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Network Camera User’s Guide 

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Camera PT:

   

User can control the direction of Pan and Tilt as wish. 
Reverse Pan: Check this option to reverse pan direction. 
Reverse Tilt: Check this option to reverse tilt direction. 

 
 
Image Size:

   

Network Camera provides 4 resolutions: 

• 176x144   
• 320x240   
• 352x288   
• 640x480 

 
 

Image Quality: 

The Network Camera provide 3 quality setting,   

Clarity: Video is better but frame rate may be slower 
Fluency: Video is not as good as Clarity but frame rate may be higher 
Default: System default value

.

 

 

Note

: The value on the list box display the current setting of the current image, when 

you make a new selection, the value on the list box will be changed until you save the 
new setting.   
 

Image, Mirror, Focus Mode, White Balance Mode, Exposure Mode: 

These functions are available for PTZ Network Camera and Video Server only. It’s not 
functional for this model. 
 

Saturation, Sharpness, Contrast, Hue: 

To control the camera, key in these values respectively. 
 
 

Audio: 

This function is not available for this model. 
 
 

Camera Tour: 

This function is not available for this model. 
 
 

Reset to Default: 

Restore the values of these pages to factory default value. 

Summary of Contents for Infra-Red

Page 1: ...Network Camera User s Guide 1 83 Infra Red Network Camera User s Guide Software Version 2 1 7...

Page 2: ...ergy 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 partic...

Page 3: ...IDES NO WARRANTY WITH REGARD TO THIS MANUAL THE SOFTWARE OR OTHER INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN AND HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PU...

Page 4: ...n 12 Access the Network Camera from the Internet Explorer for the first time 16 Logging in as an ordinary User 18 Logging in as an Administrator 18 Operating the Network Camera 19 Control Panel 20 Adv...

Page 5: ...ol 53 View Menu 54 Image Recording Save as JPEG 60 Save Current Picture As 66 Appendix A Troubleshooting Frequently Asked Questions 68 Appendix A Troubleshooting Frequently Asked Questions 68 Appendix...

Page 6: ...ly working on day but also on night The IR Network Camera is accessible via the LAN or Internet connection Connect your Network Camera directly to a computer network or DSL modem and with a standard W...

Page 7: ...lication z Remote monitoring z Surveillance Minimum System Requirement z Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 0 or later z VGA Monitor resolution 1024 x 768 z Pentium 4 1 3GHz or above z Memory Size 256MB or...

Page 8: ...can find the following items in the package z Infra Red IP Camera x 1 z Wall mount x 1 z RS 485 terminal x 1 z Installation software and manual CD x 1 z Quick installation guide If any of the above it...

Page 9: ...port To connect to PC or Hub The LAN socket is an RJ 45 connector for connections to 10Base T Ethernet or 100Base TX Fast Ethernet cabling This Ethernet port built NWay protocol can detect or negotiat...

Page 10: ...BNC port The AC power input and video output cable are located on the Network Camera s back panel The input power is 85 260VAC The Network Camera also provides composite video output User can use BNC...

Page 11: ...t to the network 3 Connect RS485 two wires to RS485 D and D if you need to control PT scanner 4 Plug in Power cable into power socket 5 Connect Video BNC connector to a local TV for checking camera vi...

Page 12: ...ed your Network camera on your LAN environment you may execute IPFINDER EXE to discover Network camera s IP address IPCam Finder program IPFINDER EXE is used to scan the Installed Network Camera setti...

Page 13: ...ght be needed to modify the port number 2 of HTTP access Power recycling might be necessary 7 Submit it Click submit the IP information of this Network Camera will be updated after seconds Install the...

Page 14: ...n your PC Your Internet Explorer security settings must allow for the web page to work correctly To use the Network Camera user must setup his IE browser as follows From your IE browse Tools Internet...

Page 15: ...Network Camera User s Guide 15 83 By now you have finished your entire PC configuration for Network Camera...

