FDT FD7904B User manual

User Manual
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Contents
Welcome.....................................................................................................................................3
1 Features ..................................................................................................................................6
1.1 Overview ...........................................................................................................................6
1.2 Features ............................................................................................................................6
2 Device Overview .....................................................................................................................8
3 Camera Connection and Installation .......................................................................................8
3.1 Connection Guide..............................................................................................................8
3.2 Installation Guide...............................................................................................................8
3.3 Default Username and Password......................................................................................9
4 Access the camera ..................................................................................................................9
4.1 Mobile device access ........................................................................................................9
4.2 Web browser access .........................................................................................................9
4.2.1 SearchTool for Windows OS ....................................................................................9
4.2.2 SearchTool for Mac OS ............................................................................................11
4.2.3 Access by IP address and http port..........................................................................12
4.2.4 Remote access.........................................................................................................14
4.3 NVR access.......................................................................................................................15
4.4 RTSP access.....................................................................................................................15
5 App for Mobile Device .............................................................................................................17
5.1 Add Camera ......................................................................................................................17
5.1.1 Set up a new camera. ..............................................................................................18
5.1.2 Set up an existing camera........................................................................................19
5.2 Camera list page ...............................................................................................................21
5.3 Live view page...................................................................................................................22
5.4 Settings pages...................................................................................................................24
5.4.1 Edit Password ..........................................................................................................24
5.4.2 Alarm Settings ..........................................................................................................24
5.4.3 Alarm link settings ....................................................................................................25
5.4.4 Timed recording settings .......................................................................................... 25
5.4.5 Audio settings ...........................................................................................................25
5.4.6 Video settings...........................................................................................................25
5.4.7 Wifi settings ..............................................................................................................26
5.4.8 SD Card settings ......................................................................................................26
5.4.9 Device time settings .................................................................................................26
5.4.10 Email settings .........................................................................................................27
5.4.11 FTP settings............................................................................................................33
5.4.12 System settings ......................................................................................................33
5.4.13 Device information..................................................................................................33
5.5 Local files page .................................................................................................................34
5.6 Playback page...................................................................................................................35

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6 Web User Interface for operation ............................................................................................36
6.1 Login page.........................................................................................................................36
6.2 Live page...........................................................................................................................36
6.2.1 OSD..........................................................................................................................37
6.2.2 View..........................................................................................................................37
6.2.3 Preset .......................................................................................................................37
6.2.4 ImageSettings .......................................................................................................... 38
6.2.5 Tool bar.....................................................................................................................38
6.3 Playback page(Only for IE/Firefox browser in windows) ................................................... 40
6.3.1 Search and playback videos ....................................................................................40
6.3.2 Tool bar.....................................................................................................................40
6.4 Configuration page ............................................................................................................40
6.4.1 Media settings ..........................................................................................................40
6.4.2 Network ....................................................................................................................42
6.4.3 Alarm ........................................................................................................................45
6.4.4 Advance....................................................................................................................47
6.4.5 System .....................................................................................................................50
7 Frequently Asked Questions ...................................................................................................53
7.1 How to start the live view in computer by web browser?................................................... 53
7.1.1 How to install the plugin for IE browser in Windows OS? ........................................ 53
7.1.2 How to install the plugin for Mozilla Firefox browser in Windows OS?..................... 55
7.2 How to uninstall the plugin in your computer?................................................................... 56
7.3 Forgotten the username or password of the camera. ...................................................... 56
7.4 Could not record videos or snap pictures in IE 11 or Firefox of Windows 10 OS.............. 56
7.5 Camera could not connect the wireless network by wifi.................................................... 57
7.6 The plugin is blocked by Firefox........................................................................................57

