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IPE Series Camera Manual User Manual v1.2...
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Thank you for purchasing our product. If there are any questions, or requests, please don’t hesitate to contact your product dealer or the Aventura technical department. This manual applies to the Aventura IP box camera, dome camera, bullet camera, and speed dome camera.
IPE Series Camera Manual Table of Contents 1 Download and install ActiveX ........................4 Login ................................7 Live Preview ..............................8 4 Replay ................................10 5 Set System Parameters ..........................12 5.1 Local config ............................12 5.2 Audio Setting ............................13 5.3Video Settings ............................
IP Camera User’s Manual Download and install ActiveX You will need to install the ActiveX controls when connecting to your IP camera for the first time. ActiveX Installation: 1. Go to the webpage of your IP camera by typing its IP address into your Internet Explorer address bar.
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IP Camera User’s Manual NOTE: If you are unable to install the ActiveX plugin and receive the window found in Figure 3: Figure 3 Change the security level of Internet Explorer by going to: IE tools-> Internet options->Security->Custom level. (Figure 4). Figure 4 5/50...
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IP Camera User’s Manual Change the parameters as shown in Figure 5 and Figure 6: Figure 5 Figure 6 Restart Internet Explorer and attempt to reinstall the ActiveX plugin. 6/50...
IP Camera User’s Manual Login Restart Internet Explorer after the ActiveX installation completes. Input the IP address of the camera to open the login page. Enter in your username and password (Default: admin/admin) and click login. (See Figure 7): Figure 7 7/50...
IP Camera User’s Manual Live Preview Features: Snapshots Digital Zoom Manual Recording Full-screen Viewing Audio (Listen & Call) PTZ & Lens Control Clear Alarms Figure 8 [Main Stream]: Show the main stream of camera for the best quality. [Sub Stream]: Show the sub stream of camera.
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IP Camera User’s Manual following icon will be displayed upon activation: [Digital Zoom]: Manually click and drag a video display area to digitally zoom in on a specific area. [Full]: Display video in full-screen. Right click or press “Esc” on your keyboard to exit full screen mode.
IP Camera User’s Manual Replay Click enter into video playback page (see Figure 9). Figure 9 Search for recorded video or images on your local PC or storage device, organized by date. [Image]: Select the aspect ratio to display video in the playback window. [Storage]: Search for recorded video and/or snapshots in either your PC or an SD Card.
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IP Camera User’s Manual Select the storage media SD card or PC which keep the recording and images List all recording files or images Figure 10 [Play]: Choose the recorded image or snapped picture in file list, right click the file or picture or click “play”...
IP Camera User’s Manual Click [Start] to start downloading recording files or pictures from SD card to PC manually, click [Cancel] to stop the download action. If you close the Download Information window and click ,you can continue to view the information about download.
IP Camera User’s Manual 5.2 Audio Setting See Figure 14 for the “Audio Settings” interface. Figure 14 [Enable]: Turn on or turn off the audio of IP camera (disabling audio saves DSP and network resources). Audio is disabled by default. [Audio Input]: Choose MIC or Line In input.
IP Camera User’s Manual 5.3Video Settings 5.3.1 Text Overlay See Figure 15 for the “Video Settings” interface: Figure 15 [Title]: The name of video channel, displayed at the bottom left of image (movable), maximum characters allowed: 32. [Color]: Select text color. [OSD]: Enable/disable display of Title, Date, Time, Week, Date Format and Frame/Bitrate of channels.
IP Camera User’s Manual 5.3.2 Video Encoding See Figure 16 for the “Video Encoding” interface: Figure 16 [Coding Level]: Baseline and Main profile available, only for H.264 compression format. Baseline optimizes for minimum delay, Main profile optimizes for maximum quality. [Coding]: H.264 and MJPEG.
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IP Camera User’s Manual [GOP]: Adjustable between 1~200 (Main Stream), 1~200(Sub Stream). Smaller I frame interval means higher bitrate and better image quality. [LAN default value]: Main stream:H.264 Coding: GOP: 75, frame rate: 25, rate control: VBR, image quality:better 720P:2048kps, 1080P:4096kps MJEPG Coding: GOP: 75, frame rate:25, rate control: VBR, image quality:better 720P:9216kbps, 1080P:10240kbps...
IP Camera User’s Manual 5.3.3 Video Mask See Figure 17 for the “Privacy Mask” interface: Figure 17 [Enable Mask]: Enable or disable video masking. [Mask area set]: Click and move cursor to set image masking area, an image can be entirely or partially masked, maximum 4 areas supported.
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IP Camera User’s Manual [Images Color]: Adjust the Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation, Acutance, and Gamma. Image mode:Transparent and True Color. [Basic] Mirror: Set mirror, horizontally rotate the video Flip: set flip, vertically rotate the video 50HZ/60HZ: If the image appears to flicker, select 50HZ or 60HZ according to the frequency of local electric power.
