You can switch between "day" and "night" vision or set it to "auto" to figure out what is best for itself. You can easily pan and tilt the camera to view around the room. Once connected over WI-FI, I started to play with the camera operation in the management screen. Weird.Īnyway, after figuring that out, I subsequently hard coded the static IP address in the network settings, so it wouldn't change in the future. I've never seen a device have the same IP address on a wireless connection and a LAN connection. So apparently the camera's WAN and LAN connection share an IP. It turns out, the wireless gets the same IP address as the LAN (the ethernet cable I originally plugged from the camera to the router above start the configuration).Īt first I was confused with the wireless setup, as I didn't see a way to set a static IP address, so I thought the wireless set up I was looking at was the "WI-FI Extension" feature, but I ended up finding that on another screen.įinally I took the chance of unplugging the LAN/ethernet cable to subsequently find that I could still communicate with the camera through the already opened management screen which was using the original IP address of the LAN. Since I had no idea if it was connected or not, I spent about 2o minutes going back and forth between the D-Link camera and Cisco Router management screens trying to find the IP address that was assigned to the wireless portion of the IP camera to prove it was connected. You can enter the wrong password and the subsequent screen is no different than if you enter the correct password. The D-Link doesn't give you any indication that it has connected to the wireless. I plugged in the login parameters and it was connected. All I had to do was enable the wireless, click the "site survey" button and find my Cisco wireless home router. Once in the IP Camera's configuration screen, I first set up the Wireless. Click on the "maintenance" tab and you should see it). Enter the username is "admin" and leave the password blank for the default login information (Make sure to create a password after logging in. Then I simply plugged that address () into my web browser to pull up the camera's configuration screen. I then logged into my router and looked at the status of the local network for the DHCP IP addresses it had given out to the camera. The camera came with a network cable, so I first plugged the camera into my router using the cable. I hate to use "easy setup" software as I hate installing extra unnecessary software on my computer (it almost always has crap-ware that ultimately bogs down your computer), so I set it up manually. I'm a tech geek, so the set up of the camera was fairly easy for me. My other big need is for the video to work on both my iPhone and my wife's Nokia Lumia 920 phones. I'm mostly looking for a wireless IP camera that is stable and has night vision. This simple review is from a fairly niche perspective. Wanting something more stable and viewable in the dark, I recently purchased the " D-Link DCS-5020L Cloud Wireless IP Camera, 640X480 Resolution, Pan/Tilt, Night Vision, Wi-Fi Extender, Sound and Motion Detection, mydlink enabled" IP camera from for $99.99. Plus it didn't work at night in the dark. It worked fairly well but crashed just about every night, making it useless to monitor the baby in the morning before getting out of bed. Trying to save some money a while back, I set up an old iPhone on a mini-tripod for use as a baby video monitor.
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