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Welcome
Important Safeguards and Warnings
Thank you for purchasing our FDT IP camera!
This user manual will help you become familiar with our camera in a very short time. Here you can
find information about the camera’s features and functions, as well as information to aid in
troubleshooting. Before installation and operation, please read the below safeguards and
warnings carefully.
If you still have further questions, please visit http://fdt.us to get any supports from FDT team.
Email: [email protected]
Visit: www.fdt.us/support
USA Direct: 713-955-7170
In order to keep your camera secure and prevent unauthorized access, please make sure to
follow the steps below:
1) Always make sure your camera has the latest firmware as listed on http://fdt.us.
2) Never use the default password for your camera. Always ensure your password is at least 8-10
characters long and contains a combination of lowercase characters, uppercase characters as
well as numbers.
Electrical Safety
● All installations and operations here should conform to your local electrical safety codes.
● We assume no liability or responsibility for any of the fires or electrical shocks caused by
improper handling or installation.
● We are not liable for any problems caused by unauthorized modifications or attempted repair.
● Improper battery use may result in fire, explosion, or personal injury.
● When replacing the battery, please make sure you are using the same model.
● This product must be grounded to reduce the risk of electric shock.
Transportation Security
Heavy stress, violent vibrations, and excess moisture should not occur during transportation,
storage, and installation of the device.
Repair Professionals
All the examination and repair work should be done by qualified service engineers.
We are not liable for any problems caused by unauthorized modifications or user-attempted
repair.

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Environment
The camera should be kept in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight, flammable materials,
explosive substances, etc.
This product should be transported, stored, and used only in the specified environments as stated
above.
Do not aim the camera at a strong light source, as it may cause overexposure of the picture, and
may affect the longevity of the camera’s sensors.
Ensure that the camera is in a well ventilated area to prevent overheating.
Operation and Maintenance
Do not touch the camera sensor or lens directly.
To clean dust or dirt off of the lens, use an air blower or a microfiber cloth.
Accessories
Be sure to use only the accessories recommended by manufacturer.
Before installation, please open the package and check to ensure that all of the components are
present.
Contact the retailer that you purchased from, or FDT directly if anything is broken or missing in the
package.
Note: Prior to installation, ensure that the installation environment can support at least 3 times the
weight of the camera. And do not place objects on top of the camera.
There are two way to install the camera :
Check Hardware
Hardware Installation
When you receive the product in the packaging, unpack it and check all sides of the product for
any physical damage. The protective materials used in the packaging of the product can protect
most accidental damage during transportation, but to ensure that your equipment is operating as
expected, it is recommended to inspect the product before proceeding further.
On the product, check specifically that the label on the bottom of the product is not damaged. The
serial number of the unit is often needed to provide support.
Please check that all required items for your camera are present and accounted for. If any item is
missing, please contact us as soon as possible so we can send you the missing component.
Note: Hardware may not look exactly as pictured in this section, but the steps to assemble the
hardware are the same.

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1) Drill the hole in the position that wish the camera to be seated using a 3/16 drill bit.
2) Screw the mount on the wall with two screws .
3) Loosen the thumb screws to adjust the mount to the desired position .
4) Once the position is set, tighten the screws securely.
Note: Please try to get the mount from the reseller which is not included .
A.
B.

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1) Drill the hole on the wall in the position .
2) Seat Drywall mounts in the pilot holes .
3) Hang on the camera with Drywall mount.
1 Features
1.1 Overview
The FDT IP Camera is an excellent digital surveillance product that can be useful to a wide variety
of users. The camera connects to any router, and uses an internet connection to allow the user to
access all of its functionality from many internet connected devices. It’s easy to use and can be
set up in a relatively small amount of time. It has various functions such as recording, playback,
and monitoring functionality and it synchronizes audio and video by default.
The FDT IP camera connects to a wide variety of routers in order to connect to the internet,
through wirelessly. Once setup, the camera can be accessed remotely from a wide variety of
internet connected devices, including PC, iPhone, iPad, Android tablet, and Android phone.
This FDT IP Camera adopts a high-quality design in order to achieve high levels of reliability and
security. It can be configured to work locally, as well as on a network. It also has a built-in WiFi
adapter allows the camera to be used on a wireless network, without needing a physical
connection to a router or PC.
1.2 Features
The FDT IP Camera has the following features:
HD Resolution
The FDT IP camera is an integrated wireless IP Camera with a color CMOS sensor which enable
to view in High Definition resolution. It combines a high quality digital video camera, with a

