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Network Camera User’s Manual FCS-3102 Dome Network Camera 2-Megapixel, Outdoor, PoE 802.3af, Day & Night, IR LEDs, WDR, 3DNR User Manual Version 1.0 1/59...
Network Camera User’s Manual Table of Contents Overview ....................... 3 Package Contents ....................4 Connections ......................5 Hardware description ..................5 Hardware Installation .................... 7 Connect to the Network Camera ................. 10 Install the IP Finder program ................ 10 Bonjour program ..................17 C2.mylevel1.com(Free DDNS service) ............
Network Camera User’s Manual Overview FCS-3102 is a Dome network camera. Law in your country may prohibit the use of surveillance devices. The Network Camera is not only a high-performance web-ready camera but also can be part of a flexible surveillance system.
Network Camera User’s Manual Package Contents If any of the above items are missing, please contact your dealer immediately. Network Camera (Wired or PoE) Software CD Power adapter Quick installation guide Screws Moisture Absorber/RJ45 Female Note: Using a power supply with a different voltage than the one included with the Network Camera will cause damage and void the warranty for this product.
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Network Camera User’s Manual In the beginning when the camera is installed, you can use the tool kit to open the cover, in addition to the SD card can be inserted to prevent the use of fogging, Dry pack Ruoyi torn bags, placed in the air for too long will lose effect.
Network Camera User’s Manual Hardware Installation 1. Attach the Network Camera with the included stand 2. Place the Camera fix it onto ceiling or wall Use screws to fix the Network Camera onto the ceiling or wall. 7/59...
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Network Camera User’s Manual 3. Power over Ethernet (PoE) Using a PoE-enabled switch The Network Camera is PoE-compliant, allowing transmission of power and data via a single Ethernet cable. Follow the below illustration to connect the Network Camera to a PoE-enabled switch via Ethernet cable.
Network Camera User’s Manual Connect to the Network Camera Install the IP Finder program When you installed your Network camera on your LAN environment, you may install “IP Finder” to discover Network camera’s IP address. The Administrator must place the product software CD into the CD-ROM drive of the PC running in Microsoft Windows.
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Network Camera User’s Manual “IP Finder” is used to search the IP address of Network Cameras or Video servers on a LAN. After searching, Video Servers or Network Cameras will be located by the IP Finder. 11/59...
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Network Camera User’s Manual Search Camera Click search Camera button, The program will search for all family network devices on the same LAN. After searching, the main installer window will pop up. Click on the MAC and model name which matches the product label on your device to connect to the Network Camera via Internet Explorer.
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Network Camera User’s Manual Setup Camera Auto Install Wizard will be started and that it can auto guide through the installation process. Press the “Next” button execute next process. For more information, please refer to the Network section on page 33. 13/59...
Network Camera User’s Manual Bonjour program Safari browser supports Bonjour search program the will search for all family network devices on the same LAN. 17/59...
Network Camera User’s Manual C2.mylevel1.com(Free DDNS service) When you want to connect the network camera over Internet, you can use the service “ ”. The “ip-discovery.com” is a free DDNS server for C2.mylevel1.com this camera. Make sure that the router must start UPnP and DHCP server functions.
Network Camera User’s Manual Initial Access to the Network Camera For the initial access to the Network Camera in Windows, the web browser may prompt for permission to install a new plug-in for the Network Camera. This plug-in has been registered for certificate and is used to display the video in the browser. Users may click on to proceed.
Network Camera User’s Manual Primary user’s capability Main Screen with Camera View The main page has three parts: 1. Configuration functions: The camera can be configured using these user interfaces. 2. Connection control buttons: These buttons provide the remote and local switching stream.
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Network Camera User’s Manual View capabilities: Click this button to capture and save still images. The captured images will be displayed in pop-up window. Right-click the image and choose Save Picture As to save it in JPEG format. The button selection lets you open a digital zoom, and to control the window to enlarge a specified area in the camera view.
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Network Camera User’s Manual Connection control buttons: 1. “Connection” User can choose Remote or Local mode for best connection quality. Proposal: Internet environment, switch Remote mode. 2. “Video Stream” User can choose stream1 or stream2. 22/59...
Network Camera User’s Manual Client Setting 1. “Intranet Protocol Options” Setting camera in intranet mode of protocol. “UDP” Select use UDP protocol connect camera. “TCP” Select use TCP protocol connect camera. “HTTP” Select use HTTP protocol connect camera. 2. “Internet Protocol Options” Setting camera in internet mode of protocol. “UDP”...
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Network Camera User’s Manual NOTE :Protocol Options which allows choices on connection protocol between client and server. There are three protocols choices to optimize your usage – UDP,TCP,HTTP. The UDP protocol allows for more real-time audio and video streams. However, some packets may be lost due to network burst traffic and images may be obscured.
