The first, and most common, problem is finding the camera IP. Supposedly these cameras come from factory configured to accept DHCP IP assignments, but I didn’t find that to be the case in one of my 2 cameras. That caused a problem (more on that later). The simplest way to find the IP is to log in to your router and check what IPs are connected. Different routers have this information in different locations, but most place it under ARP or DHCP or LAN connections. Remember, though, that if you don’t see it under DHCP it may be configured with a set IP address. Hopefully, though, you can find it listed there. The camera’s both had easily identifiable hostname (something like IPCam- cameraID). So that made it easy to figure out which IP was for the camera. If you don’t see that, you can try connecting to one IP after another (starting with the highest-numbered IP as that’s often the most recently assigned IP) at port 99. Ping addressListedAsBroadcastFromAboveCommand Īnother way to find what’s connected on your network in OSX or Linux/*nix, without logging in to the router, is to open terminal and issue these commands: To do that, in the browser of your choice type in the IP that you see there followed by a colon and 99 (for port 99), eg. Ip camera wanscam manual download#Īnother option, if you have nmap installed (you can download it for all major operating systems) is to issue this command (assuming your local network is set up to use 192.168.2.x – if not sure you can check by checking your computer’s assigned IP address): That should give you a list of IPs that are active. If you have Windows you could alternatively use the free network scanner at In iOS/Android there are a number of network scanners in the app stores that should work as well. One problem with this is if you have a camera with a preconfigured IP address. In my case, my network is set up on the 192.168.2.x subnet, but the IP address of the camera was 192.168.1.99 (found via my router’s list of active connections, not the DHCP table which had no listing, obviously).
If not, you’re either going to have to reconfigure your router to use the same subnet, or connect the camera and computer to a temporary router using the subnet of the IP camera.ĭepending on how your router is configured you may or may not be able to reach it.
That’s what I chose to do, using an old WRT54G I had lying around.Įither way, once you get the IP everything else is fairly straight-forward. Log in with the default username and password, listed on the card or sticker on your camera (in both cases with mine the default was admin:no password).
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