**IP CamSecure Lite32 is free bundled with LevelOne IP camera and Capture Card. ** IP CamSecure professional version is available upon purchase. While using IP CamSecure Pro32 ,please plug the included USB dongle into USB port as a license key.
IP CamSecure Main Console Main Console The main operation system. To activate schedule recording, setup smart guard and configure system setting.
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IP CamSecure Main Console Exit Minimize Screen Division Playback Exit: Shut down the main console or log out current user. Minimize: Minimize the Main Console. Screen Division: Allocate the sub-screen displays of cameras by clicking on the icon of desired layout.
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IP CamSecure Main Console On Screen Menu: Right click on the camera screen and get the On Screen Menu from which you can Enable Move and Talk, and Connect / Disconnect the camera. Note: You can only work on current camera after clicking Enable Move and Talk.
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IP CamSecure Main Console Crystal Ball Start Start: Click on the pull down menu to Start/Stop Schedule System, Start/Stop Smart Guard System, Start/Stop Counting Application or click on Start/Stop Monitor All to activate/ deactivate all the functions above. Stop alarm by clicking Open Event Report. You can also cancel all events by click the Crystal Ball, see it in detail on later pages.
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IP CamSecure Main Console Crystal Ball Information Window PTZ Camera Control Schedule Smart Guard Config Schedule: Schedule recording time table and setup recorder configuration. See Schedule in detail on later pages. Smart Guard: Add/edit type(s) of events which you want to detect; setup reaction(s) responding to events.
IP CamSecure Playback Playback Watch the recorded video, view and/or search for unusual events and recorded system information. *There is only 1 channel displayed in Playback in IP CamSecure Lite32 while there are up to 16 channels displayed in IP CamSecure Pro32 simultaneously.
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IP CamSecure Playback Scroll Bar Exit Minimize Control Zoom Speed Scroll Bar: Quick search on the video, drag it to where you want to review. Exit: Turn off the Playback Console. Minimize: Minimizes the playback Console window. Control: Play, pause and stop the video. Cue: Set up the Cue In and Cue out points of the clip you want to save as a video clip or a back up file with all the information recorded (including log info, events reported and so on).Cue In and Cue Out time will show on the Playback Information display once they are set.
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IP CamSecure Playback Browse Mode Search Mode Date Time Audio Volume Control FWD/REV: You can customize the speeds on Setting panel. Step FWD/REV: Forward/reverse frame by frame. Browse Mode: Play the recorded video. Search Mode: Click on the Search Mode icon and get the Intelligent Search Tool panel. You can setup unusual events here to detect abnormality that occurred during the video was recorded.
IP CamSecure Playback Day-Time Panel Step 4 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 5 To withdraw the record Step 1: From the window at the top left of the Day-Time Panel, select the date you want to check, and you will see red/green lines show on the time table implying available recorded video. Step 2: You can select the video clip you want to review by left-clicking and dragging to highlight the time period.
IP CamSecure Playback Search Mode Unusual Event - General Motion Intelligent Search Tool panel: Click on the Search Mode icon and get the Intelligent Search Tool panel. You can setup unusual events here to detect abnormality that occurred during the video was recorded. There are 5 types of unusual events: General Motion Foreign Object...
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IP CamSecure Playback Unusual Event - General Motion Sensitivity: Click and move the control bar to the right to increase sensitivity, that is, a relatively small movement will trigger the alarm. Move to the left to reduce the sensitivity of movement detection.
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IP CamSecure Playback Unusual Event - Foreign Object Intelligent Search Tool panel: Click on the Search Mode icon and get the Intelligent Search Tool panel. You can setup unusual events here to detect abnormality that occurred during the video was recorded. Foreign Object: Alarm is set off when an object appears in the defined area on the screen.
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IP CamSecure Playback Unusual Event - Foreign Object Sensitivity: Click and move the control bar to the right to increase sensitivity, that is, a relatively small movement will trigger the alarm. Move to the left to reduce the sensitivity of movement detection.
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IP CamSecure Playback Unusual Event - Missing Object Intelligent Search Tool panel: Click on the Search Mode icon and get the Intelligent Search Tool panel. You can setup unusual events here to detect abnormality that occurred during the video was recorded. Missing Object: Alarm is set off when the defined object is removed from the defined area on the screen.
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IP CamSecure Playback Unusual Event - Missing Object / Lose Focus / Camera Occlusion Sensitivity: Click and move the control bar to the right to increase sensitivity, that is, a relatively small movement will trigger the alarm. Move to the left to reduce the sensitivity of movement detection.
