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User Manual of Parking Camera Regulatory information FCC information Please take attention that changes or modification not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment. FCC compliance: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Symbol Conventions The symbols that may be found in this document are defined as follows. Symbol Description Provides additional information to emphasize or supplement important points of the main text. Indicates a potentially hazardous situation, which if not avoided, could result in equipment damage, data loss,...
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User Manual of Parking Camera Preventive and Cautionary Tips Make sure the power supply voltage is proper before using the camera. Do not drop the camera or subject it to physical shock. Do not touch sensor modules with fingers. If cleaning is necessary, use a clean cloth with a bit of ethanol and wipe it gently.
User Manual of Parking Camera Chapter 1 Overview 1.1 Product Introduction DS-TCPX4X(D)(-KB) series parking camera is the smart camera developed for the parking lot. It is applied in the parking guidance and find my car system to detect whether the parking space is occupied or not. It is integrated with parking space status indicator which can indicates red, green, yellow, blue, cyan, white and magenta colors.
User Manual of Parking Camera parking lot; 3D DNR technology can effectively reduce the image noise; Integrated with the VCA function to intelligently detect the parking space status; Adopts the energy-saving LED with high brightness and low consumption; ...
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 1-2 Combination Cable Description For the lens component, if there are two groups of lens, the camera is dual-lens parking camera. If there is only one lens, the camera is single-lens parking camera. Indicator Control Wiring When installing external indicator, face the male connector to the female connector, and then connect the lines of external indicator to the male connector according to the 5V and RGB sequence marked on the female indicator.
User Manual of Parking Camera Chapter 2 Installation Before you start: Make sure the device is intact and all the components are complete. Purpose: The parking camera can be installed on various types of bearing body. The installation below takes the example of installing the camera on bridge. Make sure the bridge installation is done before installing the parking camera.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 2-3 Install Clamp Nut Before rotating the clamp nut, adjust the camera angle according to the horizontal direction shown in Figure 2-3. 4. Remove the side cover of the parking camera. Rotate the lens component according to the vertical direction shown in Figure 2-4 to adjust the pitch angle of the lens.
User Manual of Parking Camera Chapter 3 System Requirement Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP1 and above version / Vista / Win7 / Server 2003 / Server 2008 32bits CPU: Intel Pentium IV 3.0 GHz to Core i7-4000 series or higher, depending on different video resolutions RAM: 1G or higher Display: 1024×...
Chapter 4 Network Connection Before you start: If you want to set the parking camera via a LAN (Local Area Network), please refer to Section 4.1 Setting the Parking Camera over the LAN. If you want to set the parking camera via a WAN (Wide Area Network), please refer to Section 4.2 Setting the Parking Camera over the WAN.
User Manual of Parking Camera 4.1.2 Detecting and Changing the IP Address You need the IP address to visit the parking camera. Steps: 1. To get the IP address, you can choose either of the following methods: Use SADP, a software tool which can automatically detect the online parking cameras in the LAN and list the device information including IP address, subnet mask, port number, device serial number, device version, etc., shown in Figure 4-3.
User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 4-3 SADP Interface 4.2 Setting the Parking Camera over the WAN Purpose: This section explains how to connect the parking camera to the WAN with a static IP or a dynamic IP. 4.2.1 Static IP Connection Before you start: Please apply a static IP from an ISP (Internet Service Provider).
User Manual of Parking Camera 5. Visit the parking camera through a web browser or the client software over the internet. Network Network Network Cable Cable Cable Internet Parking Camera Router with Static IP Figure 4-4 Accessing the Camera through Router with Static IP ...
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User Manual of Parking Camera especially in the high security system, resetting the password monthly or weekly can better protect your product. 4. Set port mapping. E.g. 80, 8000, and 554 ports. The steps for port mapping vary depending on different routers. Please call the router manufacturer for assistance with port mapping.
