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User Manual for HD PTZ Camera
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  • Page 1 KEDACOM User Manual for HD PTZ Camera V1R1 (March, 2019)
  • Page 2 Trademark Kedacom™ and are trademarks of Suzhou Keda Technology Co., Ltd. in China and various other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective holders. Suzhou Keda Technology Co., Ltd. 131 Jinshan Road New District, Suzhou, 215011 People's Republic of China http://www.kedacom.com/en...
  • Page 3 Convention Icon Convention Notes and warning: necessary supplement of operations Sign Convention Menu, e.g. Drag to Zoom Connector between menus of > different level, e.g. Settings > Camera Safety Instruction These instructions are intended to ensure that the user can use the product correctly to avoid danger or property loss.
  • Page 4 11. Do not shield the sensor at front of the lens housing. 12. When power off the camera, reboot it after 30 seconds. Anti-thunder and Anti-surge The camera adopts built-in anti-thunder technology and can withstand instant 4KV thunder when it is well grounded.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Activate Camera ........................2 Login and Log Out ........................ 5 Main Interface ........................7 Basic Functions ..........................8 Live View ..........................8 3.1.1 PTZ Control ........................ 8 3.1.2 Preset ......................... 8 3.1.3 Image Adjustment ...................... 9 3.1.4 Live View Window ....................10 Playback ..........................
  • Page 6 Privacy Mask ......................34 5.3.4 Video Info Overlay ....................35 Audio ..........................36 5.4.1 Audio Encoding ......................36 5.4.2 Audio Decoding ......................36 PTZ ............................ 36 5.5.1 Basic Configuration ....................37 5.5.2 Preset Position ......................38 5.5.3 Guard Tour ....................... 39 5.5.4 Path Mode ........................
  • Page 7 8.2.4 Security Service ....................... 73 Time ........................... 73 Serial Port .......................... 75 Log ............................. 75 System Maintenance ......................76 Appendix: Glossary of Terms ...................... 78...

  • Page 8: Product Appearance

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual 1. Product Appearance Picture 1-1 Product appearance...

  • Page 9: Start Up

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Start Up 2.1 Network Connection Note: You are responsible for risks of accessing cameras to the Internet, including but not limited to possible cyber-attack, hacking attack, virus infection and etc. This company is not responsible for the product failures and information disclosure caused thereby, but will provide timely technical support for the cameras.
  • Page 10 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Select the camera to be activated, right click and select “Activate”. On the popup interface, configure admin user password and email for claiming password. Click “Activate”. When there are more than one non-activated devices, select the devices and click “Batch processing”.
  • Page 11 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 2-3 Modify Parameter Click “OK” and in the popup window click “OK”. Wait for rebooting. Picture 2-4 Reboot device  Activate through browser Configure the IP addresses of PC in the same network segment as the camera and input the camera...

  • Page 12: Login And Log Out

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 2-5 Activate through browser Note:  To ensure the safety of device on internet, it is strongly recommended that you set a strong password composed of at least 2 kinds of the following, numbers, upper-case letters, lower-case letters or specific symbols with length of 8 to 16 characters.
  • Page 13 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 2-6 Web Client Login Interface If user enters a wrong username or password for 3 times, the camera IP will be locked up for 10 minutes, during which user cannot login to this camera. If user forgets the password, reset the password.

  • Page 14: Main Interface

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual When login successfully for the first time, download and install the plug-in. Close browser during installation. After finishing, double-click the device in IPCSearch to open browser and enter username and password. Interface after login is shown below.

  • Page 15: Basic Functions

    Click on to adjust aperture automatically. Wiper is used to clean the glass dome. In the PTZ control part of the Live View interface, Click the icon to enable wiper and click again to disable it. The wiper will stop automatically after 10 brushes. Click it to enable it again if necessary.

  • Page 16: Image Adjustment

    After setting and saving presets, you can load, edit or delete the presets anytime. Load: Click this icon to load a preset and the PTZ camera will rotate to the preset and display the image according to the set parameters.

  • Page 17: Live View Window

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Saturation: Drag Saturation slide bar to adjust image saturation by request. The higher the value is, the fresher the image will be. Sharpness: Drag Sharpness slide bar to adjust image sharpness by request. The higher the value is, the more distinct the objects on the image will look.