IP CamSecure Playback Enhancement General Setting: Check the circle and chose whether you want to apply the setting to all the channels or only to those currently show on the screen. Filter Setting Visibility: Check the box and adjust the gamma value of the image, which means, you may enhance the image and make it cleaner.
IP CamSecure Playback Save Video / Save Image Save Video Step 1: Choose the camera display you want to save as a video clip. Step 2: Set up the Cue In and Cue Out points, the cue in and cue out time will show up on the display.
IP CamSecure Playback Print / Backup Print Page Setting: Print in original size or fit the page. Align Image: Top,Center or Bottom Print Content: Print the image from selected channel or all the channels shown on the screen Backup: Different from Save Video, the Backup function saves everything from the Playback panel, including log information.
IP CamSecure Playback Log Viewer *IP CamSecure Lite32 only has System Log option in Log Viewer. Step 4 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Unusual Event: You can check out the history of Unusual Event that had been detected by Smart Guard System.
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IP CamSecure Playback Log Viewer Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 System Log: You can choose the Log Type form the pull-down menu, including: Console Startup, Console Shutdown, User Login, User Logout, Start Schedule, Stop Schedule, Execute Recycle, Execute Backup, Enable Channel, Disable Channel, Start Smart Guard. Step1: Choose the type of event you want to check or select “All”...
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IP CamSecure Playback Log Viewer - Counting Application Counting Application: You can see the results of Counting Application during the time period you set. Counting Application (Diagram): The Counting Application result data will show in a diagram.
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IP CamSecure Playback Setting Database Source: Choose from which location you are going to withdraw the record, from the PC you are working with or to get the access a database via the Internet. See Config > Remote Playback Server in detail on later pages.
IP CamSecure Schedule Schedule Click on Schedule icon on Main Console and get the Schedule configuration panel to setup the time schedule for video recording.
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IP CamSecure Schedule Load Camera / Channel Day Mode Day Mode Schedule the cameras on a daily basis, which means that the recorder will be on and off, at the same time every day, according to the same schedule you setup. To setup the time schedule for each camera, you may 1.
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IP CamSecure Schedule Minor Mode: The system will start recording only when a motion on the screen is detected, 24 hours a day (shown as a green bar on Schedule Configuration panel), with the setting of 15 FPS, Low quality and Low resolution. You can adjust the sensitivity, interval and detection area of motion detection in schedule Configure.
IP CamSecure Schedule Option 2: Click the Configure icon or double click schedule information on the screen (highlighted in blue), get Encoding Options panel and change the setting that you want to. Note: The time schedule setting is based on 15 minutes. You may setup the schedule for each channel/camera by repeating the process above or apply the setting of a camera to all other cameras by Copy To...
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IP CamSecure Schedule To insert a new schedule manually Step 1: Left-click and draw the length you want on time table. The scheduled time will show as a grey bar. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 2: Click on the Insert icon and add a new schedule with the setting of Regular Mode, that is, to record video during the time period you set with 30 FPS, Normal video quality and Normal resolution.
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IP CamSecure Schedule Week Mode Custom Default Holiday Week Mode: Schedule the cameras for each day of the week differently. Besides that, you may appoint extra holidays in Week Mode. Default: Follow the same process to setup the schedule for every day in a week. Holiday: You may appoint Holiday(s) on which the system will work as the setting of Sunday.
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IP CamSecure Schedule Encoding Options Panel The setting of a schedule can be adjusted in Encoding Option panel. General: Setup Start Time and End Time, select the recording mode from either Always Record or Record Moving Only which may save storage space. Motion Detect: When selecting Record Moving Only, you may change the detection area by drawing a square on the Original Video screen (the default setting is to detect the entire screen.) You can also adjust the Sensitivity and Frame Interval here.
IP CamSecure Guard Guard *Guard is only in IP CamSecure Pro32. Click on the Guard bottom on the Main Console and start Event and Action Configuration panel. You need to assign an event you want to detect and then set up an action with which the system will react when the assigned event is detected.
IP CamSecure Guard Event Insert Event Step 1 There are three sources of events: Camera (video image), Digital input (device that connected to you PC) and System (condition of your hardware). You can assign multiple events by following the instruction below. Assign a Camera event Step 1: Choose a channel from cameras and click the Insert Event icon.
