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2. Basic Setup

This chapter provides details of installing and configuring the PT Internet Camera

Internet Camera

2.1 System Requirements

Network Interface

10/100M Base-TX Ethernet

Monitoring System Recommended for Internet Explorer 6.0 or later

System Hardware

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CPU: Pentium 4, 3.0GHz or above

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Memory Size : 512 MB (512 MB or above Recommended )

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VGA card resolution : 1024 x 768 or above

VGA card memory : 64 MB or above

(At least 128 MB for Megs-pixel resolution)

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Network bandwidth: In VGA resolution mode, minimum
upload bandwidth is 1Mbps.

Note

The listed information is minimum system requirements only.

Actual requirement will vary depending on the nature of your

environment.

Summary of Contents for ICA-M220

Page 1: ...Wired Wireless Mega Pixel CMOS PT IP Camera ICA M220 ICA M220W User s Manual 1 Version 1 00 ...

Page 2: ...tallation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference 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 b...

Page 3: ...his product may cause radio interference in which case the user may be required to take adequate measures WEEE Regulation To avoid the potential effects on the environment and human health as a result of the presence of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment end users of electrical and electronic equipment should understand the meaning of the crossed out wheeled bin symbol Do ...

Page 4: ...Internet Camera 30 2 7 1 Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP 30 2 7 2 Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP 31 2 7 3 Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista 32 3 Web based Management Interface 33 3 1 Introduction 33 3 2 Connecting to PT Internet Camera 33 3 3 Camera Settings 36 3 4 Pan and Tilt Settings 40 3 4 1 Preset Points 40 3 4 2 Grand Tour 41 3 5 Network Settings 43 3 5 1 LAN 43 3 5 2 WLAN ICA M22...

Page 5: ...ings 60 3 9 SDHC 62 3 9 1 Status 62 3 9 2 Space Alarm 62 3 9 3 File Management 63 Appendix A Reset Factory Default Settings 64 Appendix B PING IP Address 65 Appendix C DDNS Application 66 Appendix D ICA M220 Series Specification 72 4 ...

Page 6: ...egration in existing network environment Easy configuration Network administrators can configure and manage via Windows based utility or web interface Wireless model is compatible with IEEE 802 11n and backward compatible with IEEE 802 11b g DDNS PPPoE and FTP uploading supports more alternatives in surveillance network Motion Detection the motion detection feature can monitor any suspicious movem...

Page 7: ...ion Guide x 1 User s manual CD x 1 Accessories Package x 1 Antenna x 2 ICA M220W ÍNote 1 If any of the above items are missing please contact your dealer immediately 2 Using the power supply that is not the one included in unit packet will cause damage and void the warranty for this product 6 ...

Page 8: ...Recommended for Internet Explorer 6 0 or later System Hardware CPU Pentium 4 3 0GHz or above Memory Size 512 MB 512 MB or above Recommended VGA card resolution 1024 x 768 or above VGA card memory 64 MB or above At least 128 MB for Megs pixel resolution Network bandwidth In VGA resolution mode minimum upload bandwidth is 1Mbps ÍNote The listed information is minimum system requirements only Actual ...

Page 9: ... accessing of the PT Internet Camera Light be flashing while transferring via wireless LAN If be flashing at low speed once a second indicated that waiting for WPS connection form AP Microphone The Camera has built in an internal microphone This microphone is hidden in the pinhole located on the front panel Audio LED The LED indicates the audio activity when it be flashing while speak function ena...

Page 10: ...e network automatically Reset Button Press the button with pen nib and hold for 5 seconds to reset the camera settings to factory default value SD Card Slot Accepts SD SD HC memory card for image video storage Antenna Base ICA M220W only Allows device connects to the supplied antenna WPS Button ICA M220W only Press the button on IP Cam and press it on the AP you want to connect for wireless Power ...

Page 11: ...2 2 3 Bottom Panel Tripod Connector Tripod Connector Allows connects to tripod to secure the camera when the camera is not put on a horizontal surface 10 ...

