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Chapter III: Using Surveillance Software

3-1 Installing IP Camera Surveillance Software

The IP camera surveillance software provides various functions like video

recording, after this software is installed, you can use your IP camera to

safeguard your property. Please follow the following instructions to install the

surveillance software.

1. Double click the setup file located in „xxx‟ folder in supplied CD-ROM, when
the following window appears, click „Next‟.

2. You can specify the destination folder of software installation, you can just
use the default folder, and click „Next‟ to continue.

Summary of Contents for IC-3030i

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Page 2: ...es the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the contents hereof without the obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes The product you have purcha...

Page 3: ...29 2 1 1 MJPEG 34 2 1 2 MPEG4 35 2 1 3 H 264 36 2 1 4 OSD 37 2 1 5 Night Vision 38 2 2 Network Settings 39 2 2 1 LAN 40 2 2 2 WLAN 43 2 2 3 Dynamic DNS 46 2 2 4 UPnP 47 2 2 5 LoginFree 49 2 2 6 RTSP 5...

Page 4: ...out 102 3 8 PTZ 103 3 9 Snapshot 104 3 10 Recording 105 3 11 Video Playback 106 Chapter IV Appendix 107 4 1 Specification 107 4 2 Troubleshooting 108 4 3 Obtain a free Dyndns account 111 4 4 Use this...

Page 5: ...urn the package to claim for missing contents System Requirements Computer with Windows 7 Vista or XP PC with dual core or above at least 2GB RAM Internet Explorer 6 0 above Existing 10 100 Ethernet b...

Page 6: ...network that is you can link to this camera wirelessly You only have to provide this IP camera with 12V power by the power adapter that comes with the product package and you don t have to set a new n...

Page 7: ...ports up to 100Mbps for wired network and 100Mbps for wireless network Wireless data encryption WEP WPA Supports DHCP and PPPoE protocol you can also assign a fixed IP address to the camera also Suppo...

Page 8: ...ty only work on wired model plugged with USB WiFi dongle and wireless model Power LED Indicates power status IR LEDs Lights up when environment is too dark Light Sensor Detects lights of the environme...

Page 9: ...OE model Wireless model SD Card Slot Accepts SD SD HC memory card for image video storage USB Port Connects to certain wireless module Antenna Base Connects to supplied antenna Top View USB Port SD Ca...

Page 10: ...nd hold for more than 10 seconds to reset the camera settings to factory default value Power Connector Connects to 12V DC power adapter Ethernet Connector Connect to your local area network Audio Conn...

Page 11: ...10 Tripod Connector Connects to any standard tripod camera wall holder MAC Address Label Shows the MAC address of this IP camera Useful when you can t locate the camera on the network Back View...

Page 12: ...On Camera is correctly powered camera on LAN Off LAN port not in use On LAN port in use Flash Transferring data via LAN port WLAN Off Wireless LAN not in use On Wireless LAN in use Flash at low speed...

Page 13: ...dapter to wall socket and connect the power connector to the power jack located at the bottom of the IP camera 4 Connect two antennas to the antenna bases which is located at the back of this IP camer...

Page 14: ...If you wish to assign another IP address to this IP camera you have to log onto the web configuration interface of the camera first If the left three fields of the IP address of your computer is not...

Page 15: ...14 2 Double click Network Connections icon 3 Right click Local Area Connection and click Properties...

Page 16: ...15 4 Select Internet Protocol TCP IP then click Properties...

Page 17: ...s of this IP camera and you forget it there re 2 methods to recover it a Press and hold the Reset button located at the bottom of this IP camera to clear all settings of the IP camera and reset the IP...

Page 18: ...through the Installation process The following installation is implemented in Windows Vista The installation procedures in Windows 2000 XP Vista 7 are similar 1 Insert the CD shipped along with the IP...

Page 19: ...to start install camera admin software 4 You can change the installation folder of camera setup software here click Browse to select an existing folder or you can just click Next to use default insta...

Page 20: ...aunch icon for camera admin software please check corresponding box and click Next to continue 6 You ll see a brief of all options you selected click Install to install camera admin software now or cl...

Page 21: ...ftware is complete If you wish to launch camera admin software now keep Launch IP Cam Admin Utility box checked and click Finish to close installation utility After the camera admin software is launch...

