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Network Camera
© 2004 Sony Corporation
SNC-M1/M1W
User’s Guide
Software Version 1.1
Page 1: ...3 857 706 12 1 Network Camera 2004 Sony Corporation SNC M1 M1W User s Guide Software Version 1 1 ...
Page 2: ...mits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation 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 wll not occur in a particular installation If this e...
Page 3: ...ony de ATTENTION The electromagnetic fields at specific frequencies may influence the picture of the unit Voor de klanten in Nederland Dit apparaat bevat een vast ingebouwde batterij die niet vervangen hoeft te worden tijdens de levensduur van het apparaat Raadpleeg uw leverancier indien de batterij toch vervangen moet worden De batterij mag alleen vervangen worden door vakbekwaam servicepersoneel...
Page 4: ... the Camera Image and Audio Camera setting Menu 22 Common Tab 22 MPEG4 Tab 23 JPEG Tab 23 Reset Tab 24 Configuring the Network Network setting Menu 24 Network Tab 24 Wireless network Tab SNC M1W only 25 Dynamic IP address notification Tab Notifying the IP Address 26 Setting the User User setting Menu 27 Setting the Security Security setting Menu 28 Sending a mail e Mail SMTP setting Menu 29 Settin...
Page 5: ...plied with the IP Setup Program for easy performance of the network setting NOTICE TO USERS 2004 Sony Corporation All rights reserved This manual or the software described herein in whole or in part may not be reproduced translated or reduced to any machine readable form without prior written approval from Sony Corporation SONY CORPORATION PROVIDES NO WARRANTY WITH REGARD TO THIS MANUAL THE SOFTWA...
Page 6: ...in mind However if not used properly electrical products can cause fires which may lead to serious body injury To avoid such accidents be sure to heed the following Heed the safety precautions Be sure to follow the general safety precautions and the Operating Precautions In case of a breakdown In case of system breakdown discontinue use and contact your authorized Sony dealer In case of abnormal o...
Page 7: ...a small quantity of detergent solution then wipe dry Do not use volatile solvents such as alcohol benzene or thinners as they may damage the surface finishes System Requirements These are the requirements for the computer that displays the image or controls the camera Processor Pentium III 1 GHz or higher Pentium 4 2 GHz or higher recommended RAM 256 MB or more OS Windows 2000 XP Web browser Inter...
Page 8: ...ork about the assigned IP address Assigning the IP Address Using the Setup Program 1 Insert the supplied CD ROM disc into your CD ROM drive After a short time a window will open displaying the files on the CD ROM 2 Click the Setup icon of IP Setup Program The File Download dialog opens 3 Click Open Note If you click Save this program to disk on the File Download dialog you cannot install correctly...
Page 9: ...e The Third DNS server address and Fourth DNS server address are invalid for this camera 9 Set the HTTP port No Normally select 80 for the HTTP port No To use another port number select the text box and type a port number between 1024 and 65535 10 Type the Administrator name and Administrator password The default settings of both items are admin Note You cannot change the Administrator name and Ad...
Page 10: ...ration and set the Proxy server manually For setting the Proxy server consult your network administrator When you install ActiveX viewer on Windows 2000 or Windows XP you should have logged in the computer as the Administrator Tip Every page of this software is optimized as display character size Medium for Internet Explorer To display the Welcome page correctly To operate the welcome page correct...
Page 11: ...the format of the image sent from the camera MPEG 4 or JPEG Video mode page 22 Select the quality of the image sent from the camera MPEG4 Tab page 23 JPEG Tab page 23 Select the size of the image sent from the camera Image size page 22 Select weather the audio from the camera microphone is sent or not Microphone page 22 Accord date and time of the camera with those of the computer Date time Tab pa...
Page 12: ...er The main viewer appears Control the camera from the main viewer Note If the Welcome page does not activate correctly the security level of the Internet Explorer may be set to Medium or higher See To display the Welcome page correctly on page 10 and check the security level Displaying the setting window for the administrator directly When the administrator sets the camera functions the setting w...
