1 Overview The Outdoor HD IP Camera is an integrated IP Camera with a color CMOS sensor enabling viewing in High Definition resolution.It combines a high quality digital video camera, with a powerful web server, to bring clear video to your desktop from anywhere on your local network or over the Internet. The IP Camera supports the industry-standard H.264 compression technology, drastically reducing file sizes and conserving valuable network bandwidth.
1.2 PoE (Power over Ethernet) The Network Camera is PoE-compliant, allowing transmission of power and data via a single Ethernet cable. Such as the following picture: connect the Network Camera to a PoE-enabled router / switch via Ethernet cable. 1.3 Read before Use Please first verify that all contents received are complete according to the Package Contents listed below.
1.5 Physical Description 1 LAN 10/100M adaptive Ethernet interface. Through this interface, IP camera can be connected with various network devices, such as hub, router, etc. 2 Audio Input / Output Audio input interface The jack is used to plug external input device such as sound pick up device directly. Here microphone cannot directly insert to the interface, it must connect to adapter first.
1.6 SD Card Management The record files of the IPC can be stored in the SD Card. You need open the IP Camera, then plug the SD card into SD card slot inside the IP Camera. When you plug in the SD card during the camera work process, please reboot the camera again, or else the SD Card may be cannot work well.
2 Access the IP Camera 2.1 Hardware Connection & Software Installation a. Connect the camera to the LAN network (Router or Switch) via network cable. b. If the Router or Switch supports PoE function, power adapter is unnecessary. If not, please connect the power adapter to the camera.
Double click the IP address of the camera; the camera login page should be open in your default browser. (2) Https:// LAN IP + Https Port no. The default HTTPS port NO. is 443. You can use the URL to access the camera: https:// LAN IP + HTTPS port Go to Settings >...
Access your IP Camera from the Internet You can access the IP Camera from the Internet (remote access). Enter the WAN IP address and port number in your standard browser. For example, you would enter http:// 183.37.28.254:88 2.3.2 Remote Access If you want to access your camera by web browser outside of your LAN, you need to configure following configurations.
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Click Enable DDNS and click Save. The content in the Manufacture's DDNS column is the domain name of your camera. 3. You can see the port of your camera here. If you want to set Remote Access for several cameras on the same network, you will need to change the HTTPS port for each camera.
Click Add New. Input the port and IP address of your camera and click Save. Here you have finished the Port Forwarding setup. 5. Now you can access your IP camera by https://domain name: HTTPS port via the Internet. 2.4 Using the VLC Player This camera supports RTSP streaming, here you can view the camera using VLC player.
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port number: If there is the RSTP port number on the Port page, you must only use RTSP port number. otherwise, you must only use http port number. Videostream: Here support two modes: videoMain and videoSub. When the network speed is bad, here you had better select videoSub.
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Sometimes you may need to enter the user name and password again. Click OK and you can see the real-time preview.
NOTE: If you modify the camera's username or password, you had better reboot the camera, or else the new username and password cannot take effect when you enter the authentication in the VLC. 2.5 IP Camera Connection to the Server Device supports ONVIF 2.2.1 protocol,You can easily access the NVR with ONVIF or server with ONVIF.
3 Surveillance Software GUI Please refer to the 2.1 Hardware Connection & Software Installation if you install the camera for the first time. You can start to learn about software operation after finish quick installation. 3.1 Login Window Section1 Enter the Username and password The default administrator username is admin with no password, please change the password at first using and prevent unauthorized users login the camera.
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After logging in for the first time, you will go to Setup Wizard automatically. Here you can set the basic parameters of camera, such as camera name, camera time, IP configuration. Country: Select the country. Device Name: You could give name for your camera. System Time: Select the time zone you need to set the date, time,format, etc.
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IP: Set IP address of the camera. You could choose to obtain an IP automatically or set the IP address according to your needs. Click Finish to finish setting.
3.2 Surveillance Window Section 1 Live Video / Settings Buttons / Playback : Path to surveillance window. Click this button and back to the surveillance window : Path to Administrator Control Panel. Click it, and it will lead to Administrator Control Panel and do advanced settings.
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type / Resolution / Maximum frame rate / Bit rate. (Different models support different specific mode. ) 1) Stream type no. Identify the stream type. 2) Resolution The bigger the resolution, the better of the image quality is. If you are accessing the camera via internet and want to get more fluent video streaming, please select resolution VGA.
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Section 4 IR LED Lights Click Infra led and there are three modes to adjust the infrared led: Auto, Manual and Schedule. Auto: Select it and the camera will adjust the infra led (on or off) automatically. Manual: Select it and turn off the infra led manually. Schedule: Select it and the IR led light will be off at the schedule period.