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User Manual of Parking Camera detailed configuration. 3. Visit the camera via the applied domain name. Private Domain Name Resolution Figure 4-8 Private Domain Name Resolution Steps: 1. Install and run the IP Server software in a computer with a static IP. 2.
Chapter 5 Accessing to the Parking Camera 5.1 Accessing by Web Browsers Steps: 1. Open the web browser. 2. Input the IP address of the parking camera in the address bar, e.g., 192.0.0.64 and press the Enter key to enter the login interface. 3.
User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 5-3 Install Plug-in (1) Figure 5-4 Install Plug-in (2) You may have to close the web browser to install the plug-in. Please reopen the web browser and log in again after installing the plug-in. 5.2 Accessing by Client Software The product CD contains the iVMS-4200 client software.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 5-5 iVMS-4200 Control Panel Figure 5-6 iVMS-4200 Main View For detailed information about the software, please refer to the user manual of the iVMS-4200.
Chapter 6 Configuring Wi-Fi Settings Purpose: By connecting to the wireless network, you don’t need to use cable of any kind for network connection, which is very convenient for the actual surveillance application. This chapter is only applicable for the cameras with the built-in Wi-Fi module. 6.1 Configuring Wi-Fi Connection in Manage and Ad-hoc Modes Before you start:...
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User Manual of Parking Camera 5. Enter the key to connect the wireless network. The key should be that of the wireless network connection you set on the router. Wireless Connection in Ad-hoc Mode If you choose the Ad-hoc mode, you don’t need to connect the wireless camera via a router.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 6-6 Security Mode You can choose the Security Mode as not-encrypted, WEP, WPA-personal, WPA-enterprise, WPA2-personal, and WPA2-enterprise. WEP mode: Figure 6-7 WEP Mode Authentication - Select Open or Shared Key System Authentication, depending on the method used by your access point.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 6-8 Security Mode- WPA-personal WPA- enterprise and WPA2-enterprise Mode: Choose the type of client/server authentication being used by the access point; EAP-TLS or EAP-PEAP. EAP-TLS Figure 6-9 EAP-TLS Identity - Enter the user ID to present to the network. Private key password –...
User Manual of Parking Camera at least three of the following categories: upper case letters, lower case letters, numbers, and special characters.) in order to increase the security of your product. And we recommend you reset your password regularly, especially in the high security system, resetting the password monthly or weekly can better protect your product.
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User Manual of Parking Camera WPS function of the router is enabled. For detailed operation, please see the user guide of the router. 4. Push the WPS button to enable the function on the camera. If there is not a WPS button on the camera, you can also click the virtual button to enable the PBC function on the web interface.
User Manual of Parking Camera 1. Click Generate. 2. Enter the code to the router, in the example, enter 48167581 to the router. 6.3 IP Property Settings for Wireless Network Connection The default IP address of wireless network interface controller is 192.168.1.64. When you connect the wireless network you can change the default IP.
Chapter 7 Configuring Bluetooth Purpose: You can configure the Bluetooth parameters for the parking camera. Steps: 1. Enter the Bluetooth configuration interface. Configuration > Basic Configuration > Bluetooth Or Configuration > Advanced Configuration > Bluetooth Figure 7-1 Bluetooth Configuration 2. Configure the parameters. 3.
User Manual of Parking Camera Chapter 8 Live View Purpose: The live view page allows you to view the real-time video, capture images, and configure video parameters. Log in to the parking camera to enter the live view page. Figure 8-1 Live View Page Refer to the table below for the description of the icons on the Live View page.
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User Manual of Parking Camera much bandwidth. The sub-stream is with a low resolution and needs less bandwidth. Click to start live view and the icon turns into . Click the icon again to stop live view. Click to capture the picture.
User Manual of Parking Camera Chapter 9 Configuring Parking Camera 9.1 Configuring Local Parameters The local configuration refers to the parameters of the live view, record files and captured pictures. The record files and captured pictures are the ones you record and captured using the web browser and thus the saving paths of them are on the PC running the browser.