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - Signal Lost Basic Enable Event: Check the box to activate. Life Cycle Automatic cancel event when event disappears: the alarm/action will be off once the abnormality is fixed or ends. Manual cancel event or event last triggered: The alarm/action will continue until being cancel from the Main Console (Start>Open Event Report>Cancel All).
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - General Motion Detect any movement in the defined detection zone. Enable Event Life Cycle Activated Period Basic Setting Enable Event: Check the box to activate. Life Cycle Automatic cancel event when event disappears: the alarm/action will be off once the abnormality is fixed or ends.
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - General Motion Sensitivity Interval Region Definition Start Simulation Advanced setting Sensitivity: Click and move the control bar to the right to increase sensitivity, that is, a relatively small movement will trigger the alarm. Move to the left to reduce the sensitivity of movement detection.
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - Foreign Object Alarm will be set off when an object appears in the defined area on the screen. Enable Event Life Cycle Activated Period Basic Setting Enable Event: Check the box to activate. Life Cycle Automatic cancel event when event disappears: the alarm/action will be off once the abnormality is fixed or ends.
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - Foreign Object Sensitivity Interval Region Definition Define object size Start Simulation Advanced setting Sensitivity: Click and move the control bar to the right to increase sensitivity, that is, a relatively small movement will trigger the alarm. Move to the left to reduce the sensitivity of movement detection.
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - Foreign Object Hint: For example, if you want to prevent somebody leaving a briefcase in a hallway, you may put a briefcase in the hallway where the camera is aiming on. On the screen of the camera, draw an area fit the size of the briefcase and define it as the object size;...
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - Missing Object Alarm will be set off when an object disappears in the defined area on the screen. Enable Event Life Cycle Activated Period Basic Setting Enable Event: Check the box to activate. Life Cycle Automatic cancel event when event disappears: the alarm/action will be off once the abnormality is fixed or ends.
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - Missing Object Sensitivity Interval Region Definition Define object size Start Simulation Advanced setting Sensitivity: Click and move the control bar to the right to increase sensitivity, that is, a relatively small movement will trigger the alarm. Move to the left to reduce the sensitivity of movement detection.
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - Missing Object Hint: For example, if you want to prevent somebody remove the computer monitor on the desk; draw an area fit the size of the monitor on the screen. Start Simulation: Click Start Simulation bottom and test the function on the preview screen.
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - Lose Focus Alarms you when any of the camera is losing focus and has blur image. Enable Event Life Cycle Activated Period Basic Setting Enable Event: Check the box to activate. Life Cycle Automatic cancel event when event disappears: the alarm/action will be off once the abnormality is fixed or ends.
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - Lose Focus Sensitivity Interval Ignore Lighting Start Simulation Advanced setting Sensitivity: Click and move the control bar to the right to increase sensitivity, that is, a relatively small movement will trigger the alarm. Move to the left to reduce the sensitivity of movement detection.
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - Camera Occlusion Alarms you when any of the camera is blocked. Enable Event Life Cycle Activated Period Basic Setting Enable Event: Check the box to activate. Life Cycle Automatic cancel event when event disappears: the alarm/action will be off once the abnormality is fixed or ends.
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - Camera Occlusion Sensitivity Interval Ignore Lighting Start Simulation Advanced setting Sensitivity: Click and move the control bar to the right to increase sensitivity, that is, a relatively small movement will trigger the alarm. Move to the left to reduce the sensitivity of movement detection.
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - Digital Input Event Step 1 Step 2 Step 1: Click and highlight Digital Input on the event type list and click Inset Event icon. Step 2: Select the device that connected to your system, that is, the PC you are working. Basic Setting Enable Event: Check the box to activate.
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IP CamSecure Guard Event - System Event Step 1 Step 2 Step 1: Click and highlight System Event on the event type list and click Inset Event icon. Step 2: Select the Event Type (Disk Space Exhausted) and then click OK. Basic Setting: for Disk Space Exhausted Enable Event: Check the box to activate.
IP CamSecure Guard Action Insert Action: To setup actions responding to an unusual event. Step 1 Step 2 Step 1: Choose an event and click the “Insert Action” icon. Step 2: There are 6 types of actions: On Screen Display, Play Sound, Send E-mail, Send SMS Message, PTZ Preset Go and Signal Digital Output.
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IP CamSecure Guard Action - Action Type On Screen display: A red warning will be flashing on the screen of Main Console, indicating which type of unusual event is detected. Play Sound: Sound alarm warning. Choose a Wave file (.wav) and the system will play the sound as alarm when an unusual event is detected.