Page 12: ...ackage and check if anything s missing 2 Connect the Ethernet cable to your local area network and connect the other end to the LAN jack of this IP camera ÍNote User can skip this step if you plan to use wireless LAN only Plug the power adapter to wall socket and connect the power connector to the power jack located at the bottom of the IP camera 11 ...

Page 13: ...cure place and point the camera to the place you wish to monitor If you wish to hang the camera on the ceiling or wall please use the tripod connector located at the bottom of the camera to secure the camera Lock 5 Launch Internet Explorer on your computer and following the instructions given in next section to set the PT Internet Camera 12 ...

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 192 168 0 you ll have to change the IP address of your computer first 1 Click Start Î Control Panel 13 ...

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

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

Page 17: ... PT internet 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 address back to 192 168 0 20 You ll lose all settings in the IP camera b Ask network administrator to check the DHCP release table if the camera was set to obtain the IP address by DHCP a new record ...

Page 18: ...are can search the cameras in the network that shall help you to configure some basic setting before you started advanced management and monitoring Please insert the user manual CD ROM supplied in the product package and the CD will automatically running the installation if not please double click Setup_ICA M220_x x x icon Then follow the following instructions to install and use camera admin soft...

Page 19: ...o start install camera admin software 2 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 installation folder 18 ...

Page 20: ...nch icon for camera admin software please check corresponding box and click Next to continue 4 You ll see a brief of all options you selected click Install to install camera admin software now or click back to back to previous steps to change settings 19 ...

Page 21: ... software now keep Launch IP Cam Admin Utility box checked and click Finish to close installation utility 6 Please double click the utility icon on the desktop then you will see the PT Internet Camera utility After the camera admin software is launched all cameras found on your local area network will be displayed 20 ...

Page 22: ... Japanese User can select the language oneself 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 on local area network again Browse camera via web Select a camera listed above first and then click this button to connect to the camera by web browser Configure camera Click this button to configure came...

Page 23: ...e is also capable to locate multiple cameras on your local area network Input the password default admin and click OK to configure the camera s network and security setting In Lan Setting page user 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 select Manual IP to input the IP address informatio...

Page 24: ... 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 OK to save settings or click Cancel to discard changes 23 ...

Page 25: ...ents 2 6 1 Windows XP This device is an UPnP enabled device If the operating system Windows XP of your PC is UPnP enabled the device will be very easy to configure Use the following steps to enable UPnP settings only if your operating system of PC is running Windows XP Go to Start Î Settings and Click Control Panel The Control Panel will display on the screen and double click Add or Remove Program...

Page 26: ...The Add or Remove Programs will display on the screen and click Add Remove Widows Components to continue The following screen will appear select Networking Services and click Details to continue 25 ...

Page 27: ...The Networking Services will display on the screen select Universal Plug and Play and click OK to continue Please click Next to continue 26 ...

Page 28: ...The program will start installing the UPnP automatically You will see the below pop up screen please wait while Setup configures the components Please click Finish to complete the UPnP installation 27 ...

Page 29: ...in an internet browser 2 6 2 Windows Vista If the operating system Windows Vista of your PC is UPnP enabled the device will be very easy to configure Use the following steps to enable UPnP settings only if your operating system of PC is running Windows Vista Go to Start Î Control Panel Î Network and Internet Î Network and Sharing Center and turn on Network Discovery 28 ...

Page 30: ...lick My Network Places on the desktop the My Network Places will display on the screen and double click the UPnP icon with PT Internet Camera to view your device in an internet browser ICA M220 00304FA00075 29 ...

Page 31: ...web page to work correctly To use the PT Internet Camera user must setup his IE browser as follows 2 7 1 Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP From your IE browse Î Tools Î Internet Options Î Security Î Custom Level please setup your Settings as follow Set the first 3 items Download the signed ActiveX controls Download the unsigned ActiveX controls Initialize and script the ActiveX controls not maske...