Network Camera User’s Manual Definitions in Configuration Please note that only the Administrator can access the system configuration. System parameters Firmware version 1. “General Setting” (1) “Host name” The text displays the title on the top of the main page (2) “LED indicator”...
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Network Camera User’s Manual 2. “Time Setting” (1) “Time zone” Choose a time zone from the down arrow. (2) “Daylight saving” summertime; It will be one hour ahead. (3) “Current Time” Network camera set the current time. (A) “Keep current date and time” Click on this to keep the current date and time of the Network Camera.
Network Camera User’s Manual Security Security setting “root”, which is permanent and can not be deleted. The administrator account name is If you want to add more accounts in the Manage User column, please set a password for the “root” account first. 1.
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Network Camera User’s Manual (2) “Delete a user” Select an existing user name. Click Finish to enable the setting. (3) “Update a existing user” Select an existing user name. Administrators can modify user’s password and privilege. Click Finish to enable the setting. Access rights are sorted by user privilege (Administrator, Operator, and Viewer).
Network Camera User’s Manual Network Any changes made on this page will restart the system in order to validate the changes. Make sure every field is entered correctly before clicking on “finish” Network Setting “LAN” & “PPPoE” The default type is LAN. Select PPPoE if using ADSL 1.
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Network Camera User’s Manual provides UPnP function at My Network Place). (1) “Get IP address automatically” (2) “Use fixed IP address” - “IP address”: This is necessary for network identification. - “Subnet mask”: This is used to determine if the destination is in the same subnet.
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Network Camera User’s Manual server or notify the User of the new IP address. Note: when this field is input as “User name”, the following field must be input as “Password”. 7. “Password” Please input the password or key to get the DDNS service. 8.
Network Camera User’s Manual Access list Access list setting 1. How to control access permission by verifying the client PC’s IP address. General Settings. General Settings 32/59...
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Network Camera User’s Manual ◆ Add a rule to configure an Allowed/Denied list: Click Add to add a rule to Allowed/Denied list. There are three types of rules for user to set up: “Single” This rule allows the user to add an IP address to the Allowed/Denied list. For example: “Network”...
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Network Camera User’s Manual “Range” This rule allows the user to assign a range of IP addresses to the Allow/Deny List. This rule is only applied to IPv4. For example: 34/59...
Network Camera User’s Manual Audio and Video setting 35/59...
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Network Camera User’s Manual General Setting 1. “Color mode” Select use color or monochrome video display. 2. “Video orientation” The orientation of video (1) “Flip” Vertically rotate the video. (2) “Mirror” Horizontally rotates the video. 3. “Environment” The orientation of video (1) “indoor”...
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Network Camera User’s Manual Exposure setting Here it provides 3 mode: Auto, Backlight and Customized. Auto and Backlight modes are 2 default settings for general purpose and backlight scene, respectively. Customized mode relates to the grid window above can be pointed on for interesting areas.
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Network Camera User’s Manual cause the background of view inconsistent. The offset value is recommended to set 15~25% of target luminance. “Gain” In the slide bar of Gain, there are also two sliders, which represent the limitations to control the maximum gain value and the minimum one, respectively. Normally, the minimum value is to 1x for better quality.
Network Camera User’s Manual Audio Setting 1. “Mute” Audio mute. 2. “Microphone ” Internal microphone. 3. “Mic Volume” Adjust microphone volume, which ranges from 1 to 64. Video record Schedule mode (1) “Every day” Enable/Disable every day application. (2) “Week day” Enable/Disable week day application.
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Network Camera User’s Manual (2)“Sun”/“Mon”/“Tue”/“Wed”/“Thu”/“Fri”/“Sat” Select the days of the week to perform the application. (3) “Start day” and “Start time” as the start timing the time. “End day” and “End time” as the end timing the time (4) “Enable cyclic recording” The cyclic recording function is enabled, during the transaction stage when a storage space is full and the incoming streaming data is about to overwrite the previously saved videos.
Network Camera User’s Manual Stream Audio codec setting (1)“Audio codec type” There are two choices of audio codec types ”AMR”、 “AAC” ”G.711”. available: (2) “Bit rate” -- “AMR” The bit rates are selectable at the following rates: 4750,5150,5900,6700,7400,7950,10200 and 12200. -- “AAC”...
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Network Camera User’s Manual these compression modes based on requirement or application (3) “Video size” Click the down arrow to choose the quality of image (4) “Connection type” User can select this button to choose the better video & links quality. (Internet mode or Intranet mode) (5) “Frame rate”...
