How To Scan For Ip Cameras

IP Camera Initial Network Setup

Follow this IP camera initial setup guide / network setup if you are using your Viewtron IP camera without a Viewtron NVR with built-in PoE (Power over Ethernet). For clarification, when you connect a Viewtron IP camera to the PoE port on a Viewtron NVR, much of the initial network setup described in this commodity is not required because the NVR assigns and manages the IP addresses for yous. To be clear, these teaching are applicable for the following installation types.

Stand-solitary IP Photographic camera Installation - Photographic camera is not setup to record to a separate DVR or NVR. Customer plans on using the camera for remote viewing only with no recording or customer volition apply the camera's internal SD bill of fare slot to record.
LAN Connection to DVR or NVR - Camera is connected to a local network switch. A DVR or NVR connects to the camera over the local network.

All of these installation methods support the power to view your photographic camera(s) from iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows.

Stand-Solitary IP Photographic camera Installation

Follow these instructions to install your IP camera on your local network so that you can access the camera directly, every bit opposed to accessing your IP camera through a DVR or NVR.

IP Camera Network Setup

Connect your camera to your network. Nigh customers either use a PoE switch (like you see above) or a single port PoE injector. The red lines that you see above represents CAT5e cablevision connecting the IP photographic camera and laptop computer to the network switch.
Your router volition automatically assign the IP camera a network IP accost.
The blueish cable represents the CAT5e network cable that connects the video uplink port of the switch to the router.
Once the IP camera starts up, which commonly takes near 10 seconds, you tin can locate the IP camera on your network using ane of these iii network IP scanner tools.

Locating Your IP Camera on the Network

Here are four means to locate your IP camera on your local network. Please note that the latest IP Installer Tool, Mobile Apps, and VMS Software downloads tin all be found here.

IP Installer Tool - If you have a Windows PC continued to the same network as your IP camera, y'all tin can install the IP Installer tool to find your IP camera on your network.
Mobile Apps - The mobile apps for iPhone and Android both have a network scanner / IP camera locator function built-in.
Windows / Mac VMS Software - DVR / IP photographic camera software for Mac and Windows is capable of connecting straight to Viewtron IP cameras. The software has a born network scanner / IP photographic camera locator.

IP Installer / Network Search Tool

The Viewtron IP locator tool is only available for Windows at this time. If you exercise non have a Windows PC on the aforementioned network as your IP camera, please use one of the other methods to locate your IP camera on your LAN.

Download the latest IP Installer software hither and united nations-zip the file on your Windows PC.
The un-zipped file is a software installer. Run that plan.
Please note that your Windows PC must exist connected to the same local network as your IP camera.
After you start the IP locator software, information technology will automatically scan the local network for Viewtron IP cameras. It will as well search for any non-Viewtron make ONVIF compliant IP cameras. This is what the network search looks like in the IP Installer software.

You tin see above that the IP Installer tool plant one Viewtron IP camera, model IP-D8 on the network.

Mobile App Network Search Tool

The Viewtron mobile app for iPhone and Android has a built-in network IP camera search tool. This is user-friendly for customers who do non take a Windows PC on their network.

1) Download the latest Viewtron compatible mobile apps here. So, open up the app on your iPhone or Android.

two) Tap on the Server List icon in the upper right. Then tap on the Add Server icon in the upper right.

3) On the "Add Device" screen, tap in the downwards arrow to reveal and tap on the "Local Scan for Device" pick. Information technology may accept xv-30 seconds for the network search to end and the app does non do a good job of letting you know that information technology is working, so please be patient and look at least 30 seconds. When the network scan is complete, all of the IP cameras detected on the network will be displayed. You can see in the above correct screenshot that one IP-B8 camera was constitute on IP accost 192.168.0.131.

If you tap on the camera, the IP accost volition be added to the IP field in the app.

iv) The IP address:port will be automatically filled in for you. Enter a Name for your IP camera, User ID, and Password. Then, tap the preview button to exam the network connection. The default User ID for Viewtron IP cameras is "admin". The default password is "123456".

VMS Software for Mac and Windows

The VMS (Video Management System) software for Mac and Windows is identical in features and functionality. The interface is exactly the same.

Download VMS software for Mac and Windows here.
Un-zip the file on your PC and install.
Please note that your Windows or Macintosh PC must be connected to the same local network as your IP photographic camera.
When you start the VMS software, y'all will be prompt for User Name and Password. The defaults are admin, 123456.
From the chief screen, select the Resource Management link or icon.
From the main screen, select the Resource Management link or icon.
On the Resource Management screen click on the Add button.
The "Add together Device" screen is a network scanner tool. Information technology will scan the local surface area network for any Viewtron IP cameras, DVRs, and NVRs. It will besides search for any not-Viewtron brand IP cameras that are ONVIF compliant. You can run across in the to a higher place screenshot, that the IP scanner establish the Viewtron IP camera that we were installing along with ii other ONVIF IP cameras that are on our network. The 4th device that was establish is a Viewtron DVR. Click the checkbox side by side to the IP photographic camera that you are adding and press OK. You tin make note of the IP address of your camera.
Click Home, and then Alive View.
On the Live View screen, you will see a "default area" on the left. Aggrandize this list and you will run across the IP camera that you added.
Click and drag the IP photographic camera from that list to the live view screen on the right. Y'all should see a live view of your IP camera.

Mac IP Camera Software Live View

Higher up is a screenshot of the live security photographic camera view of a Viewtron IP camera on the Mac software for Viewtron. It looks the aforementioned on Windows.

IP Installer / Network Search Tool

The Viewtron IP locator tool is only available for Windows at this time. If you do non accept a Windows PC on the aforementioned network as your IP camera, please use one of the other methods to locate your IP photographic camera on your LAN.

Download the latest IP Installer software here and un-cypher the file on your Windows PC.
The un-zipped file is a software installer. Run that plan.
Delight note that your Windows PC must be continued to the same local network equally your IP camera.
Subsequently yous start the IP locator software, it will automatically scan the local network for Viewtron IP cameras. It will as well search for any not-Viewtron make ONVIF compliant IP cameras. This is what the network search looks like in the IP Installer software.

Y'all can meet above that the IP Installer tool institute 1 Viewtron IP camera, model IP-D8 on the network. If you double click on the device, a web browser volition open. Delight note that simply Internet Explorer is supported at this time for alive video display. Notwithstanding, Chrome and Safari web browsers can exist used to manage all of the settings of your IP camera (just no video display is supported)

Not-PoE DVR / NVR Installation

The above network setup / installation instructions are also applicable when you are using a Viewtron DVR or NVR and connecting your IP camera to a local network (not directly to the PoE ports on a Viewtron NVR).

IP Camera DVR Setup

Please note that Viewtron DVRs also have built-in network IP scanner that can be used instead of the network scanners documented to a higher place.

Next Steps

Here are some boosted setup tasks that you lot should do.

DHCP Reservation / Static IP Address Setup - At present that you IP camera has been assigned an IP address on your network, you should reserve that address so that the aforementioned 1 is always assigned to it. DHCP reservation is setup in case your photographic camera is ever restarted or looses ability. This ensures that the same IP address is assigned and your desktop and mobile apps practise not loose their connections to your IP camera.
Port Forwarding - The to a higher place setup instructions enabled you to connect to your IP photographic camera on your local network. If you want to access your cameras from remotely over the Internet (when you lot are not on-site with your IP photographic camera), so you demand to setup port forwarding on your router.

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