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IP Camera User’s Manual Black-color: Determines when to switch back to color mode from B/W. Color-black: Determines when to switch to B/W mode from color. ICR Setting the control level of the IR-CUT filter according to the IR-CUT control level. ...
IP Camera User’s Manual 5.3.5 Picture Parameter See Figure 19 for the “Picture Parameter” interface : Figure 19 [Picture]: Supports images in JPG format. After you set these parameters, please click 5.4 Network Settings 5.4.1 Basic Setting See Figure 20 for the “Basic setting” interface : Figure 20 [Data port]: Default value is 5000 (users are recommended not to change it).
IP Camera User’s Manual [Web port]: Default value is 80 (users are recommended not to change it). [ONVIF port]: Default value is 2000 (users are recommended not to change it). After you set these parameters, please click NOTE: Changes to these settings may require a device reboot, which will happen automatically upon saving.
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IP Camera User’s Manual 192.168.1.1 is the wireless gateway address to be set for the IP camera Figure 23 5.4.3.2 Turn to the “basic settings” page under “wireless parameters” menu (1) Set SSID: This SSID is for identity validation of the wireless network, it must be the same as the SSID setting of the IP camera (2) Frequency range It determines the frequency range of the network, which is 1~13, default value is 6.Note:...
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IP Camera User’s Manual (7) Security options WEP security type: developing system, sharing key and auto-selection WPA, WPA2 security type: TKIP and AES (8) Set key (authentication password) TP-LINK_5ABB68 login SSID number of WIFI for identity authentication Check this option to enable WIFI function Security setting is the password for identity...
IP Camera User’s Manual Key Format. IF you join in the WIFI successful, the advanced will auto get the parameters from the WIFI. After setting completes, save all parameters. Then disconnect the network cable, IP camera can be visited via wireless IP, such as 192.168.1.160. Note: Applies to models with WIFI function only.
IP Camera User’s Manual After you set these parameters, please click 5.4.5 UPNP setting See Figure 26 for the “UPNP setting” interface : Figure 26 Auto-mapping of port: When IP camera is connected to a router with UPNP function enabled, the router will automatically map the port in UPNP settings to public network, manual port mapping by users is not necessary.
IP Camera User’s Manual [Web mapping status]: When UPNP function runs successfully, the status bar will echo the web port mapped to the router by the device. After you set these parameters, please click 5.4.6 Email setting To set the mailbox addresses and parameters of alarm mails and public network IP mails. [SMTP server]: The address of servers that send the mails, the address format of mail servers varies from provider to provider, e.g.
IP Camera User’s Manual SMTP user name: username SMTP port: 25 SSL: disabled 5.4.7 FTP setting See Figure 28 for the “FTP setting” interface: Figure 28 FTP server sends the record files and snapped images generated after alarm is triggered in FTP mode to specified FTP server, supports 2 FTP servers, when the preferred one goes wrong, system will switch to the alternate one.
IP Camera User’s Manual 5.4.8 DDNS setting Bind the device with a fixed domain name by DNNS setting so that visiting to the device can be realized no matter how the public IP changes.(Refer to Appendix 3 for detailed steps) [Enable]: Enable or disable DDNS function.
IP Camera User’s Manual Figure 30 [Enable]: Enable or disable VPN function. [Server URL]:IP address or domain of VPN server. [User Name]:User registered in VPN server. [Password]: User password registered in VPN server. [IP]:Display IP after VPN dial-up success. [Status]:Display the status of dial-up. After you set these parameters, please click 5.4.10 RTSP setting See Figure 31 for the “VPN setting”...
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IP Camera User’s Manual Figure 31 [Enable RTSP]: check RTSP switch to enable RTSP function, RTSP function enabled as default. [Enable encryption]: check encryption switch,disabled as default, when enable encryption,you need the password when using VLC player connect camera. Open: rtsp://ip/av0_0&user=admin&password=admin; Close:rtsp://ip/av0_0[&user=admin&password=admin],”...
IP Camera User’s Manual default address. Multicast port, video of main stream and sub stream using port 5010 and 502 0, audio of main stream and sub stream using port 5012 and 5022. After you set these parameters, please click 5.4.11 Public IP noticed by email See Figure 32 for the “Public IP noticed by email”...
IP Camera User’s Manual Figure 33 [Auto connect]: Enable or disable active connection of the device to surveillance center. [Central URL]:The address of surveillance center (e.g. 192.168.55.99). [Central port No.]: The port of surveillance center (e.g. 6000). After setting all the network parameters, click to make the parameters valid.
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IP Camera User’s Manual Figure 34 [Storage Device]: View information of SD card here, including No.,Total Size,Free Size and Status. Users can also click [Format] button to format SD card, during the formatting process, please click [Refresh] button to the display formatting completion percentage. [Code stream]:Set record stream for SD card, Main stream and Sub stream are selectable.
IP Camera User’s Manual 5.5.2 Record Setting See Figure 35 for the “Record Setting” interface: Figure 35 [Schedule Record]:Set the period of scheduled recording, two periods allowed. [File storage mode]:Set the save scheduled recorded files to FTP server via FTP uploading, FTP server can be set up in [FTP settings].
