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Summary of Contents for Planet ICA-HM317
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User’s Manual ICA-HM317 3 Mega-Pixel 25M IR Outdoor Bullet PoE IP Camera...
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Copyright Copyright 2012 by PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of PLANET.
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Do not dispose of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste and have to collect such WEEE separately. Revision User’s Manual for PLANET 3 Mega-Pixel 25M IR Outdoor Bullet Poe IP Camera Model: ICA-HM317 Rev: 1.0 (January. 2012) Part No. EM-ICAHM317 2 ...
0.5 LUX illumination. ONVIF Certified / Professional Software The ICA-HM317 follows the ONVIF v1.01 and v1.02 standard SDK for user to integration with party software. The ICA-HM317 can work with the PLANET Cam Viewer 3 Lite / Pro...
1.3 Package Contents IP Camera unit x 1 Power Adapter x 1 Quick Installation Guide x 1 User’s Manual CD x 1 Stand x 1 Screw package x 1 1. If any of the above items are missing, please contact your dealer immediately. NOTE: 2.
1. The listed information is minimum system requirements only. Actual requirement will vary depending on the nature of your environment. 2. The ICA-HM317 can be managed by PLANET Cam Viewer Three if you want NOTE: to configure more detail information and settings of camera viewer plus software please refer to the CD-ROM folder “D:\Manual\Cam Viewer 3\”,...
2.2 Physical Description 2.2.1 Identification of ICA-HM317 physical detail Front view 1.Lens 3.Light sensor 2.IR LEDs x 4 Item Description Lens set. Keep this area clean to keep excellent video quality. 1. Lens Emits infrared light to provide light source in dark places 2.IR LEDs...
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I/O Control Instruction: Descriptions for I/O cable set: Interface Description 1. Ethernet Connects to your local area network by Ethernet cable 2. Power DC power input, connect to AC power adapter RS485D+: red RS485D-: yellow Alarm out: green 3. RS-485 & digital I/O Sensor in: blue GND: black WARNING: DO NOT CONNECT POWERED CABLE!
2.3 Hardware Installation Please follow the instructions below to setup your new IP camera. 1. Connect an Ethernet cable Connect Ethernet cable to IP camera’s Ethernet port. NOTE: If there has an IEEE802.3af PoE switch in your network, you can connect the camera LAN cable to this PoE switch to obtain power.
Please insert the bundle CD disk into your CD/DVD-ROM drive. When the welcome web page appears, please click your IP Camera name on the IP Camera list i.e. ICA-HM317. Then click on the utility IPFinder to start the program.
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3. Press ‘Discover’ button to search for all IP Cameras on your local network (make sure all IP Cameras are powered on and connect to local network first). When you find any IP Camera, you can click on it and click ‘Link’ button to connect to it by your web browser. 4.
2.6 Setup ActiveX to use the Internet Camera The Internet Camera web pages communicate with the Internet Camera using an ActiveX control. The ActiveX control must be downloaded from the Internet Camera and installed on your PC. Your Internet Explorer security settings must allow for the web page to work correctly. To use the Internet Camera, user must setup his IE browser as follows: 2.6.1 Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP From your IE browse ...
2.6.2 Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP From your IE browse ”Tools” ”Internet Options…” ”Security” ”Custom Level…”, please setup your “Settings” as follow. Set the first 3 items • Allow previously unused ActiveX control to run… • Allows Script lets •...
2.6.3 Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista From your IE browse ”Tools” ”Internet Options…” ”Security” ”Internet” ”Custom Level…”, please setup your “Settings” as follow. • Enable “Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls” • Prompt “Initialize and script active controls not marked….” From your IE browse ...
2.6.4 Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP From your IE browse ”Tools” ”Internet Options…” ”Security” ”Custom Level…”, please setup your “Settings” as follow. Set the first some items as below. Under ActiveX ensure the following are set to enabled •...
2.7 Using UPnP of Windows XP or Vista 2.7.1 Windows XP UPnP™ is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking device, software, and peripherals. This device is an UPnP enabled device. If the operating system, Windows XP, of your PC is UPnP enabled, the Internet Camera will be very easy to configure.
