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Configuration and Setup

iViewHD uses Link Local and multicast DNS (also known as Bonjour) to advertise its presence on the 
network. You can use a Bonjour enabled web browser to locate an iViewHD camera and configure it. 
Some web browsers, such as Apple

ʼ

s Safari, have a built in Bonjour browser. Other web browsers, 

such as Internet Explorer, can have a Bonjour plug-in installed for them.

For Windows users, the easiest thing to do is download the Standalone Bonjour Browser at

http://netmedia.com/iviewhd/downloads.html

Once you run the Bonjour Browser, you will see a window similar to the following

You will need to select 

Web Server (HTTP)

 under Services because iViewHD acts as a Web Server. 

The iViewHD cameras are then displayed in the right most window and you can double click the 
camera to launch your web browser.

In Safari the Bonjour browser can be selected by selecting the Collections icon on the Bookmarks 
bar:

iViewHD User

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s Manual

12                                                                         © 2009 NetMedia, Inc.

Summary of Contents for iViewHD

Page 1: ...iViewHD Userʼs Manual Manual V1 05 Firmware V2 0drn or later Website V2 0aoa or later November 11 2009 ...

Page 2: ...es the right to make improvements in the software product described in this manual as well as the manual itself at any time and without notice DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY NETMEDIA INC MAKES NO WARRANTIES EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WITH RESPECT TO THIS MANUAL OR WITH RESPECT TO THE SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN THIS MANUAL ITS QUALITY PERFORMANCE MER CHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICUL...

Page 3: ...hroughout this manual to denote the family of iViewHD cameras such as the iViewHD 2M or iViewHD D1 Web screen shots may not appear exactly the same between various web browsers and operating systems iViewHD Userʼs Manual 2009 NetMedia Inc 3 ...

Page 4: ...s Web Page 21 Change Device Name 21 Change Port Values 21 Change TCP Keep Alive 22 Set Extra Port 22 IP Options Web Page 23 DHCP Configuration 23 Fixed IP Addresses 23 Security Web Page 25 Change Username and Password 25 Authorized Port IP address and Mask 26 Admin Web Page 27 Set LED Brightness 27 Blink LED 27 Restart iViewHD 28 Set to Factory Defaults 28 Clear Persistent Storage 28 Update Web Pa...

Page 5: ...atch 31 Website received OK Restarting 32 Appendix A 33 Alternate Ways to Locate an iViewHD Camera on the Network 33 Bonjour Browser for Windows plugin 33 Safari Browser for Windows 33 DHCP Server 33 ARP Table Modification 34 Adding Route to Windows so Link Local Devices Can be Ac cessed 36 HTTP Commands 37 JSON Object Support 41 Reading JSON Objects 41 Writing JSON Objects 41 JSONP Support 41 iVi...

Page 6: ...ructure CAT5 they are ideal in environments where networking cabling is already installed New installations are also easier than traditional video cameras due to the use of a single cable for both power and video The cameras are configured using a standard web browser Various camera parameters can be set up and saved using a web page A live camera view is also available via the web interface iView...

Page 7: ...ewHD cameras illustrated so that you can distinguish between them iViewHD 2M 2 Megapixel maximum image output 1600x1200 Power Over Ethernet POE powered iViewHD D1 385K maximum pixel output 720x536 Power Over Ethernet POE powered iViewHD Userʼs Manual 2009 NetMedia Inc 7 ...

Page 8: ... via a web browser with username password and IP and mask protection Conforms to various internet standards ARP TCP IP UDP DHCP Link Local Bonjour ICMP Ping HTTP Up to 4 IP addresses configurable DHCP Link Local 2 static IP Addresses OEM custom webpages available Controllable LED status indicator Audio power on signal Power requirements Class 1 less than 3 8W Power Over Ethernet POE IEEE 802 3af 2...

Page 9: ...e with the instructions may cause harmful inerference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the followi...

Page 10: ...h provides the network connectivity and power for the camera To configure the iViewHD camera 1 Plug in an Ethernet cable to the POE switch 2 Plug the the other end of the Ethernet cable into the iViewHD Camera The orange LED next to the RJ45 connector should illuminate The red LED in front of the camera will light up and the camera should emit a series of beeps and you will probably see the green ...

Page 11: ... the the Mac run the Safari browser which has Bonjour already built in See appendix A Al ternate Ways to Locate an iViewHD Camera on the Network which provides several op tions for locating an iViewHD camera 5 Locate the camera using Bonjour And double click on the camera name You can make adjustments to the default camera image on the main web page iViewHD Userʼs Manual 2009 NetMedia Inc 11 ...

Page 12: ...them For Windows users the easiest thing to do is download the Standalone Bonjour Browser at http netmedia com iviewhd downloads html Once you run the Bonjour Browser you will see a window similar to the following You will need to select Web Server HTTP under Services because iViewHD acts as a Web Server The iViewHD cameras are then displayed in the right most window and you can double click the c...

