Y-cam Classic Range - Manual (Page 63)

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7.8 Viewing your Y‐cam on a Mobile Phone
Y‐cam is dedicated to providing easy to use IP cameras. In view of this we have made some changes to the way users can
view their cameras from a mobile phone. The following explains how to easily view the camera from a mobile phone.
The easiest way to access the camera from a mobile phone is to type http://<CameraIPaddress>:<Port>/mobile in the
browser of your mobile phone and you should see the following screen.
Select and click the “3GPP Stream Live” for live video. This will initiate an RTSP session between the mobile phone and
the camera using the media player within the mobile phone.
If your mobile phone doesn’t support RTSP media streaming or is unable to decode the media stream from the Y‐cam,
please use the “Picture live” button.
“Picture Live” is an automatically refreshing snapshot so that non compatible mobile phones, can view live images from
the camera.
The “Settings” button allows you to setup both the 3GPP stream and the Picture Live view. Please note that you need
the admin password to make any changes to these settings.
For some mobile phones, you do not need to enter “/mobile” on the end of your cameras address – it will work fine with
the standard web address of your camera.
Troubleshooting
1. If you can’t view the camera from your mobile phone, please try the demo cameras on the main Y‐cam website
http://www.y‐cam.com . Both the username and password are “guest” for these demo cameras.
2. Most mobile phones use real player for video streaming. As real player can’t handle authentication, you will
need to disable authentication from the Settings page via the mobile login.
3. iPhones and other portable Apple devices can only access the Y‐cam using http://<CameraIPaddress>:<Port>
then clicking on “Live View”
4. Please make sure the correct ports on your router have been forwarded to the camera. Please go to
http://portforward.com for port forwarding procedures specific to your router.