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The following screen will appear, select “Networking Services” and click “Details” to continue 18 ...
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The “Networking Services” will display on the screen, select “Universal Plug and Pla y” and click “OK” to continue. Please click “Next” to continue 19 ...
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The program will start installing the UPnP automatically. You will see the below pop-up screen, please wait while Setup configures the components. Please click “Finish” to complete the UPnP installation Double-click “My Network Places” on the desktop, the “My Network Places” will display on the screen and double-click the UPnP icon with Internet Camera to view your device in an internet browser.
2.7.2 Windows Vista UPnP™ is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking device, software, and peripherals. This device is an UPnP enabled device. If the operating system, Windows Vista, of your PC is UPnP enabled, the Internet Camera will be very easy to configure.
3. Web-based Management This chapter provides setup details of the Internet Camera’s Web-based Interface. 3.1 Introduction The Internet Camera can be configured with your Web Browser. Before configure, please make sure your PC is under the same IP segment with Internet Camera. 3.2 Connecting to Internet Camera ...
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If difficulty is met, please refer to the following steps to establish the connection: The IP Camera must be installed and powered ON. If the IP Camera’s default IP Address (192.168.0.20) is already used by another device, the other device must be turned OFF until the device is allocated a new IP Address during configuration.
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If you’re prompted that: ‘Windows Firewall has blocked some features of this program’ Click ‘Allow access’, or IP Camera will not be able to function properly. When you’re installing Internet Explorer plugin, you may also be prompted that if you want to allow changes to be made to your computer: Click ‘Yes’...
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If this is the first time you use this IP Camera, you can refer to chapter 2.4 for NOTE: instructions on Setup Wizard, which will guide you to complete the software setup of your new IP Camera. 25 ...
3.3 Viewing Live Video After ActiveX control is installed, you can view IP camera’s video by web browser. Just connect to IP camera by web browser and login, and then you can see live video from IP camera: There are various controls on web page; here are descriptions of every control item: Item Description ‘Home’...
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Fit screen pixels) and fit screen (smaller size). If you want to see video in detail, switch to original size. If your computer monitor’s resolution is not enough and you want to see full image view, switch to fit screen and image size will adjust automatically.
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That digital zoom uses computer algorithm to enlarge the video and some details may lost. If you need to focus on detail of specific objects in NOTE: video view, please use optical zoom ring on lens set of IP camera. Enable / Disable mute When mute is enabled ( ), you will not hear the voice from...
3.4 Client Settings In ‘Client Settings’ menu, you configure basic IP camera settings like data transfer protocol and data storage folder. To access ‘Client Settings’ menu, click ‘Client Settings’ button on the left. The following screen will appear: Here are the descriptions of every setup item: 29 ...
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Item Description RTSP Select this option to use RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) to transfer video data. HTTP Select this option to use HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol) to transfer video data. If you don’t know which one you should use, select ‘RTSP’. Folder Select a folder on your computer to save recorded video.
4. Advanced Configuration If you wish to configure IP camera’s settings, you can access IP camera’s ‘Configuration’ menu, which provides various kinds of system setting. To access configuration menu, click ‘Configuration’ button on the left. The ‘Configuration’ submenu will appear, please pick a setup item you wish to configure. 31 ...
4.1 System In this menu, you can configure basic IP camera settings like hostname and time. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Host Name Input the IP camera’s hostname here, it can be any meaningful words or characters that will help you to identify this IP camera. You can use IP camera’s installation location as host name, and this will help you to identify IP camera when you have many IP cameras installed.
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otherwise do not check this box to keep time correct. Keep the current date Select this option and date / time setting will not be changed when you click ‘Apply’ in the page. and time You can check ‘Camera Date and Time’ item in this page to know IP camera’s current date and time setting.
4.2 Security In this menu, you can configure IP camera’s login account. There are three kinds of account: Administrator : Can view IP camera’s video and make changes of camera setting ‐ User : Can view IP camera’s video and see settings, but can’t make any change ‐...
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(Administrator) administrator’s password. Don’t forget administrator’s password! Or you’ll NOTE: need to reset IP camera’s all settings to get administrator’s password recovered. Account List Here lists all users existed in IP camera. If you want to remove one user, click it in the list, and then click ‘Remove’ button. If no user is existed, ‘New Account’...