IP Camera User’s Manual Figure 36 [Snap Interval]: Set the interval of IP camera picture snapping, minimum interval is 1 second. [Schedule Snap]: Set the period of scheduled snapping, two periods allowed. [File save mode]: IP camera snapped pictures can be saved via E-mail sending or FTP uploading.
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IP Camera User’s Manual Figure 37 In this page, users can set features like motion detection on/off, sensitivity, detection time, linkage alarm output, alarm output duration, E-mail sending when alarm been triggered, linkage snapping/recording, etc. [Motion Detection Area]: Left click and drive the mouse to set the surveillance areas (4 areas at most).
IP Camera User’s Manual [IO output]: Enable or disable alarm output. [Alarm Output duration]: Set the duration after being triggered (in seconds), the range of the duration is 0~86400s.0 means that there is no limit for alarm output. [Snapshot]: When alarm is triggered, the device SD card will be driven to snap pictures . The pictures can be send via or FTP .
IP Camera User’s Manual Set sensor alarm parameters here: Enable detect,sensor type, detect time, linkage alarm output, linkage output duration, E-mail sending when alarm has been triggered, linkage snapping/recording, etc. [Enable]:Enable or disable sensor alarm detection. [Sensor type]: NO and NC mode. [Time]: Set the period of time for sensor alarm detection, two periods allowed.
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IP Camera User’s Manual Figure 39 Set network failure alarm parameters here: detection on/off, linkage alarm, alarm output duration, E-mail sending when alarm has been triggered, linkage snapping/recording, etc. [Enable]: Enable or disable network failure alarm detection. [Linkage Alarm output]: Support IO output, snapshot and record. [Alarm output]: Enable or disable linkage alarm output [Alarm output duration]:...
IP Camera User’s Manual Notice: Record file packet time equals duration of alarm add the record time setted [Linkage recording]. When network failure occurs, E-mail sending and FTP uploading cannot be performed, the pictures and recorded files will be stored in SD card. E-mail sending and FTP uploading will resume after network is recovered.
IP Camera User’s Manual 5.8 System Setting 5.8.1 System Info See Figure 41 for the “System Info” interface: Figure 42 [System]: Display device name, VO standard, Language device ID, version, you can define the device name. [Language]: Currently only supports English After setting all the parameters, click 42/50...
IP Camera User’s Manual 5.8.2 System Time See Figure 43 for the “System Time” interface: Figure 43 time]:Support three method to upgrade the device’s time [System [NTP Server] : After starting the function, switch on NTP switch and select time zone, and click save, the camera will send the query to NTP server, after get the message from NTP server, the camera will upgrade the system time, the system time will be displayed in live view.
IP Camera User’s Manual 5.8.3 User Manage See Figure 44 for the “System Time” interface: Figure 44 You can set three users for every camera, one is Administrator, the others are general users. Administrator authority: can operate and set all functions and parameters of IP camera General user authority: (1) can perform operations like snapping, recording, playback, talkback, monitoring, alarm clearing, log searching, zooming and...
IP Camera User’s Manual 5.8.4 Upgrade See Figure 45 for the “Upgrade” interface: Figure 45 “Browse” Click button, and select correct file of upgrade (kernel file, suffix.uot),click [upgrade], then you can upgrade your system, the completion rate will be displayed during this process.
IP Camera User’s Manual Figure 46 [PTZ address]: 1~255. [Protocol file]:Echo the built-in protocol name of current IP camera, PELCO-D(STD-Speed).COD as default. [Choose Upgrade File]:You can upload the decoder/dome camera communication protocol selected by yourself. The system supports hundreds of decoder/dome camera communication protocols, it can also be defined by yourself according to the standard format of protocols.
IP Camera User’s Manual Click [Reboot],it will pop up a box, enter the password,the IP camera will restart. 5.8.8 System log See Figure 49 for the “System log” interface: Figure 49 [Log search]: Support operation log and alarm log searching, the maximum capacity is 512 entries of message, when the number of entries exceeds 512, system will delete records of the earliest date automatically.
IP Camera User’s Manual Appendix 1 Network IP Camera Interface The default network ports of IP camera are: Web port 5000 Communication port, audio/video data transmission port, talkback data transmission port 5000 Audio/video data transmission port Multi-cast Multicast original port + channel number port ONVIF 2000...
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IP Camera User’s Manual upgrade completes, the IP camera will work normally. The back-up program offers only upgrade and parameter setup functions, audio and video functions are not available. 3. No video image displayed in IE browser P ossible reason: ActiveX not installed Solution: ActiveX must be installed when visiting IP camera for the first time via...
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IP Camera User’s Manual address is 192.168.1.88, subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 7. There is no sound while monitoring Possible Reason: No audio input connection Solution: Check audio connection of the host Possible Reason the audio option of IP camera is off Solution: Check audio parameter settings to see if you have opened the audio.
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