User Manual of Parking Camera Real Time, Balanced or Fluency. Rules: It refers to the rules on your local browser, select enable or disable to display or not display the colored marks when the motion detection, face detection, or intrusion detection is triggered. E.g.: enabled as the rules are, and the face detection is enabled as well, when a face is detected, it will be marked with a green rectangle on the live view.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 9-2 Time Settings 2. Select the Time Zone. Select the Time Zone of your location from the drop-down menu. 3. Synchronize time. Synchronizing Time by NTP Server (1) Click NTP radio button to enable the NTP function. (2) Configure the following parameters: Server Address: IP address of NTP server.
User Manual of Parking Camera of the camera with that of your computer. Figure 9-4 Manual Time Sync. 4. Click the DST tab page to enable the DST function and set the date of the DST period. Figure 9-5 DST Settings 5.
User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 9-6 TCP/IP Settings 2. Configure the basic network settings, including the NIC Type, IPv4 or IPv6 Address, IPv4 or IPv6 Subnet Mask, IPv4 or IPv6 Default Gateway, MTU settings and Multicast Address. 3. Click Save to save the settings ...
User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 9-7 Port Settings 2. Set the HTTP port, RTSP port, HTTPS port and server port of the camera. HTTP Port: The default port number is 80, and it can be changed to any port No. which is not occupied.
User Manual of Parking Camera 9.3.4 Configuring DDNS Settings Purpose: If your camera is set to use PPPoE as its default network connection, you can use the Dynamic DNS (DDNS) for network access. Before you start: Registration on the DDNS server is required before configuring the DDNS settings of the camera.
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User Manual of Parking Camera (2) Click Save to save the settings. For the IP Server, you have to apply a static IP, subnet mask, gateway and preferred DNS from the ISP. The Server Address should be entered with the static IP address of the computer that runs the IP Server software.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 9-12 HiDDNS Settings (2) Enter the Server Address www.hik-online.com. (3) Enter the Domain name of the camera. The domain is the same with the device alias in the HiDDNS server. (4) Click Save to save the settings. A reboot is required for the settings to take effect.
User Manual of Parking Camera 9.3.5 Configuring SNMP Settings Purpose: You can set the SNMP function to get camera status, parameters and alarm related information and manage the camera remotely when it is connected to the network. Before you start: Before setting the SNMP, please download the SNMP software and manage to receive the camera information via SNMP port.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 9-13 SNMP Settings 2. Check the corresponding version checkbox (Enable SNMPv1, Enable SNMPv2c, Enable SNMPv3) to enable the feature. 3. Configure the SNMP settings. The settings of the SNMP software should be the same as the settings you configure here.
User Manual of Parking Camera 9.3.6 Configuring 802.1X Settings Purpose: The parking camera supports IEEE 802.1X standard. IEEE 802.1X is a port-based network access control. It enhances the security level of the LAN. When devices connect to this network with IEEE 802.1X standard, the authentication is needed.
User Manual of Parking Camera 9.3.7 Configuring QoS Settings Purpose: QoS (Quality of Service) can help solve the network delay and network congestion by configuring the priority of data sending. Steps: 1. Enter the QoS Settings interface: Configuration >Advanced Configuration > Network > QoS Figure 9-15 QoS Settings 2.
User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 9-16 UPnP Settings 9.3.9 Email Sending Triggered by Alarm Purpose: The system can be configured to send an Email notification to all designated receivers if an alarm event is detected, e.g., motion detection event, video loss, video tampering, etc.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 9-17 Email Settings 3. Configure the following settings: Sender: The name of the email sender. Sender’s Address: The email address of the sender. SMTP Server: The SMTP Server IP address or host name (e.g., smtp.263xmail.com).
User Manual of Parking Camera system, resetting the password monthly or weekly can better protect your product. Choose Receiver: Select the receiver to which the email is sent. Up to 2 receivers can be configured. Receiver: The name of the user to be notified. Receiver’s Address: The email address of user to be notified.
