FDT Camera FD8901 User Manual
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5 App for Mobile Device
To access your device from a smart phone or tablet, please download and install FDT
View. For iPhone and iPad users, please visit the App store to download the App. For
Android user, please install the APP from the Google Play, or http://fdt.us.
Note: For purposes of this guide, we will use iOS, though both apps have the same
interface. The App Interface may differ slightly from the screenshots below as updates are
released.
Note: If you have a dual band router, and your camera is not connecting to your WiFi
network, please make sure you did not connect the FDT camera by 5G. It support 2.4G
only.
Note: The password is case sensitive.
5.1 Add Camera
You can go to the camera list page to find a “+ Add Camera” to add cameras into your App.
Before you start to setup your camera, please select your camera type at first. For this
FDT PT camera, please select “WiFi Camera”, then tap Next to continue.
There are 2 methods to add camera. The first one is “Set up a new camera”, it is used to
add camera which is just reset to factory setting or you just get the camera from the
package. You can change the initial password of the camera and set wifi settings to your
camera through this method. It is usually used for the first time you want to setup this
camera. The second one is “Set up an existing camera”, it means to add the camera you
set up before. For example, you have already set up your camera in another smartphone
or web. For the second method, you can search and add the camera directly, no need to
change the password or set the wifi configuration.
21 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.us 5.1.1 Set up a new camera. If you are the first time to set up the FDT camera, or your just reset your FDT camera. Please click the button “Set up a new camera” to add it into your smartphone or tablet. Please powered up your camera first, and connect your camera to your router with an Ethernet cable. After you connect your smartphone or tablet to the same local network via wifi, then you can go to add your camera into the App by scanning the camera in the LAN or by inputting its UID by manual. We do recommend you to scan and add the camera in your local network, so you do not need to input the UID which is a long identifie and hard to remember. 1. Scan for your camera Once you chosen to add the camera by scanning, you can follow the NEXT or text instructions to complete the process of adding camera. Here are the screenshots to show how to add the camera by scanning. -Select the camera you want to set up from the camera list you get by scanning. -Give your camera a name, and input right username and password to access it. The default username is admin, the default password is admin too. -Change the initial admin/admin username/password for the consideration of account security. Give your camera a private username and password that known only by you, and keep it secret. -If you want to configure the wifi in this set up process, you can choose YES to connect to your wifi, or you can choose NO to start the live view directly. You can also configure your wifi in the wifi setting page after you added the camera into your App if you do not want to configure it in this step. -Please click the refresh icon to search the wifi AP list again if you did not find the wifi SSID you want. -Please input the right password of your wifi, and click next to set it into your camera. -Then you can start live view of your camera and complete this set up process, and you can access and control your camera now.
22 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.us 2. Manually connect Once you chosen to add the camera by manual, you can follow the NEXT or text instructions to complete the adding of camera. Here are the screenshots to show you this
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process.
-Enter in your camera’s UID first, you can find it on the sticker of your camera’s bottom or
side. Give your camera a name, and input right username and password to access it. The
default username is admin, the default password is admin too.
-Change the initial admin/admin username/password for the consideration of account
security. Give your camera a private username and password that known only by you, and
keep it secret.
-If you want to configure the wifi in this set up process, you can choose YES to connect to
your wifi, or you can choose NO to start the live view directly. You can also configure your
wifi in the wifi setting page after you added the camera into your App if you do not want to
configure it in this step.
-Please click the refresh icon to search the wifi AP list again if you did not find the wifi
SSID you want.
-Please input the right password of your wifi, and click next to set it into your camera.
-Then you can start live view of your camera and complete this set up process, and you
can access and control your camera now.
24 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.us 5.1.2 Set up an existing camera. For the FDT camera you have set up before, you can click the button “Set up an existing camera” to add it into your smartphone or tablet. There are also 2 ways to add it, by scanning or by manual. We do recommend you to scan and add the camera in your local network area, so you do not need to input the UID which is a long identifie and hard to remember. 1. Scan for your camera -After click the scanning button to search the FDT camera in your local network area, you can get a camera list. Please select the camera you want to set up. -Give you camera a name, and enter in its right username and password. -Then you can start the live view and go to the setting page to access or control it.
25 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.us 2. Manually connect If you want to add this existing camera to your smartphone or table by manual, please click the button “Manually Connect”. Enter in your camera’s UID, username and password, you can also give it a new name you like. Then you can start the live view and go to the setting page to access and control your camera. 5.2 Camera list page You can go to the camera page to check what cameras you have added. Here are a camera list, and you can also delete or edit the login information for the camera. -Click the edit icon to edit the camera login information. For example, you can change the camera’s name in your smartphone or modify the camera’s username and password if you could not login your camera, even the UID. -Click the tooling icon to enter the setting page, then you can edit all your camera’s settings, include Edit Password, Alarm Setting, Alarm Link Setting, Timed Recording Setting, Audio Setting, Video Setting, Wifi Setting, SD Card Setting, Device Time Setting, Email Setting, FTP Setting, System Setting and Device Information. All of these settings will be explained in detail in next chapter. -Click the trash icon to delete the camera you want. You can also delete the camera you want by sliding the camera from right to left, then you can find a Delete button to delete this camera.
26 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.us 5.3 Live view page After add the camera successfully, you can preview the video of your camera and set the configurations you want. This section will show you what the icons can do in the live view page of the FDT View.
27 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.us -The resolution (HD/SD or High/Low) The HD standards for the first/main stream of the camera, it is 720P as default. The SD means second/sub stream of the camera, it is VGA as default. You can also change the default settings as you want in the setting pages. -Flip the Viewo ; -Mirror the Video ; -Snap picture from the video and save it to your phone ; -Record video by manual from the video and save it to your phone; -Audio from the camera; -Talking to the camera; By press and holding this icon, you can hear the voice from the camera or the audio out port by connecting an earphone. -Set the video parameters of your camera, such as bright/contrast/saturation. And control the LED status of your camera by the icons of the model, such as auto/night vision/day vision. -Exit , you can go back to the device list page by click the back icon . -Settings page, you can go to the settings page by click the icon of settings.
28 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.us 5.4 Settings pages 5.4.1 Edit Password You can change the password of the FDT camera in this page. 5.4.2 Alarm Settings You can set the configuration about motion-detection alarm of the camera in this page, such as enable or disable the alarm, set the sensitivity of the motion-detection like low/medium/high. 5.4.3 Alarm link settings You can enable the linked actions once the alarm is triggered in this page, include the Push Notifications to your smartphone, record video to the SD Card, alarm emails with snapshot, save snapshot or recording to FTP server, and the count for the snapshot.
29 FDT Technologies-http://www.fdt.us 5.4.4 Timed recording settings You can set the scheduled recording settings in this page, include the recording length. 5.4.5 Audio settings You can set the configurations for audio in this page. 5.4.6 Video settings You can set the configuration about video encoding for the first/second stream in this page, like bitrate/frame rate and video quality. The top on is for first stream, the second one is for second stream.