Page 13: ...indows Each iViewHD has a unique name associated with it which you can change later on The factory de fault name is in the form iViewHD TT Camera XXXXXX where TT is either 2M for a 2 megapixel camera or D1 for a D1 camera XXXXXX are the last 3 digits of the iViewHDʼs MAC address in hex You can find the MAC address on a label on the back of the camera Double clicking on the name will attempt to con...

Page 14: ...have an opportunity later on to change these if you wish The following sections describe the main iViewHD image control web page and the other web pages which are used to configure your camera Once you know the address of your camera on the network you can use a number of other browsers to connect to the camera Safari Internet Explorer Firefox Opera Google Chrome iViewHD Userʼs Manual 14 2009 NetM...

Page 15: ...atic IP addresses Security allows you to change the web page username and password and limit access to iViewHDʼs network ports to certain IP addresses Admin allows you to perform administration functions on iViewHD such as Link LED con trol restarting rebooting iViewHD or setting it back to factory defaults Update allows you to load new Firmware or Web pages into iViewHD Footer Navigation Bar Reso...

Page 16: ...ng of lighting conditions The camera may automatically adjust the frame rate based on the resolution selected Best for Day This is the fastest frame rate and is better suited for brighter lighting condi tions Based on lighting conditions resolution and compression this frame rate can deliver more than 30fps but in low light conditions the frame rate will be much lower Better for Night This frame r...

Page 17: ...omatically adjust its exposure based on average light ing If there are very bright or dark areas in an image one of them will not be as visible You can use the EV setting to make these area more visible For example a bright sky may cause the foreground to appear too dark You can set the EV value a bit higher and make the foreground less dark This will have the effect of possibly wash ing out the s...

Page 18: ...er sistent storage These parameters are retained if there is a power failure You will get a confir mation dialog after the parameters are saved successfully Restore Parameters When you click this the current saved parameters are restored You will get a confirmation dialog after the parameters are successfully restored Please see the NVR Commands section in Appendix A for a list of commands that ma...

Page 19: ...nique MAC address Free Space Remaining shows how much free space is remaining in iViewHDs persistent flash storage iViewHD stores configuration parameters in persistent storage If persistent stor age space is exhausted you will need to reset iViewHD back to factory defaults to reclaim the space DHCP Address shows your current DHCP address A value of 0 0 0 0 means that a DHCP ad dress has not been ...

Page 20: ...e problem Any changes that are made to iViewHD parameters are saved in persistent storage Most changes to iViewHD parameters force iViewHD to restart so you should be careful not to change these parame ters while there are other network connections to iViewHD or else these connections will be lost You should also be careful when changing things such as IP addresses and or the device name because y...

Page 21: ...dress in hex You can change the name to anything up to 32 characters You should try to keep names unique on your network if you are using multiple iViewHDs to more easily distinguish among them This web page also displays the Link Local name The link local name is a DNS safe name that is de rived from the device name Operating systems which support the mDNS Bonjour protocol allow you to address iV...

Page 22: ... in seconds to wait before sending a probe packet to de termine if the other end is still active The default value of 7200 is 2 hours Retry Interval specifies the amount of time in seconds between successive probe packets The default is 9 seconds Retry Count specifies the number of times probe packets will be retried before the connection is terminated The default value is 75 times Set Extra Port ...

Page 23: ...ave is to enable or disable DHCP address acquisition Fixed IP Addresses You can specify up to 2 static IP addresses Static IP addresses can be used to give iViewHD a known unchanging IP address You will need to specify the IP address gateway and mask to prop erly set the static IP address The gateway and mask values are used to initiate communications from iViewHD to other computers Some example v...

Page 24: ...D more difficult to locate on a network if your computer does not support link local addressing Bonjour See Appendix A Adding Route to Windows so Link Local Devices Can be Accessed if you have Windows and need to only use a link local address In order to have changes to the DHCP configuration or static IP addresses made iViewHD will auto matically restart iViewHD Userʼs Manual 24 2009 NetMedia Inc...

Page 25: ...urity anyone can access iViewHDʼs web setup pages With security en abled all of iViewHDʼs web pages will be protected with a username and password although you will only need to enter this information once when you access the first web page You can change the username and password for web access Both the username and password are case sensitive Only the username is displayed The default username a...

Page 26: ...ave access to the port IP Mask a mask value which allows you to specify a range of IP addresses The mask is ANDed with the IP address which is accessing iViewHD and compared to the IP Address above Here is an example Port Number IP Address IP Mask 80 192 168 2 0 255 255 255 0 This will grant access to port 80 the HTTP port for anyone from the 192 168 2 0 subnet That is IP ad dresses 192 168 2 0 to...

Page 27: ...Press Set LED Brightness to change the brightness level The brightness level will change immedi ately without iViewHD restarting Blink LED You can force the Link LED to blink for a period of time and at a certain rate This is useful if you have several iViewHDs and you wish to know which iViewHD you are controlling via the web interface Once the LED finishes blinking it will revert to its original...

Page 28: ...en ing After the persistent storage is erased iViewHD will restart and revert to a minimal web page You should reload the Website ROM file so that you can reconfigure iViewHD See the Update Web Page section on how to reload the Website ROM file When setting the iViewHD to its factory de faults you should be aware that any network configuration IP address or DHCP that you may have set will revert b...

