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802.11 n Wireless IP Camera

With day&night function

User Manual

Revision: 030208

Date: 2012/04/06

For firmware version v030208

Summary of Contents for F12

Page 1: ...802 11 n Wireless IP Camera With day night function User Manual Revision 030208 Date 2012 04 06 For firmware version v030208 ...

Page 2: ... DISPLAY 18 3 3 NETWORK 19 3 4 WIFI SECURITY 21 3 5 ADVANCED NETWORK 24 3 6 VIDEO SETTINGS 25 3 7 MOBILE VIDEO SETTINGS 27 3 8 NIGHT MODE CONTROL 28 3 9 EMAIL FTP ALARM 29 3 10 SPEAKER ALARM SETTINGS 32 3 11 NAS SETTINGS 33 3 12 SD CARD SETTINGS 35 3 13 SCHEDULING 37 3 14 LED DISPLAY CONTROL 39 3 15 DATE TIME 40 3 16 ADMIN 41 3 17 UPGRADE 42 3 18 REBOOT 44 3 19 SET TO FACTORY DEFAULT 45 4 FEATURES...

Page 3: ...Day Night IP Camera APPENDIX C PERFORMANCE INFORMATION 52 APPENDIX D TROUBLE SHOOTING 54 APPENDIX E THIRD PARTY AND EMBEDDED WEB PAGE INTEGRATION 56 APPENDIX F SNAPSHOT PICTURE ON ANY BROWSER 57 3 ...

Page 4: ... Figure 3 6 Network settings page for fixed IP address Figure 3 7 WiFi security disabled page Figure 3 8 WiFi security enabled page Figure 3 9 WiFi testing page Figure 3 10 WiFi scan page Figure 3 11 Advanced network settings page Figure 3 12 Video settings page Figure 3 13 Mobile video settings page Figure 3 14 Night mode control page Figure 3 15 Email FTP Alarm page Figure 3 16 SMTP server setti...

Page 5: ...y Figure 5 2 Power Adaptor Figure 5 3 Quick installation guide Figure 5 4 Ethernet cable Figure 5 5 Anchors and Screws Figure 5 6 Allen Key Or Screw driver Figure 5 7 Installation CD Figure 5 8 ID Password Card Table A 1 List of tested Wireless AP router devices Table A 2 List of tested Wired NAT router devices 5 ...

Page 6: ...onds pre recording so that you will always catch the critical moment For day night usage there are two video sensors lens on the camera one for day and one for night The day lens and night lens focus are separately tuned for day light and Infra Red light for best video quality No ICR no mechanical problem Two way audio is supported You can monitor the synchronized video audio and talk to or warn t...

Page 7: ...the IP address or domain name or DDNS name or port number And you do not need to modify the settings like port mapping fixed IP DDNS virtual server of the NAT router devices it s just a plug play usage So the differences are the followings Public IP address needed No Dynamic DNS needed No Port mapping in router No Virtual server in router No UPnP support in router No What s needed ID and Password ...

Page 8: ...e LED will be constant red light If there is any Internet connection problem the LED will be blinking red light 4 Ethernet indication LED blue this LED is to indicate if the Ethernet link is ok and packet traffic is sending receiving When the Ethernet cable is connected the LED is on When there is packet sending receiving the LED is blinking blue light 5 SD card indication LED yellow this LED is t...

Page 9: ...ke pencil or tooth stick to press the reset button for more than 3 seconds to enable the reset function Usually when you forgot the administrator account you will probably need to do this reset action to reset to the default factory settings Please refer to section 3 19 for more details Figure 2 2 Major components in the back and bottom panel 2 2 Quick installation and usage There are only three t...

Page 10: ... 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 3 IP CAM connection diagram Figure 2 4 Connect Ethernet cable to a switch router Second Install the PC software on the notebook PC Please insert the installation CD into the CD ROM drive in y...

Page 11: ...will be displayed in the Auto Search list You can double click the Auto Search to search all the connected IP CAMs any time The only thing left right now for seeing the video is to double click the IP CAM ID item in the Auto Search list For example if the IP CAM ID is 001 001 029 you can then double click the 001001029 item in the Auto Search list to view the video A window asking for password inp...

Page 12: ...sage please download the recommended app from Android Market Seeing the video in a remote location After the IP CAM is installed and you can see the video from the PC Phone software in the local network it s very easy to see the video in a remote location All you need to do is add a camera item in the CameraList folder of the PC Phone software key in the IP CAM ID and Password from the ID Password...

Page 13: ...Day Night IP Camera Figure 2 8 Pop up play video password window 13 ...

Page 14: ... cable First set the WiFi security settings on the web configuration page Make sure there is a WiFi router or AP on your home or office network Write down the WiFi security parameters used in this WiFi AP router including the SSID security mode encryption protocols and the key values The supported WiFi security mode of the IP CAM is WEP 64 bits and 128 bits and WPA PSK TKIP and AES In most of the ...

