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Indoor Wireless/Wired P2P IP Network

Camera

PIPCAM5

www.pyleaudio.com

Instruction Manual

Summary of Contents for PIPCAM5

Page 1: ...Indoor Wireless Wired P2P IP Network Camera PIPCAM5 www pyleaudio com Instruction Manual ...

Page 2: ...C NETWORK SETTINGS 29 3 4 WIRELESS LAN SETTINGS 31 3 5 ADSL SETTINGS 33 3 6 UPNP SETTINGS 33 3 7 DDNS SERVICE SETTINGS 34 3 8 P2P SETTINGS 38 3 9 SYSTEM SETTINGS 39 3 10 ALIAS SETTINGS 39 3 11 DATE TIME SETTINGS 40 3 12 USERS SETTINGS 40 3 13 PAN TILT PTZ SETTINGS NOTE THERE IS NO ZOOM FEATURE ON THIS MODEL 41 3 14 INDICATOR SETTINGS 41 3 15 BACKUP RESTORE 42 3 16 OTHER SETTINGS 43 3 17 MAIL SERVI...

Page 3: ...monitor your home or your office Also controlling and managing images are simple by visiting the web site 1 1 Features Powerful high speed video protocol processor High sensitivity 1 4 CMOS sensor Picture total 300K pixels Supports Pan and Tilt PT control Pan 270 Tilt 120 Optimized MJPEG video compression for transmission Multi level user management and passwords definition Embedded Web Server for...

Page 4: ...t sensitive photocell 2 Infrared LED 10 LEDs 3 LENS CMOS sensor with fixed focus lens Default is 6mm 3 6mm optional 4 Network Indicator LED If there is network activity the LED will blink 5 Microphone Built in microphone 6 Speaker Built in speaker 7 Wireless Antenna WI FI Antenna ...

Page 5: ...n connected to the network the yellow LED blinks when data is transferred Audio Output The jack is used to connect an external speaker I O PINS 1 Output A 2 Output B 3 Alarm input 4 Input GND 1 3 3 Bottom View Figure 1 3 Please note the unique MAC and DDNS addresses on the bottom of the camera different for every camera ...

Page 6: ...a and into an AC outlet 3 Plug the network cable into the camera and router switch 4 It takes approx 30 seconds to boot up the camera then you will find the IP address from IP Camera Tool Figure 2 1 5 When the power is on and the network cable is connected the green LED on the rear panel will stay on The yellow LED will keep flashing and the Indicator LED on the front of the camera will flash The ...

Page 7: ...era Tool Open the CD double click IPCamSetup exe then click next to complete the software installation Figure 1 6 1 7 1 8 2 ActiveX Double click Appinstall exe Next Install Finish Figure 1 5 Figure 1 6 Figure 1 7 ...

Page 8: ...e of an unauthorized power adapter may cause damage to your IP Camera The IP Camera should be installed indoors only Do not touch the lens of the IP Camera The optimum focus range has been set for you If you turn the lens it may cause incorrect focus and blurry images Do not turn the Pan Tilt by force it may cause damage to internal components of the Pan Tilt mechanism For firmware upgrading or co...

Page 9: ...shown in Figure 1 9 3 The IP Cameras installed within LAN do not share the same subnet with the monitoring PC A prompt will be shown in result field prompt Subnet doesn t match double click to change Click the left mouse button to choose the prompt and click the right mouse button choose Network Configuration to set the static IP address of the Camera to the same subnet as your LAN Figure 2 3 NOTE...

Page 10: ...ra it is Sometimes if there is no IP address shown on the IP Camera tool it could be blocked by a firewall in this case you need to add the MAC ID to the router and give it a fixed IP or add the MAC ID as a trusted site There are two MAC Addresses one is the Device MAC ID the other is the WIFI MAC ID WIFI MAC ID you can find it on the sticker on the bottom of the camera you can also login to your ...