Page 13: ...n Internet Explorer the image may not be displayed In this case disable Automatic configuration and set the Proxy server manually For setting the Proxy server consult your network administrator When you install ActiveX control on Windows 2000 or Windows XP you should have logged in the computer as the Administrator Tip Every page of this software is optimized as display character size Medium for I...
Page 14: ...the frame rate to transmit images View size Selects the view size to be displayed page 15 Digital zoom Click to change the size of the digital zoom page 15 Capture Click this button to capture a still image shot by the camera and to store it in the computer See Capturing a monitor image on page 16 Volume Displayed when the Microphone page 22 is set to On Drag the bar of icon to adjust the volume W...
Page 15: ...ou select 30 fps the image is sent at the maximum speed of the connected line 30 fps maximum Note The frame rate options indicate the maximum number of frames that can be transmitted The number of frames actually transmitted may vary depending on network environments and camera settings image size and image quality settings 3 Select the view size Click View size box list box to select the view siz...
Page 16: ...era image in the monitor window 2 Click Capture icon The still image of the moment when you click is captured and the still image is displayed in the monitor window 3 To cancel the still image click Cancel or Close Saving the captured image 1 Capture the monitor image 2 Click Save Save As dialog appears 3 Select JPEG or Bit map as Save as type 4 Type on File name and specify Save in then click Sav...
Page 17: ...r menu appears The user name admin and password admin are set at the factory for the Administrator The following steps also display the Administrator menu 1 Click Enter in the welcome page to display the main viewer 2 Click Setting icon in the main viewer 3 Click the menu name example System on the left side of the Administrator menu The clicked setting menu appears Example System setting menu 4 S...
Page 18: ...er setting menu for setting the user name and the password to log in Setting the User User setting Menu on page 27 Security Displays the security setting menu for specifying the computer allowed to connect to the camera Setting the Security Security setting Menu on page 28 e Mail SMTP Displays the e Mail SMTP setting menu for sending an e Mail Sending a mail e Mail SMTP setting Menu on page 29 FTP...
Page 19: ...the title bar of the Web browser Serial number Displays the serial number of the camera Software version The software version of this camera is displayed Color You can select the main viewer color from Light blue Blue or Metal Light blue Blue Metal Notes The color of the welcome page and the Administrator setting page cannot be changed To reflect a selected color to the main viewer log in again af...
Page 20: ...ime sever called NTP server Network Time Protocol Set the NTP saver name and the Interval NTP server name Type the host name or IP address of the NTP server up to 64 characters Interval Select the interval at which you want to adjust the camera s time referring to the NTP server time between 1 and 24 hours The set interval is a guide and does not indicate the exact time Note The setting time may n...
Page 21: ...et to the factory settings the IP address you set is cleared After rebooting of the camera input the IP address again page 8 Firmware upgrade Use this when upgrading the camera software Click Browse and specify the file for upgrading then click OK Upgrade firmware Are you sure is displayed Click OK and upgrading starts After completion the camera starts again Notes Use only the upgrade file specia...
Page 22: ...n Motion detection function does not work To crop an image 1 Set the Image size to 640 480 VGA The Cropping is displayed 2 Set the Cropping to On and click the Area setting button The cropping area frame in the Area setting display appears 3 Specify the cropping area Click and drag the cropping area frame to move it or change the size of it The frame indicates the cropping area 4 Click OK at the b...
Page 23: ...s are 64 128 256 384 512 768 1024 1536 and 2048 kbps Notes The selected frame rate and bit rate are a tentative value The actual frame rate and bit rate may be different according to the image size the shooting scene or the network condition During wireless connection or low band network connection noise may occur in the audio on rare occasions according to the camera image and audio settings Set ...
