Configure TRENDnet TV-IP762IC Wireless Day/Night Network Camera for Cloud Recording, Remote Monitoring and Playback
Contents
Introduction
Step 1: Connect camera to the network and find its IP address
1.1 Connect the camera to the network
1.2 Find the camera’s IP address
Step 2: Access Camera's Web-based Configuration Tool
2.1 Basic setup steps
2.2 Setup or Re-Configure Wi-Fi
Step 3: Configure the video / audio profile.
Step 4: Configure Motion Detection
Step 5. Configure Action (i.e. FTP, and video/image recording settings)
5.1 Configure Video/Audio Recording
5.2 Configure Image Snapshots Recording
6. CameraFTP Viewer
TREENDnet TV-IP762IC is a low-cost wireless
Day/Night Network Camera that supports both image snapshots and video/audio
recording. It is designed for indoor use and supports image and video
resolutions of 1280x720. Motion (and audio) detection is also supported.
Basic camera information
| Video / image resolution |
1280x720, 640x352, 320x176 |
| Audio recording |
Supported |
| Image upload frequency |
1 image/s to 1 image/day if recording continuously. With motion detection, it supports 1
image/s and 1 image/2s |
| Video frame rate |
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15, 30 |
| Night-vision |
Up to 16 feet |
| Image snapshot recording |
Supported |
| Video clip recording |
Supported. (Max clip length is 10 seconds/clip.) |
| Motion detection |
Supported for both image and video clip based recording |
| Continuous recording |
Continuous video clip recording is not
fully supported; Continuous image recording is fully supported. |
| Supported video format |
.MP4 and .AVI (CameraFTP recommend .MP4) |
| Connection type |
Wi-Fi and Ethernet cable; supports WPS |
| PoE (Power on Ethernet) |
No |
| Indoor / outdoor |
Indoor |
| Lowest pricing (as of 7/31/2015) |
$59.99 |
Note: This document is not designed to
replace the product manual from the manufacturer. The information provided is
based on our knowledge of the model TRENDnet TV-IP762IC. It may not be
accurate or up-to-date. Users shall contact the manufacturer for all camera-related
issues and contact us only for CameraFTP-related (i.e. cloud service / FTP) issues.
The first 2 steps are camera related and
are very trivial. If you have finished these basic steps, then you can skip
Steps 1 and 2 below. CameraFTP’s service can be configured in just 3 steps
(i.e. Step 3, 4 and 5).
There are two ways to connect the IP camera to the Wi-Fi network.
(1) If your Wi-Fi router does not support WPS,
then you need to connect the camera with the router using an Ethernet cable
first. You can configure the Wi-Fi settings in the camera's configuration pages
later.
(2) If your Wi-Fi access point/router
supports WPS (or QSS), then it is very easy to connect your device to the
network.
Turn on the camera, the power light is
solid blue. Press the WPS button on your Wi-Fi access point for three seconds
(the WPS button usually starts flashing), then quickly press the WPS button on
your camera and hold it for a few seconds until the WPS light turns on. In about
one minute, you will see the camera's power light turn solid green (WPS light
is off), indicating a connection to the wireless router.
If your camera is connected to the Wi-Fi
router, or if you have connected the camera with a router using an Ethernet
cable, then you can run the manufacturer’s setup program to find the camera’s
IP address. From a PC in the same network, insert the camera’s software CD and
run the Setup Wizard. You will see the screen as shown below:
Click “Install Camera” and follow the
instructions on the screen. After a few pages, it will start searching for the
camera - wait for the search to finish. If it finds your camera, then it will
display the screen below:
Click Next. It will ask you to change the default password (which is admin):
For security purposes, you should change
the default password. Click Next to continue the setup wizard, you will
be able to finish the initial setup.
Click the URL in the above screen, it will launch a web browser window shown below.
Click the Setup icon as shown above, it will go to the basic setup page shown below:
Click Advanced à Settings, and a new browser
window (tab) will open as shown below. This time, the host name in the URL
section is the camera’s IP address.
If you know the camera’s IP address, you
can directly access the configuration page by visiting:
http://IP_ADDRESS/
In the above screen, logon with the
username “admin” and the updated password. (The default username is admin and
the password is also admin.) If you followed the above steps, then it will go
to the live view page directly.
Note: If
you used other tool to find the camera’s IP address without changing the
default password, you will be asked to accept the agreement after logon, then
change your password. After that, the camera will reboot and you can then log
on with your new password.)
After logon, the camera defaults to the
live-view screen. You might be prompted to install an ActiveX, Plug-in or Java,
which will be required. If it does not work, you can try a different browser. (E.g.
IE or Firefox. In our tests, the plug-in does not work with Chrome).
In the live-view window, click the Setup button to enter the main setup page:
If you haven’t setup this camera before, you can quickly follow the wizard to
finish the basic setup. Usually you just click Next for each step. See
the screenshots below:
Basic Setup Step 1: LAN SETTINGS. Usually you will use the default DHCP option. SO click Next.
Basic Setup Step 2: INTERNET SETTINGS. Your IP camera is connected to a Wireless
Router. So this step is not needed. Just click Next.
Basic Setup Step 3: DDNS Settings. Just click Next.
