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Airsight XX40A User Manual

Outdoor wireless/wired ip network pan/tilt/zoom camera
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  • Page 1 Outdoor Wireless/Wired IP Network Pan/Tilt/Zoom Camera Model XX40A User Manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

        CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ............................3     1.1 F ......................................3 EATURES   1.2 P ....................................... 3 ACKING   1.3 P ....................................4 RODUCT IEWS   1.4 PC S ................................. 5 YSTEM EQUIREMENTS   1.5 H ..................................5 ARDWARE NSTRUCTION  ...

  • Page 3: Introduction

        1. INTRODUCTION This is an integrated wireless IP Camera solution. It combines a high quality digital Video Camera with network connectivity and a powerful web server to bring clear pictures to your Desktop from anywhere on your local network or over the Internet.

  • Page 4: Product Views

        1.3 Product Views 1.3.1 Front View Figure 1.1 1 Wireless Antenna: WI-FI Antenna (rotate to vertical position as shown above). 2 Housing: Alloy waterproof housing. 3 LENS: CMOS sensor with fixed zoom lens. 1.3.2 Cable Interface Figure 1.2 Audio Output: The jack is used to connect an external speaker or audio output device.

  • Page 5: Pc System Requirements

        1.4 PC System Requirements System configuration requirements: CPU: 2.06GHZ or above. Memory: 256M or above. Network Card: 10M or above. Display Card: 64M or above memory. Recommended Operating system: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7. 1.5 Hardware Instruction Follow the steps below to set up your camera hardware.
  • Page 6     2. ActiveX: Double click “Appinstall.exe”—“Next”—“Install”—“Finish”. Figure 1.4 Figure 1.5 Figure 1.6...
  • Page 7     Figure 1.7 After this is done, the icon “IP Camera Tool” will be displayed on your desktop . CAUTION: Before installing and using the product, please read the following precautions carefully and make sure they are fully understood. Use only the power adaptor included with the product.

  • Page 8: Software Operation

        2. SOFTWARE OPERATION 2.1 IP Camera Tool When the Device has been mounted properly, you can double-click the Icon “IP Camera Tool” and a dialog box shown in Figure 1.8 will pop up . Figure 1.8 Note: The software searches IP Servers automatically over your LAN. There are 3 cases: 1.
  • Page 9     Figure 1.9 2.1.1 .1 Basic Properties There is some device information in the Basic Properties, such as Device ID, System Firmware Version, and Web UI Version.（Figure 2.0). The Device ID is the camera’s MAC ID, which should be the same as shown on the sticker on the bottom of the camera.
  • Page 10     2.1.1.2 Network Configuration Below shows how you can configure the Network parameters. Figure 2.1 Obtain IP from DHCP server: If clicked, the device will obtain IP from DHCP server. In other words, the camera will have a dynamic IP. (Make sure the Router which the camera connects to has DHCP function and DHCP is enabled).

  • Page 11: Camera Login

        2.1.1.3 Upgrade Firmware Enter the correct User and Password to upgrade system Firmware and Web UI. Please upgrade system firmware first and then upgrade Web UI or it may damage the camera.（Figure 2.3). Figure 2.3 Please download the firmware package for the correct type of your camera before you upgrade. Follow the upgrade document carefully to upgrade.
  • Page 12     2. To access the camera by IE Browser directly, just type the camera’s IP address, for example, if the camera’s IP address is 192.168.1.123: Figure 2.4 Figure 2.5 The default user name is admin, no password (leave blank). Input the correct user name and password, the Sign In interface will pop-up.

  • Page 13: For Ie Browser

        2.3 For IE Browser Choose ActiveX Mode (For IE Browser), and sign in . Figure 2.7 Figure 2.8 The first time you login to the camera, you might get an ActiveX prompt as in the picture above, please click the prompt and choose Run Add-on, refresh and login to the camera again, then will see live video, as below.
  • Page 14     Note: If there is still no live video after you run ActiveX, and a red cross shows in the center of the screen, or even just a black screen, please try to enable the ActiveX options of IE security settings. Please do the following steps: 1.

  • Page 15: For Safari, Firefox, Google Browser

        Figure 3.2 NOTE: Make sure that your firewall or anti-virus software doesn’t block the software or ActiveX. If you couldn’t see live video, please close your firewall or anti-virus software, and try again . 2.4 For Safari, Firefox, Google Browser Choose Server Push Mode (For Safari, Firefox, Google Browser), and sign in.

