmail.com. 3. Enter the password required to access the SMTP server. 4. Enter smtp.gmail.com in SMTP server. 5. Select TLS as the SSL encryption and the SMPT server port number will be changed to 465 automatically. 6. Set the Sending Interval, e.g. 1m. 7.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 3.5.1 Account On this page, you can change the administrator’s password and manage the user account(s) that are allowed to access to your camera. Username: Displays the name of user account. User Group: Displays the group that the user account is in. Different user group has different limits of authority. admin: This group has all authority of configuration. It can only have one account: admin. user: This group can only view the Live View.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 2. Enter a username for your new account. 3. Enter a password for your new account. The password should contain 5 to 20 characters. 4. Enter the password again to confirm it. 5. Click Save to save and enable the settings. Change Password You can change the password of all the accounts here. Note: The default account and password are both admin. Everyone who knows the camera’s IP address can access the device with all configuration authority.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 3. Enter the current password in the Old Password textbox. 4. Enter a new password. 5. Enter the new password again to confirm it. 6. Click Save to save and enable the settings. Delete a User Account You can delete a user account except admin here. Click a user entry in the list and click Delete. 3.5.2 Date/Time On this page, you can configure the settings of the internal system clocks for your camera.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Current Time: Displays the current date and time of the camera. Time Zone: Select the time zone for the region where the camera is installed from the drop-down list. Auto Time zone is recommended. Enable Daylight Saving Time: Select this option to enable daylight saving time adjustment. If enabled, you will see the following screen: Automatically: If selected, the internal system clocks of the camera will adjust the DST automatically.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi NTP Server: You can either enter a domain name of the NTP server or select one which will be filled in automatically from the drop-down list. Set NTP Server from Dynamic IP: You can use the NTP server applied in the DHCP server on the network. Set Date and Time Manually: Select this option to set the date and time of the camera manually.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Reboot: Click Reboot and then click Reboot on the pop-up screen to confirm. Rebooting will not change the camera’s setting. After rebooting, you need to log in to this page again. Backup: Click Backup and follow the instructions on the browser to save the setting data file to your specified location. Restore: Click Browse to locate the saved backup file and then click Restore.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi 2. Click Browse to locate the latest downloaded software. 3. Click Upgrade to update the camera’s software to the latest version. 4. Wait for the uploading process to complete, and the camera will reboot automatically. Note: 1. We recommend that you use a wired connection for your camera and PC when upgrading firmware. 2. The firmware upgrade procedure must not be interrupted or the camera may be damaged. 3.
NC250 HD Day/Night Cloud Camera, 300Mbps Wi-Fi Time: Displays the time when the log event occurs. The log can get the correct time after you configure on the Date/Time page. (go to Advanced → Date/Time) Module: Displays the module to which the log information belongs. You can specify the module by selecting one from the Module drop-down list at the bottom. Level: Displays the severity level of the log information.