Note: If you use CameraFTP service, then DDNS service is not needed. You can log on
to your CameraFTP account and view or play back your cameras online. You can
also download our mobile viewer apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
Basic Setup Step 4: You can simply click Next. CameraFTP service does not use this camera name. A camera
name on CameraFTP should be the same as the cloud folder’s name to store the
recorded footage.
Basic Setup Step 5: This step does not directly affect your service with CameraFTP.
However, it affects the time displayed on your recorded images / videos. You
can manually update the time, or synchronize with a public time server. You can
enter NTP Server name as:
0.pool.ntp.org, 1.pool.ntp.org or 2.pool.ntp.org. After done, click Next.
Basic Setup Step 6: Click Apply to save the changes. The camera will reboot. It will
take about one minute to finish rebooting. After you reconnect to the camera,
it will default to the same setup main page. Don’t run the wizard again.
If you had already connected the camera with your wireless router, then skip this step.
Otherwise, click the Network tab, then click Wireless Setup, you will see the screen below.
Click Rescan to find all available Wi-Fi connections, then select your
connection. Enter the wireless key, after done, click Apply.
If Wi-Fi is configured successfully, you can unplug your network cable later.
Since this may cause IP address to change, please wait until all setup steps are completed.
This camera is capable of recording
image/video of different sizes, formats and frame rates. You need to create a
profile that matches with the subscription plan you ordered.
To configure your video/audio/image
profile, please click the “Audio / Video” tab, then click on “Audio and Video”.
If you ordered our Image Service:
You only need to configure the Video
Profile 3 (JPEG), and you only need to select the correct image resolution
based on your CameraFTP subscription. The upload frequency (or Frame Per
Second, FPS) is configured in the Action tab.
If you ordered Video/Audio service:
You only need to configure the Video Profile 1 as follows:
- Encode type: H.264
- Resolution and FPS: Configure it based on your CameraFTP subscription level.
- Encode method: CBR (meaning Constant Bit Rate).
The bps value is a little tricky.
Setting it too low may affect the video quality, while setting it too high can cause
network congestion. Please use our bandwidth calculator to estimate your
bandwidth:
Open a new browser window and visit www.cameraftp.com, click on
Pricing, and then customize a service plan. You can see the screenshot below.
You can adjust the parameters and see the estimated bandwidth. Note: Number
of Cameras should be 1 when estimating the
bandwidth.
In the above example, you can set the bps to 256Kbps.
This camera supports both Motion Trigger
and Schedule Trigger. If you select Motion Trigger, it will only upload images/videos
when it detects a motion. This reduces the bandwidth usage so that the camera
will not slow down your network. This is recommended.
If you ordered a plan
with Motion Detection enabled, you MUST configure Motion Detection. For this
model camera, Motion Detection is strongly recommended for video surveillance
plans as the continuous video recording is buggy (it can only record 10 seconds
per minute). For continuous recording, it is recommended ordering our image
service plan.
Click the Motion Detection tab, check
the checkbox "Enable video motion"; then you need to define the
motion trigger area. Just draw a motion area and click Apply.
This step only sets how the camera
detects motions. Whether the camera will upload based on motion detection is
configured in Step 5.
If you don’t have an account on
CameraFTP, please visit www.cameraftp.com (in a new
browser window) and sign up a free trial account. CameraFTP offers three-day
free trial. After three days, you need to order our paid subscription to
continue using the service.
After you sign up, please log on www.cameraftp.com, go to My
Cameras page, click Add to add a camera to your account, see the screenshot below.
The camera name will be used as the folder name in the FTP account.
If you ordered Video/Audio service,
click on Action à Video Clip as
shown in the screenshot below. Otherwise, skip this step.
Check the “Enable” checkbox.
If you ordered a plan with motion
detection enabled,
then you must select "Trigger by Motion". Otherwise, you can select
"Trigger by Always". This camera can only record 10- second video
clips and the minimum video recording interval is 60 seconds. So continuous
video recording is not recommended.
For the FTP Server section, please enter the following information:
Click Apply, and then click Test to see
if it works correctly. This camera should be uploading video clips based on the video profile 1.
If you ordered image service, the
configuration is very similar to the video service. See screenshot below. Otherwise,
please skip this step.
Click Action à Snapshot:
Check the “Enable” checkbox, select
“Triggered by” based on your CameraFTP subscription. (See the video service
section). The FTP server info is the same as above. You can read the previous
section or see the screenshot above.
The main difference is the Interval; with
the image snapshot service, the minimum interval is 1 second, which corresponds
to 1 image/second. If you ordered a plan with 1 image/2 seconds, the interval
should be set to 2 seconds.
If you select Trigger by Motion, then
you can only select 1 second or 2 seconds as the interval.
If you select Trigger by Always, then
you can set the interval from 1 second to 86400 seconds (i.e. one day)
Click Apply and then click Test to check
if it is working fine. If it works fine, you are done!
NOTE: Please do not enable both Image
Snapshot and Video Clip. Otherwise, it will exceed the usage limit.
You can disconnect the Ethernet cable if
you want to use Wi-Fi. If you need to make changes, you can run the setup
program again to find the camera’s IP address (as it may change with DHCP), and
then access the camera’s Advanced Configuration pages.
After your camera is setup, you can
visit www.cameraftp.com to live monitor
or play back your recorded footage from anywhere. You can also download
CameraFTP Viewer App for iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
Cannot get it to work? Please read our
Trouble-shooting Guide.