How to Find Cameras using IP Utility, UPnP or...Bonjour. IP Utility is

Category: Educational Note
Sub-category: Application
Model: ACM Series, TCM Series and KCM series
Firmware: ACM: v3.12.15; TCM: 4.07.15 (UPnP), 4.09.17 (Bonjour)
Software: N/A
Author: Wells.Wei
Published: 2011/02/11
Reviewed: 2011/05/10
ACTi
Knowledge Base
How to Find Cameras using IP Utility, UPnP or Bonjour
Contents
Introduction
ACTi IP Utility
UPnP
Bonjour
Reference
Introduction
Have you ever wanted to access one of cameras, but you couldn’t remember its IP address?
What if there is a convenient tool to search and list all cameras? You just need a few clicks and
the Web Configurator of your target camera will show up immediately.
ACTi offers three ways to find ACTi cameras conveniently, ACTi IP Utility, UPnP and
Bonjour.
IP Utility is a software tool from ACTi to run on windows PC. After download from website, you
don’t have to install it. You just double-click the .exe file and IP Utility will find all ACTi cameras
in the network.
UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) technology is a networking protocol built in in Windows
system. You just need to confirm UPnP function is enabled in ACTi camera at first. Then, you
don’t have to install any software and you can use the network search in windows system to
find out ACTi cameras.
Bonjour is a service discovery protocol by Apple Inc. This useful software tool can be
downloaded from website for free. After we install Bonjour on PC and confirm this function is
enabled in ACTi cameras, we can use Bonjour to easily search for ACTi cameras.
You might be interested to know the detail about how do they work. We will introduce the
step-by-step procedure to set up.
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ACTi IP Utility
Download IP Utility software from ACTi website:
http://www.acti.com/ip_utility
Un-zip it and execute “IP Utility” in the folder
Waiting for few seconds and all ACTi cameras in your network will be listed on IP Utility
software.
These are the detail information on cameras, such as model name, MAC address and serial
number. You can find the camera you are looking for from this information.
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You just click the IP address of camera on IP Utility and Web Configurator will be opened.
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UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)
UPnP technology is a standard protocol built in Windows system. This function is enabled in
ACTi cameras by default. If the function is enabled before you install the cameras then, when
you want to find a camera, you can just use the network search in Windows system.
Confirm UPnP function is enabled (Default is enabled)
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ACM series (Firmware version is v3.12.15 or later)
Setup  UPnP
Type the Friendly Name with which you can identify the camera, ex: Model name – Location,
and press Apply.
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TCM series (Firmware version is v4.07.15 or later)
Setup  Network  UPnP
Type the Friendly Name which you can identify, ex: Model name – Location, and press Apply.
Search ACTi Cameras in Network
After install cameras on the site, you can choose “Computer” on the start menu of windows
system.
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Click “Network” item. It will list all ACTi cameras in “Other Devices” .
Here are the ACTi cameras with friendly name. You just can double-click on this and the Web
Configurator of camera will open in your default browser. If your default browser is not Internet
Explorer, just copy the web address to IE and open again.
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Bonjour
We can use Bonjour to discover computers, IP devices and IP cameras on network without
manual configuration. Bonjour uses industry standard IP protocols to
allow devices to automatically discover each other without the need to
enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers. That means while you get
IP cameras in the beginning, you can use Bonjour to find IP
cameras without doing any IP address configuration on your PC
and cameras. Look at the procedure below. We will guide you how to confirm this function is
enabled on ACTi cameras and how to install Bonjour software tool for searching ACTi
cameras.
Confirm Bonjour function is enabled (Default is enabled)
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ACM series (Firmware version is v3.12.15 or later)
Setup  Bonjour
Type the Friendly Name which you can identify, ex: Model name – Location, and press Apply.
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TCM series (Firmware version is v4.09.17 or later)
Setup  Network  Bonjour
Type the Friendly Name which you can identify, ex: Model name – Location, and press Apply.
Install Bonjour software tool
You can download Bonjour software tool from the below link.
http://actiftp.hosting4less.com/ACTIGENERAL/AP&Manual/Tools/BonjourSetup.exe
*The version is v1.0.106 for windows 32bit. ACTi has completed tests on this version.
Click “Next”
Select “I accept” and press “Next” after reading the License Agreement
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Press “Next” after reading the Information
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Press “Install”
Press “Finish”
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While the installation of Bonjour is finished, you can find the Bonjour’s button on the command
bar of IE browser.
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Search ACTi Cameras on Network
Press “Bonjour” button on command bar of IE browser. You can see the ACTi cameras list on
the left.
According to the Bonjour friendly name, you can double-click the camera and access to the
Web Configurator.
Reference
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UPnP
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play
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Bonjour
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software)
Apple Inc. website, Bonjour FAQ: http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/faq.html
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