How to Add a Camera in Sikocam: Pairing Walkthrough

Pairing is the one step every camera owner does exactly once per camera, and it rewards calm. With the app installed from Sikocam official site, power the camera on, keep your phone beside it, and have your WiFi password ready before you tap add. If you still need the file itself, the Sikocam download page is where it lives.

Before you start

Plug the camera in near the router for the pairing itself, even if it will live across the house later. Confirm the camera light or voice prompt says it is ready, and put your phone on the WiFi network the camera will join: for most cameras in this class that is the 2.4 GHz network name, not the 5 GHz one.

Keep going with the Sikocam install steps once this part is done; the two steps belong together in practice.

The pairing flow, step by step

Tap the add button on the app home screen and choose your camera type. The app will show a QR code for the camera lens to read, or ask you to join a hotspot the camera broadcasts; follow whichever your camera offers. Hold the phone about a hand span from the lens for QR pairing and wait for the camera to confirm with a tone or light change before continuing.

Type the WiFi password carefully. More pairings fail on one wrong character than on every other cause combined, and the app cannot tell you which character it was.

Related help: WiFi setup and the 2.4 GHz question covers the other half of this job.

Name it and check the picture

Name the camera by its room: Porch, Counter, Nursery. When an alert lands at midnight, the name is how you know which feed to open. Finish by opening the live view, checking the picture is the right way up, and walking the camera to its real spot while watching the feed hold.