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  • Page 1: User Manual

    VD-2028 2-Megapixel IR Dome IPCAM User Manual...
  • Page 2 This product contains some codes from GPL. In compliance with GPL agreement, AirLive will publish the GPL codes on our website. Please go to www.airlive.com and go to the "Support->GPL" menu to download source code. All Trademarks are properties of their respective holders. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 3 The lists of entities entitled to receive used equipment can be found on the websites of municipalities. Some components of devices such as external wiring, circuit boards and liquid crystal displays have a negative impact on the environment. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    4.2 Configuration ..................16 5. Configuration ................... 17 5.1 Information ..................18 5.2 Basic Setting ..................19 5.3 Live View .................... 30 5.4 Setting Playback ................34 5.5 Event ....................38 5.6 Setting Playback ................48 AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 5: Overview

    Ethernet cable. This useful function provides an easier installation, lower cabling costs and allows placement of AirLive PoE cameras in locations without access to electrical source. With the IP66 water and vandal proof housing, AirLive VD-2028 suits for environments such as office, elevators, campus, chain stores, and boutique stores.

  • Page 6: Product Specification

    Configurable frame rate and bandwidth Support both CBR and VBR Region of Interest (ROI) Image Processing AE, BLC, AW Brightness, sharpness, contrast, saturation Mirror/Flip Privacy Masks Text, time and Date Digital Zoom Audio Encoder Audio G.711_a-law AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 7 Motion detection, Digital Input, Tamper Detection, Periodically Time, Audio Detection Motion Detection System Alarm Output Network Storage, SD card, FTP, SMTP, Integration HTTPs, DIDO Application Programming OnVIF2.4, Profile S Interface Video Buffer Pre- and Post- alarm buffering AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 8: System Requirement

    Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 Internet Explorer 9 or later; Apple Safari ; Firefox ; Google Web Browser Chrome Note: Please keep updating the latest Windows software and service package. (Ex: Net Framework, Windows Media Player, Enhance ActiveX Security) AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 9: Package Contents And Installation

    Connector There are various connectors of AirLive VD-2028 as shown in the figures below. Please refer to the diagrams and tables for using of each connector. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 10 100Mbps Fast Ethernet network switch or hub. 3. Alarm Digital I/O: AirLive VD-2028 supports 2 digital alarm inputs and 1 digital alarm output. Please make sure the alarm connections are properly wired. Please refer to the pin definition table below.
  • Page 11 6. Reset Button: This button is used to restore all the factory default settings. Sometimes, restarting the device will make the system back to a normal state. 7. MicroSD Card Slot: MicroSD Card Slot allows you to insert a memory card for expansion of storage. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 12: Mounting The Camera

    8. LEC indicator: The LED colors are defined below. Color Indication Green Solid green when network is established. Network Orange Blink orange when there is network activity. 2.3 Mounting the Camera 1. Disassembling Loosen the screw on top and then take off the cover. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 13 Adjust the rotation angle to correct the image display position (up/down/left/right). Adjust the tilt angle and let the camera faces toward the monitoring object. Adjusting Zoom in/out and focus for the camera You can adjust the camera as picture below. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 14: Connect To Ip Camera

    1. Download the Airlive IPWizard from http://fs.airlive.com/firmware/AirLive%20IP%20Wizard%20II%20version1.0.0.3.zip. 2. Install Softeware ” AirLive IP Wizard II” to install the configuration tool. 3. After completed the installation, run the “Air Live IP Wizard II” to start to search the IP camera. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 15 5. If the Camera’s IP address is in the same IP segment as your LAN, select the founded IP Camera and double click on the item. Then, the default browser will show up and connect to the IP camera’s Web automatically. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 16: Using Ip Camera Via Web Browser

    You can change them in the Account Menu. (Please check “Configuration → Basic → Account”) 3. The monitor image will be displayed in your browser. In the main window, you can configure the settings you want. For more details, please refer to the following chapters. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 17: Mac Os Using Safari Browse

    2. Click Bonjour function and select the camera you wish to access. 3. Enter name and password to login to the IP camera. (Default is admin / airlive) 4. Live video will display in the center of your web browser. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 18: Operating The Network Camera

    In the left side, you can control Live View function as below: 4.1 Live View Toolbar Function Click this button to take you back to the camera home page where you can live view the video AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 19 The network camera can store different profiles that provide different video settings. You can define these profiles in the administrator menu, e.g, one profile is for low bandwidth environment whereas another profile is for maximum quality. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 20: Configuration

