User guide

SETTING UP THE CAMERA
Once you added your camera into Camera widget, you
need to configure it to work properly with Zipato. It is
much easier to setup already preconfigured cameras
supported by Zipato.
Click
on your Camera widget. Give your camera
“human friendly name” so you can recognize it
easier later. If you are using supported camera,
select your camera from the list and press “APPLY
DEFAULT SETTINGS” button. Afterwards just SAVE the
configuration and you are DONE!
Use button “OPEN” to open your camera configuration
page if you are doing this within the same network to
which is your camera connected to, or “OPEN REMOTE”
if you are doing this remotely.
Once you open your camera configuration page (maybe
you should try few times if you are doing this remotely),
you need to enter your username and password to
access your camera settings. You can find default
credentials in your camera’s manual.
Now you can configure different parameters of your
camera to make it better fits to your needs. Number of
parameters depends of the camera model you have, and
you can find necessary guidance within your camera’s
users manual. Most important parameters to set up for
having your camera working with Zipato are:
FTP server settings (you can find all the necessary
info about your Zipato FTP servers within the camera
settings window on your camera widget.
Event based recording, to be able to get snapshots of
video clips from your cameras on your Zipato FTP
account, you need to setup your camera to send them
upon some event (motion detection, schedule, sound
detection, manual trigger...)
Once you are finished configuring your camera, you can
go back to your ZIPATO DASHBOARD, and finish settings
within your Cameras widget.
Now, enter your credential for accessing your camera
configuration page here, so you can see live streams
from within you Zipato dashboard.
If you would like to see live video from within a camera
widget directly, you need to enter URLs of your cameras
video streams.
Sometimes, you can find those information in your
camera’s manual or you can scan your camera stream
URL from within your web browser (this requires
advanced knowledge of using web browser).
Once you are finished you can save your settings by
pressing “SAVE” button.
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