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powerful web server, to bring clear video to your desktop and mobile devices no matter where by
your local network or over the Internet.
P2P function
The FDT camera supports P2P function. You don’t need to make complicated Port Forwarding
and DDNS settings, just need to add it into your mobile devices. Then you can remote access it
easily.
H.264 Encoding
The FDT IP Camera provides users with more comprehensive controls over a monitored site. The
camera supports H.264 video compression technology, dramatically reduces file size and saves
network bandwidth.
Web access
The FDT camera is designed for surveillance with wide applications such as at home, in retail
store and in office. Controlling the camera and managing images are simplified by using the
provided web interface across the network in either wired or wireless way.
Mobile device access
The FDT IP camera provides “FDT View” App for mobile devices. You can search and install it on
App Store or Google Play, then you can access your camera on your mobile devices.
Advanced Playback Function
The FDT IP camera supports real-time recording and can support search, fast forwarded
playback, recorded searches, and downloading of videos and snapshots. It can also playback
frame by frame as needed. When recording, the Camera shows a date/time overlay to ensure
accurate viewing of events when they occurred.
Note: There may be slight differences in functionality due to the existence of different product
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2 Device Overview
3 Camera Connection and Installation
Photo resistance
System LED
Microphone
Lens
Speaker
Micro USB
3.1 Connection Guide
The FDT camera can be accessed through the web browser in the computer or the App in the
smart phone or tablet PC. Before accessing, you should set up your camera WiFi to network firstly
after it is powered on.
3.2 Installation Guide
The camera has a standard camera tripod screw hole (1/4-20 UNC thread) for use in mounting
the camera onto a stable surface.
Note: Prior to installation ensure that the installation environment can support at least 3 times the
weight of the camera.
To make your experience with the FDT IP camera easy and simple, we've provided multiple ways
to set up, view, and operate it depending on your needs. Please set up your camera in the way
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3.3 Default Username and Password
To login to the camera for the first time, the default username/password is admin/admin. Once
you’ve successfully logged in, it is highly recommended to change the username and password
for security reasons.
Note:
1. Logging in for the first time will force you to change the default password of the admin account.
2. The password is case sensitive.
4 Access the camera
4.1 Mobile device access
The FDT camera can be accessed through FDT View app on either iOS or Android mobile
devices. To access your device from a smart phone or tablet, please search and install FDT View
app first from App Store or Google Play.
4.2 Web browser access
The FDT camera can be accessed through web browser for both windows and Mac OS. It
supports the IE/Chrome/ Mozilla Firefox in windows and Safari/Chrome in Mac. The web browser
accessing can supports all advance features of the FDT camera.
4.2.1 SearchTool for Windows OS
To easily connect to the camera’s interface in Windows, use the included CD to install and run the
“SearchTool” for Windows. Alternatively, you can download the latest tool from http://fdt.us.
However, before using the SearchTool to find the FDT camera in your local network, please
ensure:
1) The camera is connected to the Network via Wifi.
2) The camera and the PC are on the same local network.
3) To open the camera’s web interface, please use the IE/Chrome/Mozilla Firefox in Windows OS,
use the Safari/Chrome in Mac OS.

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You can also edit some network configurations, camera name through the SearchTool. But you
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4.2.2 SearchTool for Mac OS
You can find the “FDT Mac SearchTool.zip” for Mac OS in the included mini CD. Please copy and
install it on your Mac computer. Then run the tool named “SearchTool” to search the FDT camera
in your LAN. From the tool, you can get the name, UID, IP address, Mac address, Http port and
firmware version of the camera.
By double left clicking the camera in the searching list, you can open the camera by your default
web browser, such as Safari.
You can find the button “Refresh Camera List” and “Flush Arp Buffer” by right click the search tool
or the camera in the searching list, then you can refresh the searching list by these 2 buttons.

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4.2.3 Access by IP address and http port
After launching the SearchTool, click the next to skip the welcome page and refresh the searching
page to bring up the cameras on your LAN. Then you can double click the camera you selected
to login by your default web browser, or you can open the web browser you want first and input
the camera’s IP address and http port in the URL address bar of the browser by manual to login
your camera. You can access the FDT camera by HTTP protocols as below:
http://LAN IP Address + HTTP Port No. For example: http://192.168.1.108:80.
You can find the LAN IP Address and http port of your camera through the SearchTool. The
default port is 80.
Here is a “Network Configuration” button in the right-clicking button list. From this button, you can
modify the IP, Device display name and http port of the FDT camera. Please note:
1. The camera will reboot automatically if you modify its http port.
2. Please enter the right username and password of your camera before you modify any network
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Login to the camera using your correct credentials. If it is your first time logging into the camera
by default account after it is reset, you will be forced to change the default password. Please
select a password that is at least 8 characters long, and include a combination of uppercase
letters, lowercase letters, and numbers.
For the IE/ Mozilla Firefox in Windows, when opening the camera’s interface, the browser will
prompt you to install a plugin. The plugins are necessary to get camera’s video. Click install link
to download the plugin, and install it by manually. If the browser prompts you to allow the plugin
to work on the computer, hit Allow to ensure the plugin can run successfully. Then the camera is
now successfully set up for live viewing, playback and configuration!