Page 11: ...et with PC s IP address Here gateway is the LAN IP of your router DNS Server IP address of ISP network provider You can also set it to the same as the Gateway NOTE You can find the Subnet Mask Gateway DNS Server from your router or check the local connection status of your computer to get all the parameters Normally two DNS servers are optional Http Port LAN port assigned for the equipment default...

Page 12: ...ecommend that you don t upgrade it NOTE When doing an upgrade remember you must keep the power on and it s best to use wired mode connected via the network cable 2 1 1 4 Refresh Camera List Refresh camera list manually 2 1 1 5 Flush Arp Buffer When cable network and wireless network of the device are fixed IP address you may encounter a problem where you can search the camera IP but can t open the...

Page 13: ...2 168 1 123 Figure 2 5 Figure 2 6 The default user name is admin password is admin Input the correct user name and password the Sign In interface will pop up There are three models to login figure 2 7 Figure 2 7 1 Active Mode For IE Browser available in IE 6 0 or above 2 Server Push Mode available in Firefox Safari and Google Chrome browser 3 Sign in mobile phone available in Mobile phone ...

Page 14: ... and sign in Figure 2 8 Figure 2 9 The first time you login to the camera you might get an ActiveX prompt as in the picture above please click the prompt and choose Run Add on refresh and login to the camera again then will see live video as below Figure 3 0 ...

Page 15: ...options set to be Enable Especially Enable Download unsigned ActiveX controls Enable Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe Enable Run ActiveX controls and plug ins Figure 3 1 You can also click Start menu Internet Explorer and choose Internet attributes or via Control Panel Internet Explorer to access Security settings If you allowed the ActiveX to run but still cannot see live...

Page 16: ...close your firewall or anti virus software and try again 2 4 For Safari Firefox Google Browser Choose Server Push Mode For Safari Firefox Google Browser and sign in Server Push Mode doesn t support ActiveX so some functions are not available such as Play Stop Record Audio Talk etc If you want to use these functions please use IE browser Figure 3 3 ...

Page 17: ... it should work with your IP Camera Figure 3 4 2 6 ActiveX Mode For IE Browser Login to the camera in ActiveX mode the main User Interface is as below NOTE There are 3 levels of users Visitor Operator Administrator if you login with different users the use authority is different See 3 11 User Settings Figure 8 5 2 7 For Visitor When you login as Visitor you can enter the IP Camera for visitor Visi...

Page 18: ... want to view 4 9 channels you should set the Multi Device first See 3 1 Multi Device Settings Status of Channels There are 9 icons at the bottom of the UI which show the status of each channel of the camera Grey color means there is no device connected to the main device for this channel Green color means the device is connected for this channel and it works well Red color means the device for th...

Page 19: ... etc Add time stamp on record if you click this there will be time OSD on record video files Figure 3 7 Rate and Resolution Rate Set video frame here from full speed to 1fp 5s Figure 3 8 Resolution Set the resolution to be 160 120 VGA 640 480 QVGA 320 240 Figure 3 9 NOTE When doing recording Rate and Resolution parameter settings is very helpful for getting smaller sized record files lower the par...

Page 20: ...11 0 Click to collect the sound from the camera you will hear the sound from the camera through the speaker in the computer which you are using Your IP Camera has a built in microphone when you click it to start working the icon will change to red color click it again will stop the audio function Click to start the talk function you ll need to plug a microphone into your computer if it doesn t hav...

Page 21: ...Figure 4 2 Audio buffer Click this icon it will show five numbers which means 1 2 3 4 5 seconds buffer of audio Reversal Click this icon to reverse flip the image Click again to go back to normal Mirror Click this icon to see a mirror image Click again to go back to normal NOTE You can choose Reversal and Mirror function when you set up the camera in a special position upside down for example Mode...

Page 22: ...pan tilt and then stop at the center Normally it will rotate 1 circle Click this icon camera will move up you can click one by one or hold it to control the movement Click this icon camera will move down you can click one by one or hold it to control the movement NOTE It is the same operation as left right up left up right down left down right etc Click this icon camera will rotate up and down i e...

