How to Connect a Insta360 PRO to Internet

Authored by: Support.com Tech Pro Team

1. Introduction

This guide will show you on How to Connect a Insta360 PRO to Internet.

Insta360 Pro provides a variety of camera connection modes, which can be divided into three types, namely, Farsight, wired connection, and Wi-Fi connection. It can be connected to a computer, iPad or mobile phone, for the remote control of the camera. Among them, the wired connection is achieved through a network cable or local area network (LAN). It is strongly recommended that the camera be remotely controlled through Farsight, which enjoys the most stable signal and the farthest communication distance.

If there is no Farsight device, Wi-Fi connection is more convenient and commonly used. The mobile app provides two ways of camera connectivity: LAN connection and AP hotspot connection of camera. Each of these two ways has its own characteristics. Hotspot connection is convenient and fast, and the connection distance is usually 5m ~ 10m, which is suitable for outdoor and quick preview; however, if the LAN is stable enough and the signal coverage area is large, the LAN connection can be preferentially selected, for the safety range of the connection between the person and the camera is larger in theory.

2. Farsight Connection

3. Wired Connection

1. Adjust the Ethernet connection mode of Pro to be the DHCP, connect the Pro to the router through the Ethernet cable, and the PC and the Pro need to be in the same LAN, so the PC can be connected to the router through the Wi-Fi or the Ethernet cable.

2. Open the Pro app at the client terminal, input to the IP address displayed on the camera OLED screen to connect the app to the camera.

2. Wired connection -- Direct mode
3. 1. Adjust the Ethernet connection on the Pro to be “Direct”, connect the Pro directly to the computer through an Ethernet cable.
   

2. 2. In this mode, the login address of Pro is 192.168.1.188. The static / solid IP address of computer needs to be set to 192.168.1 network segment. It is recommended to set as 192.168.1.100 with the subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.

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   (IP configuration Interface for Windows)

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   (IP configuration Interface for Mac OS)
3. 3. Open the client's app, input 192.168.1.188 to connect the app to the camera.

4. Wi-Fi Connection

1.First, please make sure that the Wi-Fi mode is “Wi-Fi”.

2.Open app, find the entry to "QR code generator" entry in the top left corner of the homepage, click enter, and find the Wi-Fi content interface at the rightmost, and fill in the same LAN SSID and password with LAN (Note: for LAN name, the camera temporally only supports the recognition of half-angled English letters, numbers and common symbols), and then generates and obtains the QR code.

3.On the camera navigation menu, after selecting the Wi-Fi icon, click the "set" button, the camera will prompt you to provide the QR code, into the "waiting to scan the code state".

4.Lens on both sides of the camera screen have the code scanning function. Please put the QR code you just get towards any one of the lens, about 5cm~ 10cm, when you hear the successful prompt sound of the camera, it means QR code scanning completed, and the camera screen will display the corresponding IP address.5.Select connection method one on the app, fill in the IP address displayed on the camera screen, and then click on the connection, then it will turn to the functional menu.

2. Wireless connection -- AP connection
   
   1. First, change the Wi-Fi mode as “AP”;
   
   

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   2. Open your client device to search nearby Wi-Fi hotspots, and find the Wi-Fi AP hotspots named “Insta360-Pro-XXXXXX”. Click to input 88888888 (repeat eight for 8 times) to connect.
   
   

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   3. When the connection completes, open Pro app, and select "Connection Method B". Click "Connect".