    1920 x 1080 pixels on your screen. Protocol- Select the transfer protocol here. 4.2 Configuration Click “Configuration” for the camera detail settings. For more information, please refer to Chapter 5. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 21: Configuration

    5. Configuration Configuration Click the “Configuration” to display sub-menus included: Information / Basic Setup / Live View / Playback / Even / System. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 22: Information

    5. Configuration 5.1 Information The camera’s administrator menu allows you to configure all aspects of your network camera. This page provides a complete overview of the status of your network camera AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 23: Basic Setting

    Here you type in a user name and a password for the new account. Also, you must define the role of the new user account. The example shows how we create a guest account that only has viewing rights, but cannot change any settings. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 24 (e.g., the router) in your network. You can, however, set up the IP address and related settings manually.  TCP/IP:. - Internet Protocol Version 4(TCP/IPv4): MAC address- MAC address stands for Media Access Control address. This is the unique hardware address of the camera’s network interface. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 25 First, after saving the settings you need to reboot the camera via the System -> Initialize menu. Secondly, after the reboot is completed you need to connect to the camera using the URL http://camera_ip:portnumber. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 26 User ID- Enter the user ID for your DSL service here. The user ID has been given to you by your ISP. Password- The password for the DSL account goes here. Re-type the password in the field. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 27 In that case you can activate the option “Use the following DNS server address” and enter the primary and secondary DNS servers in the fields below (not shown on the screen shot). 3. Date Time On this page you can define the time settings of the camera. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 28 Daylight Saving Time. 4. Video The following three menus: Video Setting, Profile and Day/Night, allowing defining all video-related parameters. Note that the Day/Night option as well as other parameters may not be available on all models. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 29 Background color- Select from black, white or transparent. Display Position- Define where the overlay should appear on the live image. - Privacy mask: Privacy masking is the ability of the camera to back out (censor) certain parts of the live video. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 30 Normally, this is your preferred choice. However, you can also select MJPEG, e.g., for compatibility reasons. Profile- Encoding application offers you three choices- High, Main and Baseline profiles. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 31 IR light, but it generates true color video. Once the IR cut filter is removed, the camera becomes IR light sensitive and will generate a black and white image – and it does that even in complete darkness if the IR LEDs are active. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 32 MON to FRI from 21.00 hours to 06.00 hours. The scheduler is explained in detail later on. IR Cut Filter Switch Delay- For user to define the time duration (how many seconds) between IR being turned on or off from the current status. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 33 IR LEDs and can therefore turn the IR LEDs off. Schedule-- Select this option, if you wish to control exactly when IR LED turning on and off by following a certain schedule setting. 5. Audio: AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 34: Live View

    Note that depending on your camera model, the options on the screen may differ from the screen shots in this user manual. 1. Video:  The same as described in the last section 5.2 item 4. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 35 - Image Enhancement: The image enhancement controls consist of standard video settings, which you know from a great variety of products. Click on “Video” to see the camera live video while you adjust the settings to your liking. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 36 WDR stands for Wide Dynamic Range and allows the network camera to capture video in areas with high contrasting objects; e.g., extremely bright and extremely dark. Activate WDR by setting it to “Auto” and then adjust the level that controls the amount of WDR enhancement. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 37 Select a region which you want the view to be clearer, and then click save. If you want to see the regions you have set, please click Display All Range. Note: For each profile, the ROI sets are limited to 3, and ROI only support codec AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 38: Setting Playback

    There are two folders: “Event” which is for event-triggered recordings, e.g., motion detection alerts, and “Schedule” which contains recordings that the camera recorded if scheduled recording is enabled. Refer to the section 6.5 “Event” for more details on the setup. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 39 5. Configuration Above: Each day has its own folder. Above: Each hour of the day has its own folder. Above: Individual videos can be played back by selecting them and clicking the play button. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 40 2. Local Storage If your camera is equipped with a local storage option (recording on an SC card) you can access the recordings from here. It functions similarly to the access of files on the network storage device. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 41 5. Configuration AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 42: Event