  • Page 18: Playback

     PTZ, click the icon to zoom. Left click and drag toward lower right to draw an area. The pixels of this area will be amplified and will cover the whole screen. Left click and drag toward upper left to draw an area, then the image will recover.
  • Page 19 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Click "Search" and the video will be displayed directly in the timeline on the right (the highlight parts on the timeline). Note: Red means alarm video recordings, blue meaning scheduled video recordings and green meaning manual video recordings.

  • Page 20: Snapshot

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual ePTZ, click this icon to enable the ePTZ function. Left click and drag toward lower right to draw an area. The pixels of this area will be amplified and will cover the whole screen. Left click and drag toward upper left to draw an area, then image will recover.

  • Page 21: Local Setting

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Select duration of snapshots from "Time". If selecting "Custom", specify the Start Time and End Time; Click "Search" and the search result will show on the right list, from which you can see picture ID and snapshot time;...
  • Page 22 HD PTZ Camera User Manual smoothness of the video; “smooth” ensures smooth playing of the video but affects the real-time performance of the video.  Decoded Process Mode: Select the process mode after decoding, options including "Default" and "Brightness Enhance".
  • Page 23 HD PTZ Camera User Manual  Camera Snapshot Save Path: Configure the local save path for snapshots downloaded from "Snapshot" interface. Click the button of "View" to customize the save path. Click “Opendir” to open the folder where the recordings are saved currently.

  • Page 24: Network

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Network Go to Settings > Network to configure IP and Port, Access Protocol and Other Protocols. 4.1 IP and Port 4.1.1 Configure network parameters on the interface of LAN. Picture 4-1 LAN IP Version: Select IPV4.

  • Page 25: Port

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual 4.1.2 Port On the interface of Port, configure HTTP Port, HTTPS Port, RTSP Port and Multicast Port. When logging in through network, configure corresponding ports by request. Picture 4-2 Port HTTP Port: Hypertext Transport Protocol Port. When login through browser, you need to add a port number behind camera IP address.

  • Page 26: Onvif

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Select a method from the dropdown list of VMS Method, "IP Address" or "Domain". If selecting "IP Address", input VMS address in "VMS Address (IPv4)"; if selecting "Domain", input VMS domain name in "Registered VMS Domain";...
  • Page 27 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 4-5 GB28181 Select “Enable” and select the “Registered VMS” (Registered VMS 1 or Registered VMS 2). The camera supports registered to 2 different VMS; Enter Network Access ID, VMS ID, VMS Port Number, User Name/ Password and Video Encoding Channel ID, which are all provided by VMS;...

  • Page 28: Other Protocol

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual 4.3 Other Protocol 4.3.1 DDNS DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name Server) is to connect the camera to various servers so that user can login to the camera through servers. Apply domain names at different server websites and then visit the device by domain names directly even if the IP address has been modified.

  • Page 29: Pppoe

    Click "Save" to validate setting. It will show dynamic IP after dialing succeeds. 4.3.4 K-SNMP Picture 4-9 K-SNMP The camera supports KEDACOM private network management protocol. Configuration steps are as follows: Input "Network Management Server IP Address" and "Device Location"; Configure "CPU Utilization Threshold", "Memory Utilization Threshold" and "Packet Loss Rate Threshold".

  • Page 30: 802.1X

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual 4.3.5 802.1X Picture 4-10 802.1X 802.1X is a port based network access control protocol. User can select "Protocol Type" manually to control if the device connected to the LAN can access to the LAN, which will support the requirements of network authentication, charging, safety and management well.

  • Page 31: Upnp

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual 4.3.7 UPnP Picture 4-12 UPnP Note: For a camera in an Ethernet, UPnP function can make gateway or router perform auto-port-mapping which maps the camera monitor port from gateway or router to the Ethernet device, thus the firewall module on the gateway or router starts to open this port to other PCs on the internet.

  • Page 32: Smtp

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual 4.3.8 SMTP Picture 4-13 SMTP Simple Message Transfer Protocol, when an alarm is triggered, the system will send email notification automatically through SMTP protocol. Configuration steps are as follows: Input SMTP server IP address and port number, which ranges 1 ~ 65535, 25 by default;...

  • Page 33: Camera

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Camera Go to Settings > Camera to configure camera parameters, including Image, OSD, Video, Audio and PTZ interfaces. 5.1 Image Go to Settings > Camera > Image, as shown below. Picture 5-1 Image 5.1.1 Image Adjustment The image adjustment in this part is the same as that on the Live View interface, which can be referred to in the chapter of Image Adjustment.