Page 29: ...e is getting full and you want to reinitialize it but donʼt want to lose your configuration parameters If power is lost during this opera tion then it is likely that the current configuration parameters were not saved and restored iViewHD Userʼs Manual 2009 NetMedia Inc 29 ...

Page 30: ...s The Update web page will appear slightly different depending on which browser you use For exam ple if you are using Internet Explorer the web page will look like this In either case you will need to press the Browse or Choose File button to select the appropriate file ROM files are named as follows iViewHD_Firmware_Vn_naaa rom iViewHD_Website_Vn_naaa rom where n_naaa is the version number which ...

Page 31: ... that the flash file sent to iViewHD is valid then try updating iViewHD again with the same file You may also get this message if your web browser does not correctly upload files You could try switching to a different browser Bad request from browser or file not found You have requested a page on the iViewHD that does not exist or your browser has sent a command that iViewHD does not recognize Err...

Page 32: ... you are attempting to upload a website file and that it was received with no errors iViewHD will now reflash its persistent storage with a copy of the newly received firmware This operation will take several minutes iViewHD Userʼs Manual 32 2009 NetMedia Inc ...

Page 33: ... should see a window similar to the following after selecting the Bonjour logo on the Tools Bar You can then click on the camera that you want to manage Safari Browser for Windows You can also install the Safari web browser which will enable Bonjour on your computer and also give you a Bonjour browser It s available at http www apple com safari download For cases where Bonjour is not appropriate t...

Page 34: ...n IP address to a camera you can use the IP ad dress in a web browser to setup the camera You will need to issue commands on a terminal or command shell In Linux or Mac OS X you can use the terminal In Windows you will use CMD EXE The command to modify the ARP table is similar in all operating systems You will need to obtain the MAC address of the camera which you want to locate The MAC address is...

Page 35: ...d would be arp s 192 168 1 200 00 03 75 00 00 07 Here is an example CMD EXE session for windows mapping the IP address 192 168 1 200 to the MAC address of 00 03 75 47 00 07 The arp a command lists all the entries in the ARP table After the new IP to MAC association is made we do a ping to make sure that the iViewHD camera is accessible iViewHD Userʼs Manual 2009 NetMedia Inc 35 ...

Page 36: ...ess allocation rules prevent an address from being assigned In these cases iViewHD can only be accessed via its LL address Unfortunately once Windows obtains a non LL address either manually or through DHCP it re moves its route to the LL address subnet This has the effect of not being able to communicate with devices which are addressed only through 169 254 x y The easiest way around this is to a...

Page 37: ...t multiple JPEG MJPEG im ages are to be returned streamed commands is a list of commands separated by commas described below The COMMAND pa rameter should always be present even if there are no commands included afterwards Some example HTTP commands are http iViewHD Camera 2M 470040 image cgi CAPTURE YES STREAM 1 COMMAND Returns a stream of MJPEG images using the camera parameters that are current...

Page 38: ...0 2 default varies based on resolution and compression 0 Best for Night 1 Better for Night 2 Best for Day BRIGHT 0 16 Brightness default 8 0 Low 8 Normal 16 High EXPO 0 12 Exposure default 6 0 2 0EV 1 1 7EV 2 1 3EV 3 1 0EV 4 0 7EV 5 0 3EV 6 0 0EV 7 0 3EV 8 0 7EV 9 1 0EV 10 1 3EV 11 1 7EV 12 2 0EV SAT 0 8 Saturation default 4 0 Low 4 Normal 8 High HUE 0 4 Hue default 2 0 60º 1 30º 2 0º 3 30º 4 60º ...

Page 39: ...the upper left corner of the base resolution image This value can be in increments of 1 pixel SIZE Output image size Defaults to size of current output resolution This value should be no larger than the DCW and the same image aspect ratio if not it will be adjusted automatically HxV The horizontal and vertical size in pixels separated by ʻxʼ This value should be in in crements of 4 pixels if not i...

Page 40: ...e to retrieve a single JPEG image using the current camera parameters Itʼs equivalent to the image cgi CAPTURE YES STREAM 0 COMMAND The command is simply Image jpg For example http 192 168 1 140 Image jpg iViewHD Userʼs Manual 40 2009 NetMedia Inc ...

Page 41: ...empty string in which case all JSON objects will be retrieved Writing JSON Objects To write a JSON object issue a GET or PUT request in the form JSON cgi GETSET 1 COMMAND JSON Object where JSON Objects denotes a single JSON object and its corresponding values For example CameraParameters OutputSize 1600 1200 Some JSON parameters are Read Only and attempting to change them has no effect Other JSON ...

Page 42: ...r OutputSize number number Effect number Compression number Brightness number Contrast number Hue number Saturation number Sharpness number Exposure number WB number VFlip boolean HMirror boolean FrameRate number Save boolean Restore boolean CameraStats FramesPerSecond number TotalFrames number BadFrames number BadJPEG number iViewHD Userʼs Manual 42 2009 NetMedia Inc ...

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