Connecting Foscam Fi9901EP to WUnderground


Equipment used:


  1. Create a WUnderground account here:
  3. Navigate to the Add Camera page:
  8. Optional, but recommended, security settings!
    2. We’ll be changing the following settings:
      1. Manual snap Quality” to “HIGH
      2. Pictures Save To” to “FTP
      3. Enable timing to capture” to checked
      5. Enable set Filename” to checked
      6. Filename” to “image” – REF:
    3. Click “Save” in the upper right corner.


25 thoughts on “Connecting Foscam Fi9901EP to WUnderground”

  1. This has now changes as WU is revising their servers. WU will give you a camera ID and custom password instead of using your WU username.

    1. How do you obtain that camera ID and custom password? My emails to their tech support have gone unanswered for weeks.

  2. Good morning
    What should I put in the Filename field in Snapshot Settings?
    Thank you
    With best regards

  3. John,








  5. John,
    Thank-you for the detailed instructions on connecting a Foscam FI9900P





          Any difference in displayed options when using a different browser?

      2. I followed this tutorial last year for a camera that has since been destroyed by the weather and got my foscam linked to fairly easily. When trying to get a new QJ4 foscam linked to wunderground now however, has not been so simple. I followed all the steps in this (really great btw!) tutorial and when I reach step 9 and enter in all the credentials that were generated on I get a ‘Success’ message. That should be great and means the information is being sent, right?! Well, the camera still shows up as ‘Offline’ on wunderground. That leads me to believe (also what Foscam tech support has said) that everything on the foscam side of things is working and trying to send the data over to but it is not being received. (Foscam no longer has a phone line to call either which is another resource I used the first go round, just emails being sent to China I believe. Wunderground tech support has not been much help either, leaving messages unanswered for nearly a month now). I do not remember using a filezilla type program for my first installation with my first camera so maybe I’m missing something there?? Any assistance on this would be VERY greatly appreciated.

        1. WU has gone downhill, significantly, since their acquisition by The Weather Channel.
          If you have a way to monitor network traffic (like a firewall or similar) then monitor the traffic to ensure your camera is sending out to WU via TCP 21.
          Another option would be to install FileZilla and connect to using your ID “WU_######” as the username and account key for the password. Your ID and account key can be found here:
          Personally, I got really frustrated with WU and began hosting my weather cam image here on this site. Same concept: FTP from camera to my web server. Wrote a small script to move/rename/delete every 60 seconds.


  7. Hi,


    Thank you for your great manual!




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