Page 22: ...nese and Japanese You can select the language you wish to use from language dropdown menu located at upper right corner of camera admin software Search camera Click this button to search all cameras o...

Page 23: ...nd security setting In Lan Setting page you can configure camera s network settings Select DHCP to set the camera to obtain an IP address from DHCP server on local area network automatically and selec...

Page 24: ...nd password user name is always admin and cannot be changed You have to input the same password in both New Password and Confirm Password field or you ll be prompted to input new password again Click...

Page 25: ...to input the user name and password Default user name is admin and password is 1234 Click OK to continue after user name and password has entered If you re rejected maybe the password has been modifie...

Page 26: ...onto web management interface you ll be prompted to install ActiveX Plugin When you see this message please click OK and click Download the latest ActiveX link to download plugin so you can use this...

Page 27: ...26 Click Run to install plugin Please click Next button to start installation click Next or Install when you re prompted until installation is complete...

Page 28: ...27 Click Finish to complete plugin installation Now you can go back to web browser and you should be able to see the image captured by camera You may need to press F5 or CTRL R to reload web page...

Page 29: ...camera requires or you don t have Microsoft DirectX installed Please download Microsoft DirectX from Microsoft s website http www microsoft com and try again In some cases your computer is able to dis...

Page 30: ...Camera Settings The first menu after you logged onto web management interface is Camera and this is the only menu you can see the real time image from camera You can always back to this menu by clicki...

Page 31: ...ceiling or wall you can use this function to rotate the displaying image Brightness Saturation Sharpness Select brightness saturation and sharpness from dropdown menu and click or button to increase o...

Page 32: ...y your computer s microphone to the camera s external speaker Press and hold this button then speak to the microphone Please note that external speaker must be connected to this camera Digital Zoom If...

Page 33: ...32 mode uses all available space to display the image captured by this camera Please note If you re not using Microsoft Internet Explorer as web browser some functionalities may not work properly...

Page 34: ...IP camera in Video menu You can access this menu by clicking Video on the top of web management interface There are 5 types of video settings for this IP camera To set the option of a certain video s...

Page 35: ...ges video quality There are 5 levels of video quality from Lowest to Highest Selecting a higher video quality will provide better video quality but requires more network bandwidth Frame Rate Changes v...

Page 36: ...es video quality There are 5 levels of video quality from Lowest to Highest Selecting a higher video quality will provide better video quality but requires more network bandwidth Frame Rate Changes vi...

Page 37: ...ges video quality There are 5 levels of video quality from Lowest to Highest Selecting a higher video quality will provide better video quality but requires more network bandwidth Frame Rate Changes v...

Page 38: ...tion about this camera will be displayed on camera s display image and select Disable to disable it Show Camera Name Select Enable to show camera s name on camera s display image select Disable to hid...

Page 39: ...n it s very dark Alaways turn on IR led Turn IR LEDs on even it s very bright Auto mode Let camera decide to switch LED lights on or off automatically LEDs will light up when it s too dark If you don...

Page 40: ...ant to change IP address use PPPoE Dynamic DNS and activate UPnP function You can access this menu by clicking LAN on the top of web management interface After you selected Network network setting men...

Page 41: ...40 2 2 1 LAN You can define IP address and select the port number you wish to use here...

Page 42: ...condary DNS Specify the IP address of backup DNS server here When primary DNS is unreachable IP camera will use the IP address specified here as DNS server This field is optional Web Port Specify the...

Page 43: ...42 performance Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect...

Page 44: ...of this IP camera select Disable to disable it Network Type Select the network type of wireless connection Available options are Infrastructure Connect the IP camera to a wireless access point and Adh...

Page 45: ...sh to connect here SSID the SSID of all found wireless access points will be shown here Some wireless access point may hide their SSID in this case you have to identify them by their MAC address MAC A...

Page 46: ...selected wireless access point here This is required when access point you wish to connect uses encryption Self PinCode Here displays the WPS pin code used to connect to WPS enabled wireless access po...

Page 47: ...of how to apply a new account can be found on dyndns org s website The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below Item Description Enable DDNS Select Enable to activate Dynamic DNS...

Page 48: ...u don t have to remember the IP address of this IP camera Simply open Network neighbor and it s there The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below Item Description Enable UPnP Se...

