I’m assuming your Doorbell Cam is paired to your vivint panel already. You can take it over in just a few steps:
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- Open the back of your vivint panel, connect an Ethernet cord to the Ethernet jack and hook up your computer/laptop. (Most laptops these days dont need a crossover cable but you may need one if you are using an older laptop.)
- I had to reboot my panel for it to enable the Ethernet port (after plugging in both sides). Go into your Vivint panel, Settings, Installer toolbox, Networking, Advanced Networking, and toggle Ethernet (RJ45) port for troubleshooting.
- You should get a 172.16.10.x address on your laptop, you are now on the private Vivint LAN managed by your Panel. You can now don your cool hacker shades!
- To access the camera you can open a web page and start guesing the camera IP by taking note of your IP (the last device added to the network) and knowing that 172.16.10.101 is the first DHCP addess handed to other devices. OR… you could tool around for the camera on the Vivint panel from the installer toolbox untill you see its IP address. Ether way its probably close to 172.16.10.101.
- Now bring up the camera’s web interface and login with the default camera manufacture’s password of:
root
adcvideo
Edit the settings as you see fit… I joined it to my regular wifi and changed the login password.
Recording Options
- The camera has some built in recording options, so you can simply set that up and record to a network share and be donw.
- I used iSPY at first, a free application that has some decent recording options. I then moved on to BlueIris, which runs about $60ish total cost and has an amazing set of features.
- The camera’s cpu can overload if you max the quality and framerate, or if you add too many tasks. The first Stream I run at full resolution, 15fps with adaptive quality (smart stream: excellent foreground, good background), works well. I set the 2nd stream at medium resolution, 10fps same streaming.
- If your cool you can even program custom scripted actions that the camera can perform…
If you need to pair your camera to your Vivint control panel:
- Plug in the power to the camera and hold the doorbell button for 30ish seconds until it flashes red. Then hold the button for 5ish seconds and it will start telling you its time to connect to your Vivint panel
- Go into your Vivint panel, Settings, Installer toolbox, Smart Home devices, Cameras, and at the very top right “Add camera”.
- If you get lost there are youtube videos that have screens you can reference from “Vivint Academy”.
Hope that helps, you could probibly pair the camera to your laptop via adhoc and log into the web interface but I havent tried it.
Hope this helps you, feel free to post questions.