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Granvista Plus Series
H.264 2-Megapixel Network Camera
GVP-201 / GVP-201W
User's Manual
Version: 1.21
Revised July, 2011

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  • Page 1 Granvista Plus Series H.264 2-Megapixel Network Camera GVP-201 / GVP-201W User’s Manual Version: 1.21 Revised July, 2011...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents Notices ..............................2 Introduction............................3 Installation............................4 Using the Web UI..........................9 1. Live View ..........................11 2. Video ............................13 General ..........................13 Advanced ...........................14 3. Camera ...........................18 General ..........................18 Advanced ...........................20 4. Event ............................21 Event Server........................22 Motion Detection .......................24 Event Configuration......................25 5. Schedule ..........................29 General ..........................29 Storage ..........................29 6.

  • Page 3: Notices

    Notices This user manual is intended for administrators and users of the GVP-201/GVP-201W Network Camera, including instructions for using and managing the camera on your network. The use of surveillance devices may be prohibited by law in your country. It is the user’s responsibility to ensure that the operation of such devices is legal before installing this unit for its intended use.

  • Page 4: Introduction

    Introduction Both GVP-201 and GVP-201W are of compact and high resolution (1600x1200) Network Cameras featured with superior H.264-AVC performance and multiple functions. They are perfect for indoor applications such as factories, retailer stores, residence, restaurants, hotels, schools and pre-schools, caring centers, etc.

  • Page 5: Installation

    Installation 1. Hardware Connection...

  • Page 6: Software Installation

    2. Software Installation The following software is necessary for the proper display and use of the camera from the Web site. The software will be taken from the Software Package CD. IP Installer The IP Installer is used to locate and configure Network Cameras and video servers on the LAN. This utility is useful for conveniently configuring the network settings of the device, or for finding a device once the network settings have been modified.
  • Page 7 Using IPInstaller to Assign an IP Address to GVP-201 / GVP-201W Once IP Installer has been successfully installed on the PC, double click the IPInstaller icon on the desktop, or select it from Start > Programs > IP Installer > Launch IP Installer.
  • Page 8 Example about how to know the user’s PC and network information from command prompt. Simply type in ipconfig “ ” in the Command Prompt screen, press Enter, and you will see the related information which shows you the PC’s IP, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, etc. The first three digits of the network camera’s IP must be same as the first three digits of the PC’s IP address.
  • Page 9 Open the Web-based UI of the Selected camera To access the Web-based user interface of the selected unit by selecting “Open web” from the slide-bar. If the device has been configured correctly, the default Web browser, the Internet Explorer, will open to the home page of the selected device.

  • Page 10: Using The Web Ui

    Using the Web UI Start your Web browser and enter the URL or IP address in the Address field. The Home page of the camera is now displayed.
  • Page 11 How to make the Mozilla Firefox properly work with the cameras? Please note that in addition to Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox browser is also compatible for viewing the screens from Granvista Plus network cameras. Similar to Internet Explorer which needs to download the needed ActiveX programs, the Firefox browser will guide the users to download and install the VLC program for the needed plug-in the first time when it connects to the network cameras, so that it can work properly.

  • Page 12: Live View

    1. Live View Button Description Click for more general/advanced camera settings Select languages among English, traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese Check actual size to view the actual size (resolution) of the image Image Setting: To adjust the brightness, hue and saturation Choose among the 3 streams for viewing.
  • Page 13 Button Description Full screen Listen the audio input from site Talk function. An external speaker need to connect to its audio jack for audio output Record instant live video Snapshot the image Further configurations and options; a prominent button in between is used to expand the further operations. Click on the indicated prominent, and more operational options shows up.

  • Page 14: Video

    2. Video General Video General Setting: Check each box to enable needed streams (max 3) for live viewing Note: Digital PTZ is only available with stream 2. Please select the required video streams only, so that the system can be running at best performance. OSD Setting: Enable OSD (Over-Screen-Display) to display camera name or date/time on the image, the camera name must be a continual string, for instance “LivingRoom”.