4.3 Network 4.3.1 General In this menu, you can configure IP camera’s network setting. This IP camera supports both IPv4 and IPv6 IP address. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Select this option to assign an IP address to LAN port (or obtain an address from DHCP server automatically).
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DHCP IPv4 / IPv6: Obtain both IPv4 and IPv6 address from DHCP ‐ server on LAN automatically. Static IPv4 / IPv6: Assign an IPv4 / IPv6 address to IP camera ‐ manually. If you don’t have a DHCP server on your local area network, you must use this option to specify an IP address.
4.3.2 Advanced In this menu, you can configure IP camera’s advance network setting. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Multicast Enable video multicast: Multicast Group Address: Input multicast group address here, must be an address between 232.0.0.0 to 232.255.255.255.
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Multicast RCTP audio port: Input port number for RCTP audio here. Multicast TTL: Input TTL value for multicast here. Bonjour If you’re using MacOS and you have Bonjour installed, you can use it to discover this IP camera. Enable QoS to improve the data transfer priority of this IP camera (Your local area network must support QoS).
4.4 IP Filter When this IP camera is directly connected to Internet and not protected by firewall, this function acts like a mini built-in firewall to protect the safety of this IP camera and avoid attacks from hackers. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable Filter...
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address in both field. Click ‘New’ button to add IP address into accepted IP list. Deny IP list Here lists all IP address that cannot build connections to this IP camera. If you want to remove a set of IP address from the list, click on the IP address and click ‘Remove’...
4.5 Video You can adjust the image of the IP camera in this menu. There are 3 sub-menus in this menu: Image Setting, Video Setting, and Overlay, which can be accessed by tabs on the top: 42 ...
4.5.1 Image Setting You can adjust the image parameters in this page. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Control the image parameters. Click ‘ - ' to decrease value, or click ‘ + Brightness / ‘ to increase value. You can also input the value in the field directly. Contrast / Saturation / Sharpness...
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Power Line Select the frequency of power line of the place you’re using this IP Frequency camera. This will help to reduce the flicker of certain lights in the image. Condition Select the condition that you’ll be using this IP camera from dropdown menu.
4.5.2 Video Setting You can adjust the video transfer parameters in this page. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Select the compression of main stream: H.264 / MPEG4. H.264 /MPEG4 Video Select video resolution. Resolution H.264: ‐...
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That some video resolution is not available when video NOTE: encoder is ‘MPEG4’. When network speed is insufficient, select a lower video resolution will help. Frame Rate Select video frame rate. Please note that some frame rate is not available when video encoder is ‘H.264’.
4.5.3 Overlay Setting You can adjust the video overlay parameters in this page. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable Time Stamp Check this box to enable overlaying time stamp on video. Remove the Check this box to remove time stamp’s background color. You background color of may find this will help the readability of time stamp text in some the text...
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Enable Image Overlay Check this box to overlay a specific image on video, so you can show certain text / picture on the video and help people to identify this IP camera. Click ‘Browse’ button to pick a picture on your computer, then click ‘Update’...
4.6 Audio You can adjust audio input / output parameters here. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable Microphone Check this box to enable microphone. If you don’t want to hear voice from IP camera, you can uncheck this box to disable it. Audio Type The format is fixed as G.711 Microphone Gain...
4.7 Motion This IP camera is capable to detect object’s motion, so IP camera will only record when there’s motion and save disk storage space. Motion detection is performed by examine the movement of objects in rectangular motion detection area. You can define up to 3 motion detection areas. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description...
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Move: Use the mouse to drag the title text. ‐ Resize: mouse drag four corners ‐ (upper-left/right, lower-left/right) to resize it. If you only want to adjust width or height, drag the four sidebars (top, bottom, left, and right). Title Input characters in title field to change motion detection area’s title (Window 1 to text so you can identify it.
4.8 RS-485 If you mount the IP camera on pan-tilt camera cradles that support pan-tilt control via RS-485 connection, you can use this function to control pan-tilt camera cradle so you can control the orientation of IP camera from remote place. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description...