    First you need to set up an event server, or multiple event servers.  Even Server: Click “Add” to create a new event server. - General: Name- Provide a name for the server. - Server Setting (FTP): AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 43 Mail Server - Type in the address of your mail server. Server Port - Adjust the server port if necessary. Port 25 is standard, but your server may be using different values (not so uncommon these days as an anti-spam measure). AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 44 - Server Setting (HTTP): A HTTP server can be used by the camera to trigger a script on a remote server if an event occurs. User name, password and proxy fields are all optional. - Server Setting (Network storage): AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 45 Memory Card to “on” and format the card by clicking “Execute”. Noted: Only FAT32 is supported, please do not format the SD card to other format. Noted: Please power off the camera before taking off memory card AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 46 Digital Input- If your camera is equipped with digital inputs (see hardware installation guide), then you can use them as a trigger mechanism. A common example would be to use 3 party motion detection sensors that trigger the camera to start a recording. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 47 - Schedule: Here you can define when you want this action to be active. You can choose between “Always” or a schedule that you have defined (see “Schedule” a few pages down). AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 48 Name- Provide a name for the server. Event- On/Off the event. - Action: Define each recorded video file size to save. You can choose to store the video to NAS or SD card, which need to be pre-configured in event server. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 49 Doing the opposite will of course have the opposite effect: Fewer false alarms at an increased risk or missing an important event. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 50 You can set up individual schedules for each event type, so that motion detection is activated between 7 pm and 7 am, but tampering detection is only activated between 10 pm and 4 am. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 51 As soon as you add a schedule, the timeline turns red, indicating the active schedule. If the schedule is the same for every day of the week, you can activate the option “Use the same time schedule every day.” AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

  • Page 52: Setting Playback

    7. Appendix 5.6 Setting Playback The system menu provides access to a variety of system settings of your network camera 1. Maintenance AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 53 Instead, contact the technical support team to verify the firmware version. Also, do not perform the upgrade from a computer that is connected to the network wirelessly, as the connection is inherently less stable than a cable-based AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 54 “.lang.” Click on Browse, select the language you wish to install and then click on OK to begin the process. 2. Date Time  Date Time: . - Current Date/Time: Reference section 5.2 item 3. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 55 Once you enabled it, the listed IP address are allowed or denied access to the network camera. Add the IP address that you’d like to allow or deny, select allow or deny from the list and save it. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 56 It is syntactically similar to the http:// scheme that is normally used for accessing resources using HTTP. The differences are that SSL-encrypted connections always begin with https:// instead of http://. HTTPS connections use TCP port 443 by default, compared to standard HTTP connections, which use port AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 57 Note: When enable HTTPS with RTSP on mode, the IP Camera only protect the setting such as username and password and do not protect video and audio. When enable HTTPS with RTSP off mode, the IP Camera will protect all setting including video and audio AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 58 7. Appendix 3. Network basic.  TCP/IP: Please reference section 6.2 item 2.  PPPoE: Please reference section 6.2 item 2. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 59 By default, the video URL and profile number are related, e.g., profilex = video.prox, but you change it any way you like. Based on the default URLs, access to the RTSP streams would be done like this: rtsp://camera_address:554/video.pro1 rtsp://camera_address:554/video.pro2 rtsp://camera_address:554/video.pro3 AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 60 Since this is done without any form of authentication, enabling UPnP port forwarding in your router is not necessarily a good idea in a security-sensitive environment. You can always open individual ports in your router or firewall manually. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 61 Device Name - Enter the name of your camera here. This is the name the Bonjour service will display. If you have more than one camera installed in your network, this is an easy way to differentiate among the cameras. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 62 QoS mechanisms, network administrators can use existing resources efficiently and ensure the required level of service without reactively expanding or over-provisioning their networks. - QoS(Quality of Service): QoS on - Enables the service (on by default). QoS off - Disables the service. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 63 Most SOHO routers are equipped with a DDNS client and since the router is in direct control of handling the Internet connection, it’s the device best suited for the DDNS task. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 64 The screen shows the current status of input 1/ input 2 and output 1/ output 2. The screen also allows you to define the “normal” state of the port. The normal state can be viewed as the “non-alert-state.” AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 65 6. LED.  LED: You can enable or disable the operation LEDs on your network camera. Hiding the LED indicator will make the camera appear to be offline while in fact it is operational and captures video. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...
  • Page 66 System Log Protocol, which is a standard for forwarding log messages in an IP network. System Log is a client/server protocol. The System Log sender (the Network Camera) sends a small (less than 1KB) textual message to the System Log server. AirLive VD-2028 User Manual...

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