Please make sure that these prerequisites are met to enable AngelBox to solve many network camera setup issues.
1) Ports used by your cameras should be set to a default configuration
Currently, we are scanning ports 554, 88, 81, 555, 7447, 8554, 7070, 10554, and 80 for RTSP and MJPEG services, if you're using a different port, the stream won't be discovered.
We were forced to limit the number of ports because some firewalls and network components tend to block the detection if we try to access all the ports.
The future AngelBox update will allow you to specify a custom port for the detection.
2) Your network needs to be running a DHCP server
AngelBox is set to wait for a DHCP server to assign it an IP address. There isn't any way to set it to a fixed IP because no web configuration server is running. The DHCP server is enabled by default on your router in 95% of cases, so unless you're running some custom setup, you shouldn't have any issues.
In the future, we plan to add custom IP configurations as well.
3) The AngelBox needs to be in the same network as your cameras
To properly detect your cameras, AngelBox needs to be in the same network (same subnet) as your cameras; otherwise, the detection won't work. At the same time, it needs to have internet access as well from this network.
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