Page 23: ...sitions If you want to monitor an important area quickly and precisely just click Call Preset Position button it will pop up a dialog frame Figure 4 5 choose the number then the camera will rotate to the preset area automatically If you want to use Call Preset Position you have to Set Preset Position first NOTE For Operator if you click other menus which operator doesn t have the right to operate ...

Page 24: ...1 Set Multi Device in LAN In the Multi Device Settings page you can see all devices searched in LAN The 1st device is the default one You can add more cameras listed in LAN for monitoring This web software supports up to 9 IP Cameras online simultaneously Click The 2nd Device and click the item in the Device List in Lan it will fill the Alias Host Http Port automatically then input the correct use...

Page 25: ...25 Figure 4 7 Click Live Video and then select to see four channels or click to see nine channels Figure 4 8 ...

Page 26: ...S domain name and port this camera will be as the host camera Figure 5 0 Click Multi Device select Multi Device Settings Choose the 2nd Device fill in the 2nd camera s Alias Host Http Port User Password click Add Set more devices in the same way after all done click Submit NOTE The Alias is optional you can set the alias as you wish The Host must be the camera s DDNS domain name and without http i...

Page 27: ... set different port number for each different camera Figure 5 1 Note Add the other camera in the same way Click submit to add all of them Figure 5 2 Click Live Video and then select to see four channels or to see nine channels ...

Page 28: ...upgrade Device Firmware first then upgrade Web UI Click Browse and choose correct bin file then click Submit to do upgrading NOTE Before doing an upgrade via Browser please make sure the IP Camera Tool of your computer could find the camera s IP Attention Please keep the power on during upgrading and it s better to use wired mode via network cable Please don t upgrade unnecessarily wrong operation...

Page 29: ... 5 Reboot Device Click Reboot the device will pop up a prompt select OK then the device will reboot Figure 5 6 3 2 Network Settings Click Network will pop up the prompt as below 3 3 Basic Network Settings Here you can set the camera s IP address i e set the static IP address of the camera manually You can also do the same settings from IP Camera Tool Figure 2 3 ...

Page 30: ... of your computer it contains all this information steps as below 1 Control Panel Network Connections Local Area Connections Support Details 2 Find the local connection icon from taskbar left click it choose Support Details Figure 5 8 Figure 5 9 If you don t know the DNS Server you can set it the same as Gateway ...

Page 31: ...uter 2 Make sure the Wi Fi antenna is installed on the camera 3 Determine if your router uses encryption see your router s owner s manual for how to do this if it uses encryption note the share key 4 Login to the camera using the IP Camera Tool like you did when setting up with a network cable 5 When you see the screen in Figure 6 2 click Network then Wireless Lan Settings then click on Scan wait ...

Page 32: ...32 Figure 6 2 Figure 6 3 Figure 6 4 ...

Page 33: ...ttings When connected to the Internet through ADSL directly you can enter the ADSL username And password obtained from ISP Figure 6 6 Figure 6 7 3 6 UPnP Settings Click UPnP Settings to choose Using UPnP to Map Port Figure 6 8 ...

Page 34: ...curity settings of your router make sure the UPnP function of your router is ON Attention If your router doesn t support UPnP function it may show error information So we recommend you do port forwarding manually in your router For details see Figures 7 4 7 9 3 7 DDNS Service Settings Figure 7 0 There are 2 options Manufacturer s DDNS This domain is provided by the manufacturer Third Party DDNS Th...

Page 35: ...st NOTE Only one DDNS can be chosen for example if you use the manufacturer s DDNS the third party one won t work if you use the third party DDNS the manufacturer s one won t work To change the camera s port The default port of camera is 80 please change 80 to any other one you like such as 81 100 8091 etc It s best to use high numbers like 8091 for example Click OK the camera will reboot wait abo...

