Golbong 4901-18 Instruction Manual

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en Operation and Installation Manual
Wireless IP Bird Box Camera
Model: 4901-18

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WELCOME................................................................................................................................................................3
PRODUCT OVERVIEW.............................................................................................................................................4
HARDWARE INSTALLATION..................................................................................................................................4
Attach the External Power Adapter....................................................................................................................4
SMARTPHONE OR TABLET APPS.........................................................................................................................5
CONNECT THE CAMERA DIRECTLY WITH APP ..............................................................................................................5
CONNECT THE CAMERA TO YOUR HOME NETWORK.....................................................................................................7
LIVE VIEW INTERFACE.............................................................................................................................................12
OPTIONAL1: HOW TO CHANGE THE VIDEO QUALITY TO ADAPT TO LOW BANDWIDTH NETWORK.....................................12
SET A PASSWORD FOR THE CAMERA.......................................................................................................................13
SAVING LIVE STREAM TO YOUR SMART PHONE..........................................................................................................15
VIEW SNAPSHOT AT LOCAL FILES.............................................................................................................................16
PLAYBACK VIDEO ON TF MEMORY CARD (CAMERAS WITH MICROSD ONLY)................................................................17
DOWNLOAD VIDEO FROM TFMEMORY CARD (CAMERAS WITH MICROSD ONLY)..........................................................18
OPTIONAL RECEIVE THE IP SETTING FROM YOUR LOCAL NETWORK (DHCP)..............................................................20
USING CMS5 FOR PC OR MAC............................................................................................................................21
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS........................................................................................................................................21
INSTALLING SOFTWARE ..........................................................................................................................................21
NETWORK CONNECTION AND SETTINGS ...................................................................................................................21
Connect to IP Camera .....................................................................................................................................21
Optional 1: How to add the cameras to CMS5 outside of LAN .......................................................................23
Optional 2: How to configure the network setting of the camera manually. ....................................................24
LIVE VIDEO............................................................................................................................................................25
Watch the live ..................................................................................................................................................25
Digital ZOOM...................................................................................................................................................26
Activate the audio ............................................................................................................................................26
CHANGE THE PASSWORD OF THE CAMERA ..............................................................................................................27
RECORDING LIVE TO YOUR COMPUTER ....................................................................................................................28
PLAYBACK THE VIDEO ON YOUR COMPUTER.............................................................................................................29
RECORDING LIVE TO TF MEMORY CARD (CAMERAS WITH MICROSD ONLY).................................................................31
Format TF memory card..................................................................................................................................31
PLAYBACK THE VIDEO FROM TFMEMORY CARD (CAMERAS WITH MICROSD ONLY) .....................................................32
DOWNLOAD THE VIDEO TO YOUR COMPUTER HARD DRIVE (CAMERAS WITH MICROSD ONLY).......................................34
SETTING CAMERA PARAMETERS.............................................................................................................................35
INSTALLING A NEW FIRMWARE.................................................................................................................................36
WEB BROWSER CONNECTION ...........................................................................................................................37
CHECKING YOUR WEB BROWSER SECURITY LEVEL....................................................................................................37
ACCESS THE CAMERA OVER INTERNET.....................................................................................................................40

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Welcome
Thank you for purchasing GOLBONG WIFI Bird Box camera!
This user manual is designed to be a reference tool for the installation and operation of your WIFI Bird
Box camera.
Here you can find information about the camera's features and functions, as well as information to aid in
troubleshooting.
Many of the setup and installation sections below have corresponding videos on YouTube
To access the setup videos, please go to https://www.youtube.com/golbongtoday
For access to the quick start guide and other support information, go to
http://www.golbong.com/support.asp
To contact GOLBONG support, please do one of the following:
a. Visit http://www.golbong.com/contact-us.asp and use the email form
b. or Email GOLBONG Customer Support: [email protected]
Important Security Warning
In order to keep your GOLBONG camera secure and prevent unauthorized access, please make sure to
follow the steps below: Never use the default password for your camera. Always ensure that your
password is at least 8-10 characters long and contains a combination of lowercase characters,
uppercase characters as well as numbers.

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Product Overview
Hardware Installation
Attach the External Power Adapter
Connect the power adapter to the power connector on your camera, then plug the power adapter
into a wall outlet

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Smartphone or Tablet Apps
Connect the camera directly with app
1. Download “XMEYE” from apple store or google play
2. Power up the camera and wait for 2 minutes
3. Enter the WIFI setting of your smart phone. A new AP spot will appear.

