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  • Page 1 Video Server IVS-100 User’s Manual...

  • Page 2: Declaration Of Conformity

    Disclaimer PLANET Technology does not warrant that the hardware will work properly in all environments and applications, and makes no warranty and representation, either implied or expressed, with respect to the quality, performance, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Hardware Installation ..................9 Logging in to Homepage.................. 11 Before Operation ..................11 Access IVS-100 from the Internet Explorer for the first time......13 Logging in as an ordinary User..............16 Logging in as an Administrator ..............16 Operating IVS-100..................... 17 Control Panel Area ..................

  • Page 4: Overview

    DSL modem, and with a standard Web browser you get instant, on demand video streams. Within minutes you can set up IVS-100 to capture a video sequence to a PC. Live video image can be uploaded to a website for the world to see or made available only to select users on the network.
  • Page 5 IVS-100 User’s manual Minimum System Requirement Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later VGA Monitor resolution 1024 x 768 Pentium III 800MHz or above Memory Size: 128MB or above VGA card resolution: 800x600 or above Windows ME, 2000, XP, or 2003...

  • Page 6: Package Contents

    Installation software and manual CD x 1 If any of the above items are missing, please contact your dealer immediately. Note: Using a power supply with a different voltage than the one included with IVS-100 will cause damage and void the warranty for this product.

  • Page 7: Physical Details

    100Base-TX Fast Ethernet cabling. This Ethernet port built NWay protocol can detect or negotiate the transmission speed of the network automatically. Please use Category 5 “straight through” cable to connect IVS-100 to a 100Mbps Fast Ethernet network switch or hub.
  • Page 8 CF Card Socket The CF card socket is located on the right side of the back panel of IVS-100. User can plug a CF memory card into this socket to store the alarm or scheduled images. This is very useful to keep the evidence of alarms or scheduled images for reference.

  • Page 9: Hardware Installation

    3. Plug an Ethernet cable into Video Server Connect an Ethernet cable to the LAN socket located on IVS-100’s front panel and attach it to the network. 4. Connect the external power supply to Video Server...
  • Page 10 AC power. When you have installed IVS-100 well, the status LED will turn green. It means the system is booting up successfully. Furthermore, if you have a proper network connection, and access to IVS-100, the 10/100M LAN LED will flash orange 5.

  • Page 11: Logging In To Homepage

    IPCam Finder Program (IPEditV3) is used to scan the Installed Video Server, setting IVS-100 Name, IP address settings. Using your mouse to select any one of IVS-100 within your LAN environment, you can find out its IP address and other IP parameters as follows: 1.
  • Page 12 After Submit, the IP information of this Video Server will be updated. Install IVS-100 with an ADSL Router If IVS-100 was installed on the LAN with an ADSL router, then IVS-100 can get a dynamic IP address from the DHCP server. However, if IVS-100 wants to be access from...

  • Page 13: Access Ivs-100 From The Internet Explorer For The First Time

    By now, you have finished your entire PC configuration for Video Server. Access IVS-100 from the Internet Explorer for the first time Start the web browser on the computer and type the IP address of IVS-100 you want to monitor as below: The Login Window of IVS-100 is displayed:...
  • Page 14 That’s, type in “admin” on the “USERNAME” as a default name and leave PASSWORD textbox blank. Click “OK” button to start the main menu. Now, you login to IVS-100 as a full-authorized administrator. You can enter “Setting” to change the password and setup “Administrator” or “User” authority. Please refer to “Setting”...
  • Page 15 IVS-100 User’s manual Display the image. After the ActiveX control was installed and ran, the first image will be displayed. 15/79...

  • Page 16: Logging In As An Ordinary User

    Logging in as an Administrator If you log in IVS-100 as the Administrator, you can perform all the settings provided within the software. The Administrator may be logged in at any time, regardless of the number of the users being accessed.

  • Page 17: Operating Ivs-100

    Operating IVS-100 Start-up screen will be as follow no matter an ordinary users or an administrator. Advanced Function Control Panel Viewing Area Viewing Area: Images from IVS-100 Control Panel Area Control Panel Area: Video Server Manipulation and image quality control 17/79...
  • Page 18 IVS-100 User’s manual Note: for PTZ camera only 1. Camera direction Up, Down, Left, Right, Home *2.Canera Zoom *3.Canera Speed 4. Adjust camera focus 5. Adjust camera focus Recall/Preset Mode 6. Video Resolution 7. Preset or Recall positions 8. Video Brightness adjustment positions 9.
  • Page 19 IVS-100 User’s manual Camera Adjust camera optical zoom in/zoom out Zoom (Noted: PTZ camera available only) Camera Speed Adjust Adjust camera focus Camera (Noted: PTZ camera available only) Focus Recall/Preset Preset: set up camera fixed locations before operation mode Recall: Set camera position to preset location...

