Accessing the encoder, Configure the ip addresses – ACTi V11 User Manual
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Mini Video Encoder Hardware Manual
Accessing the Encoder
Configure the IP Addresses
In order to be able to communicate with the encoder from your PC, both the encoder and the PC
have to be within the same network segment. In most cases, it means that they both should have
very similar IP addresses, where only the last number of the IP address is different from each
other. There are 2 different approaches to IP Address management in Local Area Networks
– by
DHCP Server or Manually.
Using DHCP server to assign IP addresses:
If you have connected the computer and the encoder into the network that has a DHCP server
running, then you do not need to configure the IP addresses at all
– both the encoder and the PC
would request a unique IP address from DHCP server automatically. In such case, the encoder
will immediately be ready for the access from the PC. The user, however, might not know the IP
address of the encoder yet. It is necessary to know the IP address of the encoder in other to be
able to access it by using a Web browser.
The quickest way to discover the encoders in the network
is to use the simplest network
search, built in the Windows system
– just by pressing the “Network” icon, all the encoders of the
local area network will be discovered by Windows thanks to the UPnP function support of our
encoders.
In the example below, we successfully the encoder model that we had just connected to the
network.
Double-click the mouse button on the encoder model, the default browser of the PC is
automatically launched and the IP address of the target encoder is already filled in the address
bar of the browser.