IP CamSecure Config Configuration Config Click the Config icon, selection from the pull-down menu and open the Configuration panel.
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IP CamSecure Config Setting – General Startup Startup: Check the box and make the functions activated as the system starts. You may start/stop the function in Start panel on the Main Console.
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IP CamSecure Config Setting – General Storage Location Keep Video Keep Event Log Keep System Log Keep Counting Log Storage Location: Assign the path and folder in which the system saves the files. Automatic Recycle: The system will automatically delete the oldest file when the storage space is low.
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IP CamSecure Config Setting – General Status Display Audio Preview Audio Preview: Assign the audio channel to preview and the sound volume. Status Display: Select which information you want to show on the information-display on Main Console.
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IP CamSecure Config Setting - Camera Camera List Camera Name OSD Setting Video Parameter Apply All Camera List: The camera(s) connected to the system will show on the panel, click the name of the camera and then you may adjust the setting of it. Camera Name: Name the camera for your convenience.
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IP CamSecure Config Setting - IP Camera Insert Delete Config Insert: Click and the IP Camera/Video Server Setting panel will pop up. You can add an IP camera in the system with the Setting panel. See next page for detail. Delete: Click and delete the selected IP camera(s), click OK and then the IP camera(s) will be removed from the system.
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IP CamSecure Config Setting - IP Camera IP/Video Server Setting panel Network Device Description Network: Fill up the Network field (including Name, IP Address, Http Port, User Name, Password and Protocol) referring to the instruction provided by the manufacturer. Check “Use DNS” to use domain name instead of IP address.
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IP CamSecure Config Setting – IP Camera Camera List Camera Name Video Parameter Goto Web Interface Camera Settings OSD Setting Camera List: The camera connected to the system will show on the panel, click the name of the camera and then you may adjust the setting of it. Camera Name: Name the camera for your convenience.
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IP CamSecure Config Setting - I/O Device Device Setting Module Setting List of devices Input Monitor Output Monitor Module Setting: To name the module device and ID connecting the digital input/output device(s) to your system. I/O Devices: Shows the device(s) installed to the system. ID: Select the number of the I/O port to which you plug the ribbon cable.
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IP CamSecure Config Setting - PTZ Config Basic Setting Advanced Setting Install the PTZ camera following the instruction of the manufacturer. The PTZ camera is usually connected to the PC with RS-485/RS-422. Check the box on the camera list to activate the PTZ control function of a PTZ camera. Basic Setting: Select the Camera Model, Com Port, Baud Rate, and Address according to your PTZ camera.
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IP CamSecure Config Setting – Hotline *Hotline is only in IP CamSecure Pro32. Hotline: To configure the hotlines including E-mail and telephone calls once an unusual event is detected. E-mail: Fill up the information in the blocks. Telephone: Select the modem with which the system is going to dial the info call and give the phone number to the system in Phone Number block.
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IP CamSecure Config Setting - User Account User Account: Manage user accounts here. Highlight the account on the list at the right and then you can change the Privilege setting by check and un-check the box of each function.
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IP CamSecure Config Setting - Address Book *Address Book is only in IP CamSecure Pro32. Address Book: Manage the address book from which you want to give a call or E-mail when an unusual event is detected.
IP CamSecure Config Setting Monitor Display Playback Option Cameras List Auto Scan Layout Playback Option: Execute Playback on the secondary monitor. Cameras List: Show all cameras on the left list. To choose the cameras showed on Primary / Secondary monitor on the right list. *The dual monitor is only in IP CamSecure Pro32.
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IP CamSecure. Video Source When you use LevelOne CamCom Capture Card series , like FCS-8004, you need to set up your video source before you start to activate schedule recording .
IP CamSecure Config Counting Application Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Start Simulation Options Runtime *Counting Application is only in IP CamSecure Pro32. Step 1: Check the box of the camera to apply the Counting Application on it. Step 2: In Operation section, define the detection zones you want. Drag the cruise to draw Region 1 and Region 2 Step 3: Define the object size on the screen.
IP CamSecure Config Log Viewer *IP CamSecure Lite32 only has System Log option in Log Viewer. Step 4 Step1 Step 2 Step 3 Unusual Event: You can check out the history of Unusual Event that had been detected by Smart Guard System.
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IP CamSecure Config Log Viewer Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 System Log: You can choose the Log Type form the pull-down menu, including: Console Startup, Console Shutdown, User Login, User Logout, Start Schedule, Stop Schedule, Execute Recycle, Execute Backup, Enable Channel, Disable Channel, Start Smart Guard. Step1: Choose the type of event you want to check or select “All”...