User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 9-19 FTP Settings 2. Configure the FTP settings. The user name and password are required for logging in to the FTP server. STRONG PASSWORD RECOMMENDED–We highly recommend you create a strong password of your own choosing (Using a minimum of 8 characters, including at least three of the following categories: upper case letters, lower case letters, numbers, and special characters.) in order to increase the security of your product.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Or Configuration > Advanced Configuration > Video/Audio > Video Figure 9-20 Video Settings 2. Select the Stream Type of the camera to main stream (normal) or sub-stream. The main stream is usually for recording and live viewing with good bandwidth, and the sub-stream can be used for live viewing when the bandwidth is limited.
User Manual of Parking Camera network bandwidth is insufficient. Smart Encoding: Enabling this function will reduce the frame rate when the parking space is free to save the storage space. 4. Click Save to save the settings. 9.4.2 Configuring ROI Encoding Purpose: ROI (Region of Interest) encoding helps to discriminate the ROI and background information in video compression, which means, the technology assigns more...
User Manual of Parking Camera Configuration> Advanced Configuration> Video/Audio> ROI 2. Check the checkbox of Enable under Fixed Region item. 3. Select the stream type for ROI encoding. 4. Select the region from the drop-down list for ROI settings. There are four fixed regions selectable.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 9-22 Display Settings of Day/Night Auto-Switch Image Adjustment Brightness describes bright of the image, which ranges from 1~100, and the default value is 50. Contrast describes the contrast of the image, which ranges from 1~100, and the default value is 50.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 9-23 Day/Night Switch Day, Night, Auto, and Schedule are selectable for day/night switch. Day: the camera stays at day mode. Night: the camera stays at night mode. Auto: the camera switches between the day mode and the night mode according to the illumination automatically.
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User Manual of Parking Camera function when you use the camera in a narrow view scene. When installing, turn the camera to the 90 degrees or rotate the 3-axis lens to 90 degrees, and set the rotate mode as on, you will get a normal view of the scene with 9:16 aspect ratio to ignore the needless information such as the wall, and get more meaningful information of the scene.
User Manual of Parking Camera The settings saved automatically if any parameter is changed. 9.5.2 Configuring OSD Settings Purpose: You can customize the camera name and time on the screen. Steps: 1. Enter the OSD Settings interface: Configuration > Advanced Configuration > Image > OSD Settings Figure 9-26 OSD Settings 2.
User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 9-27 Text Overlay 2. Check the checkbox in front of textbox to enable the on-screen display. 3. Input the characters in the textbox. 4. (Optional)Use the mouse to drag the red text frame in the live view window to adjust the text overlay position.
User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 9-28 Privacy Mask Settings 4. Click and drag the mouse in the live video window to draw the mask area. You are allowed to draw up to 4 areas on the same image. 5. Click Stop Drawing to finish drawing or click Clear All to clear all of the areas you set without saving them.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 9-29 Enable Motion Detection (4) Click Draw Area. Click and drag the mouse on the live video to draw a motion detection area. (5) Click Stop Drawing to finish drawing one area. (6) (Optional) Click Clear All to clear all of the areas. (7) (Optional) Move the slider to set the sensitivity of the detection.
User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 9-31 Edit Schedule Time (2) Choose the day you want to set the arming schedule. (3) Click to set the time period for the arming schedule. (4) (Optional) After you set the arming schedule, you can copy the schedule to other days.
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User Manual of Parking Camera 2. Check the checkbox to set the actions taken for the exception alarm. Notify Surveillance Center, Send Email, and Trigger Alarm Output are selectable. You can specify the linkage method when an event occurs. Figure 9-33 Exception Settings 3.
