How to Connect an IP Camera to your Network

hi guys thanks for joining me today we're gonna go over real quick how to set up your IP live streaming camera in order to connect it to your local area network so first what we do is we have our camera we've got our net gear switch here which is p OE which is convenient meaning you don't have to run a power supply once it's connected but initially you're going to want to connect your power supply for this particular configuration we're going to use our laptop with a cat 6 cable connected directly to the camera so as of now the camera is on it's powered I am going to go ahead and connect from a laptop to our camera using our rj45 local area network port so typically when you turn it on with power it does a little dance stuff moves around same thing with a POV cable if it was a POV powered you wouldn't need a power supply to do the same thing it's already done this little dance for this scenario but as of now we're connected so we're going to go to our network settings and we're going to want to go to our Ethernet setting change adapter options right click on your Ethernet card so not the Wi-Fi right card and go to properties once you've gone to properties you want to go to your TCP forward slash ipv4 the Internet Protocol version 4 select that select the properties on it as of now you can see my static IP address not automatic but static is using the following IP address I have already configured this for one ninety two dot one sixty eight dot v dot 150 that is the address of this laptop the reason I did that is because by default this PTZ camera comes with a one ninety two dot one sixty eight dot v dot one sixty three address the point of networks need to be able to see each other so if this was a one it would not work if one ninety two dot one sixty eight dot one dot one fifty wouldn't ever find this one because it's on a dot v network so we want to configure this from automatic to our static by typing in one ninety two dot one sixty eight dot v dot one fifty in this case is just a host ID that i grabbed you can do anything from one through 255 and depend on how many devices you have on your network you may want to do an IP scan to make sure you don't have a conflict because if you have another device on the network with say the dot 150 hose you're gonna have issues so make sure it's a unique host ID obviously once you press down here to the subnet mask it automatically configures it to 255 255 255 dot 0 for a gateway we do a one ninety two dot one sixty eight dot 5.1 and same for our DNS server once you have this configure you know you're within the same subnet as the camera itself so we're gonna help go ahead and hit OK and they send you a message asking if you know you have duplicate gateways this may not work just hit yes okay so once we've done that we can go ahead and close up our auric settings and we can either use Firefox Chrome or if you're using a Mac Safari Internet Explorer ie is not technically supported as of now for most of these cameras as well as Microsoft edge is still working out some sub little kinks but it should be working as soon as what I'm hearing so for this case let's use say Firefox so as of now we're not connected to the actual network that we're connected to the camera so I'm going to type in one ninety two dot one sixty eight dot v dot one sixty three and as you can see we have our login screen here we're gonna type in admin admin as our default password and username you don't need to save it unless you really want to and you allow Adobe Flash to run on this one if you have an older version of Firefox or an older version of the flash you will want to update your Firefox as well as the flash for the flash to work so as you can see we have our preview I'm going to go ahead to configuration this is where we have all our settings where we can go in here do stream publish on screen display you know resolution and so forth but what we want to do is go to our network configure so we have network pool these are basically our settings required for other devices such as visca if you were to use a joystick controller 1259 is the default RTSP 5x4 RTMP 1935 so you can just make sure these are all correct for whatever platform you are planning on using so as you can see this is our cameras IP address that's already in the system let's also make the gateway so we're going to make that a one ninety two dot one sixty eight dot one dot one the reason why I'm doing this is I'm changing everything from the dot five to the dot one this way this matches our network that is currently here in existence where all our the devices are on so they can all see each other and I can communicate to this camera using Wi-Fi DNS as well we're going to change that dot one dot one we don't have to worry about the alternate you can do an 8.8.8.8 for google if you'd like but it's not necessary so as we can see we saved our settings our Ethernet here this is the one we need to change to a dot one so if I had left that dot five we would not be able to see this camera once we connected it to the actual network here the local area network that is a one ninety two dot one sixty eight dot one dot one network so again save DNS looks good and now we're going to reboot so close your browser up once you've done that give the camera you know good minute or so to reset restart attain its IP address but what I'm gonna do is I'm now going to unplug the camera from my laptop and I'm going to plug it into my local area network switch so now it is it obtaining its IP address you can use the Wi-Fi settings on the laptop at this point so technically all you need to do is go back to your settings here select Wi-Fi on select your network and what this is doing is this is automatically using let's use the DHCP to automatically select the the proper IP address that's not already taken by another device and the camera here as we know has its static IP address of one ninety two dot one sixty eight dot one dot one sixty three so I didn't change the host ID 163 you can you can make it whatever you want up to 255 but I just leave it at 163 for now for this particular situation so I'm going to open up my browser and I'm going to type in one ninety two dot one sixty eight dot one dot one sixty three and voila now we have our login screen if it was still out of duct live you'd be able to see this we know something's wrong and then we need to go back into it and make sure that we saved everything and set everything properly adding an admin if you have a plug-in that's blocking that screen make sure you enable your plug-in to accept it usually it's a little icon up here configuration again now we can see this is all good that our network we're connected with our laptop via Wi-Fi so very nice especially if you want to walk around you can unplug your power and basically go wherever you need to go and still be able to see the camera and so that's pretty much it folks as far as how to connect it if you prefer to use a wired connection you can disable your Wi-Fi for instance what I'll do first though is actually change my settings so now I'm going to go back into my my Ethernet card the hardwired port and I'm gonna change it and all you really need to do is you can do a static IP address if you want but typically all you need to do at this point is do a DHCP so again back to our ipv4 here there are properties and you can change this to a one and it will work and your laptop will be static or you can just obtain IP address automatically obtain DNS server automatically hit OK make sure you plug in your wire and it'll take a minute for it basically to sink you don't have to turn off your Wi-Fi you can usually um it will disable as you can see it's identifying and what this does essentially is hardwire is always faster than Wi-Fi Wi-Fi tends to have a lag especially if the camera is connected into this local switch and my laptop's connecting the local switch you're just going to avoid a lot of latency and when you're videoing it'll be more real-time versus having this long lag and as you can see very simple [Music] and that's pretty much it's folks basically again you're going to connect the camera to the laptop directly configure the ethernet card to match the cameras default IP address and at that point once you've done that you've saved your information you can go ahead and reconnect the camera to a local network switch p OE preferred and that that way you can actually unplug the camera from its power supply throw that guy away and now you're actually powered using the ethernet cable for simplicity and overall aesthetics so other than that if you got any questions please feel free to give us a call here at bzb gear tech support we're here to help and we can easily walk you through this thanks for joining us and hopefully you have a great day and we'll see you soon

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Length: 12min 37sec (757 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 25 2020