  • Page 20: Advanced Function Area

    Setting menu consists of the Basic menu and the Application menu. The Basic menu is used for basic settings of IVS-100, and the Application menu is used for setting various applications according to individual. Click on each menu name to display its setting page.
  • Page 21 Turn on “Remote camera control”: users will be able to use right-side control panel vice versa. Log: User can check the log information of IVS-100, including the Main Info, Appended Info, Operator IP, Operator MAC, and Time. Select the “View” button to check the log file.
  • Page 22 IVS-100 User’s manual Camera Adjust Camera parameters Image Size: Video Server provides 4 resolutions: • 176x144 • 320x240 • 352x288 • 640x480 22/79...
  • Page 23 IVS-100 User’s manual Image Quality: IVS-100 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.
  • Page 24 IVS-100 User’s manual In the Camera Tour page, choose the one tour name from A to E. Fill the dwelling time and tour sequence by preset points, and then save these setting. You can repeat above procedure to set more camera tours.
  • Page 25 DHCP: DHCP: Stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. “DHCP ON” is default network setting of IVS-100, when a Video Server is joined into the LAN, it will issue the DHCP packets to request an IP address that is dynamically assigned by the DHCP server. If it can not get a DHCP address on a limited tries, IVS-100 will assigned a default IP address as the default IP address.
  • Page 26 IVS-100. Suggest keeping the Http port 1 as 80 to make sure the IVS-100 can be accessed by the default HTTP port setting access on the LAN. http://xx.xx.xx.xx/ If multiple IVS-100 is installed on the LAN, also required to be accessed from the WAN, then the Http port 2 can be changed as the virtual server port mapping to support multiple IVS-100.
  • Page 27 IVS-100 User’s manual instructions. A DDNS service works by uploading your WAN IP address to its servers periodically. Your gateway-router may support DDNS directly, in which case you can enter your DDNS account information into your router and it will update the DDNS servers automatically when your IP address changes.
  • Page 28 IVS-100 can directly connect to the ADSL, however, it should be setup on LAN environment to setup the PPPoE information, and then connect to the ADSL modem. Power on again, then IVS-100 will dial on to the ISP connect to the WAN through the ADSL modem.
  • Page 29 IVS-100 User’s manual • Also the “Sender email”, “Receiver email” needs to be inputted. • The “Subject” field can be modified too. • Select “Save” to save the setting. If the PPPoE option “Send mail after dialed”, then when PPPoE dialed up to ISP, a mail that contains the Dialup IP Address/Net mask/Gateway address/DNS Server address will be mailed to preset e-Mail address.
  • Page 30 IVS-100 User’s manual User : Setup user name, password and login privilege You can set up to 10 different usernames and passwords. Although there are 10 sets only, you may have one group of people use one username and password to login.
  • Page 31 IVS-100 User’s manual IP Filter : Setup user login right (This function should be used with function “User” respectively). You can enter 10 different user’s IP address, which are allowing enter or disregarding by IVS-100. You should configure “User” before “IP Filter”. Each “User” username and password matches with one “IP Filter”...
  • Page 32 IVS-100 User’s manual & Function Notification The page of user setting is very closely related to the IP filter settings. While the administrators are setting these two pages, they should notice that login authorities are no t only based on the login names but also the range of IP addresses.
  • Page 33 You may install 2 different sensors or turn on motion detection for your security purpose. By definition, If any motion detected or sensor has been activated, IVS-100 can issue a message or send a mail out to the person whose mail is assigned within SMTP.

  • Page 34: Application Setting

    Application Symbol Item Action FTP Client Setup IVS-100 as a client site and configure Server site in order to upload images to server FTP Server Setup IVS-100 as a server site and allow remote sites to check memory space availability...
  • Page 35 IVS-100 User’s manual FTP Client : Setup IVS-100 as a client site and configure Server site in order to upload images to server When alarm was enabled, user can send the captured images to the pre-set FTP server. Entering server name and your login username and password, you will be able to upload those previous captured image to the FTP server.
  • Page 36 IVS-100 User’s manual Select the suffix to add to the file name. None: No suffix is added. The basic file name is assigned to the image to be sent to the FTP server. Date/Time: The date/time suffix is added to the file name. The date/time suffix consists of lower...
  • Page 37 IVS-100 User’s manual 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 characters, or the IP address of the SMTP server.
  • Page 38 IVS-100 User’s manual Alarm 2 : Setup Alarm Output 2 action via manual or event You can issue an alarm output action by manual or event. Image memory : Setup captured images storing naming configuration and provide any warning such as “Disk Full”. This function is currently not available yet.
  • Page 39 : Setup motion detection area and sensor sensitivity The motion detection is implemented by a patented software algorithm, it runs on IVS-100, due to a larger processing power of motion detection, the overall performance of Video Server will be degraded, the frame rate may be reduced.
  • Page 40 Time Setting : Setup IVS-100 time configuration You can setup IVS-100 time or make it synchronized with PC or remote server. Also, you may select your time zone in order to synchronize time locally. Synchronize the time with PC’s time: This is the default time adjust mode, the check box of “Synchronize with PC’s time”...
  • Page 41 Select “NTP” Button Key in the NTP server’s IP address. Press “SAVE” to activate it. After IVS-100 gets the time from NTP server, it will update IVS-100’s time field. Popup : Setup event message 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.