Page 32: ... Options Î Security Î Custom Level please setup your Settings as follow Set the first 3 items Allow previously unused ActiveX control to run Allows Script lets Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls By now you have finished your entire PC configuration for PT Internet Camera 31 ...

Page 33: ...ing for ActiveX controls Prompt Initialize and script active controls not marked From your IE browse Î Tools Î Internet Options Î Security Î Trusted Sites Î Custom Level please setup your Settings as follow Enable Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls Prompt Initialize and script active controls not marked By now you have finished your entire PC configuration for PT Internet Camera 32 ...

Page 34: ...r s Favorites or Bookmarks Make sure the IP camera is correctly powered Power LED is on and then launch Internet Explorer and type the IP address of the IP camera in address bar of Internet Explorer The Default IP http 192 168 0 20 You should be prompted to input the user name and password Default username and password is admin admin Click OK to continue after user name and password has entered If...

Page 35: ...ity please enter the new User name and Password here After logged on you should see the following messages at the top of Internet Explorer Click on the message and click Install ActiveX Control When you see this message click Instal to install required ActiveX control 34 ...

Page 36: ...ows chapters If you see one of these messages or both OR Your computer may not have the display capability that this IP 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 display the image from IP camera correctly but you ll still see these messages If t...

Page 37: ...ou can always back to this menu by clicking Camera on the top of web management interface The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below Pan Tilt Speed Specifies the moving speed when you use pan tilt function to point the camera to a new direction Available options are 1 fastest to 5 slowest Select 1 to move the camera by a faster speed but you will not be able to control the ...

Page 38: ...to you can select a lower image quality to get a higher image refresh rate Video Type Select the video encoding type Available options are MJPEG and MPEG4 Frame Rate The highest image refresh rate of this PT internet camera is 30 which is the same as TV However if you are using an Internet connection with limited bandwidth and you don t need a fast image refresh rate you can limit the maximum refr...

Page 39: ...detail instructions of how to set preset points Press C and the camera will cruise between all preset points automatically Snapshot Click Snapshot button to save the displaying image as an image file a message box will appear after you click Snapshot button showing the filename and location of saved image file default filename is current date and time Default directory used to save image file is C...

Page 40: ...lso use your mouse to drag the zoom area the yellow square to reposition the zoom area Fit to Window Click this button and the image size will be adjusted to fit the size of browser window Speak to IP Cam You can transmit the voice received by 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 b...

Page 41: ...he position of labeled text not shown on image on the image to move the camera to the direction You may need to set the Pan Tilt speed to a slower setting so you can move the camera in a more accurate manner 3 When you move the camera to the position you want type a name in Position name field and click Set to Point n where n is the number of memory slot button to save the position to selected mem...

Page 42: ... menu will be given below Add Add a new set of grand tour see instructions below Edit Edit a selected grand tour The parameters for an existing grand tour will be recalled and you can modify them Start Stop Select a grand tour and click this button to start grand tour click again to stop it After a grand tour has been started go to Camera menu to see it in action Only one grand tour can be activat...

Page 43: ...preset points from dropdown menu here then click Add to list to add this position to this grand tour When you click Add to list you ll be prompted to set these parameters View Time Define the time you wish the camera to stop at this position in seconds View Order Give this position a number greater than 1 and not the same with other positions and grand tour will start visiting positions by order f...

Page 44: ...NS 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 menu will appear There are 5 sub menus available here Please click the network setting you wish to set and then refer to instructions given below 3 5 1 LAN You can define IP address and select the port number you wish to use here 43 ...

Page 45: ...l AV Control Port Specify the port number of video transfer here If you have firewall on your network you need to allow computers on Internet to access this port number of the IP address of IP camera or you ll not be able to view video from Internet Web Port Specify the port number of web management interface here If it s not 80 you ll have to add port after the IP address hostname of this IP came...