Page 16: ...art the web browser on the computer and type the IP address of the Network Camera you want to monitor as below The Login Window of the Network Camera is displayed 2 Type in your login name and passwor...

Page 17: ...era as a full authorized administrator You can enter Setting to change the password and setup Administrator or User authority Please refer to Setting User and IP Filter 3 The IE Web Page will display...

Page 18: ...f by the administrator then those control and function buttons will not be available as well For the rest of this user guide it is assumed that the Remote camera control will be turned on for normal o...

Page 19: ...Network Camera User s Guide 19 83 Operating the Network Camera Start up screen will be as follow no matter an ordinary users or an administrator Viewing Area Images from the Network Camera...

Page 20: ...eaning 1 Camera direction Control camera up down left right and home position Note It s useful if IR Network Camera is carried by a P T scanner Otherwise this function is not available 2 Camera speed...

Page 21: ...able 6 Auto pan on off Turn on or off the auto pan of camera While auto pan is on the camera will swing the camera from leftmost to rightmost tour and then from rightmost to leftmost cyclically Note I...

Page 22: ...ation menu is used for setting various applications according to individual Click on each menu name to display its setting page Basic Setting For the setting you will see there are divided into two ca...

Page 23: ...ing For example IR_IP or IR IP will be ok and IR IP will not work here Default frame rate You can set up frame rate here or via right side control panel For example set the frame rate to 5 FPS then th...

Page 24: ...Network Camera User s Guide 24 83 Select the View button to check the log file...

Page 25: ...s Guide 25 83 Camera Adjust Camera parameters PTZ Type The Video Server can connect to P T or P T Z camera and control those devices thru RS485 bus There are a lot of cameras supported and will add mo...

Page 26: ...be higher Default System default value Note The value on the list box display the current setting of the current image when you make a new selection the value on the list box will be changed until you...

Page 27: ...n Protocol DHCP ON is default network setting of the Network Camera when a Network Camera is joined into the LAN it will issue the DHCP packets to request an IP address that is dynamically assigned by...

Page 28: ...est keeping the Http port 1 as 80 to make sure the IPCam can be accessed by the default HTTP port setting access on the LAN http xx xx xx xx If multiple IPCams are installed on the LAN also required t...

Page 29: ...them into IP addresses Domain names such as www veo com are just easy to remember aliases for IP addresses A dynamic DNS service is unique because it provides a means of updating your IP address so t...

Page 30: ...over Ethernet A standard builds on Ethernet and Point to Point network protocol It allows a local PC with xDSL or cable connects with broadband network Also this local PC gets a dynamic IP address Fo...

Page 31: ...Power on again then the Network Camera will dial on to the ISP connect to the WAN through the ADSL modem The procedures are Connect to the LAN by DHCP or Fixed IP Access the Network Camera enter Sett...

Page 32: ...the mail server needs authentication then the check box of Password needs to be checked and password information need to inputted Also the Sender email Receiver email needs to be inputted The Subject...

Page 33: ...user log into the system User only can input or modify the password of Administrator The username of Administrator is fixed as admin You can set up to 10 different usernames and passwords Although the...

Page 34: ...be used with function User respectively You can enter 10 different user s IP address which are allowing enter or disregarding by the Network Camera You should configure User before IP Filter Each Use...

Page 35: ...uccessful If these users did not come from the IP addresses A to B login access will be rejected 2 User page Login name 1 12345 Password 12345 Access Authority whatever IP filter page Default Policy A...

Page 36: ...ail configuration Schedule Set the schedule to enable motion detection or CF card recording Motion Detection Setup motion detection area and sensor sensitivity Time Setting Setup the Network Camera ti...

Page 37: ...ering server name and your login username and password you will be able to upload those previous captured image to the FTP server You can also send data to the server according to different situation...

Page 38: ...ix 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 consecutive number 2 digits thus 14 digit number is added to the file na...

