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5 Simple Steps to Hook Up your IP Camera
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Download MobiWatcher Client |
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Currently, only windows version available .
Click here to download
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Install MobiWatcher Client |
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Run downloaded program and install mobiwatcher client in your computer. |
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Launch MobiWatcher Client |
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Click Mobiwatcher Client in your desktop to lauch client.
The setup wizard will
show up.
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Set up your device following set up wizard |
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Following the set up wizard. Make sure to choose "IP camera without computer" |
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During setup, there maybe 3 issues you may encounter: |
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- Your IP camera is not in our system yet. In this case you can set up right
away, because we need meta data of your camera before we actually setup your device.
Click here to check current submitted cameras.
- Port forwarding can not configurated automatically. Please see below
- DDNS problem See Below
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Install MobiWatcher for mobile to your mobile device (optional) |
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If you need to view your camera to your cell phone, pelase go to download page to download MobileWatcher for mobile and install into your mobile
device in the way your mobile device requires, or directly input the following URL
in the mobile browser
http://mobiWatcher.com/MobiWatcher.jad so that
your mobile device will automatcially install our mobile client.
After mobile client installed, run update profile in mobile device with your log
in user name and password you registered in MobiWatcher.com.
You are all set, and
are able to access your web cam, view real time video, and
view recorded snapshots, receive alerts, turn on and off alert notification
righ in your mobile device.
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View a Video of how to set up a IP camera with Mobiwatcher here
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Port Forwarding For Your IP Camera |
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MobiWatcher Client will try to configurate portforwarding in your router so that
your web cam is accessible from internet. In most case,
it can be automatically configurated.
However, if portfowarding can not be set up in your router, you need to manually
configurte it. Otherwise, your cam is not visible from outside.
If you have problem to config your router for port forwarding, please visit Portforwarding.com,
which provides plenty of information for how to forward port in the router.
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DDNS Configuration |
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Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS) is to map a dynamic ip address,which most
home users are likely to be assigned by ISP, to a fix domain name, so that your
camera is still accessible even the ip address changed.
MobiWatcher Client can help you register a free DDNS host with dynDns.org, however,
if you router or ip camera does not support DDNS, you have to use static IP address
with our system, even your ip address is not really static.
When the ip address changes, the camera is inaccessible till you click synchronize
button throught our web site from a computer in the same network with IP Camera
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Note for Security |
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We take the security as our first concern as many users do. The following
approachs help to protect our user's privacy and safety when using our service:
- Mobiwatcher use 128 bits SSL to protect the communication channel between our
site and user's browser
- Web service between mobiwatcher client and our web site is encrypted
- Mobiwatacher Client only accept connection initializing from our domain
- The opened port only enabled when our program is running. When it closes, the port
is close too.
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