VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Before You Use This Product The use of surveillance devices may be prohibited by law in your country. The Network Camera is not only a high-performance web-ready camera but also can be part of a flexible surveillance system.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Table of Contents Before You Use This Product... 2 Package Contents ... 5 Installation ... 5 Hardware installation... 5 Software Installation ... 8 Initial Access to the Network Camera ... 12 Check Network Settings ...
Page 5
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Email ... 39 FTP ... 39 Motion detection ... 41 Application settings ... 42 Snapshot... 42 Weekly schedule... 42 Snapshot file name prefix ... 42 Send out the snapshot while motion detection ... 43 Sequential operation ...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Package Contents PT7135 Power adapter Mounting Kit & Pads Software CD 6 - User's Manual Quick installation guide Warranty card...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Installation In this manual, "User" refers to whoever has access to the Network Camera, and "Administrator" refers to the person who can configure the Network Camera and grant user access to the camera. Hardware installation Please verify that your product package contains all the accessories listed in the foregoing Package Contents.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Software Installation In this manual, "User" refers to whoever has access to the Network Camera, and "Administrator" refers to the person who can configure the Network Camera and grant user access to the camera. At the end of the hardware installation, the Administrator must place the product software CD into the CD-ROM drive of the PC running in MS Windows.
Page 9
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Upon Installation Wizard’s start up, a searching box will pop up. This program searches for VIVOTEK’s product on the same LAN: For the series number in the “Serial Number” field, please check the label on the bottom of the camera.
Page 10
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions The IP addresses shown in the "Current IP Address" field reflect those on the local network. They may be from the DHCP server. If there is no DHCP server, the camera will try to find a free IP address (this takes from 15 second to 3 minutes, depending on the LAN status).
Page 11
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions For more detailed usage of the Installation Wizard, please refer to the user’s manual of the Installation Wizard included in the product CDROM to find the location of the Network Camera. There may be many Network Cameras in the local network. Users can differentiate the Network Cameras with the serial number.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Initial Access to the Network Camera Check Network Settings The Network Camera can be connected either before or immediately after software installation onto the Local Area Network. The Administrator should complete the network settings on the configuration page, including the correct subnet mask and IP address of gateway and DNS.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions How to Use Authentication After opening the Web browser and typing in the URL of the Network Camera, a dialogue window pops up to request a username and password. Upon successful authentication, the following figure is displayed.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Installing plug-in For the initial access to the Network Camera in Windows, the web browser may prompt for permission to install a new plug-in for the Network Camera. Permission request depends on the Internet security settings of the user’s PC or notebook. If the highest security level is set, the computer may prohibit any installation and execution attempt.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Primary user’s capability Main Screen with Camera View The main page layout has three parts: Configuration functions: The camera can be configured using these user interfaces. Camera View: What the camera sees. Pan/Tilt control buttons: These buttons provide a command interface to control the aim of the camera.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions The Configuration: “Snapshot” The button provides users a fast way to capture a single image of the video from the Network Camera. “Client Settings” Clicking on this button links you to the client setting pages, please check the following session for more details.
Page 17
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions View capabilities This feature allows users to open a digital zoom control window to specify the zoom factor for specified area in the camera view. Users can also move the white frame to select the area of the video that she/he wants to view.
Page 18
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions The pan/tilt control buttons: The direction buttons are for Left, Right, Up, Down, and Home functions. The Home button centers the camera. “Go to” Once the Administrator has determined the preset positions; the User can aim the camera using this control.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Client settings At the initial access to the “Connection type” page in Windows, the web browser will ask for a new plug-in installation, the plug-in being the Network Camera. This plug-in has been registered for certification and can be used to change the parameters at the client’s site.
Page 20
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions The UDP protocol allows for more real-time audio and video streams. However, some packets may be lost due to network burst traffic and images may be obscured. The TCP protocol allows for less packet loss and produces a more accurate video display.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Administrator’s capability Fine-tuning for Best Performance Best performance generally equates to the fastest image refresh rate with the best video quality, and at the lowest network bandwidth as possible. The three factors, “Maximum frame rate”, “Constant bit rate”, and “Fix quality”...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions For Best Real-time Video Images To achieve good real-time visual effect, the network bandwidth should be large enough to allow a transmission rate of greater than 20 image frames per second. If the broadband network is over 1 Mbps, set the “Fix bit rate”...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Opening accounts for new users Protect Network Camera by passwords The Network Camera is shipped without any password by default. That means everyone can access the Network Camera including the configuration as long as the IP address is known.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Build a security application The Administrator can use the built-in motion detection to monitor any movement to perform many useful security applications. To upload the snapshots, users can choose either email or FTP according to user’s needs. Both e-mail and FTP use the network settings on the Email and FTP page.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Software revision upgrade Customers can obtain the up-to-date software from the web site of VIVOTEK. An easy-to-use Upgrade Wizard is provided to upgrade the Network Camera with just a few clicks. The upgrade function is opened to the Administrator only. To upgrade the system, follow the procedures below.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Definitions in Configuration Only the Administrator can access system configuration. Each category in the left column will be explained in the following pages. The bold texts are the specific phrases on the Option pages. The Administrator may type the URL below the figure to directly enter the frame page of configuration.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions System parameters "Host name" The text displays the title at the top of the main page. “Turn off the LED indicator” Check this option to shut off the LED on the rear. It can prevent the camera’s operation being noticed.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Security settings “Root password” Change the Administrator’s password by typing in the new password identically in both text boxes. The typed entries will be displayed as asterisks for security purposes. After pressing , the web browser will ask the Administrator for the new password for access.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Network settings Any changes made on this page will restart the system in order to validate the changes. Make sure every field is entered correctly before clicking on Network type “LAN” & “PPPoE” The default type is LAN.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions HTTP “Http port” This can be other than the default Port 80. Once the port is changed, the users must be notified the change for the connection to be successful. For instance, when the Administrator changes the HTTP port of the Network Camera whose IP address is 192.168.0.100 from 80 to 8080, the users must type in the web browser “http://192.168.0.100:8080”...
