Configuration Program for Panasonic BL-C30A

Alright, guys, this is a boring post, but I hope to help a couple people out with it. The Panasonic BL-30A I speak of is a wired/wireless IP network camera with pan/tilt functionality. When I purchased it, Panasonic was just adding it to its list of devices it no longer actively supported, so its definitely not supported now. No firmware updates were ever released for it, and just to give you an idea of the firmware’s antiquity, the wireless only works WEP encryption. I picked one up about 4 years ago and, miraculously, have managed to keep track of the CD that came with it. But, that’s the trouble: If the camera is reset, or you end up with it on a network where that camera is on the wrong subnet, the only way to set it up the first time is to use the configuration utility that comes on the CD. I think you can also find the camera’s DHCP address if you have access to your network’s DHCP tables, or you browse through your computer’s ARP tables, assuming you’re in the same broadcast domain, but I’m not sure if it enables web-interface configuration until after the initial configuration performed by the setup program on the CD. After several fruitless web searches, and many dead links, I gave up trying to find it on the web and decided to dig up the CD where I had it stashed. Here I share with you the original setup software (including instruction manual with its machine-translated English) for the BL-C30A.

• Panasonic BL-C30A NETWORKCAMERA.zip
  All CD files in a .zip folder