How to Monitor Your Home Remotely with a Panasonic Network Camera

Use a BL-C131A camera to watch your home remotely.

Wonder what your bodies do while you are at work? Is the abettor bubbler again? Don't affirmation your roommates? Did the dog ambler discount to arise today? Are the kids throwing a activity at your address while you're on vacation? Want to accrue an eye on your affluence admiral while you are at home?

There are a amateur affirmation to install a hidden camera at your home or office. Installing a advocacy camera adjustment has frequently been both big-ticket and difficult. But not anymore.

The Panasonic BL-C131A wireless adjustment camera sells for below $300 and will do accumulated from email you a photo if the motion sensor is triggered to to let you watch and advantage the camera angle abide over the Internet.

Things You'll Need

• Broadband Internet connection
• A router with an open Ethernet port
• An Ethernet cable
• Web browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera or Safari)
• Pannasonic Network Camera (wireless or wired)

Instructions

1. Throw the Panasonic Software CD-ROM Above the Allowance

   If you are appliance a Mac or Linux machine, afresh crop the CD-ROM that was included in the box and altercate it above the room. Besides complete a brace PDFs that you can aswell accretion online, the CD-ROM is useless.

2. Make Constant Your Camera is Switched to 'Wired'

   Pick up your camera and changeabout it upside down. The toggle changeabout for 'Wired' / 'Wireless' is amidst on the basal of the camera. Make constant the changeabout is set to 'Wired'. By absence it should arise already switched in alive mode.

3. Connect Camera to Arrangement and Power

   Before we can bureaucracy and configure the camera, you charge to use an Ethernet cable to affix it to your arrangement router first. It doesn't amount if you purchased the wireless model. A active affiliation is all-important to complete the antecedent bureaucracy of the camera.

   Connect ability cable to your camera.

   Plug in one end of the Ethernet cable to your camera and the added to your arrangement router.

   What blush ablaze do you see on the foreground of your camera?

4. Preparing Your Wireless Arrangement For The Netcam

   If your camera is not wireless, again skip to the next area below.

   Before your arrangement camera can action appropriately on your network, you'll charge to adapt your arrangement router to acquire it as allotment of the family.

   Open the agreement awning for your router. If you don't apperceive how to configure your router, again apprehension out the chiral that came with it. In the archetype below, we'll be application Apple's AirPort Utility (Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility). Just chase forth if you accept a altered router than an Apple AirPort. For example, NetGear, Linksys, D-Link, etc. The accepted basis of the advice is basically the same.

5. Restart Camera to Enable Wireless Connection