Page 24: ...Network setting menu appears Use this menu to configure the network to connect the camera and the computer The Network setting menu consists of 3 tabs Network Wireless network and Dynamic IP address notification Network Tab This section provides the menus for connecting the camera through the network cable MAC address Displays the MAC address of the camera Obtain an IP address automatically DHCP D...
Page 25: ...l See Buttons common to every setting menu on page 17 Wireless network Tab SNC M1W only Use this to set connection for the wireless network SSID Type the ID to identify the wireless network you want to access using up to 32 ASCII characters alphanumeric For your security be sure to change the factory setting Type Select the network connection type Adhoc mode or Infrastructure mode Select Adhoc mod...
Page 26: ...ver This setting is necessary when the SMTP server which sends e mails performs authentication using the POP user account User name Password Type the user name and Password of the user who has the mail account This setting is necessary when the SMTP server which sends e mails performs authentication Recipient e Mail address Type the recipient e Mail address up to 64 characters You can specify only...
Page 27: ...ace whose IP address you have acquired by the DHCP in the text or parameter MODELNAME Use this tag to embed the camera s model name SNC M1 or SNC M1W in the text or parameter SERIAL Use this tag to embed the camera s serial number in the text or parameter Setting the User User setting Menu When you click User on the Administrator menu the User setting menu appears Use this menu to set the user nam...
Page 28: ... the IP addresses and subnet mask values you want to allow or deny access to the camera You can specify up to 10 IP addresses and subnet mask values For a subnet mask type 8 to 32 Select Allow or Deny from the drop down list on the right for each IP address subnet mask Tip The subnet mask value represents the bit number from the left of the network address For example the subnet mask value for 255...
Page 29: ...f no authentication is necessary when an e mail is sent SMTP authentication Select if authentication is necessary when an e Mail is sent POP before SMTP Select if POP before SMTP authentication is necessary when an e mail is sent POP server name It is necessary when the POP before SMTP is selected in Authentication Type the POP receiving mail server name up to 64 characters or type the IP address ...
Page 30: ...me Date time The date time suffix is added to the Image file name The date time suffix consists of lower two digits of year 2 digits month 2 digits date 2 digits hour 2 digits minute 2 digits second 2 digits and 00 2 fixed digits thus 14 digit number is added to the file name Sequence number A consecutive number of 10 digits between 0000000001 and 4294967295 is added to the Image file name Sequenc...
Page 31: ...FTP server User name Type the user name for the FTP server Password Type the password for the FTP server Re type password To confirm the password type the same characters as you typed in the Password box Passive mode Set whether you use the passive mode of FTP server or not when connecting to FTP server Select On to connect to FTP server using the passive mode OK Cancel See Buttons common to every...
Page 32: ... returns to 1 OK Cancel See Buttons common to every setting menu on page 17 Setting the Motion Detection Function Motion detection setting Menu When you click Motion detection on the Administrator menu the Motion detection setting menu appears You can set the conditions to activate the built in motion detection function in this menu This is the same menu with the setting menu which is displayed wh...
Page 33: ...el indicator of Motion detection To increase the sensitivity move the Sensitivity slider bar to the right To decrease move it to the left 4 Set the Threshold level of Motion detection Adjust the Threshold slider bar in the same way of step 3 to set the level the camera executes motion detection 5 If necessary set the Motion detection working areas the sensitivities and the Threshold level of the o...
Page 34: ...8 of Preparation or Configuring the Network Network setting Menu page 24 Note Be sure to perform DNS setting for the camera Type the IP address assigned by the Internet Service Provider in the Primary Secondary DNS server 2 Open the setup window of the router and set the port forwarding to the IP address set in the camera For example For the settings in the diagram above set as follows Port 80 y P...
Page 35: ...r setting menu to display the DDNS setting menu The followings are explanations for the setting menu item DDNS Select whether to use the dynamic DNS function or not by on or off Even after you have registered for the dynamic DNS service set it to off when you are not using it DDNS ID This is the ID special for the equipment which is used for the dynamic DNS service It is used when you proceed with...