  • Page 42: Firmware Upgrade

    Download the latest firmware file from Planet. Unzip this firmware file to binary file and store it into your PC. The file name should be XXX.BIN for IVS-100. Then follow the steps as bellows carefully: 1. Select “Firmware update”...
  • Page 43 IVS-100 User’s manual 5. Press the “here” button to begin to upgrade firmware. 6. Press the “OK” button to continue. The upgrade progress status information will be displayed on the screen. 43/79...
  • Page 44 The download firmware procedure cannot be interrupted. If the power and/or network connection are broken during the download procedure, it might possibly cause serious damage to IVS-100. Suggest that do not upgrade firmware via Wireless LAN due to high error rate possibly.

  • Page 45: Trigger

    IVS-100 User’s manual Trigger You can send an image or output a trigger to control the alarm output, using Trigger section on the main page. Action Meaning Upload a captured image to server Mail Mail captured image to specific mail address...

  • Page 46: Capture

    IVS-100 User’s manual 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 only. 46/79...

  • Page 47: Rightmousebutton Of Activex Control

    IVS-100 User’s manual RightMouseButton of ActiveX Control On the view of video, the plug-in ActiveX control support a lot of functions by clicking the right mouse button. This feature only supports on the ActiveX control within Microsoft® Internet Explorer. On the ActiveX control, right click the RightMouseButton, then a menu pop-up. This menu provides feature that are unique to the ActiveX control.
  • Page 48 IVS-100 User’s manual 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 makes the image resizable.
  • Page 49 IVS-100 User’s manual After 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 the bottom of the image.
  • Page 50 IVS-100 User’s manual • Resolution 640x480, 320x240, 352x288, 176x144 • Quality High/Low • Split 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 • Rotate - Normal: “Rotate 0”, the default state. - Rotate: “Rotate 180”, rotate the image by 180 degree; used on the camera was up side down mounted •...
  • Page 51 IVS-100 User’s manual IVS-100 provides 4 setting for Window split, it can display different time frame images of the selected Video Server. The time string with green characters is the current displayed image. 4 type of Split window, • 1 x 1 (Default) •...
  • Page 52 IVS-100 User’s manual “Rotate” After the “Rotate 180” was selected, the image displays up side down. 52/79...

  • Page 53: Image Recording

    IVS-100 User’s manual “Quality” The control is the same as control panel’s “Quality”. “Resolution” The control is the same as control panel’s “Resolution”. “Image Recording…-> Save as JPEG” Select “Image Recording…” The “Image Recording” pop-up window displays, select “Save as JPEG”...
  • Page 54 IVS-100 User’s manual Select “Start” to do the images download and save as JPEG files into the 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.
  • Page 55 IVS-100 User’s manual Before the “Download Number” of images is reached, or “Download No Limit”, select “Stop Image Recording” to stop the image recording process. After “Stop Image Recording”, list files, these files named file_name_prefixed_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss_ms.jpg 55/79...
  • Page 56 IVS-100 User’s manual “Image Recording…-> Save as AVI” 1. Select “Image Recording…” 2. The “Image Recording” pop-up window displays, select 3. “Save as AVI” 4. Input the ”Avi Frame” and “Max Jpeg Num” on each AVI file, until the “Stop Image Recording”...
  • Page 57 IVS-100 User’s manual Select “Start” to start the AVI files recording. During the AVI file recording, a red icon displays on right-down position of the image to indicate the AVI saving process. 57/79...
  • Page 58 IVS-100 User’s manual 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_prefix_date_time.avi. 58/79...
  • Page 59 IVS-100 User’s manual The AVI files can be display by the standard Windows Media Player, but it needs the DixectX 8.1 or higher version to be installed. 59/79...

