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PIC1006WN

User’s Manual

Wireless IP Camera

Version 1.00

(English)

BEFORE GETTING STARTED

This UM is designed to aid you to get started with the device. If you experience problems following these guides or
need further information pertaining to the device, please visit our website at

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. All specifications

are subject to the manufacturer’s configuration at the time of shipping and may change without prior notice, written
or otherwise.

Summary of Contents for PIC1006WN

Page 1: ... to get started with the device If you experience problems following these guides or need further information pertaining to the device please visit our website at www prolink2u com All specifications are subject to the manufacturer s configuration at the time of shipping and may change without prior notice written or otherwise ...

Page 2: ...g the Ethernet cable 6 3 Web Configurations 7 3 1 Information 8 3 2 Video Display 9 3 3 Network 10 3 4 WiFi Security 12 3 5 Advanced Network 15 3 6 Video Settings 16 3 7 Mobile Video Settings 18 3 8 Night Mode Control 19 3 9 Email Ftp Alarm 20 3 10 Speaker Alarm Settings 22 3 11 NAS Settings 22 3 12 SD Card Settings 24 3 13 Scheduling 26 3 14 LED Control 27 3 15 Date Time 27 3 16 Admin 27 3 17 Upg...

Page 3: ...ce to a NVR device The schedule function provides full scheduling of email ftp sending motion detection and NAS recording event With the built in Web server the IP Camera can also be managed from a standard web browser on a Windows computer With the very low light sensitive video sensor and IR LEDs the IP Camera can work day and night satisfying all home security and indoor surveillance needs With...

Page 4: ... 2 Installation Setup The IP Camera is designed to be very easy to install and use First let s see the major components of the IP Camera products 2 1 Hardware Overview Figure 2 1 IP Camera Hardware Overview ...

Page 5: ...ra use DHCP function and very often there is a DHCP server on most of the Home office network the IP Camera should be connected to the Internet immediately The Internet status LED is constant red light to indicate this good connection status If the LED is blinking please refer to section 3 3 3 5 to try other network settings Figure 2 2 Connect Ethernet cable to a switch router 2 2 2 Second Install...

Page 6: ...own in Figure 2 4 Figure 2 4 Camera ID Password Notice 1 You can modify this play video password by entering into the web configuration pages Please refer to section 3 6 for more information 2 You can also add the IP Camera into the CameraList in the LiveView Software to have more convenient video display please refer to the user manual of the LiveView Software for more functions 2 2 4 Seeing the ...

Page 7: ...values The supported WiFi security mode of the IP Camera is WEP 64 bits and 128 bits and WPA PSK TKIP and AES In most of the home office WiFi environment this is quite enough The easiest way to set the WiFi settings on the IP Camera is through LiveView Software Right click the searched IP Camera in the Auto Search list and click the Web Configure to open the login window of the IP Camera Fill in a...

Page 8: ...P Camera will connect to the Internet immediately Figure 2 7 Unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the WiFi function Notice 1 Please remember that the WiFi connection will use a different IP address you will need to do the Auto Search function in the LiveView again to find the IP Camera again after the WiFi is connected 2 If you want to switch back to the wired Ethernet connection just plug in the E...

Page 9: ...t click the searched IP Camera in the Auto Search list of the LiveView Software and click the Web Configure to open the login window of the IP Camera Figure 3 1 Open the web configuration page from LiveView Software The default login account is admin leave the Password field empty Figure 3 2 IP Camera Web configuration login page ...

Page 10: ... page The IP Camera can be viewed remotely by the LiveView Software only when the IP Camera is registered If this IP Camera is not registered please check the Ethernet wiring of your network environment The Network type field displays the network connection wired or wireless and method DHCP PPPoE or static IP the IP Camera is running The Video users field displays the number of connected video vie...

Page 11: ...n a computer an ActiveX component will be automatically downloaded into the browser This could take some time depends on the internet speed The component is downloaded from a public domain so that the computer must be connected to the Internet If you want to modify the video display screen size please refer to section 3 6 for more details Figure 3 4 Video display page ...

Page 12: ...he IP Camera will lose connection But as soon as the Ethernet cable is plugged in again the IP Camera will obtain a new IP address immediately Figure 3 5 Network settings page for DHCP function If the network environment does not support DHCP function you will need to set the network settings of the IP Camera manually Please fill all the fields including IP address Subnet mask Default gateway and ...

Page 13: ...EN 11 Figure 3 6 Network settings page for fixed IP address ...

Page 14: ...of the three modes None WEP and WPA PSK WEP Wireless Encryption Protocol WPA WiFi Protected Access PSK Pre Shared Key TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol AES Advanced Encryption Standard 3 WEP mode when the WEP mode is chosen you need also choose between 64 bit 5 char 64 bit 10 hex 128 bit 13 char and 128 bit 26 hex encryption mode and then fill the WEP key correctly 4 WPA PSK mode when the WPA P...