Page 15: ...nnect to the Internet immediately 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 PC Software again to find the IP CAM again after the WiFi is connected 2 If you want to switch back to the wired Ethernet connection just plug in the Ethernet cable into the IP CAM again Do not need to disable the WiFi function on t...

Page 16: ... IP CAM or right click the searched IP CAM in the Auto Search list of the PC s oftware and click the Web Configure to open the login window of the IP CAM Figure 3 1 Open the web configuration page from PC software The default login account is admin leave the Password field empty Figure 3 2 IP CAM Web configuration login page 16 ...

Page 17: ...ion in this page The IP CAM can be viewed remotely by the PC Phone software only when the IP CAM is registered If this IP CAM 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 CAM is running The Video users field displays the number of connected video view...

Page 18: ...splay on 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 18 ...

Page 19: ...ugged the IP CAM will lose connection But as soon as the Ethernet cable is plugged in again the IP CAM 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 CAM manually Please fill in all the fields including IP address Subnet mask Default gateway and...

Page 20: ...Day Night IP Camera Figure 3 6 Network settings page for fixed IP address 20 ...

Page 21: ...ode this is the security mode used in the wireless router or AP Need to choose one of the three modes None WEP and WPA PSK WEP Wireless Encryption Protocol WPA WPA2 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 ...

Page 22: ...e to enable the wireless connection after the WiFi test is successful You can click the WiFi scan button to scan for all the available access points nearby See figure 3 10 for reference If you want to define fixed IP address when using WiFi connection please click the IP address button and key in your preferred IP address After the settings updated and button Save Apply clicked do not need to rest...

Page 23: ...Day Night IP Camera Figure 3 9 WiFi testing page Figure 3 10 WiFi scan page 23 ...

Page 24: ...he Save 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 CAM 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 CAM will us...

Page 25: ...d continuity in the video display 6 Favor Preference choose between Video motion Image quality better quality and best quality When the real bandwidth is not enough for the selected Internet speed the system will need to degrade the video motion or image quality This selection will decide if the user want to maintain the video motion or image quality when the internet speed is not good enough 7 Br...

Page 26: ...o microphone you can enable or disable the audio microphone on the IP CAM If disabled there will be no voice on the PC Phone video viewing 14 Enable disable time display on video if enabled the date time of the system will be displayed on the left upper corner of the video When this modification is Save Apply ed it works immediately but all the connected video viewing users will be disconnected Fi...

Page 27: ...for iPhone iPad and the Android App 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 PC Software access The maximum allowed resolution is 640x480 and maximum allowed bandwidth is 512 kbps Figure 3 13 Mobile video settings page 27 ...

Page 28: ...ht time or the environment is becoming dark There is a light sensor on the IP cam that handles this light detection 2 Scheduled time of night mode the IP Cam can also be scheduled to turn on the IR LED in a time range of each day 3 Manual night mode control the IP Cam can be manually forced to night mode IR LED on or day mode IR LED off In order to get better video color display during day time an...

Page 29: ...cted and the size of the moving object is larger than about 1 of the whole video area it is detected Please be noticed that the real size of the object could be large or small eitherway 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 se...

Page 30: ...the SMTP server that will help to transfer the email message This server is irrelevant 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...

Page 31: ...Day Night IP Camera Figure 3 16 SMTP server settings page 31 ...

Page 32: ...igger if this is selected the speaker alarm signal will be active when video motion is detected The detection sensitivity is set In the motion detection page B PIR trigger if this is selected the speaker alarm will work when the PIR sensor is detected C Schedule if this is selected the speaker alarm is scheduled according to the settings of scheduling in section 3 13 D Disable disable the speaker ...

Page 33: ...fied number the system will do Circular recording overwrite the oldest recorded files of this IP camera in the NAS device or Stop recording as selected If the keep recorded video for xx days is selected the system will do circular recording and over write the recorded video files older than xx days ago 3 The IP camera can connect to the NAS device by using the NAS name or NAS IP address If the NAS...

Page 34: ...word to the prompted login window The video files are recorded under the subfolder IPCamRecordFiles Recording ID ID where ID is the ID of this IP camera All the recorded files are with the name of hhmmss crf format where hh is the hour mm is the minute ss is the second of the starting time of the recording video The files are segmented every five minutes Users can use the free bundled Player softw...

Page 35: ... selected the system will do the SD Card recording according to the scheduling in section 3 13 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 sele...

Page 36: ...Day Night IP Camera Figure 3 20 SD Card information page 36 ...

Page 37: ... scheduled time period when the video motion is detected and or PIR alarm is detected 4 NAS Record for each scheduling if this is selected either Continuous or Motion triggered or PIR 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 PIR triggered it means that the IP cam...

Page 38: ...tion of each day B For Every day can set the time duration of every day for the scheduling C For Fixed time can set the starting date time and the end date time of the scheduling period Figure 3 21 Schedule management page 38 ...