Page 49: ...48 Click the message to open My Network Places and you ll see the IP camera You can double click the icon to launch Internet Explorer and log onto IP camera s web management interface directly...

Page 50: ...ck Apply to save settings then other users can access the image by this filename with jpg extension with the camera s IP address as prefix For example if your camera s IP address is 192 168 2 1 and th...

Page 51: ...ns of every setting in this menu will be given below Item Description RTSP Port Input the port number of RTSP here Default setting is 554 MPEG4 RTSP Path Input the path of MPEG4 RTSP video file When y...

Page 52: ...in captured image and take a snapshot when motion is detected So you can use this camera to keep the safety of the belongings you have To use motion detection click the following link from the top of...

Page 53: ...e Motion Detection Select Enable to enable motion detection and select Disable to disable this function Motion Detection Interval Select the time interval between two motions from dropdown menu When a...

Page 54: ...ed motion to SD card if there s one and select Disable to disable this function Storage File Type Select saving file type for motion detection JPEG still picture or AVI MPEG4 AVI H264 for motion pictu...

Page 55: ...tion region setting and reduce the chances of false alarm The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below Item Description Region 1 3 Check the box to enable motion detection region...

Page 56: ...o you can decide the motion detection region more precisely Save Save motion detection region settings To change the motion detection region you can resize and reposition it Move the mouse cursor to t...

Page 57: ...ivers the Email for you here If you don t know please refer to the SMTP server you re using in your Email software like Outlook Outlook Express etc or ask your network administrator or ISP Sender E Ma...

Page 58: ...ame of SMTP server here if your SMTP server requires the use of authentication Password Please input the password of SMTP server here if your SMTP server requires the use of authentication Click Apply...

Page 59: ...here Remote Folder Input the remote folder name on the FTP server here If nothing is specified here all uploaded image files will be placed in FTP server s root directory Please ask FTP server s admi...

Page 60: ...ry to use passive mode Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect After that you can click Upload a test file to send a file to the FTP server you set here so you can make sure...

Page 61: ...s camera will automatically erase oldest image file to make rooms for new image files when SD card is full If you don t want to lose old image files do not check this box File Name Prefix Specify the...

Page 62: ...ou can use this menu to get the operational information of this camera After you selected System Info a sub menu will appear There are 4 sub menus available here Detailed descriptions of every setting...

Page 63: ...amera in the same network Default name begins with IC plus the last 6 characters of the MAC address of this IP camera You can modify the name to the one you can remember and meaningful to you but neve...

Page 64: ...wish to set here Date time format is YYYY MM DD HH MM SS Time is in 24 hour format You can click Synchronize to PC time to use the time of the computer you re using Example 24th August 2007 2007 08 24...

Page 65: ...Time manually field Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect If you wish to use the date and time setting of the computer which is connecting to the camera click Synchronize...

Page 66: ...a proper firmware file from your computer click Upgrade Firmware button to start upgrade DO NOT DISCONNECT NOW If the firmware file you provided is invalid of you didn t provide the firmware file you...

Page 67: ...ng slowly or behaves strange you can click this button to try to reboot the IP camera this may help LED Setting Click Turn off LED light button to switch the LED light of this IP camera off so all LED...

Page 68: ...67 2 4 4 Status This menu provides all information about this IP camera like firmware version system uptime date time and network information...

Page 69: ...cted Account you ll be prompted to input user account information The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below Item Description User List Lists all users currently available Logi...

Page 70: ...rom user list first Remove Remove an existing user You have to select a user from user list first Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect Please note only one user including...

Page 71: ...70 2 6 SDHC After you selected System Info a sub menu will appear There are 4 sub menus available here Please click the SD card setting you wish to set then refer to instructions given below...

Page 72: ...71 2 5 1 Status Here shows the remaining card space for you...

Page 73: ...em Description Recipient E Mail Address Input the E mail address you wish to receive space alarm E Mail Subject Input the title of space alarm E mail SMTP Server Input the SMTP server address you wish...

Page 74: ...rved and will not be used from dropdown menu Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect You can click Send a test email button to send a test E Mail by the configuration you se...

Page 75: ...this menu will be given below Item Description FirstPage Jump to first page of file list PrevPage Jump to previous page of file list NextPage Jump to next page of file list LastPage Jump to last page...