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IP CamSecure Config Log Viewer - Counting Application Counting Application: You can see the results of Counting Application during the time period you set. Counting Application (Diagram): The Counting Application result data will show in a diagram.
IP CamSecure Config Backup The Backup Till function saves video record and the other log information. You can open the Backup file on any PC with Windows OS and have the full function Playback panel on it. Step 1 Step 1: Click New Period to get the Backup panel to add a new time period you want to backup. Step 2 Step 2: From the window at the top left, select the date you want to backup from, and you will see red/green lines show on the time table implying available data recorded.
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IP CamSecure Config Backup Step 3 Step 5 Step 4 Step 6 Step 3: You can select the data you wan to backup by left-clicking and dragging to high light the time period. Besides using the time-table, you may indicate the time period of the data you want backup by using Start Time and End Time in Date Time Period section.
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IP CamSecure Config Backup Step 7 Step 7: Click the Backup icon and you can see the size of the file. Step 8: Choose the path you want to save the file or, burn the file into a CD (direct CD burning for Windows XP only).
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IP CamSecure Config Erase recorded information from the system Step 1: Click New Period to get the Backup panel to add a new time period you want to erase all the data recorded. Step 2: From the window at the top left, select the date you want to remove from, and you will see red/green lines show on the time table implying available data recorded.
IP CamSecure Config Live Streaming Server – Main Kill Clint Kill All Clients Stop On Live Streaming Server panel, you can see the clients who are logging on your computer and watching the live video from the remote side. Kill Clint: Highlight the IP and click Kill Client to block the client from your system. Kill All Clients: Block all the clients logging to your system.
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IP CamSecure Config Live Streaming Server – Main Maximum Users Port Web server Save Log Options: You can adjust the configuration when the Server is stopped. Port: Assign the network port you want the clients to connect to your system. Use Default Web Server: Check the box and activate Web Server, so that the clients will be able to watch live video on Internet Explorer.
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IP CamSecure Config Live Streaming Server - Black/White List Black/White List IP Field Add/Delete Apply to All Live Streaming Servers White List: Check the box to activate White List filter. Only IPs from the White List are allowed to log-in. Black List: Check the box to activate Black List filter.
IP CamSecure Config Remote Playback Server – Main Kill Clint Kill All Clients Stop *Remote Playback is only in IP CamSecure Pro32 and there are up to 16 channels displayed simultaneously. On Remote Playback Server panel, you can see the clients who are logging on your computer and watching the live video from the remote side.
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IP CamSecure Config Remote Playback Server – Main Port Maximum Users Save Log Options: You can adjust the configuration when the Server is stopped. Port: Assign the network port you want the clients to connect to your system. Maximum Users: Number of users who are allowed to connect to the Remote Playback Server. Save Log: Appoint the folder and save the log information there.
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IP CamSecure Config Remote Playback Server - Black/White List Balck/White List IP Field Add/Delete Apply to All Remote Playback Servers White List: Check the box to activate White List filter. Only IPs from the White List are allowed to log-in. Black List: Check the box to activate Black List filter.
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IP CamSecure Config Remote Playback Server – Performance Total bitrate Individual Camera bitrate Remote Playback Server log information About Click About on the pull-down menu, and then the version of IP CamSecure will show up on the screen.
IP CamSecure Config Live Viewer On Live Viewer console, you can watch the video from remote live streaming server. *There is only 1 channel displayed in Live Viewer in IP CamSecure Lite32 while there are up to 16 channels displayed in IP CamSecure Pro32 simultaneously.
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IP CamSecure Live Viewer Click on Setup icon to start the Setup panel Enter the name of the Server Enter the IP of the Server Connecting port of the Server Enter your user name and password Check the box and automatically log-in Click and the...
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IP CamSecure Live Viewer Log In / Log Out Server and camera PTZ Camera Control Screen Division Minimize Exit Zoom Play / Stop Select the camera from the server, hold the left click and drag the camera to where you want to put the image.
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IP CamSecure Live Viewer IP of the Server Cameras Log In / Log Out Play / Stop Disconnect Screen Division *There is only 1 channel displayed in Live Viewer via web browser in IP CamSecure Lite32 while there are up to 4 channels displayed in IP CamSecure Pro32 simultaneously. IP of the server: Open an Internet Explorer and enter the IP number of the server followed by the connecting port.
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