Page 36: ...DDNS to work There are so many kinds of routers so it s difficult to show fixed steps but here are some samples of different router s port forwarding settings just for reference TP LINK 1 Login to the router 2 Choose Forwarding select Virtual Servers 3 Click the Add New button pop up below Figure 7 5 Fill in the service port don t use 80 IP address of the camera then click Save NOTE The port and I...

Page 37: ...a Figure 7 6 DLINK 1 Login to the router 2 Choose Advanced select Virtual Servers 3 Input the port IP address Protocol then click save NOTE The public port private port should be the same as camera s port choose the protocol to be both Figure 7 7 After all these 4 steps are done you can use DDNS check the DDNS status from the camera as below and get the link of DDNS for internet viewing ...

Page 38: ...igure 7 8 Figure 7 9 3 8 P2P settings Check P2P information here using the GUID you can view the camera via iPhone or Android phone at any time from anywhere when connected to the network You can set your own user name and password here ...

Page 39: ... find the information about Device ID Firmware Version Embedded Web UI Version Alias Alarm Status DDNS Status UPnP Status and MSN status Figure 8 1 3 10 Alias Settings Default device name is anonymous You set any new name for your camera here then click Submit ...

Page 40: ...e 8 4 3 12 Users Settings Eight accounts are acceptable for this system Here you can set the user names and password as Administrator Operator or Visitor with permission for them as below Visitor In this mode you can only view Details 2 7 Operator You can control the direction of IP Camera and set some parameters Details 2 8 Administrator You can setup the advanced configurations of the IP Camera ...

Page 41: ...eed 3 Upward patrol speed Set the speed of cruising upward 4 Downward patrol speed Set the speed of cruising downward 5 Leftward patrol speed Set the speed of cruising leftward 6 Rightward patrol speed Set the speed of cruising rightward NOTE Value 0 means the fastest value 10 means the slowest In order to protect the camera s motor we recommend that setting the speed to value 5 3 14 Indicator Set...

Page 42: ... 15 Backup Restore Figure 8 8 1 Backup Backup all the IP Camera Parameters if you want to save all the current settings that you have set already you can click Submit then all the parameters you set will be stored as a parameters bin file 2 Restore Restore all the IP Camera Parameters if you want to change the camera s settings to a certain status which has a backup click Browse to load the bin fi...

Page 43: ...ting the user s will be shown in your MSN friend list Click System Device Info to check the MSN status After you run your MSN open the chat dialog type in the word url after a few seconds you will get a reply for the remote access IP address for this IP camera 3 16 Other Settings Figure 9 0 Here you can configure some additional functions such as Motion Detection Alarm IO Linkage Schedule FTP Uplo...

Page 44: ...sender s SMTP Port usually is 25 some SMTP servers have their own port such as 587 Need Authentication If there is SMTP user password please select authentication SMTP User Input correct SMTP User here Some SMTP User is the sender s full email address such as test qq com some are without suffix only the username such as test SMTP Password Input correct SMTP password here NOTE Click Submit first be...

Page 45: ...r 7 The message is denied by the server Maybe because of the anti spam privacy of the server 8 The server does not support the authentication mode used by the device Report Internet IP by Mail If selected you will receive e mails that contain the camera s internet IP When camera is powered on or Internet IP changed it will send the internet IP by e mail For example IPCAM s URL is http 121 213 109 ...

Page 46: ...ded Click Submit after these settings Then click Test You will see the following picture Figure 9 5 If it prompts error information as follows 1 Cannot connect to the server Please check FTP Server is correct 2 Network Error Please try later 3 Server Error 4 Incorrect user or password Please check the username and password is correct 5 Cannot access the folder Please be sure the folder exists and ...

Page 47: ...on Detect Armed If you enable Motion Detect Armed it will record and make an alarm sound when there is motion detected Figure 9 7 After you enable motion detect armed if there is motion detected the Alarm Status will turn to Motion Detect Alarm Figure 9 8 Figure 9 8 3 19 2 Motion Detect Sensitivity ...