Page 31
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions <url> http://<Network Camera>/setup/network.html <Network Camera> is the domain name or original IP address of the Network Camera. User's Manual - 31...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions DDNS “Enable DDNS” This option turns on the DDNS function. “Provider” The provider list contains four hosts that provide DDNS services. Please connect to the service provider’s website to make sure the service charges. “Host Name”...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Access List The access list is to control the access permission of clients by checking the client IP address. There are two lists for permission control: Allow List and Deny List. Only those clients whose IP address is in the Allow List and not in the Deny List can connect to the Video Server or Network Camera for receiving the audio/video streaming.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Audio and Video General “Configure for computer viewing” To make quick setting for computer viewing “Configure for mobile viewing” To make quick setting for cell phone viewing Video Settings “Video title” The text string can be displayed on video “Color”...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Video orientation “Flip” Vertically rotate the video. “Mirror” Horizontally rotate the video. Check options both if the Network Camera is installed upside down. “White balance” Adjust the value for best color temperature. Audio settings “mute”...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Image Settings Click on this button to pop up another window to tune “Brightness”, 36 - User's Manual “Contrast”, “Hue” and “Saturation” for video compensation. Each field has eleven levels ranged from “Brightness”...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Camera Control On the Camera Control page, there are two main function control areas: Camera control area The pan and tilt functions can be controlled with these buttons. The “Left” button aims the camera to the left;...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Preset function area ”Current position”, If the User wants to save the current view as a preset location, enter a name for each of the current video view at “current position” and click on the “Add”...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Email & FTP Email When the SMTP server support SMTP authentication, users need to give the valid user name and password to send email via the server. “Sender email address” Input the email address of the sender. There are two external mail server can be configured, primary and secondary email server, The network camera will use primary server as default , and use secondary server when primary server is unreachable.
Page 40
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions slash symbol before the path without virtual path mapping. Refer to the instructions for the external FTP server for details. The folder privilege must be open for upload. <url> http://<Network Camera>/setup/mailftp.html <Network Camera>...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Motion detection “Enable motion detection” Check this option to turn on motion detection. Click on this button to add a new window. At most three windows can exist simultaneously. Use the mouse to click, hold, and drag the window frame to resize or the title bar to move.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Application settings The server provides two kinds of applications, snapshot and videoclip. There are two independent snapshot items to set, and they are named as Snapshot #1 and Snapshot #2. The status, schedule, trigger condition, and action of three applications are summaried in the application page.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Send out the snapshot while motion detection There are three windows for motion detection each can be assigned a name. Select the windows which need to be monitored. If motion detection has not been set up, “undefined”...
Page 44
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions 44 - User's Manual...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Video Clip The setting for video clip is mostly the same as snapshot. “Video clip max file size” This indicates the maximum file size for video clip (Kbytes). In the event that the available network bandwidth is limited, video clips sent to FTP or e-mail may be corrupted and can not be opened.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions System log The Network camera support log the system messages on remote server. The protocol is compliant to RFC 3164. If you have external Linux server with syslogd service, use “-r” option to turn on the facility for receiving log from remote machine. Or you can use some software on Windows which is compliant to RFC 3164.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Viewing system parameters Click on this link on the configuration page to view the entire system’s parameter set. The content is the same as those in CONFIG.INI. User's Manual - 47...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Maintenance Four actions can be selected “reboot” click the reboot button to restart system “factory default” Click on Factory default button on the configuration page to restore the factory default settings. Any changes made so far will be lost and the system will be reset to the initial factory settings.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Appendix A. Troubleshooting Status LED The following table lists the LED patterns in general. Condition Loading system after power on During booting procedure Detecting and setting network After network is setup (system up) During the upgrade firmware process Enable audio Reset and restore...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions B. URL commands of the Network Camera For some customers who already have their own web site or web control application, the Network Camera can be easily integrated through convenient URLs. This section lists the commands in URL format corresponding to the basic functions of the Network Camera.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions http://192.168.0.123/cgi-bin/admin/getparam.cgi?network_ipaddress Response: HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n Content-Type: text/html\r\n Context-Length: 33\r\n \r\n network.ipaddress=192.168.0.123\r\n Set server parameter values Note: This request require administrator access Method: GET/POST Syntax: http://<servername>/cgi-bin/admin/setparam.cgi? [nosync=<value>&]<parameter>=<value> [&<parameter>=<value>…][&return=<return page>] parameter value <group>_<name>. value to assigned Assign return <return page>...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n Content-Type: text/html\r\n Context-Length: <length>\r\n \r\n <parameter pair> where <parameter pair> is <parameter>=<value>\r\n [<parameter pair>] Only the parameters that you set and readable will be returned. Example: Set the IP address of server to 192.168.0.123 Request: http://myserver/cgi-bin/admin/setparam.cgi?Network_IPAddress=192.168.0.123 Response:...