  • Page 15: Advanced

    Advanced...
  • Page 16 RTSP Path - The RTSP （Real Time Streaming Protocol） Path is the stream ID used for RTSP client’s streaming connection, such as VLC player. The default values are v00, v01 and v02 for the three streams respectively. The string can be any combination of number or capital/small letters. It can not be empty however. Following is a setting example of RTSP steaming by using VLC program.
  • Page 17 Note: the users may right-click and choose VLC program’s “Full Screen” mode too. Resolution - The resolution here describes an image size counted by width and height, e.g. 640x480, referring to pixel resolution. The 1 stream can be set from more options of resolution; 1600x1200 (2 megapixels), 1280x720(HD), 800x600(SVGA), 640x480(VGA), 320x240(QVGA).
  • Page 18 storage requirement. In the request of same video quality, H.264 contributes to less bandwidth and storage requirement, which is much more efficient than MJPEG. Therefore it is usually a better selection to select H.264 format if there is no particular reason for MJPEG. GOP - In MPEG4/H.264 video coding, GOP (group of pictures) describes how the different types of frames are arranged.

  • Page 19: Camera

    3. Camera General...
  • Page 20 Camera General Setting: Brightness: the luminance of image view Hue: refer to pure a pure color, or described by its name, such as red, green or blue. Saturation: intensity of a specific color The 3 correlates are referring image appearance in terms of color/vision. These are adjustable from this page.

  • Page 21: Advanced

    Advanced White balance: Adjustment to compensate for different environments in terms of light source. Exposure: Anti-flicker setting for image sensor to fit the frequency of light (power) source. For instance, the power frequency is 50Hz for most European countries, while 60Hz is typically for US. This setting is therefore regionally different.

  • Page 22: Event

    case of environment of dim light, increase it for optimal result if necessary. On the contrary, turn it down for environments of stronger light if necessary. Illuminator LEDs: The default is automatically switched according to site illumination. LED will turn on when there is light deficiency.

  • Page 23: Event Server

    Event Server The “Event Server List” lists the configured server(s) that will act as a remote storage or a destination for handling the triggered events. Up to 10 FTP servers can be added in the list. Click on the [Add FTP] to expand FTP server setting FTP Server: Name: Give a name for the FTP server.
  • Page 24 Login Information: Username / Password: Input the username and password of the FTP Click [Remove] to delete selected event servers Please refer to Appendix-I for more information on FPT applications.

  • Page 25: Motion Detection

    Motion Detection A snapshot image shows the whole view of the camera covered. To select a motion detection area, click directly on the image, and then change the size and position by dragging and drawing. Up to 10 motion areas (configurations) can be added in the list.

  • Page 26: Event Configuration

    Event Configuration The Event Configuration is to assign the actions responding to the specified events (Trigger Conditions). The table lists the configured events. Click on “Add…” or choose an event from the list to extend the panel for detail configurations. “Remove” is to delete a selected event. A total of up to 10 event settings with different combinations of motion detections, or automatic triggering based on every period of time can be configured into the system.
  • Page 27 Trigger types (conditions) Motion Detection: The configured detection area(s) for motion events.
  • Page 28 When triggering action activated Store image to FTP (Remote), Email or SD card (Local) Time Lapse of Events Events may come frequently, for instance, a moving object may keep triggering in a detection area, and false alarms may therefore occur. The “minimum time between triggers”...
  • Page 29 Note: there is another manual trigger functionality available from clicking trigger button embedded on the web main page. H.264 mode triggered recording: Not only for triggering images of jpg format, the camera allows users to trigger video clips of H.264 format with pre-defined time lengths of 15, 30 45 or 60 seconds.

  • Page 30: Schedule

    5. Schedule GVP-201/GVP-201W series models are equipped with a card slot for Micro-SD/SDHC storage. This storage is applied for local video and image recording. The recording function can be launched according to scheduled time frames. The SD card also records the JPEG images responding to an event.
  • Page 31 The “Browse” button allows viewing the list of recorded files. The web page will then be redirect to the root path of the SD storage (if one is inserted). The list includes couple of folders, the event_images which contains all the still images captured by any event trigger, and folders specified by date where the recorded video files are located.
  • Page 32 The recorded files may also be recorded into the remote-disk in LAN (Samba) instead of SD card. Please refer to following setup screens with setup tips for more details.
  • Page 33 Please note that the remote disk to be utilized in the LAN PC needs to be shared properly beforehand. Depends on different resolutions, frame rate, data formats and time frames are configured, a Micro SD of 32GB is able to handle several days of data storage already, and the storage space from Remote-Disk has provided another alternative too.