Page 36: ...egistration site opens Type the same DDNS ID and password as in the DDNS setting menu of the camera then click Next Note A DDNS ID has been already input when the window is displayed You do not have to input it 7 Read the Terms of Service and click I agree after agreement 8 Type all items in the registration form then click Next Host name Type the host name you want to apply to Usable characters a...
Page 37: ...equest has been accepted and that a confirmation e Mail has been set 10 The confirmation e Mail should arrive at the e Mail address you specified for your registration Within one hour of clicking the Request Registration button access the URL provided in the e Mail 11 Registration is now complete It takes a few minutes until the host name is reflected to the system You can then access and check ...
Page 38: ...gram starts Network tab appears The IP Setup Program detects cameras connected to the local network and lists them on the Network tab window Bandwidth Control Tab The communication bandwidth can be set when the Video mode of the camera is set to JPEG Note When the Video mode of the camera is set to MPEG4 the bandwidth cannot be changed 1 Click the Bandwidth control tab to display the bandwidth set...
Page 39: ...nual current date time setting Set the current date and time on the Manual current date time setting boxes and click OK The setting boxes are for the year last two digits month date hour minutes and seconds from left to right PC current date time setting The date and time set on the computer is displayed in the PC current date time setting box Click OK on the right to set the camera s date and tim...
Page 40: ... downloaded file and click Setup icon again 4 Install the SNC audio upload tool following the wizard displayed If the Software License Agreement is displayed read it carefully and accept the agreement to continue the installation Connecting the Camera to the Computer 1 Connect a speaker to the 5 line output jack on the camera 2 Connect a microphone to the microphone input jack on the computer Note...
Page 41: ...ll be effective after the transmission Sound adjustment and indicators Adjust the microphone input volume by moving the slider bar You can adjust the volume even during the transmission Click the microphone icon to enable disenable the sound muting The transmission rate is displayed in the Bitrate box The microphone input volume is displayed at the Level Setting tab User Set the User ID and Passwo...
Page 42: ...ications Web browser Internet Explorer Ver5 5 or 6 0 Available OS Windows 2000 XP Image device 1 4 type CMOS Effective picture elements 310 K pixels CMOS sensor Built in lens Focal length f 3 7 mm Maximum F number F2 0 View angle 51 0 horizontal 38 9 vertical Shooting distance 0 8 m to Video compression format MPEG4 JPEG selectable Maximum frame rate MPEG4 30 fps QVGA JPEG 30 fps QVGA Audio compre...
Page 43: ...andwidth control To limit the amount of transmitted data Digital zoom Zooming in out function of an image without using an optical zooming function Default gateway Device that can be used to access the other network Network address The portion that identifies the local network subnet in an IP address Network bandwidth Bit rate that can be used for networking Passive mode The mode whereby a client ...
Page 44: ...the client computer can obtain the IP address of the computer to be connected FTP client Software to be used for accessing the FTP server FTP server A server to be used to transfer files via a network HTTP port A port used to communicate between the web server and the web client such as a web browser IP address Abbreviation for Internet Protocol Address An individual IP address is basically assign...
Page 45: ...TTP port number 9 I Image size 22 image size 14 22 Internet Explorer 10 IP Address 8 IP address 8 12 24 IP address notification 26 J JPEG 22 23 L logging in 12 M MAC address 24 main viewer 10 13 main viewer page 13 menu section 14 monitor Image 14 monitor image section 14 Motion detection 18 32 motion detection 18 32 Motion detection setting Menu 32 MPEG4 22 23 N Network 18 24 network 18 24 networ...
Page 46: ...user 18 27 User name 27 user name 27 user setting 27 User setting Menu 27 V View size 14 15 view size 14 15 viewer 13 volume 14 W welcome page 10 12 Sony Corporation ...
