VIVOTEK IP CAMERA UTILITY SOFTWARE
VIVOTEK IP CAMERA UTILITY SERIES

Select the resultant IP address and here you can change some settings such as port, IP address, mask, etc. Open the finder and click on refresh, the result will show below: The first step to connect to the camera is to find its IP.

VIVOTEK IP CAMERA UTILITY SERIES

The best way to approach this is by downloading and using the TP-IP Series Search Utility. These cameras come with a default IP of 192.168.1.2 or sometimes will be set to DHCP. Like any IP based device it will require to know its IP address, or at least have a way to find it. Some settings such as brightness, sharpness, WDR, etc need to be adjusted depending of the environment where the cameras are mounted. The settings and access setup is the same throughout the entire TP-Series Cameras. In my opinion and as a rule of thumb I always configure each device first to avoid any misconfigurations, then I will end connecting these to the recorder.įor this demonstration I will be using an IPID-TP2MPIR50L2812-W. Some ONVIF products require to have certain features turned ON before integrating with any equipment that is not from the same brand. One of the greatest thing about this new line is the variety of models we are offering from bullet style, varifocal & fix lenses to small ball domes that can be installed in no time.Īs I mentioned before, Onvif (Open Network Video Interface Forum), is an Open Industry aimed to facilitate the communication of IP based video products with other devices that are not necessarily from the same manufacturer. Today I will introduce our new line of ONVIF cameras (our TP Series) with a new and elegant style, that promise to be an easy and great setup for your CCTV needs. Also, it will find Longse camera's in different subnets which a network scanner won't.īottom line: will still have to wait for one that can detect all camera's on all subnets and displays all information correct.Onvif Cameras have become very popular these days and many companies are adopting this new open protocol to integrate with other equipment brands. if you have a lot of networked devices this tool might be a faster approach. Sure, a network scanner like Advanced IP Scanner can do that to but that will give you all networked devices, not only the camera's. if you try to do that for another brand, the program will terminate with an error.Īlthough it's not perfect, it can be usefull to find camera's in an unknown network for instance. Of course, changing the IP address etc on the right hand side of the screen only works for the Longse camera. As could be expected, it didn't find it anymore. I tried the same with the Sony and moved that to a different subnet. It does show the Longse camera 'IPC' although it's on a different subnet. The Axis camera shows up a bit weird in the device name and the IP address is wrong, should also be in the range so that's not good.Īs mentioned 'networkcamera' is a Vivotek camera of which it doesn't show the brand correctly but it finds the camera and you can get to it. Maybe there are other tools out there that do this but this is the first one i've actually seen doing it. On the other hand, it's the first one i saw that shows Longse (of course), Arecont Vision, Sony, Axis and an 'unknown' (it's a Vivotek in this case) brand camera in the same discovery process.

It's not (yet) what i described above, there are a few flaws and its not perfect. As usual, i neglected that warning and went ahead whit it (on a demo machine of course).

VIVOTEK IP CAMERA UTILITY SOFTWARE

Windows didn't like me installing this piece of software and warned me for it. This is the installation tool for Longse camera's and made by Herospeed (). Wouldn't it be nice to have a 'universal' IP camera discovery tool? One that finds any camera regardless of brand, type and IP address?īelow is a screenshot of IP Search Tool.

Vivotek ip camera utility