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Baud Rate: Select data baud rate of RS-485 interface that Port Setting ‐ pan-tilt camera cradle will accept. When the length of RS-485 connection is very long (longer than 200M), it’s not recommended to use high speed connection (greater than 2400bps).
4.9 Event When there’s an event, you can use this setup page to define what IP camera should do, like send an Email or trigger digital output to activate external alarm. There are three setup pages: Setting: Define a new event and manage events. Media: Define what kind of media file should be saved on designate media.
4.9.1 Settings This page lists all existing events. You can click ‘Modify’ button to edit an existing event, or ‘Remove’ to delete an existing event. To create a new even, just click “New” button to add an Event setting. To add a new event, click ‘New’ button and the descriptions of every setup item is listed below: Item Description 55 ...
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Enable Setting Check this box to enable this event. If you just want to disable this event temporarily, you can uncheck this box to keep this event and disabling while not deleting it. Title Input any description text for this event so you can identify it quickly. You can use alphabets, numbers, and symbols include: !$-.@^_~ (no spaces allowed).
4.9.2 Media You can define what kind of media file should be saved on designated media. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description One Snapshot Save a picture file when event is triggered. H.264 Video Save a H.264 video clip. You can also select the recording length before and / or after the time when event is triggered in ‘Pre Event’...
4.9.3 Event Server You can define the details of remote media server: FTP (File), SMTP (Email), and Samba (File). A Samba server can be any computer running windows operating system with network neighbor function enabled. Many stand-alone network file server also support samba server function.
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Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable FTP Check this box to enable FTP server upload. Server FTP Server: Input FTP server’s IP address or hostname. ‐ Port: Input FTP server’s port number. In most cases it should be ‐...
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SMTP Server: Input SMTP server’s IP address or hostname. ‐ Port: Input SMTP server’s port number. In most cases it should be ‐ default value ‘25’. Sender Email Address: Input the sender’s email address that will ‐ appear in the Email send by IP camera. This will help you to identify the Email sent by this IP camera, and may help when you have anti-spam software installed (you can set this Email address to ‘White List’...
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STARTTLS: If your Email server required STARTTLS encryption, ‐ check this box. Please note that some Email server uses different port number than standard port 25 when STARTTLS encryption is used. Test SMTP: Click this button to test SMTP server settings above ‐...
4.10 Log You can check the usage log of IP camera here. In this page, you can click: First page / Final page: Jump to first / final page of log. Previous / Next: Jump to previous or next page of log. Remove: Clear log.
4.11 Device Info You can check the information and network settings of this IP camera. This information is very useful when you need to repair or fix the problem of this IP camera. An example of device info page looks like this: 63 ...
4.12 Maintenance You can do some maintenance job about this IP camera here. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Reboot Click this button to reboot the IP camera. This function is useful when you find IP camera is not working properly. Reset Clear all settings of IP camera and reset to factory default setting.
4.13 Language You can change the display language of web interface. Click ‘Language’ button and select one language. More languages may available in latest firmware file. 65 ...
Appendix A: Troubleshooting Please don’t panic when you found this IP Camera is not working properly. Before you send this IP Camera back to us, you can do some simple checks to save your time: Problem description Possible solution(s) Can’t connect to IP Camera 1) Please check the IP address of IP Camera again.
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caused by insufficient network bandwidth. Use a connection with higher bandwidth, or set to a lower video resolution / frame rate / video quality. 67 ...
Appendix B: Specification Model ICA-HM317 Image Sensor 1/2.5" Progressive CMOS Format 2592H x 1944V Effective Pixels 2.2 x 2.2μm Pixel size 5.70mm(H) x 4.28mm(V) Active Image Area 7.13mm diagonal Lens Built-in Lens Mount Board Focal Length 6mm CS mount Lens F No.
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HTTPs, Samba, PPPoE, UPnP, Bonjour, RTP, RTSP, RTCP Video Output Audio In / Out 1 / 1 LED Indicators 1 x Power, 1 x Ethernet RS-485 Reset IEEE 802.3af Power Supply DC12V / 2A Special Features 3 scalable windows Motion Detection Brightness, Contrast, Sharpness, Saturation Adjustable Image Settings 2 sec.