Page 39: ...d below 1 Normal led display select this to enable the status led and ethernet led display 2 Turn off led display always select this to disable the status led and ethernet led display 3 Turn off led display after network connected select this then the led will display when the Internet connection has some problem the led display will be off when the Internet connection is successful Figure 3 22 Le...

Page 40: ... is connected Users can choose the different TimeZone of their areas to display the correct time For some TimeZone areas the Daylight Saving Time could be enabled or disabled When the Daylight Saving Time is enabled the start and stop time of the Daylight Saving Time could be edited The camera has an internal real time clock that can maintain the date time even when the camera is not connected to ...

Page 41: ...tions The default account is admin without password If the login account is forgotten you can reset the IP CAM to the factory default settings by following the steps in section 3 19 and login with the admin account Please note that this account is different from the video play password in the Video settings page Figure 3 24 Admin settings page 41 ...

Page 42: ...r and then do this upgrade A status message about the percentage done in the upgrade procedure is displayed Please be noticed that during the upgrade procedure do not power off the IP CAM 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 modify other s...

Page 43: ...Day Night IP Camera Figure 3 26 Firmware upgrade status page 43 ...

Page 44: ... Camera 3 18 Reboot You can restart the IP CAM manually on this page All the connected video viewing users will be disconnected Figure 3 27 System reboot settings page Figure 3 28 System reboot under going page 44 ...

Page 45: ...g a stick to press the reset button on the back of the IP CAM body for more than 4 seconds and release it do this when the IP CAM is powered on The IP CAM 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 ipcam after reset to factory default Figure 3 29 Stick on the reset button to set to the factory...

Page 46: ...2 11 n wireless with WEP and WPA WPA2 security support WPS WiFi Protected Setup support Triple video streaming on PC mobile and SD card recording Night mode control support automatic manual and scheduled modes Connect up to 20 users simultaneously Bundle with free video management software Push notification on iPhone iPad and Android for PIR and sound detection Email ftp alarm message for PIR and ...

Page 47: ...e balance automatic gain control automatic brightness control PIR sensor Effective distance 7 meters Light sensitivity 0 2 Lux IR LED off 0 Lux with 10 meters IR LED on Automatically turn on the IR LED on low light environment Lens 3 2 mm F2 0 viewing angle 60 3 fixed iris focus range 30 cm to infinity Day and night separate lens Buttons One reset button to factory default settings One WPS button ...

Page 48: ...ported 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 ID Password card Video management software Surveillance software for viewing and archiving up to 36 cameras Users Up to 20 simultaneous unicast users depends on video...

Page 49: ...age contents Figure 5 1 The IP camera Figure 5 2 Power Adaptor Figure 5 3 Quick installation guide Figure 5 4 Ethernet cable Figure 5 5 Anchors and Screws Figure 5 6 Allen Key Figure 5 7 Installation CD Figure 5 8 ID Password Card ...

Page 50: ...ideo through the firewall router In this situation please contact your MIS person to solve the problem Brand name Model name Asus WL 550gE Belkin P5D7230 4 Buffalo WHR G54S Buffalo WHR HP G54 Corega CG WLBARGO D Link DI 524 LanTech WL54G BR Linksys WRT54G Netgear WNR834B PCi BLW HPMM SMC SMCWBR14 G2 ZyXEL P 334WH Table A 1 List of tested Wireless AP router devices Brand name Model name AboCom CAS5...

Page 51: ...Day Night IP Camera Appendix B Maximum Allowed Video Users The maximum allowed video users for a single Day Night camera at the same time is 20 51 ...

Page 52: ...ent on the distance between the IP camera and the AP Access Point router and dependent on the number of devices connected to the AP router Also need to consider that if there are any barriers like wall or floor between the IP camera and the AP router IF there are some open space between the IP camera and the AP router you also need to know that the performance will be interfered in rainy day The a...

Page 53: ...ut the same temperature of human body about 37 degree Celsius the PIR detection could fail The PIR detection distance is about 7 meters If the detection purpose is on human intruders the PIR will be the better choice to avoid false alarm 53 ...

Page 54: ...deo A When using the IP Cam to see a long distance object whether it s clear or not depends on the size of the object Usually when your eyes can see something clearly in that distance the IP Cam can also see that object clearly in about the same distance 6 What should I do if the password is forgotten and the ID password card is missing A The easiest way to solve this problem is to reset the IP Ca...

Page 55: ...card and NAS devices 10 Can I connect the IP camera directly to my PC notebook with an Ethernet cable A 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 ...

Page 56: ... cgi to access the snapshot of the camera The ip_address is the IP address of the camera This works for all the browsers on computer or mobile device The only limitation is that the computer or mobile device needs to be on the same network as the camera or the camera has public IP address This is only for some special case usage not recommended for general users ...

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