Page 15: ...est is successful You can click the WiFi scan button to scan for all the available access points nearby If you want to define fixed IP address when using WiFi connection please press the IP address button and key in your preferred IP address After the setting and Save Apply do not need to restart the IP Camera to let the WiFi work only need to unplug the Ethernet cable The default setting is Disab...

Page 16: ...EN 14 Figure 3 9 WiFi testing page ...

Page 17: ...Apply button is pressed the PPPoE function will work immediately You can check the Registration status in the Information page to see if the IP Camera is registered using the PPPoE connection Please be noticed that the DHCP or static IP settings in the Network page can work together with the PPPoE connection Only that the PPPoE has higher priority so if the PPPoE is working the IP Camera will use ...

Page 18: ...ain the video motion or image quality when the internet speed is not good enough 7 Brightness the brightness of the video lower value means darker display 8 Sharpness the sharpness of the video higher value means sharper video 9 Low light sensitivity The low light sensitivity could be normal high or very high When the low light sensitivity is high the system could see better video clearance under ...

Page 19: ...EN 17 Figure 3 11 Video settings page ...

Page 20: ...Store for iPhone iPad and mLiveview from Android Market for Android Mobiles and pads The video frame rate resolution and bandwidth for 3G mobile access could be set independently from the video settings for LiveView access The maximum allowed resolution is 640x480 and maximum allowed bandwidth is 512 kbps Figure 3 12 Mobile Video Settings page ...

Page 21: ...ight sensor on the IP cam that is doing this light detection b Scheduled time of night mode the IP Cam can also be scheduled to turn on the IR LEDs in a time range of each day c Manual night mode control the IP Cam can be manually forced to night mode IR LEDs on or day mode IR LEDs off In order to get better video color display during day time and night time there is an ICR IR Cutter Remover in th...

Page 22: ...le video area it is detected Please be noticed that the real size of the object could be large or small anyway the detection is only based on the relative size of the object Probably a small pencil moving near the IP Camera could be detected but a moving car far away from the IP Camera could not be detected Low means low sensitivity i e the motion detection is triggered by a very large movement If...

Page 23: ...ant to the Email recipient address 2 SMTP username password this is the account to use the SMTP server to transfer the email message The SMTP server and username password account are only for transfer the email message to the Email recipient the Email recipient could be on another email server or any reachable email address The username and password fields could be left empty if no authentication ...

Page 24: ...e standard NAS devices in the market Since there are a lot of different choices including prices and scales users can decide by themselves which is best for their needs By using this function the standard NAS device is becoming a NVR Network Video Recorder device Notice When the IP Camera is doing NAS recording this is counted as one video user Please refer to appendix B about allowed maximum vide...

Page 25: ...iguration page of the NAS device Need to key in the login username password of the NAS device 9 Access NAS files on the Microsoft Windows platform click this to access the files on the NAS devices In the Microsoft Windows environment you can access to the NAS device by keying the URL address NAS name shared folder name or NAS IP address shared folder name in the windows Internet Explorer and then ...

Page 26: ...cted the system will do the SD Card recording according to the scheduling in section 3 12 Disable Recording will disable this SD Card recording 2 When doing the SD Card recording the system will check the free disk space of the SD Card If the disk space is full no free disk space the system will do Circular recording overwrite the oldest recorded files in the SD Card or Stop recording as selected ...

Page 27: ...EN 25 Figure 3 17 SD Card information page ...

Page 28: ... video motion is detected and or digital input alarm is detected 4 NAS Record for each scheduling if this is selected either Continuous or Motion triggered or D I triggered could be enabled For Continuous it means that the IP Camera will do the video recording to the NAS device during the whole scheduled period For Motion triggered and or D I triggered it means that the IP Camera will do the video...

Page 29: ...e Internet connection has some problem the led display will be off when the Internet connection is successful 3 15 Date Time The IP Camera can synchronize the date time with the universally available time server for example stdtime gov tw through NTP protocol The date time will then be corrected with the time server anytime when the Internet is connected Users can choose the different Time Zone of...

Page 30: ...ult account is admin without password If the login account is forgotten you can reset the IP Camera to the factory default settings by following the steps in section 3 19 and login with the admin account Please be noticed that this account is different from the video play password in the Video settings page Figure 3 21 Admin settings page ...

Page 31: ...done in the upgrade procedure is displayed Please be noticed that during the upgrade procedure do not power off the IP Camera otherwise the IP Camera could probably enter into the safe mode section 3 18 After the upgrade procedure is finished the system will restart automatically You can upgrade from the ftp server or from the local file in your computer During this upgrade procedure do not try to...

Page 32: ... 3 18 Reboot You can restart the IP Camera manually on this page All the connected video viewing users will be disconnected Figure 3 24 System reboot settings page Figure 3 25 System reboot under going page ...