Page 53
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions time <hh:mm:ss> (r/w) <keep> <auto> <domain name or IP (r/w) address> timezone -12 ~ 12 (r/w) updateinterval 0 ~ 2592000 (r/w) serialnumber <mac address> firmwareversion <text string shorter than 39 characters> restore Positive integer reset...
Page 54
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions userattr_<1~20> [conf] usercount 1 ~ 21 Group: Network NAME VALUE type (r/w) pppoeuser <text string shorter than (r/w) 80 characters> pppoepass <text string shorter than (r/w) 15 characters> resetip (r/w)(restart) ipaddress <IP address>...
Page 55
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions mailpass1 <text string shorter than (r/w) 15 characters> smtp2 <domain name (r/w) address, string shorter than 40 characters> mailto2 <text string shorter than (r/w) 80 characters> mailuser2 <text string shorter than (r/w) 63 characters>...
Page 56
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions (r/w) 40 characters> ftppasvmode2 (r/w) httpport <positive (r/w) (restart) than 65535> rtspport <positive (r/w) (restart) than 65535> videoport <positive than 65535> audioport <positive than 65535> accessname <text string shorter than (r/w) 20 characters>...
Page 57
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions resolution 176x144 (for mobile) Video resolution 176 x 144 (r/w) 160x120 320x240 640x480 computer) color (r/w) quality (r/w) quant (r/w) bitrate 20000 (r/w) 30000 40000 50000 64000 128000 256000 512000 768000 1000000 1500000 2000000...
Page 58
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions 30 (for 60Hz only) mode (r/w) (in CMOS version only) whitebalance (r/w) (in CMOS version only) flip (r/w) mirror (r/w) imprinttimestam (r/w) Group: Audio NAME VALUE type AAC4 (for computer) set codec to AAC (r/w) GAMR (for mobile) aacbitrate...
Page 59
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions (r/w) contrast <-5 ~ 5> (r/w) <-5 ~ 5> (r/w) Group: CAMCTRL NAME VALUE panspeed -5 ~ 5 (r/w) tiltspeed -5 ~ 5 (r/w) zoomspeed -5 ~ 5 (r/w) autospeed -5 ~ 5 (r/w) dwelling 0 ~ 9999...
Page 60
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions wintop_<0~2> 0 ~ 240 (r/w) winwidth_<0~2> 0 ~ 320 (r/w) winheight_<0~2> 0 ~ 240 (r/w) winobjsize_<0~2> 0 ~ 100 (r/w) winsensitivity_<0~2 0 ~ 100 > (r/w) update Group: DDNS NAME VALUE enable 0, 1 (r/w)
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions enable 0, 1 (r/w) Group: UPNPfor NAME VALUE enable 0, 1 (r/w) Group: App NAME VALUE scriptname <text string shorter than 255 characters> enablescript (r/w) Group: Syslog NAME VALUE enableremotelog (r/w) serverip <IP address>...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions parameter value move home down left right speedpan -5 ~ 5 speedtilt -5 ~ 5 speedapp -5 ~ 5 auto patrol stop return <return page> Recall Note: This request requires camera control access privilege Method: GET Syntax: http://<servername>/cgi-bin/recall.cgi?
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Capture single snapshot Note: This request require normal user privilege Method: GET/POST Syntax: http://<servername>/cgi-bin/video.jpg Server will return the most up-to-date snapshot in JPEG format. The size and quality of image will be set according to the video settings on the server. Return: HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n Content-Type: image/jpeg\r\n...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions edit username <name> userpass <value> privilege <value> conf return <return page> System logs Note: This request require administrator privilege Method: GET/POST Syntax: http://<servername>/cgi-bin/admin/syslog.cgi Server will return the up-to-date system log. Return: HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n Content-Type: text/plain\r\n Content-Length: <syslog length>\r\n...
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Technology License Notice MPEG-4 AAC Technology THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE MPEG-4 AAC AUDIO PATENT LICENSE. THIS PRODUCT MAY NOT BE DECOMPILED, REVERSE-ENGINEERED OR COPIED, EXCEPT REGARD TO PC SOFTWARE, YOU MAY MAKE SINGLE COPIES FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE REFER TO HTTP://WWW.VIALICENSING.COM.
VIVOTEK - A Leading Provider of Multimedia Communication Solutions Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) FCC Statement This device compiles with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions. ■ This device may not cause harmful interference, and ■ This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
Need help?
Do you have a question about the 4X-PT7135 and is the answer not in the manual?
Questions and answers