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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 
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bar of the browser by manual to login your camera. You can access the FDT camera by 
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 
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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  
						

							 
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You can access the FDT camera remotely through web browsers by UPnP/DDNS 
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. 
 
   
						

							 
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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. 
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. 
 
5.1.1 Set up a new camera.  
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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.