User Manual of Parking Camera Chapter 10 Configuring Parking Space Detection Purpose: To detecting the parking space, you should enable the VCA function and configure the corresponding parameters. Follow the instructions below to realize the parking space detection. 10.1 Configuring Detection Rules Steps: 1.
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User Manual of Parking Camera vehicle. 3. Click the Analytics Parameters tab and configure the following parameters. Figure 10-2 Analytics Parameters 1) Select the number of the Recognized Parking Space(s) from the drop-down list. The selectable value may vary according the camera models. 2) Click the tab of the parking space number to configure the parameters.
User Manual of Parking Camera 10.2 Configuring Parking Space Indicator Purpose: The indicator displays the space status, different colors stand for different status. You can select the indicator and the color of different status. Steps: 1. Enter the space indicator settings interface. Configuration >...
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 10-5 Configure Internal & External Indicator The internal indicator is on the bottom of the camera. If you have external indicators, you should connect the indicators to the integration cable of the camera. ...
User Manual of Parking Camera 2) Configure the following parameters on your demand. Enable: Select Yes or No to enable or disable the indication for the corresponding status. Indicator Flicker: Set the indicator flicker or not for the corresponding status. Indicator Color: Choose the color of the indicator for the corresponding status.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 10-7 Configure FTP 2. Check the checkbox of Upload Picture. 3. Configure the FTP address and port number; and the user name and password are required for FTP server login. Anonymous Access to the FTP Server (in which case the user name and password won’t be required): Check the Anonymous checkbox to enable the anonymous access to the FTP server.
User Manual of Parking Camera The named items cannot be duplicated. 6. (Optional) Normally, a single parking camera detects the status of several spaces, thus the captured picture contains several spaces as well. If you want to divide the picture into several pictures according to the parking spaces, you can enable the Parking Space Picture Division function by selecting Enable in the drop-down list.
User Manual of Parking Camera Internal Indicator Parking Camera Monitoring Range Parking Parking Parking Space 1 Space 2 Space 3 Figure 10-10 Internal Indicator Application 10.5.2 Alternate Indicator Control Application The alternate indicator control is applicable to the parking lot that the aisle between the opposite parking spaces is very narrow.
User Manual of Parking Camera Parking Parking Parking Space A1 Space A2 Space A3 Internal Indicator A Parking Camera A Parking Camera B Internal Indicator B Parking Parking Parking Space B1 Space B2 Space B3 Figure 10-11 Alternate Indicator Application 10.5.3 External Indicator Application A parking camera for three parking spaces is taken as the example below.
User Manual of Parking Camera 10.5.4 Special Parking Space Application If the parking space is a special space (as shown in figure below), refer to Chapter 9.2 Configuring Parking Space Indicator for the external indicator configuration. The external indicator 1 displays the color of the configured special space status, and the occupied or unoccupied status is invalid to the space.
User Manual of Parking Camera Chapter 11 Configuring Storage Settings Before you start: To configure record settings, please make sure that you have the network storage device within the network or the SD card inserted in your camera. 11.1 Configuring NAS Settings Before you start: The network disk should be available within the network and properly configured to store the recorded files, log files, etc.
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User Manual of Parking Camera numbers, and special characters.) in order to increase the security of your product. And we recommend you reset your password regularly, especially in the high security system, resetting the password monthly or weekly can better protect your product. (4) Click Save to add the network disk.
User Manual of Parking Camera Up to 8 NAS disks can be connected to the camera. To initialize and use the SD card after insert it to the camera, please refer to the steps of NAS disk initialization. 11.2 Configuring Recording Schedule Purpose: There are two kinds of recording for the cameras: manual recording and scheduled...
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User Manual of Parking Camera 25 s, 30 s or not limited. Post-record: The time you set to stop recording after the scheduled time or the event. For example, if an alarm triggered recording ends at 11:00, and the post-record time is set as 5 seconds, the camera records until 11:00:05.