Page 46: ...options are Infrastructure Connect the IP camera to a wireless access point and Adhoc This IP camera will become a stand alone wireless network point other wireless computers devices can discover this IP camera and connect to it without wireless access point You can set to Adhoc when you don t have any wireless access point but your computer has wireless network card Set to Infrastructure when you...

Page 47: ...is wireless access point Encryption Shows the encryption type used by this wireless access point You must use the same encryption type if you wish to connect to a certain wireless access point If the wireless access point does not use encryption Disabled will be displayed here Network Type Shows the network type of a certain wireless access point Infrastructure or Adhoc SSID Input the SSID of the ...

Page 48: ...message box and you can press Start PBC button to try again Configure via PinCode If you have wireless access point s WPS PIN code you can input it here and press Start PIN button to start to establish PIN style WPS connection 3 5 3 Dynamic DNS If your ISP does not give you a fixed Internet IP address i e the Internet address you re using when you access the Internet is not always the same ask you...

Page 49: ...P When UPnP function is activated all UPnP compatible computers network devices will be able to discover this IP camera automatically only those in the same local network This function is useful and you 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 Enable UPnP Select Enable to a...

Page 50: ...mage with your own web application you can use this function Input the filename here and click 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 0 20 and the filename you set here is picture then everyone on the web can access the image captured by this camera by...

Page 51: ... given below 3 6 1 Motion Detection You can use this menu to setup basic motion detection settings The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below Enable 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 motion is detected camera wi...

Page 52: ...il address when a motion is detected select Disable to disable this function You have to configure mail server parameters in FTP Configuration menu first so this function will take effect see below Send snapshot file to SD Card Select Enable to send the saved file to SD card when a motion is detected select Disable to disable this function You have to insert a working SD card into the SD slot of t...

Page 53: ...nges in the image Refresh In case the objects of the image captured by the camera moved click this button to reload the image captured by camera so 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 the eight dots located at the border of motion detectio...

Page 54: ... the Email address of mail sender this will help you to identify the Email sent by this IP camera by sender s Email address NOTE Some mail server would reject to deliver the Email from unknown sender it s recommended to input your own Email address here or any other actual one SMTP Authentication Some SMTP server requires mail senders to be authenticated before they can send Email If your SMTP ser...

Page 55: ...r name of the FTP server you wish to use here Password Input the password of the FTP server you wish to use 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 administrator to know which folder you should use Certain user name may have restrictions and the...

Page 56: ...D Card Configuration You can define the filename and destination folder when saving a file in SD card The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below File Name Prefix Specify the filename prefix the texts which will be added before the file sequence number Destination Folder Specify the folder name that camera will store the saved image or video clip Click Apply to save settings...

Page 57: ...lease specify the name of this IP Camera here This can be used to identify your camera on the network when you have more than one IP camera in the same network Default name begins with ICA M220 M220W You can modify the name to the one you can remember and meaningful to you but never give all IP cameras in the same network with same name Password Please specify user name admin s password here The o...

Page 58: ... use the time of the computer you re using Example 24th August 2007 2007 08 24 and PM 9 24 30 21 24 30 If you select NTP Server the camera will get the date and time from NTP Server automatically Time Zone Please select the time zone of the country city of resident from dropdown menu here NTP Server Please input the IP address or host name of NTP server here You can use default value pool ntp org ...

Page 59: ...RESS OF THE CAMERA WILL RESET TO DEFAULT VALUE 192 168 0 20 Reset to Factory Defaults Clear all settings in the camera Please think again before you do this and then click this button to reset all settings NOTE IP address will be reset to default value 192 168 0 20 also You ll need to change the IP address setting of your computer if the IP address of your computer does not begin with 192 168 0 an...

Page 60: ...3 7 4 Status This menu provides all information about this IP camera like firmware version system uptime date time and network information 59 ...

Page 61: ...settings you can give them user level user name and password so they can only view the image and can not change any system setting When they want to click menus other than Camera they will see the following message informing that they don t have permission to do that After you selected Account you ll be prompted to input user account information 60 ...

