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3 Camera Connection and Installation 
To make your experience with the FDT IP camera easy and simple, weve provided 
multiple ways to set up, view, and operate it depending on your needs. Please set up your 
camera in the way works best for you. 
3.1 Connection Guide 
The FDT camera can be accessed through the web browser in the computer or the App in 
the smart phone or tablet PC. Before accessing, you should connect the camera to your 
router by Ethernet cable or WiFi after it is powered on. 
 
3.2 Installation Guide 
The camera has a standard camera tripod screw hole (1/4-20 UNC thread) for use in 
mounting the camera onto a stable surface.  
Note: Prior to installation ensure that the installation environment can support at least 3 
times the weight of the camera. 
3.3 Default Username and Password  
To login to the camera for the first time, the default username/password is admin/admin. 
Once you’ve successfully logged in, it is highly recommended to change the username 
and password for security reasons.  
Note:  
1. Logging in for the first time will force you to change the default password of the admin 
account. 
2. The password is case sensitive. 
   
						

							 
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4 Access the camera 
4.1 Mobile device access 
The FDT camera can be accessed through FDT View app on either iOS or Android mobile 
devices. To access your device from a smart phone or tablet, please search and install 
FDT View app first from App Store or Google Play. 
 
 
4.2 Web browser access 
The FDT camera can be accessed through web browser for both windows and Mac OS. It 
supports the IE/Chrome/ Mozilla Firefox in windows and Safari/Chrome in Mac. The web 
browser accessing can supports all advance features of the FDT camera. 
 
4.2.1 SearchTool for Windows OS 
To easily connect to the camera’s interface in Windows, use the included CD to install and 
run the “SearchTool” for Windows. Alternatively, you can download the latest tool from 
http://fdt.us. However, before using the SearchTool to find the FDT camera in your local 
network, please ensure: 
1) The camera is connected to the Network via an Ethernet cable or Wifi.  
2) The camera and the PC are on the same local network. 
3) To open the camera’s web interface, please use the IE/Chrome/Mozilla Firefox in 
Windows OS, use the Safari/Chrome in Mac OS.  
  
						

							 
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You can also edit some network configurations, camera name through the SearchTool. 
But you have to enter the correct camera’s username/password to make your 
modifications valid. 
 
 
4.2.2 SearchTool for Mac OS 
You can find the “FDT Mac SearchTool.zip” for Mac OS in the included mini CD. Please 
copy and install it on your Mac computer. Then run the tool named “SearchTool” to search  
						

							 
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the FDT camera in your LAN. From the tool, you can get the name, UID, IP address, Mac 
address, Http port and firmware version of the camera. 
 
 
By double left clicking the camera in the searching list, you can open the camera by your 
default web browser, such as Safari. 
 
You  can  find  the  button “Refresh  Camera  List” and “Flush  Arp  Buffer” by  right  click  the 
search tool or the camera in the searching list, then you can refresh the searching list by  
						

							 
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these 2 buttons. 
 
Here is a “Network Configuration” button in the right-clicking button list. From this button, 
you can modify the IP, Device display name and http port of the FDT camera. Please note: 
1. The camera will reboot automatically if you modify its http port.  
2. Please enter the right username and password of your camera before you modify any 
network configuration of the camera. 
 
4.2.3 Access by IP address and http port 
After launching the SearchTool, click the next to skip the welcome page and refresh the 
searching page to bring up the cameras on your LAN. Then you can double click the 
camera you selected to login by your default web browser, or you can open the web 
browser you want first and input the camera’s IP address and http port in the URL address 
bar of the browser by manual to login your camera. You can access the FDT camera by  
						

							 
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HTTP protocols as below: 
http://LAN IP Address + HTTP Port No. For example: http://192.168.1.108:80. 
You can find the LAN IP Address and http port of your camera through the SearchTool. 
The default port is 80. 
 
Login to the camera using your correct credentials. If it is your first time logging into the 
camera by default account after it is reset, you will be forced to change the default 
password. Please select a password that is at least 8 characters long, and include a 
combination of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and numbers. 
 
For the IE/ Mozilla Firefox in Windows, when opening the camera’s interface, the browser 
will prompt you to install a plugin. The plugins are necessary to get camera’s video. Click 
install link to download the plugin, and install it by manually. If the browser prompts you to 
allow the plugin to work on the computer, hit Allow to ensure the plugin can run 
successfully. Then the camera is now successfully set up for live viewing, playback and 
configuration!  
						

							 
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Note: Due to the limitations of NPAPI plugin, the web browser of Chrome/Safari does not 
support the features of playback, talk, motion-detection and privacy mask. 
 
4.2.4 Remote access 
You can access the FDT camera remotely through web browsers by UPnP/DDNS  
						

							 
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features or Port forwarding. 
Go to the CONFIG/DDNS page to enable the UPnP and input the information for 
third-party DDNS, such as Dyndns.org/3322.org/dynddns.us/No-ip.com. Then you can 
access the FDT by DDNS remotely. 
 
Go to your router settings page to make the appreciate port forwarding, then you can 
access your camera remotely through the public IP address and its corresponding port. 
4.3 NVR access 
The FDT camera supports connecting to any NVR that ONVIF enabled. This allows the 
camera to view live, playback and to save recorded data to a network storage device.  
4.4 RTSP access 
The FDT camera supports the RTSP standard protocol, you can access the video and 
audio from the camera directly by RTSP player such as VLC. Please make sure you 
enable the RTSP feature of you camera, you can set this feature in the webUI of the 
camera through the web browsers, like IE/Firefox/Chrome in Windows OS computer, and 
Safari or Chrome in Mac OS computer. 
RTSP URL  
First stream: rtsp://username:password@IP:port/11 
For example: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/11 
Second stream: rtsp://username:password@IP:port/12 
For example: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/12 
Follow these steps to access the camera rtsp stream by VLC player: 
1) Open the VLC player and go to “Media”/”Open Network Stream”; 
 
2) Enter the URL in VLC and click the play button.  
						

							 
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3) You may need to go through the rtsp authentication if you did not input the 
username/password in your RTSP RUL. 
 
4) Then you can view the video from the VLC player by now.   
						

							 
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Note: you can also view the video remotely by the rtsp stream if you have the right DDNS 
or port mapping or forwarding.