Page 48: ... alarm devices when it s an alarm input device choose Alarm Input Armed to enable it when it s an output device choose IO Linkage on Alarm to enable it Figure 10 0 There are two options for Trigger Level Figure 10 1 High When the external alarm device is close then the alarm is triggered Low When the external alarm device is switching off then the alarm is triggered Figure 10 1 ...

Page 49: ...al relay output If you link an external alarm device to Pins 3 and 4 when Alarm Input Armed is selected Figure 10 0 the external alarm is enabled Output pins The output pins can be enable IO linkage on alarm You can also use to control IO output Switch ON OFF See Figure 4 4 NOTE All the pins work as switch only 3 20 Send e mail on Alarm When chosen it will send a picture to your e mail account onc...

Page 50: ...If Enabled there will be sound once alarmed If Canceled there will be no sound once alarmed Record on Alarm If you want the camera do recording for every alarm choose Record on Alarm to enable it If you do not want the camera do recording once alarm triggered cancel it here Figure 10 6 Once an alarm has occurred there will be indication as below 1 The corresponding status light turns Red and keeps...

Page 51: ...r the camera Figure 10 9 Record Path Here you can set the manually record path Click then start manual recording the record file will be saved to the specified path you set here Alarm Record Path Here you can set the alarm record path When motion is detected and record enabled it will start alarm record automatically the record file will be saved to the specified path you set here Figure 11 0 NOTE...

Page 52: ...he main user interface as below Figure 11 2 NOTE Server Push Mode does not support ActiveX Play Stop Record Audio Talk Multi device settings Path settings functions are controlled by ActiveX so if you use Safari Firefox Google chrome browser it is not possible to use these options The other functions are the same as for IE Browser ...

Page 53: ...e login to the camera you will see the main user interface as below Figure 11 3 NOTE Mobile phone Mode doesn t support ActiveX In mobile phone mode it only supports some simple functions such as Resolution Mode Bright Contrast Pan Tilt control Snapshot Reversal Mirror IO Linkage functions ...

Page 54: ...fault administrator password admin 4 1 2 Subnet doesn t match dbclick to change If IP Camera Tool shows error information Subnet doesn t match dbclick to change Please choose Obtain IP from DHCP server Figure 2 2 If it still shows this error after obtaining IP from DHCP server please check local area connection of your computer change subnet gateway of the camera Keep them in the same subnet as yo...

Page 55: ...l If you use Windows 7 or Vista and you could not find the shortcut on desktop after installing the IP camera tool please check if the path of the tool port to is correct For example was it was pointing to C Windows System32 IPCamera exe Please fix this by pointing the shortcut to the correct path C Windows SysWOW64 IPCamera exe After this you should be able to use the shortcut without any problem...

Page 56: ...nd there is no image displayed you might need to install ActiveX You need to change some browser settings to enable ActiveX See For IE Browser 4 1 14 Problems with network bandwidth The image frame rate is subject to the following factors 1 Network bandwidth 2 PC performance network environment and display preference setting brightness theme etc 3 The number of visitors too many visitors will slow...

Page 57: ...p Mirror Images Vertical Horizontal Light Frequency 50Hz 60Hz or Outdoor Video Parameters Brightness Contrast Audio talk back Built in Mic Communication System Interface 10Base T 100Base TX Ethernet Port Supported Protocols TCP IP DHCP SMTP HTTP DDNS UPNP PPPoE FTP DNS UDP GPRS Wireless LAN Supports wireless networks Wi Fi 802 11 b g WEP Encryption Disable 64 bit 128 bit WPA WPA2 Encryption TKIP A...

Page 58: ...and uses radio frequency energy and if not installed and used properly that is in strict accordance with the manufacturer s instructions it may cause interference to radio and television reception It has been type tested and found to comply with the limits for remote control devices in accordance with the specifications in Sub Parts B and C of Part 15 of FCC Rules which are designed to provide rea...

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