Page 76: ...e is installed you can use your IP camera to safeguard your property Please follow the following instructions to install the surveillance software 1 Double click the setup file located in xxx folder i...

Page 77: ...76 3 If you need installation program to create a desktop icon or a quick launch icon for you click all items you need here than click Next to continue...

Page 78: ...u chose in previous steps if everything s correct click Install to start installing procedure or click Back to go back to previous step to modify installing settings 5 The installing procedure will ta...

Page 79: ...the software installing procedure is complete Please click Finish to finish the procedure IP camera surveillance software will start after you click Finish button if you want to start it later uncheck...

Page 80: ...surveillance software Before you start IP camera surveillance software will only work when your monitor s resolution is 1024 x 768 Please change the resolution before you use IP camera surveillance so...

Page 81: ...urveillance software will switch displaying the image of all connected camera automatically Click this button once to activate scan function scan icon will become blue click again to stop scanning sca...

Page 82: ...splay Displays all system messages like camera is disconnected etc Close window stop surveillance Terminates IP camera surveillance software Minimize window Minimizes IP camera surveillance software w...

Page 83: ...a s you wish to connect Please click System configure button and a popup menu will appear Please select Configure Cameras to configure cameras Note If you re prompted by a windows security alert which...

Page 84: ...in Camera Search box Select Select a camera listed in Camera Search box and click Select button to fill all parameters of selected camera in every camera configuration fields Refresh Rescan all camer...

Page 85: ...hanged the password of selected camera Video Format Select the video encoding format of this camera MJPEG or MPEG4 Reset Clear all fields in Camera Configuration section OK Save settings in this tab C...

Page 86: ...ou have by a pre defined schedule Here are the descriptions of all setting items Item Description Channel Select the channel number you wish to set One Time Schedules You can specify the one time sche...

Page 87: ...ot set a schedule in the past Edit You can modify a scheduled recording item Select a schedule in One Time Schedules list and click Edit button to edit the start and end time of this schedule Delete D...

Page 88: ...You can also click All Time Record button to define a recording schedule that will be executed every weekday from 12 00 00AM to 11 59 59PM Click OK to save changes Edit You can modify a scheduled reco...

Page 89: ...items Item Description Channel Select the channel number you wish to set Mute Audio Check this box and the IP camera surveillance software will not play the audio captured by this camera Record Video...

Page 90: ...wish to set Enable Enable motion record function Disable Disable motion record function Recording Time Select the time duration that camera will record when a motion has been detected from dropdown m...

Page 91: ...on is triggered camera Send mail when motion is triggered Send an email to a pre defined address when a motion has been detected by the camera OK Save settings in this tab Cancel Discard all settings...

Page 92: ...ttings like file storage directory and recording spaces can be set here Here are the descriptions of all setting items Item Description Data Directory Set the directory folder you wish to store the re...

Page 93: ...another file to record the video Scan Time Define the time period to pause between every camera switch when you activate Scan function Cycle Recording You can decide the behavior when hard disk space...

Page 94: ...camera please setup your email related parameters here first Here are the descriptions of all setting items Item Description E Mail Subject Specify the subject of sending email Recipient E Mail Addre...

Page 95: ...lect Enable if your SMTP server requires authentication select Disable if it s not required If you don t know if your SMTP server requires authentication please refer to the setting of your email soft...

Page 96: ...le to access this IP camera surveillance software you can set a password to protect it You ll need to input the password every time you wish to use this IP camera surveillance software To set password...

Page 97: ...en this software starts Disable Password authentication is not required when this software starts Password Input the password you wish to use here Confirm Password Input the password you wish to use h...

Page 98: ...yout displays different number of camera and camera arrangement you can click the icon that presents a specific kind of layout and the video displaying area will change accordingly Layout style 1 1 Ca...

Page 99: ...Displays the video of up to 6 cameras Layout style 4 8 Cameras Displays the video of up to 8 cameras Layout style 5 9 Cameras Displays the video of up to 9 cameras Layout style 6 10 Cameras Displays t...

Page 100: ...99 Layout style 7 13 Cameras Displays the video of up to 13 cameras Layout style 8 16 Cameras Displays the video of up to 16 cameras...

Page 101: ...screen mode If you want to use all available spaces on your monitor to display surveillance image you can click Full Screen button to switch display mode to full screen mode To exit full screen mode p...

