In order to access your IP camera we must first make the IP address of your Mac compatible with the camera’s default IP address of 192.168.0.90. Important: Before you change the IP address details of your Mac keep a note of the original settings so that once the camera has been setup you can easily change them back. Step 2 – Change the IP address of your Mac Power on the camera and connect the crossover cable from the Ethernet port in the camera to the Ethernet port on your Mac. You should be able to pick one up from any computer store as they are fairly common. This is essentially a standard Ethernet cable but wired differently so two devices can communicate directly. In order for two devices to connect directly without going through a router you will need a special kind of Ethernet cable called a “Crossover” cable. We therefore need to connect the camera directly to a Mac. Without the initial setup software we cannot configure the camera when it is plugged into your router. ![]() It’s actually very easy to set up an Axis camera without using the setup tool on the CD, in fact we rarely use these tools here in the office at all. ![]() Without the initial setup tools how can an Axis camera be configured to work with a Mac? Read on to find out how. There may be some limitations and you might find that you cannot achieve the full functionality from the camera without using the ActiveX control but you can still use the majority of functions. ![]() Macs are capable of displaying live images from all of the cameras in Axis’s range. This is not to say that Axis cameras are not compatible with Macs, quite the opposite. This is true for every IP camera we’ve come across so far and is also true of any Axis camera. Unfortunately Mac users get a raw deal when it comes to setting up IP cameras as the software supplied to perform the initial setup is always Windows-based only. How to set up an Axis IP camera using a Mac
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