Depending on how your router is configured you may or may not be able to reach it. 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). One problem with this is if you have a camera with a preconfigured IP address. 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. Another 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. 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. 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. So that made it easy to figure out which IP was for the camera. The camera’s both had easily identifiable hostname (something like IPCam- cameraID). Hopefully, though, you can find it listed there. Remember, though, that if you don’t see it under DHCP it may be configured with a set IP address. Different routers have this information in different locations, but most place it under ARP or DHCP or LAN connections. The simplest way to find the IP is to log in to your router and check what IPs are connected. That caused a problem (more on that later).

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. The first, and most common, problem is finding the camera IP.

Here’s a basic overview of what you’ll be doing: Connect the cameras one at a time via an ethernet cable to the same network as your device is on, find the camera’s IP address, log in to the camera using the default port (99 in most cases), and change settings. IP scanner) may not be available for your platform. currently the “OSX” software is actually their iOS app), or some of the necessary software (eg. Their software may or may not be available for your platform (eg. on a Mac, Linux machine, or in iOS or Android) or without using Wanscam software you might have some problems. If you want to set up Wanscam cameras without using a Windows PC (eg.

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