Monitor your Webcam/Camera at home anytime anywhere from internet (Easy Steps with photo)

To setup remote access on your camera/webcam at home following steps are required:

1) Setup  port forwarding on your router: This step  is not required, if UPNP is enabled on your router . However occasionally even  if the UPNP on the router is enabled then the router may not allow the camera to setup  UPNP. To confirm if that UPNP has  been successfully  accepted by the router please logon to your camera and under  Settings > System, scroll down  to UPNP  Port Forwarding & confirm if the status says "Success", please see Figure 1.2..

Figure-2 : Systems  page: (UPNP Port  Forwarding)

However if the UPNP status says ‘No UPNP Gateway’ then port forwarding will  manually need to setup. See steps below on  how to manually  setup port  forwarding on your router:

a) Visit- http://www.portforward.com

b) Skip the  advertisements.

c) Select  Y-cam IP  Wireless camera

Note:  The http://www.portforward.com   site will  ask you to configure a port range of  8150 to 8350. However if you are planning to installing multiple cameras please assign the port 8150 ( to Start & End port).

2) Signup  for a free Dynamic  DNS service: Setting up a  dynamic IP address is a great  way to easily access your  camera if you have a static External / Internet address. However if your ISP has given a Dynamic  IP address then this step is required for you access your camera outside your network.

To setup your  DDNS:

a)      Sign up at  one of the DDNS  websites (Recommended  service providers -- DTDNS, DYNDNS, NO-IP & 3322.org)

b)      Enter  those  settings on your camera,  please  see Figure -3

Figure-3: DDNS  setup

Note: The username & password are for  the DDNS Service Provider Website.

3) Setup a local static  IP address on  your camera: This step is  optional because by default the  camera obtains  the IP address from the  router or a  DHCP server on the network. During Port forwarding  setup  on your router the local IP  address of the camera is  required. If  the local IP  address of  your camera changes due to router reboot or  any other reason,  the port forwarding  can be failed. For example during the port forwarding setup the  camera’s local IP  address is 192.168.1.3 & port number 8150, and you try to access your camera from outside your house, it will work. However, when the camera’s local IP  address change to 192.168.1.4 & you try to access the camera from outside  the network on port  number 8150, router would not know where to  forward  that request  to, as it does not automatically update the new IP address of the  camera.

Therefore it is  recommended to  setup a static  local IP address  on the camera. Before setting up your  static IP address, you  need that IP address automatically allocated to you by the router.  And this can be obtained  from the System  page of the  camera. Please make  note of  the following  settings IP  address, Subnet  Mask, Default  Gateway & Primary  DNS  server (Figure - 4).

To setup static IP address on the camera open  the Settings  page of  the camera then under  Network > TCP / IP Setup select   ‘Use the following IP address’ & enter in the settings obtained  from  the  systems page (Figure - 5).

 Figure - 4: IP address & other settings on  the systems page.

Figure - 5: Network TCP / IP setup default settings

Figure - 6: Setup static  local IP address

How can I view the camera from outside  my house?

Once the above steps are setup then you would be able to access the  camera from outside your house by typing the following address in the  Address bar of any internet browser.

http://YOURCAMERAIPADDRESS:PORTNUMBER (Example: http://89.223.123.123:8055)

Or for the  DDNS name, the  following

http://DDNSHOSTNAME:PORTNUMBER (Example: http://mycam.dtdns.net:8055)