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Note: Due to the limitations of NPAPI plugin, the web browser of Chrome/Safari does not support
the features of playback, talk, motion-detection and privacy mask.
4.2.4 Remote access
You can access the FDT camera remotely through web browsers by UPnP/DDNS features or Port
forwarding.
Go to the CONFIG/DDNS page to enable the UPnP and input the information for third-party
DDNS, such as Dyndns.org/3322.org/dynddns.us/No-ip.com. Then you can access the FDT by
DDNS remotely.
Go to your router settings page to make the appreciate port forwarding, then you can access your
camera remotely through the public IP address and its corresponding port.

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4.3 NVR access
The FDT camera supports connecting to any NVR that ONVIF enabled. This allows the camera
to view live, playback and to save recorded data to a network storage device.
4.4 RTSP access
The FDT camera supports the RTSP standard protocol, you can access the video and audio from
the camera directly by RTSP player such as VLC. Please make sure you enable the RTSP feature
of you camera, you can set this feature in the webUI of the camera through the web browsers, like
IE/Firefox/Chrome in Windows OS computer, and Safari or Chrome in Mac OS computer.
RTSP URL
First stream: rtsp://username:password@IP:port/11
For example: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/11
Second stream: rtsp://username:password@IP:port/12
For example: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/12
Follow these steps to access the camera rtsp stream by VLC player:
1) Open the VLC player and go to “Media”/”Open Network Stream”;
2) Enter the URL in VLC and click the play button.

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3) You may need to go through the rtsp authentication if you did not input the username/password
in your RTSP RUL.
Note: you can also view the video remotely by the rtsp stream if you have the right DDNS or port
mapping or forwarding.
4) Then you can view the video from the VLC player by now.

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5 App for Mobile Device
To access your device from a smart phone or tablet, please download and install FDT View. For
iPhone and iPad users, please visit the App store to download the App. For Android user, please
install the APP from the Google Play, or http://fdt.us.
Note: For purposes of this guide, we will use iOS, though both apps have the same interface. The
App Interface may differ slightly from the screenshots below as updates are released.
Note: If you have a dual band router, and your camera is not connecting to your WiFi network,
please make sure you did not connect the FDT camera by 5G. It support 2.4G only.
Note: The password is case sensitive.
5.1 Add Camera
You can go to the camera list page to find a “+ Add Camera” to add cameras into your App. Before
you start to setup your camera, please select your camera type at first. For this FDT PT camera,
please select “Cube Camera”, then tap Next to continue.
There are 2 methods to add camera. The first one is “Set up a new camera”, it is used to add
camera which is just reset to factory setting or you just get the camera from the package. You can
change the initial password of the camera and set wifi settings to your camera through this
method. It is usually used for the first time you want to setup this camera. The second one is “Set
up an existing camera”, it means to add the camera you set up before. For example, you have
already set up your camera in another smartphone or web. For the second method, you can
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5.1.1 Set up a new camera.
If you are the first time to set up the FDT camera, or your just reset your FDT camera. Please click
the button “Set up a new camera” to add it into your smartphone or tablet.
Please powered up your camera firstly. After you connect your smartphone or tablet to the same
local network via wifi, then you can set up your camera to router by follow step :
Set up your camera
-Give your camera a name, and input right username and password to access it. The default
username is admin, the default password is admin too.
-Change the initial admin/admin username/password for the consideration of account security.
Give your camera a private username and password that known only by you, and keep it secret.
-Then you can start live view of your camera and complete this set up process, and you can
access and control your camera now.

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5.1.2 Set up an existing camera.
For the FDT camera you have set up before, you can click the button “Set up an existing
camera” to add it into your smartphone or tablet. There are also 2 ways to add it, by scanning or
by manual. We do recommend you to scan and add the camera in your local network area, so you
do not need to input the UID which is a long identifie and hard to remember.
1. Scan for your camera
-After click the scanning button to search the FDT camera in your local network area, you can get
a camera list. Please select the camera you want to set up.
-Give you camera a name, and enter in its right username and password.
-Then you can start the live view and go to the setting page to access or control it.