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Any wireless device is sensitive to jamming. However, it’s easy to connect the camera to your home network using a network cable – and it also means that you’re protected against jamming as the wireless network is not used. Jamming means someone is transmitting interference signals so that the wireless transmission stops working. Unfortunately, there is often some distance between the location you want for your camera and your router which is connected to the Internet. This means that cabling the connection is a pain and therefore most people go for a wireless connection, albeit there is a jamming risk.

In order for Alarmhandler to detect activity in your estate you need to connect IP cameras to Alarmhandler.  In the app, tap + on the main screen and choose “Ip camera”.
A short camera setup guide is shown informing you to

• connect the camera to your local network,  more info about this here
• ensure your phone is connected to the same router as the camera is connected to
• setup the camera configuration, check this info

After the setup guide has finished, you’ll notice a new camera has been added om he main screen. The system has created a mail account for your camera on the Alarmhandler servers. Tap the cog icon to the right of the new camera to see the email address created for the camera and make sure you upload recordings to this address when you are configuring the camera.

It’s a good idea to give the camera a name corresponding to the location where you’ve placed it. The camera details also show when the last report to Alarmhandler was received from the camera. This field would be empty for a newly created camera account.

You may also want to read more about how Alarmhandler monitors the connection to your cameras and tip on where to place your camera.

To connect an IP camera on the your local wireless network using the built-in WPS buttons on the camera and your router, do the following:

1. Press the WPS button on the camera for a few seconds, an LED will then normally start flashing to indicate that WPS is enabled, e.g. on D-Link cameras a blue LED is flashing
2. Then press the WPS button on the router for some seconds to initiate pairing. If there’s no WPS button or you don’t have access to the router, you can start WPS pairing from the router utility:
   • On D-Link routers, the WPS function is available under Setup Wireless Settings. Press the button “Add Wireless Device Using WPS” and choose that you have a “Push button configuration”
   • If you have an Apple Airport Express, start the Airport app that provides access to the router setup. Once the app is started, select the Airport device and then click “Add WPS printer” from the Base menu (though the camera is not a printer)
3. Soon thereafter (5-10 seconds) the WPS activation LED stops flashing on the camera and instead a data send/receive LED starts flashing. This means that the connection is established, e.g. for D-Link cameras a green LED starts flashing.

Normally, it takes about 5-10 seconds to “pair” a new device to the router using WPS. For a combination of certain cameras and routers, WPS does not work. This results in a time out for the pairing – and the camera will not connect to the router. If this happens, it sometimes helps to restart the router and repeat WPS pairing. If the problem persists, you should connect the camera to the router via a network cable and then manually configure WLAN settings on the camera.

Here’s some screen shots on how to fill in the detection and mail screens on D-Link 9XX series of IP cameras. Before you do this,  you need to add the camera in the Alarmhandler app. Do do so, select + on the main screen and select “IP Camera”.

1. First get your camera connected to your local network – see also information on how to connect using WPS and without WPS.
2. Then we need to know the IP address of your camera on your local network. We suggest using the FING app which scans your network and lists the connected devices along with the IP address.
3. Then connect to your D-Link camera using a browser. This works fine in browsers like Safari and Firefox, but D-Link cameras do not like Chrome (but you may be able to fool the camera to accept Chrome by turning on Developer Mode and choose to use a device like an iPad – this makes the camera think its Safari that is trying to connect).
4. Login to camera. D-Link cameras are normally password protected, which means your browser will prompt you for username and password. Username is admin and password might be empty, admin, or something you’ve specified earlier. In case you don’t know, you need to reset the camera by pressing a pen or other small object into the reset port on the back.
5. After you’re connected, you can navigate to the setup tab, then Motion Detection and configure the camera as follows:
6. After your configuration has been saved, tab on Mail and configure the camera as follows:
7. After your configuration has been saved, tap Test to test sending an image using the specified mail connection.

 

NOTE: We’ve tested Alarmhandler has been tested with D-Link DSC-930A, 930B, 932, 933 and 942. Please let us know and perhaps send screen shots if you’ve tested with other cameras, then we can include those in a guide.