  • Page 16: For Mobile Phone

        2.5 For Mobile Phone Choose Sign in mobile phone, and sign in. Mobile phone doesn’t support ActiveX, so only some basic functions are available in this mode. It supports iPhone, Smart phone, 3G phone, etc. Normally, if the mobile phone supports network video, then it should work with your IP Camera.
  • Page 17     Figure 3.5 Channels: The IE software supports 9 channels. Click to get different windows. Click this one to view the main channel of the camera you login to. Click this one to view 4 Channels of cameras that are connected, from CH1 to CH4. Click this one to view 9 Channels of cameras that are connected, from CH1 to CH9.
  • Page 18     OSD Settings:   Figure 3.6 OSD: Means “On-Screen Display”, click “Audio video” > “OSD”, set display date and time on the video. Disabled: Clicking this one means clear the OSD. Color: Can set the OSD text color as black, yellow, red, white, blue etc. Add time stamp on record: if you click this, there will be time OSD on record video files.
  • Page 19     Rate and Resolution: Rate: Set video frame here, from “full-speed to 1fp/5s”. (Figure 3.8). Resolution: Set the resolution to be 160*120/VGA (640*480)/QVGA (320*240). (Figure 3.9). NOTE: When doing recording, Rate and Resolution parameter settings is very helpful for getting smaller sized record files, lower the parameter to get a smaller file.

  • Page 20: For Operator

        NOTE: For visitor, if you click other menus which visitors don’t have the right to operate, there will be a pop-up for the login interface (Figure 2.6), please input the user name / password for at least 3 times to login again. 2.8 For Operator When login as Operator, you can enter the IP Camera for Operator.
  • Page 21     Mode, Bright, Contrast Settings  Figure 4.3 Mode: This mode is optional, 50HZ/60HZ for the users who use 50HZ/60HZ frequency, outdoor for users who want to use the camera to monitor towards an outdoor environment. NOTE: The camera should be used in an indoor environment (unless protected from the elements). Bright: Set the parameters to adjust the image quality of the video.

  • Page 22: For Administrator

        Preset Settings Figure 4.5 Set Preset Position. It supports 8 preset positions. To control the camera’s rotation to a preset position, click Set Preset Position button it will pop-up a dialog frame (Figure 4.5), choose the any number (1-8) you want to set it to.

  • Page 23: Settings As Administrator

        3. SETTINGS AS ADMINISTRATOR Administrator supports all the settings and operations of the camera. There are some special functions only for administrator as below: Figure 4.6 3.1 Multi-Device Settings  Multi-Device Settings This camera can support max. 9 device channels at the same time. 3.1.1 Set Multi-Device in LAN In the Multi-Device Settings page, you can see all devices searched in LAN.
  • Page 24     Figure 4.7 Click Live Video and then select to see four channels, or click to see nine channels. Figure 4.8...
  • Page 25     Figure 4.9 3.1.2 Set Multi-Device for WAN If you want to view cameras from the internet, you have to add these devices by DDNS domain name. Make sure all these cameras you want to add have DDNS set successfully. (See 3.7 DDNS Service Settings) Login to the first camera by DDNS domain name and port, this camera will be as the host camera.
  • Page 26     Figure 5.1 Note: Add the other camera in the same way, Click submit to add all of them. Figure 5.2...
  • Page 27     Click Live Video and then selec t to see four channels, or to see nine channels. In this case, you can see all the cameras from a remote position by internet, for example, if you are on a business trip, you can use the first camera’s (Host camera) DDNS to view all the devices via the internet.

  • Page 28: Network Settings

        3.1.4 Restore Factory Settings Click Restore Factory Settings, will pop-up a prompt, select OK, all the parameter will be returned to factory settings, and the device will reboot. Figure 5.5 3.1.5 Reboot Device Click Reboot the device, will pop-up a prompt, select OK, then the device will reboot. Figure 5.6 3.2 Network Settings Clicking Network, will pop-up the prompt as below:...
  • Page 29      Figure 5.7 If you don’t know the Subnet Mask, Gateway, DNS Server. Please check the Local Area Connection Status of your computer; it contains all this information, steps as below: 1. Control PanelNetwork ConnectionsLocal Area Connections Support  Details 2.

  • Page 30: Wireless Lan Settings

        If you don’t know the DNS Server, you can set it the same as Gateway. If the router supports DHCP function, you can choose “Obtain IP from DHCP Server” to get dynamic IP. Figure 6.0 Http Port: In most cases, you can leave this value as-is. However, if your Internet Service Provider blocks this port, you may change it to another port number such as 8060.
  • Page 31     Figure 6.2 Figure 6.3 Figure 6.4...