  • Page 34: Focus

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual  Aperture Mode: Aperture controls the light input through the lens. A large aperture allows more light input and the image looks bright. Options including “DC-IRIS Auto” and “DC-IRIS-Manual”. Drag the slide bar of Aperture Sensitivity to adjust the aperture sensitivity and auto mode is suggested.

  • Page 35: Night Cut

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Under different light conditions, there will be color cast in different images. White balance adjustment can restore white objects to be white regardless of the color temperature of the light source. Select an option from the dropdown list of white balance mode. Suggest "Auto".

  • Page 36: Image Enhancement

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Drag the slide bar of Level to adjust laser strength, ranging 0 ~ 100; On the dropdown list of Spotlight Control, select “Default”, “Small Spotlight” or “Large Spotlight”. Picture 5-6 Laser 5.1.7 Image Enhancement Picture 5-7 Image Enhancement When there are many noise points caused by environment and camera lens, noise reduction function can be enabled to correct images.

  • Page 37: Eis

    5.1.8 Picture 5-8 EIS When the PTZ camera is installed in unstable environment, enable EIS to improve the stability of images. On the dropdown list of Mode, select “Enable” or “Disable” and drag the slide bar of EIS Level.

  • Page 38: Effect Parameters

    On OSD interface, you can configure OSD text on the surveillance window. Configuration steps are as follows: 1) Select options in “Content” according to requirements and preview the effect in the window below, options including "Time", "Label", "Alarm", "PTZ" and "OSD";...

  • Page 39: Video

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual 2) Click “Advanced” to set “Format”, “Font” and “Margin”. In the part of format, you can set "Time Format", "Display time in 2 lines" and "Alarm in front of tag"; in the part of font, you can set font "Type", "Size"...
  • Page 40 HD PTZ Camera User Manual  Multi-Stream: It means the same video source is encoded in several streams with different resolutions. This parameter can be configured according to actual request and the setting will be validated after reboot.  Stream Type: Configure the resolution and bitrate of main or secondary stream. The main stream is used for HD storage and preview while the secondary or third stream is for SD storage and preview when there is insufficient network bandwidth.

  • Page 41: Roi

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual 5.3.2 Picture 5-12 ROI Only encode specific area of interest to improve image quality of this area while at the cost of decreasing the image quality outside this area. It not only ensures the image quality of ROI area, but also reduces bit rate.

  • Page 42: Video Info Overlay

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Mask sensitive and private part of the image so as to keep sensitive information private. Configuration steps are as follows: Select “Enable” to enable privacy mask; Click “Edit”, and the image is divided into 16 columns and 12 rows of small squares. Click any square and drag an area toward lower right, then this area is the privacy mask detection area.

  • Page 43: Audio

    5.5 PTZ The camera is equipped with digital PTZ, which is suitable for wide range surveillance and enlarges the field of view. User can control PTZ via web client.

  • Page 44: Basic Configuration

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual In the PTZ control part of the Live View interface, user can control PTZ manually, as shown below: Picture 5-17 PTZ Control Note: The PTZ holder will stop rotation when reaching its pan limits. Please strictly follow the Quick Start Guide during installation so that the functions of preset loading and path patrol will not be affected.

  • Page 45: Preset Position

    Preset position includes information of PT position and lens focal length. It is set by user and can be loaded, edited or deleted anytime. Setting steps: Go to Settings > Camera > PTZ > Preset, and adjust PTZ to expected position. Select Preset No. from the drop-down list and input Preset Name.

  • Page 46: Guard Tour

    Guard Tour means the dome camera can perform preset operations if not receiving any command in a specific period of time (i.e. the Waiting Time on the interface). After stopping PTZ operations for a certain period of time, user can enable the Guard Tour function.

  • Page 47: Path Mode

    Path Mode means the camera patrols around all the valid presets on a path. After enabling this function, click any button on PTZ control to disable it. Currently, the camera supports 8 paths and the maximum allowed number of patrol spos on each path is 32 which can be selected from the 255 presets.

  • Page 48: Scheduled Task

    Setting steps: Go to Settings > Camera > PTZ > Scheduled Task. Select “Enable”. Input “Task Recovery Time” (5~720s). Take 5s as example, if user performs other PTZ operations during the task, camera will recover the scheduled task in 5 seconds.