Page 62: ...account and will give the privilege back later you don t have to delete it you can set to No for this account when you want to remove the privilege temporarily and set to Yes for this user when you want to give the privilege back Update Update the account s user name and password You can input the user name and password for this account again and click Add to change its setting Delete Delete this ...

Page 63: ...ven below 3 9 1 Status Here shows the remaining card space for you 3 9 2 Space Alarm When you re using SD card to store captured image and video clip you can have this camera to send an E mail to you when there s only little remaining space left on SD card If you have set E mail settings in Motion Picture function you can click Copy Mail Config button to use the same setting However user can use a...

Page 64: ...he SMTP server you re using requires authentication and input the username and password below If the SMTP server you re using does not require authentication select Disable here If you re not sure ask your ISP or network administrator Reserved Space Select the amount of SD card space which will be reserved and will not be used from dropdown menu Click Apply to save settings and make the new settin...

Page 65: ... can restore the factory default settings and install it again Restore the device 1 Insert the paper clip or other suitable tool to press and hold the button down continuously 2 Hold it over 8 seconds and release the tool Then the device has been restored to default settings and reboot again ÍNote Restoring the factory default setting will lose the all previous settings included IP address forever...

Page 66: ...with any other devices over the network If you want to make sure the IP address of PT Internet Camera utilize the PING command as follows zStart a DOS window zType ping x x x x where x x x x is the IP address of the PT Internet Camera The replies as illustrated below will provide an explanation to the problem If you want to detect any other devices conflicts with the IP address of PT Internet Came...

Page 67: ...users that could only obtain dynamic IP addresses As to the users that could obtain the static valid IP address they do not usually have to apply the DDNS service Before we decide if DDNS is necessary for the users we have to check what kind of Ethernet network environment we have to install our Networked Device on 1 Environment of Fixed Valid IP Network If users could obtain valid IP addresses th...

Page 68: ...he left side click Create Account 4 Fill the application agreement and necessary information a Username b E mail address and confirmation c Password and confirmation d Submit all the input information and finish creating an account 67 ...

Page 69: ...options 5 Check your e mail mailbox There will be an e mail with a title Your DynDNS Account Information Click the hyperlink address to confirm the DDNS service that you just applied Then DDNS you applied activated 68 ...

Page 70: ... Input your username and password that you just applied to login administration interface of DDNS server Input your account 7 If the correct username and password are input you can see the following picture at the top right of the login page 8 Click the Services 69 ...

Page 71: ...e Create Hosts 11 We could create a domain name without any charge at this step First we input the host name No 1 Then we pick a domain that is easy to remember Finally No 2 click the Add Host to submit the domain name information No 3 70 ...

Page 72: ...ed Device and setup the necessary information of DDNS and PPPoE after the application of DDNS service Please check the user manual to access the DDNS and PPPoE pages After saving the modification restart the device The external users could browse the Networked Device by the input of their domain name 71 ...

Page 73: ... AES Color Digital 24bit View Angle Horizontal 36 Degree Vertical 28 Degree P T Range Pan 350 degree Tilt 120 degree P T Speed 5 levels speed adjustable Fastest 1 36 393 Degree sec Slowest 2 0 212 Degree sec Audio Specification Audio Codec G 726 Audio I O Audio in Internal microphone Audio out External Speaker Network and Configuration Network Interface 1 x RJ 45 Network Standard IEEE 802 3 IEEE 8...

Page 74: ...e Ad Hoc Mode Antenna Type 2 x 3 dBi Max Dual detachable diversity antenna Antenna Connector Reversed Polarity SMA Male Output Power 802 11b mode 17 5 2dBm 802 11g mode 14 2 1dBm 802 11n mode 14 2 1dBm Receiver Sensitivity 11M 90dBm 54M 79dBm 300M 68dBm Wireless Operating Range Open Space 100 300m Inndoors 35 100m Wireless Power Impedance 802 11b 18dBm Nominal Temp Range 802 11g 15 5dBm Nominal Te...

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