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Summary of Contents for OVS OVC-2DVIR36
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
CONTENTS - Chapter I Introduction ........................4 1.1 Highlights of your new Network IP Camera ..................... 4 1.2 Key feature of this network IP camera include: ..................4 1.3 Safety Instructions ........................... 5 1.4 Packaging Contents ..........................6 1.5 Familiar with your new Network IP Camera .................... 7 Installation of the Network IP Camera ...................... - Page 3 3-7 Motion ..............................44 3-8 Privacy Mask ............................46 3-9 PTZ Control ............................48 3-10 Event ..............................50 3-10-1 Settings ............................51 3-10-2 Media ............................53 3-10-3 Event Server ..........................54 3-11 Recording............................. 58 3-12 SDHC ..............................60 3-13 Log ............................... 62 3-14 Device Info ............................
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Page 4: Chapter I Introduction
Chapter I Introduction 1.1 Highlights of your new Network IP Camera This 2M network camera provides super image quality and remarkable bandwidth efficiency. The camera supports H.264 High Profile, Main Profile, and Baseline Profile video stream compression technology. With H.264 higher video compression performance, the file size of transmitted video stream is extremely reduced so as to optimize the network bandwidth efficiency. -
Page 5: Safety Instructions
1.3 Safety Instructions Please follow the safety instructions listed below when you’re using this Network IP Camera, or you would harm this camera and/or yourself! Also, the warranty will become void if you disobey these safety instructions. This Network IP Camera is sophisticated electronic device; do not drop it from high places. -
Page 6: Packaging Contents
1.4 Packaging Contents Please check the contents of your new Network IP Camera when you unpack the package. If any item is missing, please contact your dealer of purchase for help. Item No. Description Quantity Network IP camera Tools package CDROM Quick installation guide... -
Page 7: Familiar With Your New Network Ip Camera
1.5 Familiar with your new Network IP Camera Item Description 1. IP camera device IP camera 2. Power Cable Including -Power or Network [Front site] Item Description 1. IR-LED Used for illumination assistance under night mode 2. Day/night sensor Used for day/night detection and IR-LED ON/OFF control 3. - Page 8 [Cable ASSIGNMENT] Item Description Network, RJ45 connector, two LED index, orange color is power index, green is network index Audio input DC12Volt/2A input Audio output...
- Page 9 [Back] Item Description screw mount hole Mount the IP camera by screw conduit hole IP camera metal case...
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Page 10: Installation Of The Network Ip Camera
Installation of the Network IP Camera Please follow the instructions below to setup your new IP camera. 1. Remove the front cover by using screw driver as the following figure shows. 2. Fix IP-camera on the wall or ceiling through the screw holes as the following figure shows. - Page 11 5. Hold the inner cover and rotate the lens module to the view angle as you wish. 6. Insert the micro-SD card to the specific slot as the following figure shows. 7. Re-mount the front cover again and fix the screws.
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Page 12: Chapter Ii Using Network Ip Camera By Web Interface
Chapter II Using Network IP Camera by Web Interface 2.1 Locate the IP address of Network IP Camera You can use your new Network IP Camera by its web user interface via web browser. Currently the viewing system requirement for Network IP camera is: OS: Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 ■... -
Page 13: Connect To Ip Camera's Web User Interface And Install Activex Plugin
When you need to change a certain IP Camera’s IP address, please click on the IP Camera you wish to change IP address, then click ‘Change IP’ button to change select IP Camera’s IP address setting. If you no longer need to use this utility, click ‘Exit’ button to close it. Please note: If you have several network connections, such as “Wireless... - Page 14 When you connect to IP Camera for the first time, you’ll see the following message. This message prompts you that you need to install ActiveX plug-in before you can see the video from IP Camera. For IE : Click ‘Install’ button located at the bottom of IE to install ActiveX plugin. If you’re prompted that: ‘Windows Firewall has blocked some features of this program’...
- Page 15 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’ to allow changes. After ActiveX plugin is installed, you should be able to see the video stream from camera.
- Page 16 NOTE: If this is the first time you use this IP Camera, you can refer to chapter 2.4 for instructions on Setup Wizard, which will guide you to complete the software setup of your new IP Camera.
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Page 17: Viewing Live Video
2.3 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, 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’... - Page 18 image size will adjust automatically. ‘Connect’ button Start live video view. ‘Disconnect’ button Stop live video view. ‘Snapshot’ button Take a snapshot or camera video and save image file on your computer. When you click this button, a new window will appear: Click ‘Save’...