  • Page 49: Positioning

    Go to Settings > Camera > PTZ > Positioning. Zero Correction When the PTZ position fails to synchronize with the positioning or user wants it to return to the zero position, zero correction can be performed. After zero correction, camera will return to the mechanical zero position automatically.
  • Page 50 Present Coordinates: show the coordinates of current PTZ position.  Horizontal Coordinate: fill the target horizontal coordinate and click “Horizontal Positioning”, then the PTZ will rotate to the target pan position.  Vertical Coordinate: fill the target vertical coordinate and click “Vertical Positioning”, then the...

  • Page 51: Event

    “Clear All” to clear setting; Drag the slide bar to adjust Sensitivity; click “Edit” to edit PTZ Linkage (if the camera supports). On the popup interface, configure time of PTZ rotation stopping motion detection and the effective positions of motion detection;...
  • Page 52 HD PTZ Camera User Manual  Delete duration: click "Delete All" on the top of the timeline to delete all the durations. Select duration and click "Delete" on the popup window or on the top of the timeline to delete the duration.

  • Page 53: Video Blocked

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual 6.1.2 Video Blocked When the preset video blocked area is blocked intentionally which disables normal surveillance of this area, an alarm will be triggered. After receiving the alarm, user can find the cause of video blocked quickly and recover the surveillance scene.

  • Page 54: Guard Line

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 6-3 Video Blocked 6.1.3 Guard Line Guard line is to trigger an alarm once there is any object entering the guard line. Configuration steps of guard line are as follows: Select “Enable”; select a guard line from the dropdown list of Guard Area, which can be set...
  • Page 55 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Select a direction from the dropdown list of Guard Line Direction, options including "A->", "B->" and "A->&&B->"; take "A->" as an example, when selecting this direction, only when objects move from A to B the system will detect and trigger an alarm;...

  • Page 56: Entry Guard Area

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 6-4 Guard Line 6.1.4 Entry Guard Area Enable this function and set the guard area. Once there is anything entering the area, an alarm will be triggered.
  • Page 57 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Configuration steps of defocus are as follows: Select "Enable" and select a number from the dropdown list of Guard Area and user can set only one area at one time. After saving it, user can set another and max 4 guard areas can be set;...

  • Page 58: Exit Guard Area

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 6-5 Entry Guard Area 6.1.5 Exit Guard Area Enable this function and set guard area. Once any moving object leaves the guard area, an alarm will be triggered.
  • Page 59 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Operation steps are as follows: Select “Enable” and select a number from the dropdown list of Guard Area and user can set only one area at one time. After saving it, user can set another and max 4 guard areas can be set;...

  • Page 60: Enter Guard Area

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 6-6 Exit Guard Area 6.1.6 Enter Guard Area Enable this function and set the guard area. Once any moving object enters the guard area and stays for a period of time reaching the set threshold, an alarm will be triggered.
  • Page 61 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Operation steps are as follows: Select “Enable” and select a number from the dropdown list of Guard Area and user can set only one area at one time. After saving it, user can set another and max 4 areas can be set;...

  • Page 62: Object Left

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 6-7 Enter Guard Area 6.1.7 Object Left Enable this function and set guard area. When any object is left in the area for a period of time reaching the time threshold, an alarm will be triggered.
  • Page 63 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Operation steps are as follows: Select “Enable” and select a number from the dropdown list of Guard Area and user can set only one area at one time. After saving it, user can set another and max 4 areas can be set;...

  • Page 64: Object Removal

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 6-8 Object Left 6.1.8 Object Removal Enable this function and set the area. When any object is taken from the area for a period of time reaching the time threshold, an alarm will be triggered.
  • Page 65 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Operation steps are as follows: Select “Enable” and select a number from the dropdown list of Guard Area and user can set only one area at one time. After saving it, user can set another and max 4 areas can be set;...
  • Page 66 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 6-9 Object Removal...

  • Page 67: Gathering

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual 6.1.9 Gathering Enable this function in the interface and set guard area. When the coverage of people exceeds the set ratio, an alarm will be triggered. For example, if setting the ratio 50%, when 50% or more of the area is covered by people, an alarm will be triggered.