Page 33: ...operation immediately to recover the system On this safe mode the IP Camera cannot display the video on the LiveView Software but you can still find this IP Camera on the Auto search list The steps to recover from safe mode are the followings 1 Use LiveView to locate the IP Camera by clicking the Auto Search item on the LiveView Software 2 Login into the web configuration page of the IP Camera 3 U...

Page 34: ...he reset button on the back of the IP Camera body for more than 4 seconds and release it do this when the IP Camera is powered on The IP Camera will reset to the factory default settings and restart automatically The web login account will be admin no password the play video password will be back to the original password after reset to factory default Figure 3 27 Stick on the reset button to set t...

Page 35: ...h separate frame rate resolution bandwidth settings for PC and mobile Event scheduling NAS storage access Online Firmware upgrade will enter safe mode when power is off during critical firmware upgrade point Watchdog function to prevent system failure 4 2 Specifications Item Descriptions Power DC 12V 1A Processors RISC CPU hardware video processing and compression Network interface Ethernet 10Base...

Page 36: ...gement Firmware upgrades via FTP Web browsing Built in web server for standard web browser access Video display on IE browser Video snapshots on any browser Supported protocols IPv4 HTTP TCP ICMP RTSP RTP UDP RTCP SMTP SNTP FTP DHCP ARP DNS PPPoE etc Accessories included Power adaptor camera bracket RJ45 Ethernet cable quick installation guide CD with installation software and User s Manual Video ...

Page 37: ...gure 5 1 The IP Camera body Figure 5 2 Quick Installation Guide Figure 5 3 Setup CD Figure 5 4 Power Adapter Figure 5 5 Ethernet Cable Figure 5 6 Camera Mounting Bracket Figure 5 7 Cross head Screwdriver Figure 5 8 Anchors Screws ...

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Page 39: ...M 1 5M 5fps 30 fps 20 4 For video resolution of 320x240 pixels Frame rate bandwidth 64k 256k 512k 768k 1M 1 5M 5fps 30 fps 20 18 9 4 For video resolution of 640x480 pixels Frame rate bandwidth 512k 768k 1M 1 5M 5fps 30 fps 8 6 4 2 When audio is enabled For video resolution of 160x120 pixels Frame rate bandwidth 64k 256k 512k 1M 1 5M 5fps 30 fps 20 14 4 For video resolution of 320x240 pixels Frame ...

Page 40: ...ower than the real Internet speed provided by your ISP Also need to notice that when multiple users are displaying the videos from the same IP Camera at the same time the video bandwidth times number of users will be needed for the Internet speed 2 WiFi Performance Information The WiFi performance is dependent on the distance between the IP Camera and the AP Access Point router and dependent on th...

Page 41: ...nd Tile control please refer to model PIC1003WP which is designed with Pan and Tile control The viewing angle of the IP Camera is about 60 degrees 5 If I have more than 1 IP Camera where can I multi view all the camera video at the same time Please use LiveView program to do multi viewing LiveView can support up to 36 display windows 6 Can I view the IP Camera image from other web browser like Fir...

Page 42: ...bottom for 5 10 seconds to reset to factory default setting The default password to view the camera video will be back to the original password 10 How can I access the IP Camera web configuration page Open the LiveView software Under Auto search Right click the camera ID and click Web configure 11 How can I change my IP Camera video play password Go to the web configuration page of the camera Logi...

Page 43: ...ings of the IP Camera From LiveView Under Camera List Right click and select Video Settings Quality Bandwidth Choose the bandwidth you want to set Update 15 Does the IP Cam provide the recording function You can do the recording of the video audio of the IP Cam from the LiveView Software with the LiveView Software version later than the version number v1 1 Another software LivePlay is needed to pl...

Page 44: ...my phone Please go to Edit CamID Password and set the Streaming type from Mobile to Normal For Apple iOS Devices For Android OS Devices 19 How to do Motion Recording in LiveView Right click camera image tick Motion Recording Motion Recording Status Green Standby mode Yellow Motion detected and Recording in progress 20 How to view or playback the recorded clips i Execute LivePlay from Start All Pro...

Page 45: ... vlc and i Open the video clips saved folder ii Right click the video clips file type as crf format iii Choose Open with option then select to VLC media player 21 When the recorded video is playback from my NAS storage the top half of the video image will be running but the bottom half will be blurred out Why is this so This video distortion is due to the CPU RAM overload for the NAS device as it ...

Page 46: ...t mode IR LEDs on or day mode IR LEDs off Automatic day and night mode switch Scheduled time of night mode Manual night mode control 23 When the IP Cam is connected to the network through wireless connection the video quality is not good how could I fix this problem When the IP Cam is connected using wireless network and the video quality is not good it s probably because the distance of the IP Ca...

Page 47: ...Camera directly to my PC notebook with an Ethernet cable If the IP Camera is directly connected to your PC notebook computer using an Ethernet cable the IP Camera will automatically use an IP address called auto IP with IP address 169 254 xxx xxx If your PC notebook computer is configured to DHCP it will also use an auto IP address But this will take about one minute after the IP Camera is connect...

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