[...] the local IP address of your camera. To find this address open IP Camera Tools (apple mac users, use IP Scanner Tool) and it will display the IP address of the camera as [...]

This is directed to Ron on hooking up wirelessly. This is how I did it on the Mac not sure if it will be the same on Windows. After finding the camera on the internet browser I opened device management. Then I opened Wireless Lan Settings and clicked the box beside using wireless lan. By doing it opened up SSD box to fill in name of router and ID. If I could send screen shots it would be so much easier. Now click scan. If the wireless router is working it will find it and list it in the wireless network list. Click and highlight the router that you are using because it will also find other networks that are close and list them. Lets say your router is listed as Linksys. Type Linksys into the ssid box and click submit. After it reboots unplug the ethernet cable wait 30 seconds and unplug power supply. Wait 30 seconds and plug the camera power back in. Do not plug in the ethernet cable to the router. The camera should be sending wirelessly to your router. Use the IP Scanner to detect the camera again. It seems that it becomes another device with a different IP address when it becomes wireless. Not sure this is right but it may be of some help. Good Luck!

Hi John, I did get it to work wirelessly and the trick was that the ip address changes as soon as you remove the lan cable as you mentioned above.
The only thing I don’t like is that, for me, I had to keep the camera plugged into the power adapter at all times, so after the wireless was set up, I couldn’t unplug the camera and move it to some other place in the house without having to restart the entire process again, so if you don’t have a long enough lan cable to at least start it off in the room you want, then you are out of luck. Only remaining issue I have. Otherwise, it works pretty good other than trying to manually adjust the zoom which I’ve had a problem with getting it to focus properly.

I purchased three of these cameras from a reseller on Ebay.
The first two set up perfectly. I am a mac user, and used the IP Scan tool, found the devices, logged in, configured them for wireless, unplugged the ethernet cable, and presto… the work incredibly.

The 3rd device, however not so good.

I plug it in, and get a green flashing light (slower than the working cams, but still about two blinks a second).

I scan the network, and can’t find it. I’ve tried all sorts of tools to look across the network, but it just doesn’t show up.

I am thinking that perhaps, prior to me using it, it might have been plugged in and tested or something, and perhaps it has different configuration info stored.

Is there any way to do a factory hard-reset on this thing to see if I can force it back to fresh?

Has anyone else experienced this?

The reset worked like a champ.
Unless I missed it, that’s not up on the blog or in the support docs.
You should add it

Awesome.

Thanks a million.

dave

Hi, I got the scanner working and found two IP addresses, but when I enter them into the browser it asks for a password and log in….I have no idea what these are, any ideas?

New firmware out that addresses these issues:

The changes are:
- Wifi Disconnections resolved
- Wrong timestamp in log resolved
- Videostream FPS can now be adjusted (see updated videostream command below). You will find this handy to control the bandwidth used by your IP cameras.
- You can Backup/Restore your camera settings

http://www.gadgetvictims.com/2010/05/new-firmware-for-foscam-cameras.html

Does this cam work with Airport Express and Extreme, if so please explain.

Monique,

Yes, you can install this at a location that has a PC based network and view it on your Mac at home.

Just recieved two cams, the FI8908W and the FI8904W and now I’m stuck.

FI8908W first. This cam does nothing out of the box. When I plug the network cable in the led’s on the back flash a couple times and that’s all the life i can get out of this cam. I tried the reset button for 30 sec and nothing. Thoughts or should I send this one back?

FI8904W – I found this cam right away but when I tried to set it up on my wifi it disappeared. I restarted it, I restarted my browser (Safari on a mac with current OS updates) and it will not show up again. I mean to say, I thought I might have missed something setting up wifi so I plugged it back into my router and it still didn’t show up again in IP Scanner. I pushed the reset button on that too and it still didn’t come back.

I am trying to set these up with my Vera home automation and would like to add 2 more outdoor cams soon but I’m not very encouraged after spending 3 hours and not having one working cam yet.