Network Camera User’s Manual Application Schedule mode (1) “Every day” Enable/Disable every day application. (2) “Week day” Enable/Disable week day application. (3) “Selected day” Enable/Disable selected day application. Schedule information Enter the “Start time” and “Stop time” for day mode. Note that the time format is [hh:mm:ss] and is expressed in 24-hour clock time.
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Network Camera User’s Manual (2) “Periodically” This option allows the Network Camera to trigger periodically for every other defined minute. parameters (1) “M otion parameters” Higher sensitivity and small threshold will allow easier motion detection. (2) “P ” This option allows the Network Camera to trigger eriod parameters periodically for every other defined seconds.
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Network Camera User’s Manual Note: Video record with the Application must be set to the same shared directory path. If you would like to do detail recording settings or multi-channel recording, please install bundled 64CH recording software in CD. 45/59...
Network Camera User’s Manual Storage Manage the storage device. Storage Status Here show the storage device information. NAS server setting (1) “NAS Host name” Choose and input the NAS Host name of this camera. (2) “Workgroup” Input the name of Workgroup. You can see the NAS Host name you input in the same workgroup with your PC.
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Network Camera User’s Manual Move the mouse over the file. Press the mouse right button that Right-click menu is displayed. You can delete files. Move the mouse over the directory. Press the mouse left button that the file structure expand. Press the mouse right button that Right-click menu is displayed. You can choose upload or delete files.
Network Camera User’s Manual Syslog The Network camera supports log the system messages on remote server. The protocol is compliant to RFC 3164. If you have external Linux server with sys log service, use “-r” option to turn on the facility for receiving log from remote machine. Or you can use some software on Windows that is compliant to RFC 3164.
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Network Camera User’s Manual “Traversing NAT” “Public IP” , and so on. User also can get the number of current viewer of the Network Camera here. 49/59...
Network Camera User’s Manual Maintenance 1. “Reboot system” The “Reboot” button will reboot the Network Camera. It’s useful while the Network Camera got problem. 2. “Restore system” Click on “Restore” button on the configuration page to restore the factory default settings. Restore all settings to factory default except settings in “Network type ”...
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Network Camera User’s Manual and/or network connection are broken during the procedure, it might possibly cause serious damage to the Network Camera. Note: When upgrade firmware please wait for 90~210 seconds, and then you can connect to Network Camera again. The system will restart and require the installer program to set up the network again.
Network Camera User’s Manual Appendix A. Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions Q1: Status led does not light up. A1: First, make sure that 「 Configuration>System>Turn off the LED indicator」 is disabled. If it is, check the item, and the led should light up. Second, if red led does not light up, please check that the power adapter in the package is plugged correctly.
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Network Camera User’s Manual camera 6.Type IP address:8080 at browser. Then you can see through Internet. camera 7.You can also type the ddns name at below label of on browser URL field. For example, you may type ah00001.ip-discovery.com:8080. (2) By Setting Port Forwarding Manually 1.
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Network Camera User’s Manual PS. Port 80 is HTTP Port, port 53 is stream port, port 554 is RTSP port. and port 443 is HTTPS port. camera 2.Go to Network page. Disable UPnP port forwarding function. 54/59...
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Network Camera User’s Manual camera 3. Type IP address at browser. Then you can see through Internet. camera 4. You can also type the ddns name at below label of on browser URL field. For example, you may type ah00001.ip-discovery.com. Note: The firewall software at PC may block the transfer of network camera.
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Network Camera User’s Manual Q6: How can I restore the network camera to default value? A6: Use a gem clip to press on the inside button. Network camera begins to restore default value. You can also press the button “Factory” in “Maintenance” page to restore the default value.
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Network Camera User’s Manual • May be due to the network cable. Try correcting your network cable and configuration. Test the network interface by connecting a local computer to the Network Camera via a crossover cable. • Make sure the Internet connection and setting is ok. •...
Network Camera User’s Manual B. Technical specifications - System - Protocol TCP/IP, HTTP,UDP, SMTP, FTP, DDNS, RAM: 4G DDRⅢ UPnP, Telnet, NTP, PPPoE, RTSP, ROM: 16MB Flash ROM RTP,RTCP,DHCP and DNS - Infrared Led - Lens Auto/Manual mode, 10~12 M visible Fixed focal with fine tuning, 4.0mm+/-5%, Daylight sensor, angle +/-65, wave length F/1.5+/-5%...
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Network Camera User’s Manual Notification of Compliance Appendix C Europe - EU Declaration of Conformity For complete DoC please visit http://global.level1.com/downloads.php?action=init GPL License Agreement GPL may be included in this product, to view the GPL license agreement goes to http://download.level1.com/level1/gpl/GPL.pdf For GNU General Public License (GPL) related information, please visit http://global.level1.com/downloads.php?action=init 59/59...