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| === How to Test My Camera if It is Working Using a PC? === | | === How to Test My Camera if It is Working Using a PC? === |
− | How to test the camera with your PC | + | [https://blog.microseven.com/tech-support/2020/11/19/how-to-test-the-camera-with-your-pc/ How to test the camera with your PC] |
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| 1. Turn off your laptop wifi if you have wifi on. | | 1. Turn off your laptop wifi if you have wifi on. |
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| [[File:Networksharingcenter.jpg|alt=Go to Network and Sharing Center|none|thumb|400x400px|Go to Network and Sharing Center]] | | [[File:Networksharingcenter.jpg|alt=Go to Network and Sharing Center|none|thumb|400x400px|Go to Network and Sharing Center]] |
| b) It opens the Ethernet Properties window. Highlight the “Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)”. And click on the Properties button. | | b) It opens the Ethernet Properties window. Highlight the “Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)”. And click on the Properties button. |
| + | [[File:Ethernet.jpg|alt=Go to Properties|none|thumb|Go to Properties]] |
| + | c) You will select “Use the following IP address:”, then enter the following IP address and Subnet mask value in the fields and click OK to save the settings. |
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| + | IP address: 192.168.1.177 |
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| + | Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 |
| + | [[File:Pc-ip-set.jpg|alt=Assign an IP address to your PC|none|thumb|Assign an IP address to your PC]] |
| + | 4. Open the Cam Locator software. Do a search for the camera. You will find two IP addresses in the Cam Locator software list. If the camera you set a static IP address in it, you may switch it to the DHCP, or you will simply reset the camera. The camera factory’s default IP address is 192.168.1.201 and DHCP mode. |
| + | [[File:Cam locator ind.jpg|alt=Search a camera|none|thumb|400x400px|Search a camera]] |
| + | 5. Highlight the camera, double click on it to open the camera system in a browser. |
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| + | The camera log in default is: admin/password |
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| + | 6. Now you can go ahead to go to SYSTEM -> Log |
| + | [[File:Log.jpg|alt=Read the log file.|none|thumb|400x400px|Read the log file.]] |
| + | 7. Test a ping in your PC dos prompt: |
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| + | ping 192.168.1.201 -t |
| + | [[File:Dos ping.jpg|alt=Ping the camera IP address.|none|thumb|400x400px|Ping the camera IP address.]] |
| + | 8. If the ping result without any timeout, the camera is running healthy. You can find the SYSTEM log if the camera is up and running. |