Hello all, well been round the merrygoround with this. Downloaded ipscanner. tried the camera connected directly to the mac via ethernet, can’t find it, tried camera connected via ethernet to my netgear adsl modem, can’t see it ( unidentified device flashes momentarily then becomes my laptop identity ). tried the reset and the camera does it’s wee dance but won’t show up on ipscanner. Also tried this with ‘crossover’, big flop.
If I connect directly to my laptop vie ethernet it shows up in network settings with self-assigned ip address, but I then can’t connect to the internet. If I use that ip address in Firefox it simply says the server isn’t responding. I bought it from a student and saw it working beautifully on his PC but this is really frustrating me now. Any help would be appreciated

use angry ip scanner for mac and plug into router via rj-45 cable..this should do the trick:)

For any of you using a Foscam wireless camera with a mac and Security Spy, which camera type and model did you select in Security Spy?

I have tried for 6 hours to get my foscams to work on my wireless network. (i have a mac). Have read all the instructions here and at dozens of google sites…..at least 6 or 12 times. nothing. works great on ethernet but will not work wirelessly.

plugged ethernet into camera
plugged ethernet into router
plugged power into camera
pluggled power into outlet
found camera ip on ip scanner
entered ip in browser
logged into camera
set to wireless network
checked spelling and lower cases dozens of times
entered share key
rebooted
unplugged ethernet
unplugged power
tried not rebooting router and rebooting router
plugged camera back in
camera will not broadcas on wifi
PLEASE HELP very frustrated
read directions from here and dozens of sites. tried many things.
had to. there are so many different ideas of how to make it work.
someone please start a thread with me and find out whats wrong.
thank you

I’ve got the thing to work when plugged into the airport time cap and even into the Ethernet port on the airport express. Whenever I do a scan for wireless networks, it doesn’t see any. I’ve tried unplugging and rebooting and nothing.

Also regarding the above comment about line of site, this is simply not true. I’ve got a camera in my kitchen, livingroom and spare room. The router is in the spare room. No problems with line of site whatsoever.

ho una foscam ip wifi da interno , funziona tutta correttamente tranne il fatto di cambiarmi la cartella di destinazione delle registrazioni allarme ………….. come fare? ho windows 7 a 64 bit

This is ridiculous, setting up this thing is a complete time vampire.
life is too short to have to a spend a f-ing setting this thing up

I just purchased a pair of f18904w foscams and am having a hard time understanding how to hook them up, can anybody help me. what kind of router do i need as I have two macs and a virgin mobile wifi for internet and the instructions are very bad, even tryed to hook up to my mac with the ethernet cable and nothing…..

Please can send me the instructions for Mac step by step.

I have the camera plugged into my Airport, I found the ip address okay with ipscanner, plugged it into my browser and the Real Time Ip Camera Monitoring system window came up fine BUT none of the links work!! I tried it in IE, FireFox and Safari. I need to get into the device management to set it up for wireless.
Someone please help!!

Looks like this camera dies when trying to add user accounts. Absolutely worthless brick now.

Just got this camera and installed it using only my iMac – worked like a champ with ONE caveat… this is NOT like a printer or some scanner – this is a NETWORK device and it is not Plug and Play or if you do use it that way you will get confused. The configuration issues that people seem to have are all network issues, not device issues. The caveat? The “Device Status” web page seems to always show the MAC address of the camera’s ethernet card. Probably a bug on Foscam’s part I assume but not a big deal since you can and should probably locate the MAC addresses using Airport Utility anyway.

For starters it has *TWO* MAC addresses in it (NOT Mac as in the computer) – one for ethernet card and one for wireless. You will have to understand how to find them with the Airport Utility and how to configure your router (airport extreme in my case) to assign *fixed* IP address(es) for whatever configuration you plan to use. I can easily unplug the camera and move it elsewhere and I can access via ether or wireless. What you need to set this up is an understanding of networking.

This took a little longer than I expected to get working, but a couple of points that I think might help…

1. You need to plug this into your ethernet switch or router.
2. It will find an IP address on your usual subnet. (I assumed that the device was *dumb* and would have some standard ip like 192.168…. and was essentially barking up the wrong tree).
3. The MAC address for the plugged in wired ethernet is different than the wireless, so don’t bother trying to set the MAC control right away.

Basically, once I found the camera while plugged in, I set the Wireless settings on the camera via the web browser. Then unplugged the camera and restarted it in wireless mode (e.g. no ethernet cable plugged in).

Now, the ip address had changed. I looked on my DHCP client list and found the new address and typed it into the browser to make sure it was working.

Next I went into airport utility and assigned the camera’s MAC address to that ip and rebooted the Time Capsule.

HTH

Bhavesh