- Page 19 You can drag the slide bar ( beside enable/disable mute button to adjust audio playback volume. Start / Stop talk Start or stop playing your voice through IP camera’s audio Button output. When talk is stopped, people at IP camera will not hear you.
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Page 20: Client Settings
2.4 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:... - Page 21 Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description RTSP/RTP over TCP Select this option to use RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) to transfer video data over TCP. RTSP/RTP over UDP Select this option to use RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) to transfer video data over UDP. HTTP Select this option to use HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol) to transfer video data.
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Page 22: Chapter Iii Advanced Configuration
Chapter III 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. - Page 23 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.
- Page 24 You can check ‘Camera Date and Time’ item in this page to know IP camera’s current date and time setting. Synchronize with Select this item and IP camera will use your computer’s time computer time as its time. Synchronize with Select this item and IP camera will keep its date and time NTP Server setting synchronized with specified time server (NTP...
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Page 25: Security
3-2 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 LOG, and change Client Setting and language) - Guest (Can view IP camera’s video , and change language ) There can be multiple users, but only one administrator is allowed, and you can’t... - Page 26 Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Password / Retype Here lists all users existed in IP camera. If you want to Password remove one user, click it in the list, and then click ‘Remove’ (Administrator) button. If no user is existed, ‘New Account’...
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Page 27: Network
3-3 Network In this menu, you can configure IP camera’s network setting. 3-3-1 ‘General’ setup page Setup IP address for this IP camera. 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... - Page 28 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. IP Address(IPv4): Input IPv4 IP address* IP Address(IPv6): Input IPv6 IP address* Prefix Length: Input IPv6 IP address’...
- Page 29 must change corresponding settings in external network devices (NVR or CMS software) so they can receive this IP camera’s video. RTP Data Input RTP data port number here. Port When you finish with above settings, click ‘Apply’ button to save changes.
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Page 30: Advanced' Setup Page
3-3-2 ‘Advanced’ setup page You can setup advanced network settings in this page. This page is intended for advanced settings only, and this IP camera will work fine even you don’t make any changes to this page. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Multicast... - Page 31 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).
- Page 32 HTTPS Check ‘Enable HTTPS’ box to enable HTTPS channel to encrypt transferred data. You can also define HTTPS port number in ‘HTTPS Port’ field if you don’t want to use default value ‘443’. When you finish, click ‘Apply’ to save changes.
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Page 33: Ip Filter
3-4 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... - Page 34 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’ button. IP Address Input the starting and ending IP address of IP address you (Accepted IP list) wish to deny connections here.
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Page 35: Video
3-5 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:... -
Page 36: Image Setting
3-5-1 Image Setting You can adjust the image parameters in this page. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Brightness / Control the image parameters. Click ‘ - ‘ to decrease value, or click... - Page 37 Contrast / ‘ + ‘ to increase value. You can also input the value in the field Saturation / directly. Sharpness Default Set all above values to default value ‘128’. Mirror Check ‘Vertical’ or ‘Horizontal’ box to flip the image vertically or horizontally, this will help to correct the orientation of image when IP camera is hanged bottom-up by camera holder.
- Page 38 IR-cut An IR-cut filter is built in this IP camera to reduce the effect of IR (Day/Night) lights (which will change the color of image and makes it looks different than what you see through your eye), and most of IR lights are coming from sunlight.
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Page 39: Video Setting
3-5-2 Video Setting You can adjust the video transfer parameters in this page. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description H.264 Select the compression of main stream: H.264. Video Select video resolution. Resolution - H.264: 1920x1080 (1080p) / 1280x960 (960p) / 1280x720 (720p) 720x480 (D1) / 640x480 (VGA) / 320x240 (QVGA) - Page 40 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’. When network speed is insufficient, select a lower frame rate will help.
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Page 41: Overlay Setting
3-5-3 Overlay Setting You can adjust the video overlay parameters in this page. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable Time Check this box to enable overlaying time stamp on video. Stamp Remove the Check this box to remove time stamp’s background color. You background color may find this will help the readability of time stamp text in of the text... - Page 42 Enable Image Check this box to overlay a specific image on video, so you can Overlay 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’...