Page 102: ...een all configured cameras Click Scan button once to activate scan function scan icon will become blue click again to stop scanning scan icon will become white NOTE If a camera is configured but disco...

Page 103: ...ize of a certain object to see its detail Please select a camera in video displaying area by clicking on its image then click button to see more objects that fall in the scope of camera s view or clic...

Page 104: ...osition that camera points to to see different places that fall in the scope of camera s view Please select a camera in video displaying area by clicking on its image and then click the directions you...

Page 105: ...u can take a snapshot of selected camera and save it to Snapshot sub folder of pre defined data directory Click snapshot button once to take a snapshot you can take as much snapshot as you want before...

Page 106: ...g starts you ll see a message displayed in message displaying box like 1 1 10 00 00 Camera 2 Start Manual which means camera 1 starts recording manually on 1 1 at 10 00 00 To stop recording click Star...

Page 107: ...rch all videos file that falls in a specific period of time and Motion Search search all videos recorded by motion detection function and falls in a specific period of time Please define the start and...

Page 108: ...dware LAN Connector One RJ 45 port to connect to 10 100Mbps Ethernet Wireless IEEE 802 11b g n Wireless Model Only LED Indicator LAN WLAN Power for wired and wireless model LAN Power for POE model HTT...

Page 109: ...ss of the IP camera you will have to reset it to factory default value which is 192 168 2 3 by pressing reset button at the bottom of the IP camera You ll need a pen or pin to be able to press the res...

Page 110: ...nstruction IP camera is not responding a Is the network cable or wireless connection disconnected Please check it b Unplug the power adapter from wall socket and plug it in again after 10 seconds then...

Page 111: ...y give you some clue on how to solve the problem e Change the threshold to a more sensitive setting I heard strange sound when I use pan tilt function a Please check if anything jams the camera remove...

Page 112: ...to your IP camera when you re away from it you can follow the following steps to obtain a free Dyndns account which will provide you free IP address to host name mapping service 1 Launch your web bro...

Page 113: ...12 3 Click Create an Account in pop up menu 4 Fill all fields appear in this menu and click Create Account button to create a new account You ll be prompted if the account you selected is not availabl...

Page 114: ...ou should be able to get confirmation e mail Click the link to connect to dyndns org website and complete registration procedure If you didn t get the mail please re check the e mail address or click...

Page 115: ...see Account Confirmed webpage indicates your dyndns org account has been confirmed and activated Now you can click Create a dynamic DNS host within our Free domains link to continue 8 Click Create Ho...

Page 116: ...ice in Hostname field Select a domain name in dropdown menu Select Host with IP address for Service Type Input current IP address in IP Address field or click the link below to use detected IP address...

Page 117: ...3 When you see this message indicates your free dyndns org hostname mapping service has been activated You can go to chapter 2 2 3 to use your dyndns org username password and hostname domain name to...

Page 118: ...describes how to configure your router or firewall device so your IPCAM can work with them These instructions are based on a commonly available residential router and these setup techniques should be...

Page 119: ...IP CAM To access IP CAM located behind router or firewall you must open ports on router or firewall so you can access IP CAM from Internet 1 Go to your router s setup page and locate NAT Firewall Por...

Page 120: ...t number of web configuration view or RTSP you have to change the port forwarding setting for your router accordingly 3 If IP CAM is the only one service you wish to access from Internet you can also...

Page 121: ...aptured image Currently this IP CAM supports iPhone Apple and Google Android OS 4 5 1 iPhone 1 Launch Safari web browser 2 Input IP CAM s IP address host name in safari s address bar in the following...

Page 122: ...121 3 Enter user name password for the Edimax IP camera By default user name is admin and password is 1234...

Page 123: ...dd other 3 IP CAMs to the quad split screen Click an unused corner and a yellow square will appear to indicate it s being marked then click Setting 5 Input camera s name IP address port number usernam...

Page 124: ...video file you will see UAC User Account Control pop up notification window to restrict you from saving file like below To avoid this from happening you can a Switch UAC off in control panel NOT RECO...

Page 125: ...124 c Add IP Camera s IP address to Trusted sites in Internet Explorer s security setting RECOMMENDED Input IP CAM s IP address here...

Page 126: ...125 d If you don t want to change Internet explorer s security setting you can run Internet explorer as administrator as workaround...

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