Local FTP Server

Setting up FTP Access on a Western Digital (WD) MyCloud

Western Digital MyCloud as FTP Server

Step 1: Open the WD MyCloud in your web browser past typing http://wdmycloud.local in the address bar of your web browser. The login to your WD MyCloud should open. Delight log in with your admin account.

Western Digital MyCloud as FTP Server

Step 2: In the upper menu please click on the arrow to the right side and select „Settings".

Western Digital MyCloud as FTP Server

Step 3: On the left side delight click on „Network" and within the network services delight switch the IPv4 Network Way to „static". This is important to make sure that the IP address of your MyCloud is not changing. If yous are noting switching it to static, it could be that your router volition assign a different IP accost to your MyCloud. In this case the camera would not be able to reach information technology anymore and therefore volition non tape anymore to the MyCloud. Therefore this pace is very important.

Western Digital MyCloud as FTP Server

Step iv: Follow the assistant to assign a static IP accost. You really but have to click on „Next" and „Utilize" in order to employ the settings. Delight remember the IP address shown in Step2. This IP address will exist the one with which you can access your WD MyCloud at any time.

Western Digital MyCloud as FTP Server

Western Digital MyCloud as FTP Server

Step 5: You take to login over again once the IP has been changed to a static IP. Please login in again. In one case logged in, please click the right arrow again in the upper carte and click on „Settings".

Western Digital MyCloud as FTP Server

Pace six: One time again select „Network" and within the network services delight switch the FTP Access to „ON". ON should then be shown in blue.

Western Digital MyCloud as FTP Server

Footstep vii: The FTP Access in full general is now activated. In order to tell the photographic camera in which folder information technology should tape, nosotros will demand to ready a shared Folder. Therefore please click on „Shares" in the upper bill of fare and inside this card delight click on the + sign in order to add a shared Binder.

Western Digital MyCloud as FTP Server

Step viii: For Share Name you tin can now type in the folder name in which yous want the recordings being stored. In our example nosotros choose the binder name „Recordings". You can besides add a clarification to the binder name. In our case nosotros name it „INSTAR Cameras". Once y'all typed in the Share Name and Description please „Utilise" the settings.

Western Digital MyCloud as FTP Server

Step nine: The newly created shared Folder should now already exist selected. In gild to be able to access it by FTP, yous volition need to actuate the FTP access. Please activate it. Now you still need to cull if a bearding user can admission the folder or not, in this case we recommend you to select Anonymous None" which means that no i can access the recordings too yous. One time done please click „Apply".

Western Digital MyCloud as FTP Server

Step 10: Finally, we accept to ready our camera by typing in all the FTP information. To do so, please open up the spider web interface of your INSTAR camera. You can either type in the IP address of your camera in the address bar of your spider web browser, or y'all can use the INSTAR camera tool to search for your camera and to open it in the default web browser.

Once it is opened, please click on „Alarm – FTP" on the left card bar to open up the FTP settings.

Western Digital MyCloud as FTP Server

Step 11: In the FTP mask please fill up in the following data:

  • FTP Server: Hither you volition need to type in the IP address of your WD MyCloud. Equally an alternative you can also type in wdmycloud.local
  • FTP Port: Please get out it Port 21 which is used for FTP.
  • FTP Binder: You will have to type in the folder name which you take created before as a shared Folder on your MyCloud. In our case it was the folder „Recordings". If you are having more than than one camera, we recommend y'all to also add another sub folder for each camera, in our example „Camera_LivingRoom". This way it volition be easier later to carve up between the unlike cameras.
  • FTP Username: The username of your WD MyCloud.
  • FTP Countersign: The countersign of your WD MyCloud.
  • FTP Way: Please go on this PASV Mode.
  • FTP Folder Structure: Here you tin can select if the camera should record everything in one single folder, or if the camera should create a new binder for each day. If the camera created a new binder for each solar day, each folder will be named according to the date. Therefore it volition be much easier later to search for a recording from a particular day.

Submit your settings and test them. If the test is successful, your camera should now be able to save the recordings on your WD MyCloud.

Please don't forget to activate the move detection (alarm areas) within your camera and also brand sure you lot actuate the FTP upload nether „Alarm – Actions". Here you tin can select if the photographic camera should Upload videos or images to the FTP server (WD MyCloud) in case of an alarm issue. If you lot activate everything accordingly, the recordings should now exist saved on your WD MyCloud.