  • Page 35: Network

    6. Network Network Camera acts as one of the network devices. It therefore allows its “IP” to be assigned, so certain network functionalities can be implementable within this device. This section describes these configurations. Fundamentally, for instance, the IP assignment of the device can be done via DHCP server, manually fixed IP option or PPPoE to obtain IP from service provider.

  • Page 36: Advanced

    Advanced Enable or configure other network functions. NTP: Configure a NTP (Network Time Protocol) server, so that the device system date and time can be synchronized with a specified Time Server. This configuration is provided for one of the potions of system date/time adjustment.
  • Page 37 Bonjour: Enable Bonjour service, so that the device can be discovered with “Bonjour” service applied. UPnP: Enable UPnP, so that the device can be discovered in an UPnP Compliant Network. NAT Traversal: Enable NAT traversal, so that client from Internet can have access to the devices behind the Router.

  • Page 38: Smtp (E-Mail)

    Following screen shows an example of setting an email account. The users may need to refer to the ISP for more details on the email configuration. In this example the ipcam@longvast.com Email account will be used to send triggered images or notifications to the info@longvast.com...

  • Page 39: Ddns

    DDNS Dynamic DNS configuration; the network device can be assigned and accessed with a host name instead of IP address by registering this service (Internet access required). Host Name: Assigned name that will be used for access to the device User Name/Password: Account authentication for logging to this service Update Time:...
  • Page 40 Create Account Input user name, password and Email that will be created as an account for logging in the service. . The website has accepted the new account and sent email for verification. In the received mail from DynDNS, use the link to activate. The account will then be confirmed as the web below shows.
  • Page 41 Login and use the service In the login filed, input username and password as the new account created. After logged in, in the “My Services” column, click on “Add Host Services”. Fill in a host name as it will be applied to the device. The “IP Address” field can be temporally filled with any IP as it will be updated once the device has registered to the service and reported its current IP value.
  • Page 42 Apply Host Name to the Camera In the device configuration page, Setup -> Network -> DDNS, fill in the applied host name from DynDNS website, the username / password that are for logging in this service. Enable DDNS, and then save the settings.
  • Page 43 How if the user has only one fixed web IP, for instance 219.86.240.234, while he has many network cameras to implement? Just like the user may setup the camera address of http://219.86.240.234:91/, http://219.86.240.234:92/, etc, the address of similar setting of http://granvistaplus.dyndns-ip.com:91/ http://granvistaplus.dyndns-ip.com:92/ can be configured for other network cameras too.

  • Page 44: Wireless (Gvp-201W)

    Wireless (GVP-201W) Wireless network searching and device configuration page Wireless – List of available wireless networks (Access Points); information includes SSID, Mode, Security and Signal Strength. Wireless Setting: configurations for the camera device for its availability to connect to a wireless network. Clients available in the same network or able to connect to this network can then have an access to the camera device with wireless connection.

  • Page 46: System

    7. System Information Lists of System and Network configurations...

  • Page 47: User

    User Login users for Web access and operations; authentication required. The Check box is for anonymous logging to the live view page. Please be sure not to select the anonymous login unless convenience is more important than privacy. Logging for further configurations will still require user name and password even if anonymous login has been selected.

  • Page 48: Date & Time

    Date & Time System date/time configuration. Options of synchronizing with PC and NTP server are provided for automatic adjustment in addition to manual setup. Server Maintenance This page provides tool for system maintenance; Reboot and Load default settings, as well as functionalities of launching upgrade process, backup/restore user settings and language defines.