  • Page 32: Adsl Settings

        Figure 6.5 3.5 ADSL Settings When connected to the Internet through ADSL directly, you can enter the ADSL username And password obtained from ISP.  Figure 6.7 3.6 UPnP Settings Click UPnP Settings to choose Using UPnP to Map Port: ...

  • Page 33: Ddns Service Settings

        Figure 6.9 NOTE: Here UPnP is only for port forwarding. It relates to the security settings of your router, make sure the UPnP function of your router is ON. Attention: If your router doesn’t support UPnP function, it may show error information. So we recommend you do port forwarding manually in your router.
  • Page 34     Third Party DDNS If you use third party DDNS, please choose the server you use, such as “3322.org” or “dyndns.org” as below: Figure 7.2 Figure 7.3 You have to register an account first, enter the user, password, and host. NOTE: Only one DDNS can be chosen, for example, if you use the manufacturer’s DDNS, the third party one won’t work, if you use the third party DDNS, the manufacturer’s one won’t work.
  • Page 35     Figure 7.4 Make sure the “Subnet Mask”, “Gateway”, “DNS Server” is the same as your router. Set Port Forwarding in the router. This is the most important step. You need to set port forwarding in your router, to refer to the IP of your camera correctly, for DDNS to work.
  • Page 36     BELKIN: 1. Login to the router. 2. Choose “Firewall”, select “Virtual Servers” 3. Input the port (don’t use 80) and IP address, then click save. NOTE: The port and IP address should be the same as the camera. Figure 7.6 DLINK: 1.

  • Page 37: System Settings

        After all these 4 steps are done, you can use DDNS, check the DDNS status from the camera as below, and get the link of DDNS for internet viewing. Step: “Login”>”System”>”Device Info” Figure 7.8 Figure 7.9 3.8 System Settings ...

  • Page 38: Alias Settings

        3.8.1 Device Info You can find the information about Device ID, Firmware Version, Embedded Web UI Version, Alias, Alarm Status, DDNS Status, UPnP Status and MSN status. Figure 8.1 3.9 Alias Settings Default device name is anonymous. You set any new name for your camera here, then click Submit. Figure 8.2 3.10 Date &Time Settings Set the date and time for your camera.

  • Page 39: Users Settings

        Figure 8.4 3.11 Users Settings Eight accounts are acceptable for this system. Here you can set the user names and password as Administrator, Operator or Visitor, with permission for them as below:  Visitor: In this mode, you can only view. (Details 2.7). ...

  • Page 40: Pan/Tilt/Zoom (Ptz) Settings

        3.12 Pan/Tilt/Zoom (PTZ) Settings Figure 8.6 1. Go center on boot: The camera rotates to the center automatically when it starts. 2. PT speed: Set Pan/Tilt speed. 3. Upward patrol speed: Set the speed of cruising upward. 4. Downward patrol speed: Set the speed of cruising downward. 5.
  • Page 41     1） Backup: Backup all the IP Camera Parameters, if you want to save all the current settings that you have set already, you can click Submit, then all the parameters you set will be stored as a parameters bin file. 2）Restore: Restore all the IP Camera Parameters, if you want to change the camera’s settings to a certain status which has a backup, click Browse to load the bin file, then Submit it.

  • Page 42: Other Settings

        After you run your MSN, open the chat dialog, type in the word “url?”, after a few seconds, you will get a reply for the remote access IP address for this IP camera. 3.15 Other Settings  Figure 9.0 Here you can configure some additional functions such as Motion Detection, Alarm, IO Linkage, Schedule, FTP Upload, Alarm Mail Alert, Record Path, etc.
  • Page 43     Sender: Make sure the sender mailbox server provider supports SMTP, and the mailbox should not enable SSL or TSL encryption. Receiver: Here you can set four receivers. For receiver, there is no SMTP limitation. SMTP Server: The sender’s SMTP Server. SMTP Port: The sender’s SMTP Port, usually is 25, some SMTP servers have their own port, such as 587.

  • Page 44: Ftp Service Settings

        3.17 FTP Service Settings Set the FTP Service, you can upload images to your FTP server when motion is detected . Figure 9.3 Figure 9.4 FTP Server: If your FTP server is set up in LAN. You can set as Figure 9.3. If you have an FTP server that can be accessed from the Internet, you can set as Figure 9.4.