  • Page 68: Audio Surge

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 6-10 Gathering 6.1.10 Audio Surge After enabling this function, when there is audio surge, an alarm is triggered.
  • Page 69 Select duration and click "Delete" on the popup window or on the top of the timeline to delete the duration. Click "Save" to validate settings. Note: Audio surge alarming is effective only when the PTZ camera is connected to a pick-up.

  • Page 70: Alarm Input

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 6-11 Audio Surge 6.2 Alarm Input Camera supports connecting with on-off alarm devices. If the alarm input device is always disabled, when it alarms, the circuit will become a loop and the camera will trigger alarm output by the set alarm linkage type.
  • Page 71 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 6-12 Alarm Input Operation steps are as follows: Confirm that the alarm input device is always enabled or always disabled and has been rightly connected with the alarm input port of camera; Go to Settings > Event > Alarm Input and select “Enable”;...

  • Page 72: Alarm Output

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual alarm input device is always enabled, which means the circuit is usually loop, user must select “Always Enabled” from the dropdown list of Alarm Type. The default setting is “Always Disabled”; Select linkage method to trigger actions when an alarm is triggered;...
  • Page 73 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Configure the alarm linkage method for abnormal events. Operation steps are as follows: Select "Enable" and select an option from the dropdown list of Abnormality Type; Note:  Disk Full: when the disk storage is insufficient.

  • Page 74: Storage

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Storage 7.1 Storage Management When the camera is installed with a storage card and works normally, you can configure scheduled recording and scheduled snapshot. Picture 7-1 Storage Management  Disk Full Strategy: Configure the video recording strategy when there is insufficient storage space.
  • Page 75 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Go to Settings > Storage > Storage Management to configure disk full strategy and format the storage card recognized by the camera. If formatting is successful, the Status will turn “Normal” which means the storage card can be used normally;...

  • Page 76: Snapshot

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 7-2 Scheduled Recording 7.3 Snapshot After configuring snapshot parameters, the camera will capture images automatically. Go to Settings > Storage > Storage Management to configure disk full strategy and format the storage card recognized by the camera. If formatting is successful, the Status will turn “Normal”...
  • Page 77 HD PTZ Camera User Manual several (max 4) durations on one day and the durations cannot overlap with each other;  Copy: click the copy icon behind the timeline and copy the durations on the day to one or several other days;...

  • Page 78: System

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual System 8.1 Device Info Device info includes device name, device model, device serial No. and etc. User can customize device name and select “Set as OSD text”. Device name doesn’t support specific symbols. If “Set as OSD text”...

  • Page 79: Rtsp Authorization

    Note:  By default, all options are available to administrator users; Live View, Playback/Snapshot, and PTZ Control options are available to operator users; a browser can only view the live video from the camera.  Some settings take effect after rebooting the camera, which requires user with both the authorizations of configuration and reboot.

  • Page 80: Security Service

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Note: If selecting “Disable”, IP filter is disabled. After selecting filter method, click “Add” and input IP address on the popup interface, and click “Confirm”; After finish setting, click "Save" to validate setting.  Modify Black/ White List: Select IP address from the black/ white list and click “Modify”...
  • Page 81 HD PTZ Camera User Manual Picture 8-6 Time Setting  Time Setting: Set Device timezone and device time. Click "Manual Setting", select timezone and set time on the popup interface. You can select "Synchronize time with PC" and click "Save" to validate setting.

  • Page 82: Serial Port

    Picture 8-7 Serial port Note: It’s suggested not to edit the parameters of RS485 port in case the PTZ will be out of control. 8.5 Log On Log interface, you can select "Enable Log Record" to search, view and download logs.

  • Page 83: System Maintenance

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Operation steps are as follows: 1) On the dropdown list of Log Type, select a log type, otherwise the default is "Search All"; 2) Select Start Time and End Time, and click "Search". The search result will show on the list below;...
  • Page 84 HD PTZ Camera User Manual  Configuration Management: including partial restoration, complete restoration, configuration export and import parameter.  Partial Restoration: Click this button and all parameters will restore to factory default except network setting, access protocol, user info and RTSP authorization.

  • Page 85: Appendix: Glossary Of Terms

    HD PTZ Camera User Manual Appendix: Glossary of Terms Term Explanation High Definition QXGA Resolution of 2048*1536 pixels (4:3) UXGA Resolution of 1600*1200 pixels (4:3) 1080P Resolution of 1920*1080 pixels (16:9) 720P Resolution of 1280*720 pixels (16:9) Resolution of 352*288 pixels...

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