Page 39: ...to the pre set mail address You may setup SMTP mail parameters for future event message receiving such as motion detected or sensor activated SMTP server name Type the SMTP server name up to 64 chara...

Page 40: ...ess This address is used for reply mail Note you can key in multiple receiver s email address at the time Subject Type the subject title of the E mail up to 64 characters Mode Send a captured image vi...

Page 41: ...de 41 83 Schedule Setup event schedule The schedule setting is used to set the time schedule for events The event may be Star Motion Detection or others There are 6 schedules to be programmable Select...

Page 42: ...er processing power of motion detection the overall performance of Network Camera will be degraded the frame rate may be reduced You can enable or disable motion detection If your enable motion detect...

Page 43: ...by default Press SAVE button to do the time synchronization with PC time After the SAVE button was set the Network Camera time will be synchronized as PC s time From the setting the Server s time is t...

Page 44: ...Guide 44 83 Get Time from a NTP server Select NTP Button Key in the NTP server s IP address Press SAVE to activate it After the Network Camera gets the time from NTP server it will update the Network...

Page 45: ...while motion or sensors has been activated When any one of alarms enabled and one of them detected then a message window will be displayed on the screen You can have output message in case of events...

Page 46: ...file to binary file and store it into your PC The file name should be RZ BIN or similar for the Network Camera Then follow the steps as bellows carefully 1 Close all other application programs which a...

Page 47: ...Guide 47 83 Network Camera once update it will be burned into FLASH ROM of system 9 Once the firmware file was selected select Upload 10 Press the here button to begin to upgrade firmware 11 Press the...

Page 48: ...ocedure it might possibly cause serious damage to the Network Camera Suggest that do not upgrade firmware via Wireless LAN due to high error rate possibly Please be aware that you should not turn off...

Page 49: ...etting The Factory Default button will restore to the factory default configuration all information changed and saved on the flash will be lost and restored to the factory default setting You will be...

Page 50: ...oot the Network Camera by hardware reset The Reboot button will reboot the Network Camera It s useful while the Network Camera got problem You will be prompt before restore to factory default setting...

Page 51: ...or output a trigger to control the alarm output using Trigger section on the main page Action Meaning FTP Upload a captured image to server Mail Mail captured image to specific mail address Noted Thi...

Page 52: ...k Camera User s Guide 52 83 Capture You can capture current image and save it to storage media The image is saved in the JPEG format Noted This function is available for logging in as an administrator...

Page 53: ...ng the right mouse button This feature only supports on the ActiveX control within Microsfoft Internet Explorer On the ActiveX control right click the RightMouseButton then a menu pop up This menu pro...

Page 54: ...Splits is supported on this mode Actual size Make the image show as the actual size the Splits function does not work on this mode StatusBar A status bar display on the button of the image View It ma...

Page 55: ...ter the Actual size was selected the image will displayed as the actual size in this example the image displays as a 640 x 480 pixels After the Statusbar was selected a status bar will be displayed on...

Page 56: ...480 320x240 352x288 176x144 160x120 NTSC Quality Highest High Medium Low Lowest Split 1x1 2x2 3x3 4x4 Rotate Normal Rotate 0 the defau state Rotate Rotate 180 rotate the image by 180 degree used on th...

Page 57: ...Network Camera User s Guide 57 83 Split This function is used to support 4CH Video Server Therefore it s not so useful in Speed Dome Network Camera...

Page 58: ...Network Camera User s Guide 58 83 Rotate After the Rotate 180 was selected the image will be overturned from 0 to the angle 180...

Page 59: ...ll be overturned horizontally Resolution If Network Camera type is NTSC it will have 5 choices of resolution 640x480 352x288 320x240 176x144 and 160x120 While users control the PAL type of the Network...

Page 60: ...ame as control panel s Quality Image Recording Save as JPEG Select Image Recording The Image Recording pop up window displays select Save as JPEG Input the Download Number for the number of images des...