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Page 43: Audio
3-6 Audio You can adjust audio input / output parameters here Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable Check this box to enable microphone. If you don’t want to hear Microphone voice from IP camera, you can uncheck this box to disable it. Audio Type The format is fixed as G.711 (Microphone) -
Page 44: Motion
3-7 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... - Page 45 - To move / resize a motion detection window: - Move: Use the mouse to drag the title text. - Resize: Use the mouse the drag the 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).
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Page 46: Privacy Mask
3-8 Privacy Mask This IP camera is capable to setup privacy mask, so that IP camera will only record the specific area as user needs. You can define up to 3 privacy mask areas. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable Privacy... - Page 47 Filled color There are four different color for privacy mask window selection. Select the specific color and click 'Apply', then the privacy mask window will fulfill the specific color. When you finish with above settings, click ‘Home’ button to save changes.
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Page 48: Ptz Control
3-9 PTZ Control 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... - Page 49 Please refer to pan-tilt camera cradle’s user manual to define the protocol. Port Setting - Baud Rate: Select data baud rate of RS-485 interface that 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).
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Page 50: Event
3-10 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: 1. Setting: Define a new event and manage events. 2. -
Page 51: Settings
3-10-1 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 start an Event setting. To add a new event, click ‘New’ button and the descriptions of every setup item is listed below:... - Page 52 Item Description 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.
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Page 53: Media
3-10-2 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. Maximum Save a H.264 video clip. You can also select the recording Video File Size length before and / or after the time when event is triggered in ‘Pre Event’... -
Page 54: Event Server
3-10-3 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. - Page 55 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 default value ‘21’.
- Page 56 Item Description SMTP Server Check this box to enable Email send. - 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.
- Page 57 Enable SMTP Server then UI shows the items as below. Item Description Samba Server Check this box to enable Samba server file upload. - Samba Server Address: Input Samba server’s IP address or hostname. - Path: Input the path where you want to save file on Samba server, like ‘upload/record’.
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Page 58: Recording
3-11 Recording IP camera provides continuous recording function. You can save video files on it. Note: 1. Be sure that the Micro SD Card format should be FAT32. The NTFS format cannot be supported by this camera. 2. Unlink motion detection; this function will record video at specified time period on selected weekday(s). - Page 59 Schedule boxes to represent a weekday, and specify time period in ‘From’ and ‘To’ field. Select ‘Always’ to record 24 hours in selected weekday(s). Storage Option User can select the external storage device that is SD-card or remote Samba server. Note: 1.
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Page 60: Sdhc
3-12 SDHC The IP camera module has a built in Micro-SD card slot on PCBA board. The UI shows the capacity is 'None' when no Micro-SD card inserted. Once the Micro-SD card is inserted, the UI will show the capacity of the Micro-SD card like the image hereunder. - Page 61 Set the time range then click “Search” then shows the records like below. Note: 1. Be sure that the Micro SD Card format should be FAT32. The NTFS format cannot be supported by this camera. 2. For new Micro-SD card, it's better to do 'Format' before recording.
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Page 62: Log
3-13 Log You can check the usage log of IP camera here. In this page, you can click: 1. First page / Final page: Jump to first / final page of log. 2. Previous / Next: Jump to previous or next page of log. 3. -
Page 63: Device Info
3-14 Device Info You can check the information and network settings of this IP camera. The information are very useful when you need to repair or fix the problem of this IP camera. An example of device info page looks like this:... -
Page 64: Maintenance
3-15 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. - Page 65 SD card device Micro-SD card. Upgrade Upgrade IP camera’s firmware. Click ‘Browse’ button to select a firmware image file on your computer first, then click ‘Upgrade’ button.
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Page 66: Language
3-16 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. -
Page 67: Chapter Iv Troubleshooting
Chapter IV 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 1) Please check the IP address of IP Camera again. -
Page 68: Chapter V Digital I/O User Guide
Chapter V Digital I/O User Guide DI/DO connector – Use in applications for e.g. motion detection, event triggering, SD recording and alarm notifications via FTP/EMAIL/SAMBA. •Digital output — For connecting external devices such as relays, alarm bell or LEDs. Connected devices can be activated by the ConfigurationEvent interface or digital output buttons on the Home page. - Page 69 •Digital input — An alarm input for connecting devices that can toggle between an open and closed circuit, for example: PIRs, door/window contacts, glass break detectors, etc. When a signal is received the state changes and the input becomes active. Notes Specifications DI is floating, trigger is “high”...
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