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4. Connect the new AP, fill in the password “1234567890”
5. Login the XMEYE, press the “Direct Login” at the right down on screen.
6. Click the camera list to watch the live.

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Connect the camera to your home network.
1. Double press (twice) the inline reset button continuously
2. The new AP should disappear on your smart phone’s wifi setting. The camera was switch to
“Network mode”
NOTE: If you still see the AP spot, disable-enable the “WLAN”on your smart phone.
NOTE: Press the reset button for 10 seconds can reboot the camera and return back
to “AP” mode for smart phone directly connecting.

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3. Click the “Cloud Login” on the XMEYE
NOTE: Click “Login Problem?” You can register a new account.
4. On the Device List page, click the “+” right-top on screen.

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5. On the Add Device page, select the “Quick Configuration”
6. Fill in the password of your home router, and click both “Ensure the indicator” and “Device
Operation”
NOTE: you can ignore the remark message, click it anyway.

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7. Press “Deep Config”
NOTE: After pressing “Deep Config”, the screen will display a sentence and click “yes”

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8. Wait for 1 minute, a green cam icon pop up on the screen. Click the icon to add the
camera
NOTE: if you fill in the wrong password of your home router, you need
to press the reset button for 10 seconds. Then return to the step “a”.
9. Click the camera list to watch the live.

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Live view interface
1. Click the camera name in the device list, the live view will display.
2. Press the square icon on the upper right corner to enlarge the video to full screen.
NOTE: The users can zoom in/out on the screen with fingers.
3. Click “SD/HD” to choose the video quality.
NOTE: “SD”: standard definition; “HD”: high definition.
Optional1: How to change the video quality to adapt to low
bandwidth network.
1. In the Live Video page, click the Home icon
2. Touch “Encode” in the menu

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3. Adjust the main stream and the sub stream to adapt to your network bandwidth.
NOTE: higher frame rate and resolution require higher bandwidth
Set a Password for the Camera.
1. In the Live Video page, click the Home icon
2. In the Menu page, press the “Change password ”

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3. Input old password and a new password. Click “Save”
NOTE: default password is blank.(No need)
4. Click return icon to enter Device list
5. click the edit icon , a new dialog pop up
6. Select “Edit”
7. Name the device, key in the new password. Click OK to save.

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Saving live stream to your smart phone
1. In Live Video page, press “camcorder” button to start recording
NOTE: Camcorder button will change to Blue when recording is activated.
2. Press camcorder button again to save the video
3. Click return icon to enter Device list
4. Press the list icon to enter the main menu

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5. Touch “local record” to locate the video on your smart phone. Press the snapshot will start play
the video on your phone.
6. Press the edit icon on top right corner, press snapshot to select the video.
7. Press the save icon to save the video to your phone.
View snapshot at local files
1. Click return icon to enter Device list
2. Press the list icon to enter the main menu

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3. Touch “Local Album” to view the snapshot.
4. Press the edit icon on top right corner, select the snapshot to view the picture.
5. Press the save icon to save the snapshot to your phone.
Playback video on TF memory card (cameras with microSD
only)
1. Touch home icon in the live view page.
2. Press “Remote playback” from the menu

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3. The playback video will display. Press the button on right corner, you can select the time unit:
h/m/s
NOTE: the footage block in Yellow is the video with motion detection. You need to enable the motion
recording function in the camera to see the yellow block.
4. Press the speaker icon to activate the sound.
NOTE: Your camera must support audio and connects to audio pick up.
Download video from TF memory card (Cameras with
microSD only)
1. In the live, press Home to enter “Menu”, press “Download”

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2. Choose either download by file or by time
3. Click the “Download” icon, the app start downloading by file
4. Click icon twice to return to device list
5. Press the icon to enter the main menu

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6. Touch “local record” to view the download video.
Optional Receive the IP setting from your local network (DHCP)
If the IP cameras don’t have corrected IP setting, especially DDNS, it will fail to receive the push
message.
1. Touch home icon in the live view page.
2. Touch “set Network” from the menu, enter a new screen.
3. Slide the enable to right turn on DHCP. The camera will reboot and receive the IP setting from
your local network.
4. Check the “set Network” again after 1-2 minutes, slide the enable to left if you want to fix the IP
address.