Page 61: ...e local PC During the download and save as JPEG files process the yellow mark will be displayed on the right down position to indicate the saving as JPEG files operation Before the Download Number of...

Page 62: ...Network Camera User s Guide 62 83 After Stop Image Recording list the files these files are named as file_name_prefixed_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss_ms jpg...

Page 63: ...ach AVI file the maximum saved images in each file are specified in Max Jpeg Num once the saves image on each AVI file are reached by this number then a new AVI file will created to save the following...

Page 64: ...User s Guide 64 83 Press the Stop Image Recording to stop the save as AVI process After the Stop Image Recording list the file on the selected saved directory the file were saved by the filename_prefi...

Page 65: ...Network Camera User s Guide 65 83 The AVI files can be display by the standard Windows Media Player but it needs the DixectX 9 0 or higher version to be installed...

Page 66: ...ure As Use the Save Current Picture As to save the current display image into the local PC Input the saved File name select Save If you like to retrieve the saved image select the file to display the...

Page 67: ...Network Camera User s Guide 67 83...

Page 68: ...or outdoors using However equipped with a weatherproof case will disable the audio function of Network Camera Install Network Camera Status LED does not light up Check and confirm that the standard AC...

Page 69: ...r dash to replace the space Network may have trouble Confirm the parameters and connections of the Network Camera Access Network Camera Cannot access the login page and other web pages of Network Came...

Page 70: ...You may choose lower resolution to reduce the required bandwidth Check the Network Camera s ActiveX is installed on your computer Go to C Windows Downloaded Program Files and check to see if there is...

Page 71: ...lorer when the communication stops with the Network Camera The image will refresh Other clients may be operating Pan Tilt Pan Tilt operation has reached the end of corner The Pan Tilt operation may be...

Page 72: ...s contrast hue and saturation properly Image flickers Wrong power line frequency makes images flicker Make sure the NTSC or PAL format of your Network Camera If the object is dark the image will flick...

Page 73: ...e IP address conflicts with any other devices over the network If you want to make sure the IP address of Network Camera utilize the PING command as follows z Start a DOS window z Type ping x x x x wh...

Page 74: ...results generated by the Network Camera may be varying Image Resolution Average range of Data Sizes 176 x 144 QCIF 20 40k bit 320 x 240 QVGA 56 92k bit 352 x 288 CIF 64 112k bit 640 x 480 VGA 160 320...

Page 75: ...48 dB Gain Control AGC White Balance Auto 2000 K 10000 K BLC Auto Gamma Correction 0 45 SYNC System Internal Lens 6mm Standard 25mm Video Output Composite 1 0 Vp p at 75 ohm IR LED High light led 12p...

Page 76: ...indows ME 2000 XP 2003 LAN I F 10 100M Notification Email FTP OS Linux Type Of IP Address Static or Dynamic Firmware Upgrade Ethernet Security 2 Levels Administrator or user Viewer Microsoft Internet...

Page 77: ...Network Camera User s Guide 77 83 Appendix E Time Zone Table GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time which is the global time that all time zones are measured from...

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Page 79: ...m net org to uk etc 2 Ethernet Network Environment Normally DDNS services is only necessary for the users that could only obtain dynamic IP addresses As to the users that could obtain the static valid...

Page 80: ...ndns org Pink No 1 2 Click Account Pink No 2 3 After the columns show up at the left side click Create Account 4 Fill the application agreement and necessary information a Input Name b E mail input an...

Page 81: ...Guide 81 83 5 Check your e mail mailbox There will be an e mail with a title Your DynDNS org Account Information Click the hyperlink address to confirm the DDNS service that you just applied Then DDNS...

Page 82: ...ur username and password that you just applied to login administration interface of DDNS service 7 If the correct username and password are input you can see the following picture at the top right of...

Page 83: ...domain name information Pink No 3 4 Setup the DDNS and PPPoE At last users have to enter the web page of Network Camera or IP camera and setup the necessary information of DDNS and PPPoE after the app...

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