OK, I picked up a really cheap, new it's box, PTZ IP camera from a
charity shop to play about with, which I seem to have tracked down to a
model V380. It only offers wifi access, no LAN and it seems to be
designed to operate as an access point mode, or to work with an
existing wifi access point. The later is selected by pressing the reset
button for two seconds and pressing the button (name) on a router to
allow it to log in - except it doesn't. That despite resetting a spare
router to default 192 range and knowing the cam's default IP is
192.168.1.1.

Browsing to 192.168.1.1, whilst connected to it's AP, does nothing. The
only official way to configure it, is using an Iphone App, or an
Android phone App, to be able to access and change the IP. Needless to
say, I don't have access to either.

I did manage to find a PC App, which does allow the output of cam to be
seen on my laptop, move it, plus audio, providing I switch my network
access point from my router, to the cam's AP - but the App seems to
have no facility to change the cam's configuration. I want to put the
cam on my 10.?.?.? network.

I have tried Telnet via various ports (80; 8899, 554) to the cam, when
connected to the AP, it doesn't respond at all. Suggestions please to
find a way to get in to configure it?

Harry Bloomfield has brought this to us :
The only official way to configure it, is using an Iphone App, or an Android
phone App, to be able to access and change the IP. Needless to say, I don't
have access to either.

...and I have tried both Iphone and Andoid PC emulators.

On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:08:55 GMT, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:

OK, I picked up a really cheap, new it's box, PTZ IP camera from a
charity shop to play about with, which I seem to have tracked down to a
model V380. It only offers wifi access, no LAN and it seems to be
designed to operate as an access point mode, or to work with an
existing wifi access point. The later is selected by pressing the reset
button for two seconds and pressing the button (name) on a router to
allow it to log in - except it doesn't. That despite resetting a spare
router to default 192 range and knowing the cam's default IP is
192.168.1.1.

These devices tend to use WiFi protected setup (WPS) for initial
connection by physically pressing the WPS button on the router.
However, some routers disable WPS by default so you may need to hunt
for a WPS option in the router menu and turn it on. You usually have
only a very short time (30 sec or so) to press the router WPS button
on the router after starting WPS on the camera. (WPS does not work
with WEP).

on 27/01/2019, Peter Parry supposed :
You usually have
only a very short time (30 sec or so) to press the router WPS button
on the router after starting WPS on the camera. (WPS does not work
with WEP).

I didn't know that, but I have since set the router to no encryption
and it still didn't connect.

On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:29:17 GMT, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:

on 27/01/2019, Peter Parry supposed :
You usually have
only a very short time (30 sec or so) to press the router WPS button
on the router after starting WPS on the camera. (WPS does not work
with WEP).

I didn't know that, but I have since set the router to no encryption
and it still didn't connect.

You probably need to set it to WPA, WPS picks up the password
automatically.

It happens that Peter Parry formulated :
You usually have
only a very short time (30 sec or so) to press the router WPS button
on the router after starting WPS on the camera. (WPS does not work
with WEP).

The cam speaks, and tell you what it is doing, which is how you tell
whether you have it set as an AP or if it is trying WPS. Once set to
WPS, it speaks every few minutes that it is trying to connect to
Smartlink.

No its a real bugger.
Also the address seems to be the address many routers themselves use, which
is probably why you can see it on a laptop!
Brian

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On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:08:55 GMT, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:

OK, I picked up a really cheap, new it's box, PTZ IP camera from a
charity shop to play about with, which I seem to have tracked down to a
model V380. It only offers wifi access, no LAN and it seems to be
designed to operate as an access point mode, or to work with an
existing wifi access point. The later is selected by pressing the reset
button for two seconds and pressing the button (name) on a router to
allow it to log in - except it doesn't. That despite resetting a spare
router to default 192 range and knowing the cam's default IP is
192.168.1.1.

These devices tend to use WiFi protected setup (WPS) for initial
connection by physically pressing the WPS button on the router.
However, some routers disable WPS by default so you may need to hunt
for a WPS option in the router menu and turn it on. You usually have
only a very short time (30 sec or so) to press the router WPS button
on the router after starting WPS on the camera. (WPS does not work
with WEP).