  • Page 50: Log Service

    Log Service Most system operations and / or process will be kept in a log system. The link provides the review of these records. 8. Customize This page provides the function of adjusting the look of live view page. There are two types of layout settings; use default look or use custom settings.
  • Page 51 Use Default Look: the default layout of live/configuration pages Use Defined Links: Web link(s) will be presented on the live page when enabled. It can be a link to another Network Camera for instance, or other preferred web link. Use Custom Settings: The modifications allowed are changes of Background / Text Color, Background picture, Title, Description, Logo and etc.

  • Page 52: Faq

    9. FAQ Check firmware version The version code can be found in Setup -> System -> Information, or simply type “version.html” after the URL address, e.g. http://192.168.1.188/version.html. Firmware version indicates the functionalities’ updates or availability in the camera system. Therefore, in the first step of troubleshooting and then reporting, it helps to locate the found issues.

  • Page 53: Restore To Factory Default

    Restore to Factory Default To restore factory default, please follow the steps: Unplug the power jack to turn off the power of the camera. Insert a pin into the reset hole as circled with red in the below figures. Sense a button and keep it pressed.

  • Page 54: Upgrade Device Firmware

    Upgrade device firmware Firmware upgrade process should be done via the web configuration; Setup -> Server Maintenance -> Firmware Upgrade. Before the process, read the instructions and release notes coming with each new released version. For the steps, Check and retrieve the latest firmware bin file. Disconnect all other clients (e.g.

  • Page 55: Video Streams Specification

    Video Streams Specification The availabilities Each stream can be switched to either H.264 or MJPEG mode. Each steam can be configured to either CBR or VBR mode. Stream1 (main stream) is available from all the resolutions listed. The maximum resolution setting for Stream2 is 640x480. Stream3 is fixed in 320x240.
  • Page 56 The Angle of View at different resolutions The setting of Stream determines the angle of view, therefore the range of image view. The picture below presents the 3 ranges of view, 1600x1200, 1280x720 & 800x600/640x460/320x240. Actual Views with different resolutions...

  • Page 57: Appendix I: An Example Of How To Set Up Users' Own Ftp Servers

    Following is an example of using a shareware named FileZilla. Please note that this FileZilla software’s copyright belongs to Tim Kosse, http://filezilla-project.org/ , Longvast International Co., Ltd. has no business relationship with them that users should obey the related copyright laws about using this software.
  • Page 58 Start the FTP server by clicking on the OK button. Do not change any of the original settings.
  • Page 59 The users should see following screen after clicking OK button. It indicates that this FTP server is running now. Type in “ipconfig” command from the Windows’s command screen. In this command screen, the IP address indicates that the address of PC when FTP server running is of “192.168.1.6”.
  • Page 60 Configure the user names and passwords of the users who are allowed to login into this server.
  • Page 61 Set the default directory of each individual user.
  • Page 62 Now the FTP server should be ready to go. The users may double-check to see if everything is alright by trying to login by using any FTP client programs with the user IDs and passwords pre-configured. In the following example we use similar Filezilla FTP Client software with the user ID of “ipcam”...
  • Page 64 10. Now the FTP server is ready to store the event-triggered photo images from the network cameras. Following is a screen which the users may see on the FTP server software when a network camera is transferring photo image files to the FTP server.
  • Page 65 11. Please note that this FTP server may also be accessed through Internet externally. Following screen shows an example of how the user may configure his broadband router to make this FTP server accessible from web externally. In case the fixed web IP of this connection is 219.86.240.235, and then the users from outside may access this FTP server from the web address of FTP://219.86.240.235:21...

  • Page 66: Appendix Ii: How To Install The Vlc Program

    Appendix II: How to install the VLC program 1. Go to http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ and download VLC program. In this page there is a donation field, and it is all up to the users whether they want to donate to this VideoLan non-profit Organization.
  • Page 67 2. Install VLC 1.1.10 step by step Be sure that the “Mozilla plugin” is selected if the users need to use Firefox as web browser too, in addition to Microsoft Internet Explorer.

  • Page 68: Appendix Iii: How To Replay The Recorded Video Clips With Vlc Program

    Appendix III: How to replay the recorded video clips with VLC program The following image is an example screen showing the video clip files which a user has collected inside a PC folder named “temp”. There are two types of files in this example. The files with the file format of “YYYY-MM-DD_TT-TT-TT”...

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