User Manual of Parking Camera Chapter 12 Playback Purpose: This section explains how to view the remotely recorded video files stored in the network disks or SD cards. Steps: 1. Click Playback on the menu bar to enter playback interface. Figure 12-1 Playback Interface 2.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Table 12-1 Description of Playback Toolbar Button Operation Button Operation Play Capture a picture Start/Stop clipping video Pause files Audio on and adjust Stop volume/Mute Speed down Download video files Download captured Speed up pictures Playback by Enable/Disable digital...
Chapter 13 Searching Log Purpose: The operation, alarm, exception and information of the camera can be stored in log files. You can also export the log files on your demand. Before you start: Please configure network storage for the camera or insert a SD card in the camera. Steps: 1.
Chapter 14 Others 14.1 Managing User Accounts Enter the User Management interface: Configuration >Basic Configuration> Security > User Or Configuration > Advanced Configuration> Security > User Figure 14-1 User Information Adding a User Account Steps: 1. Click Add to add a user account. Figure 14-2 Add a User 2.
User Manual of Parking Camera letters, numbers, and special characters.) in order to increase the security of your product. And we recommend you reset your password regularly, especially in the high security system, resetting the password monthly or weekly can better protect your product.
User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 14-4 RTSP Authentication 2. Select the RTSP Authentication type to basic or disable in the drop-down list to enable or disable the RTSP authentication. If you disable the RTSP authentication, anyone can access the video stream by the RTSP protocol via the IP address.
User Manual of Parking Camera access your camera and view live images without providing login credentials. It therefore is critical when permitting the Anonymous "Live View" function to ensure that your camera's field of view does not impact the privacy of individuals whose images might be captured without authorization.
User Manual of Parking Camera (2) Modify the IP address in the text filed. Figure 14-9 Modify an IP Address (3) Click OK to save the settings. Deleting an IP Address Select an IP address from filter list and click Delete. ...
User Manual of Parking Camera 14.6 Maintenance 14.6.1 Rebooting the Camera Steps: 1. Enter the Maintenance interface: Configuration > Basic Configuration> System > Maintenance Or Configuration > Advanced Configuration> System > Maintenance 2. Click Reboot to reboot the parking camera. Figure 14-11 Reboot the Device 14.6.2 Restoring Default Settings Steps:...
User Manual of Parking Camera start importing configuration file. You need to reboot the camera after importing configuration file. 3. Click Export and set the saving path to save the configuration file in local storage. Figure 14-13 Import/Export Configuration File 14.6.4 Upgrading the System Steps: 1.
User Manual of Parking Camera 1. Enter RS-485 Port Setting interface: Configuration> Advanced Configuration> System > RS485 Figure 14-15 RS-485 Settings 2. Set the RS-485 parameters and click Save to save the settings. By default, the baud rate is set as 9600 bps, the data bit is 8, the stop bit is 1 and the parity and flow control is none.
User Manual of Parking Camera Appendix Appendix 1 SADP Software Introduction Description of SADP V 2.0 SADP (Search Active Devices Protocol) is a user-friendly and installation-free online device search tool. It searches the active online devices within your subnet and displays the information of the devices.
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User Manual of Parking Camera click to expand the device table and hide the network parameter panel on the right side, or click to show the network parameter panel. Modify network parameters Steps: 1. Select the device to be modified in the device list and the network parameters of the device will be displayed in the Modify Network Parameters panel on the right side.
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User Manual of Parking Camera 2. Input the code in the Serial code field and click Confirm to restore the default password.
User Manual of Parking Camera Appendix 2 Port Mapping The following settings are for TP-LINK router (TL-WR641G). The settings vary depending on different models of routers. Steps: 1. Select the WAN Connection Type, as shown below: Figure 14-19 Figure A.2.1 Select the WAN Connection Type 2.
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User Manual of Parking Camera Figure 14-21 Figure A.2.3 Port Mapping The port of the parking camera cannot conflict with other ports. For example, some web management port of the router is 80. Change the camera port if it is the same as the management port.
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