  • Page 45: Alarm Service Settings

        Figure 9.5 If it prompts error information as follows. 1) Cannot connect to the server. Please check FTP Server is correct. 2) Network Error. Please try later. 3) Server Error. 4) Incorrect user or password. Please check the username and password is correct. 5) Cannot access the folder.
  • Page 46     Figure 9.7 After you enable motion detect armed, if there is motion detected, the Alarm Status will turn to Motion Detect Alarm. (Figure 9.8). Figure 9.8 3.18.2 Motion Detect Sensitivity You can choose level 1-10; level 10 means the most sensitive, 1 means the least sensitive. Figure 9.9...
  • Page 47     3.18.3 Alarm Input Armed / IO Linkage on Alarm If you want to connect external alarm devices, when it’s an alarm input device, choose Alarm Input Armed to enable it, when it’s an output device, choose IO Linkage on Alarm to enable it. Figure 10.0 There are two options for Trigger Level.

  • Page 48: Send Mail On Alarm

        3.18.4 IO Pins for IO Alarm Linkage Figure 10.3 I/O PINS: 1 Alarm input 2 Alarm input 3 Alarm output 4 Alarm output Input pins: The input pins can be used for 1-way external sensor input. For example, you may connect a Passive Infrared (PIR) Sensor to it for motion detection.
  • Page 49     Figure 10.5 Sound on Alarm When motion is detected, there will be a beep sound during the alarm, you can control this sound here. If Enabled, there will be sound once alarmed. If Canceled, there will be no sound once alarmed. Record on Alarm If you want the camera do recording for every alarm, choose Record on Alarm to enable it.

  • Page 50: Path Settings

        3.20 Path Settings  Figure 10.8 Here you can set record path and alarm record path for the camera Figure 10.9 Record Path: Here you can set the manually record path. Click then start manual recording, the record file will be saved to the specified path you set here. Alarm Record Path: Here you can set the alarm record path.

  • Page 51: Server Push Mode (For Safari, Firefox, Google Browser)

        3.21 Server Push Mode (For Safari, FireFox, Google Browser) Choose Server Push Mode, login the camera, you will see the main user interface as below: Figure 11.2 NOTE: Server Push Mode does not support ActiveX. Play, Stop, Record, Audio, Talk, Multi-device settings, Path settings functions are controlled by ActiveX, so if you use Safari, Firefox, Google chrome browser, it is not possible to use these options.

  • Page 52: Sign In Mobile Phone

        3.22 Sign in mobile phone If you are using a mobile phone, choose Sign in mobile phone, login to the camera, you will see the main user interface as below: Figure 11.3 NOTE: Mobile phone Mode doesn’t support ActiveX. In mobile phone mode, it only supports some simple functions, such as Resolution, Mode, Bright, Contrast, Pan/Tilt control, Snapshot, Reversal, Mirror, IO Linkage functions.

  • Page 53: Appendix

        4. APPENDIX 4.1 Frequently Asked Questions Note: For most problems you might encounter, please check Network connections first. Check the working status revealed by the indicators on the network server, hub, exchange and network card. If abnormal, check the network connections. 4.1.1 I have forgotten the administrator username and/or password.
  • Page 54     4.1.6 UPnP always fails UPnP only contains port forwarding in our recent software. Sometimes, it might fail to do port forwarding automatically because of firewall or anti-virus software. It also relates to your router’s security settings. So we recommend you do port forwarding manually.

  • Page 55: Default Parameters

        4.1.13 There’s no picture (Problems with ActiveX Controller) If using IE browser to connect the camera for the first time, and there is no image displayed, you might need to install ActiveX. You need to change some browser settings to enable ActiveX. (See: For IE Browser). 4.1.14 Problems with network bandwidth The image frame rate is subject to the following factors: 1.

  • Page 56: Specifications

        5. Specifications Model XX40A Image Sensor 1/4" Color CMOS Sensor Display Resolution 640 x 480 Pixels (300K Pixels) Lens 3x Optical Zoom Image Sensor Mini. Illumination 0.5 Lux, F2.0 Lens Type Glass Lens Viewing Angle 30.7°~ 69° Input...

  • Page 57: Obtaining Technical Support

        6. OBTAINING TECHNICAL SUPPORT We hope your experience with your IP network camera is enjoyable, but if you experience any issues or have any questions that this User’s Guide has not answered, please visit www.x10.com/support, e-mail support@x10.com or call 1-800-442-5065. This user manual is based on the latest version of our camera.

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