  • Page 60: Save Current Picture As

    IVS-100 User’s manual “Save Current Picture As …” Use the “Save Current Picture As …” to save the current display image into the local PC. Input the saved “File name”, select “Save” 60/79...
  • Page 61 IVS-100 User’s manual If you like to retrieve the saved image, select the file to display the saved image by using any one of graph editing tools. 61/79...

  • Page 62: Appendix A: Restore Factory Default Settings

    4. Wait at least 8 seconds and release the tool. Then IVS-100 has been restored to default settings. Note: Restoring the factory default setting will lose the all-previous settings forever. User needs to run the IP Finder program to search IVS-100 and configure it to let IVS-100 work properly again. 62/79...

  • Page 63: Appendix B: Alarm I/O Connector

    An external sensor that senses physical changes in the area Video Server is monitoring can activate some features of IVS-100. These changes can include intrusion detection or certain physical change in the monitored area. For examples, the external sensor can be a door switch or an infrared motion detector.
  • Page 64 Explanation of External I/O Circuit Diagram Example CAUTION! • THE LOW VOLTAGE/CURRENT CIRCUITS AND HIGH VOLTAGE/ CURRENT CIRCUITS ARE IN IVS-100 CIRCUIT. THE QUALIFIED ELECTRICIAN SHOULD DO THE WIRING NOT BY YOU. INCORRECT WIRING COULD DAMAGE VIDEO SERVER. YOU COULD RECEIVE THE FATAL ELECTRIC SHOCK.

  • Page 65: Appendix C: Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions

    IVS-100 can be used IVS-100 is not weatherproof. It needs to be equipped with a outdoors or not. weatherproof case for outdoors using. However, equipped with a weatherproof case will disable the audio function of Video Server.
  • Page 66 Check IP address of Video Server by using the IP Finder IVS-100. program. IP Finder program • Re power IVS-100 if cannot find the unit within 1 minutes. cannot find Video • Do not connect Video Server over a router. IP Finder Server.
  • Page 67 IVS-100 User’s manual • Make sure the http port used by IVS-100, default=80, is forward to IVS-100’s private IP address. • The port number assigned in your Video Server might not be available via Internet. Check your ISP for available port.
  • Page 68 IVS-100 User’s manual server running on your LAN. • Check the configuration of the router settings allow IVS-100 to be accessed outside your local LAN. The unreadable Use the operating system of the selected language. Set the characters are Encoding or the Character Set of the selected language on displayed.
  • Page 69 NTSC or PAL format of your Video Server. • If the object is dark, the image will flicker. Make the condition around IVS-100 brighter. The video images might be noisy if IVS-100 is located in a Noisy images occur. very low light environment. Make the condition around IVS-100 brighter.

  • Page 70: Appendix D: Ping Ip Address

    If you want to make sure the IP address of Video Server, utilize the PING command as follows: Start a DOS window. Type ping x.x.x.x, where x.x.x.x is the IP address of IVS-100. The replies, as illustrated below, will provide an explanation to the problem. 70/79...

  • Page 71: Appendix E: Bandwidth Estimation

    IVS-100 User’s manual If you want to detect any other devices conflicts with the IP address of Video Server, also can utilize the PING command but you must disconnect IVS-100 from the network first. Appendix E: Bandwidth Estimation The frame rate of video transmitted from IVS-100 depends on connection bandwidth between client and server and quality setting of server.

  • Page 72: Appendix F: Time Zone Table

    IVS-100 User’s manual 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 – 320k bit For example, streaming 2 fps of 320 x 240 video requires 112 to 184 kbps (kilobits per second).
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  • Page 75: Appendix G: Ddns Application

    If users are under an environment of dynamic IP network (Dial-up ADSL), they have to apply a domain name in advance. Then apply DDNS service. Finally setup the necessary information of DDNS and PPPoE of IVS-100 or IP camera in order to let the outside administrator be able to access through Internet.
  • Page 76 IVS-100 User’s manual 3. Application Steps—DDNS & Domain Name (1). Visit the following web site: http://www.dyndns.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.
  • Page 77 IVS-100 User’s manual (5). Check your e-mail mailbox. There will be 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 you applied activated. (6). Enter the web page http://www.dyndns.org/...
  • Page 78 IVS-100 User’s manual (7). If the correct username and password are input, you can see the following picture at the top-right of the login page. (8). Click the “Services”. (9). Click the “ Dynamic DNS ” and then click the “Add a host”.
  • Page 79 DDNS and PPPoE after the application of DDNS service. Please check the user manual to access the DDNS and PPPoE pages. After saving the modification, restart the device. The external users could browse IVS-100 or IP camera by the input of their domain name. 79/79...

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