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4------ Audio Click the button and the icon will become to , you can hear the sound around the camera if the camera has connected with other audio input device through the Audio Input port of the camera, Click the icon again and stop audio.
4 Advanced Camera Settings Click the button Settings, goes to Administrator Control Panel to make advanced camera settings. 4.1 Setup Wizard The way to set it,you could refer to 4.1 Setup Wizard. 4.2 Device Status Device Status contains four columns: Device Information, Device Status, Session Status and Log, it will show you various information about your camera.
4.2.3 Session Status Session status will display who and which IP is visiting the camera now. 4.2.4 Log The log record shows who and which IP address accessed or logout the camera and when.
Reboot the camera and clear the log records. 4.3 Basic Settings This section allows you to configure your Camera Name, Camera Time, Mail, User Accounts and Multi-Device. 4.3.1 Camera Name Default alias is anonymous. You can define a name for your camera here such as apple. Click Save to save your changes.
Click Save button to submit your settings. NOTE: If the power supply of camera is disconnect, you need set the camera's time again. 4.3.3 User Accounts Here you can create users and set privilege, visitor, operator or administrator. The default administrator user accounts are admin with a blank password.
Delete: Select the account which you want to delete, then click Delete button to take effect. NOTE The default administrator account cannot be deleted, but you can add other administrator users. 4.3.4 Multi-Camera If you want to view multi-surveillance screens on one window, you need to login one camera, and set it as the main device, and do Multi-Device Settings, add other cameras to the first one camera.
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can add more cameras in the list in LAN for monitoring. The camera's software supports up to 9 IP Cameras online simultaneously. Click The 2nd Device and click the item in the Device List in LAN, the Alias, Host and Http Port will be filled in the boxes below automatically.
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Back to Surveillance Windows, and click Four Windows option, you will see four cameras you added. Add cameras in WAN If you want to view all cameras via the internet (remote computer), you will need to add them using DDNS domain name.
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Click Multi-Device Settings. Choose The 2nd Device. Fill in the 2nd camera's name, DDNS domain name, port number. Enter user name and password and then choose Add. 1----- The camera model: MJ or H.264. 2----- The 2nd camera's name 3----- Fill in the 2nd camera's DDNS host not LAN IP 4 ---- Enter the 2nd camera's user name and password 5---- Click Add button and to take effect NOTE: Here the Host must be entered as the second camera's DDNS domain name, not its LAN IP.
Return to video window. You will see all of the cameras accessible through the internet. When you are away from home, you can use the first camera's DDNS domain name and port to view all the cameras via internet. 4.4 Network This section will allow you to configure your camera's IP, DDNS, UPnP, Port, Mail Settings and FTP Settings and so on.
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Changing settings here is the same as using the Equipment Search Tool. It is recommended that you use the subnet mask, gateway and DNS server from your locally attached PC. If you don't know the subnet mask, gateway and DNS server, you can check your computer's local area connection as follows: Control Panel >...
If you don't know the DNS server, you can use the same settings as the Default Gateway. 4.4.2 DDNS The camera has embedded a unique DDNS domain name when producing, and you can directly use the domain name, you can also use the third party domain name. ipcamera Domain Name Here take cp4911.myipcamera.org for example.
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camera via internet would be http://cp4911.myipcamera.org:8000 Restore DDNS to factory: If you have configured Third Party DDNS successfully, but you want to use Manufacturer's DDNS again , here click this button and start Manufacturer's DDNS Service. Third Party Domain Name Settings User can also use third part DDNS, such as www.no-ip.com, www.3322.com Here take www.no-ip.com for example:...
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Please create the domain name step by step according to instructions on www.no-ip.com Step 2 DO DDNS Service Settings within the Camera Please set DDNS Settings within the camera by hostname, a user name and password you've got from www.no-ip.com Take hostname ycxgwp.no-ip.info, user name ipcamera, password ipcamera2012 for example.
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Thirdly, fill ipcamera as DDNS user, fill password ipcamera2012 as DDNS password, fill ycxgwp.no-ip.info as DDNS domain and server URL, Then click save to make effect. The camera will restart and to take the DDNS settings effective. Fourthly, after the restart, login the camera, and go to option of Device Status on the administrator panel, and check if the DDNS status is successful.
4.4.3 UPnP The default UPnP status is closed. You can enable UPnP, then the camera's software will be configured for port forwarding. Back to the Device Status panel, you can see the UPnP status: The camera's software will be configured for port forwarding. There may be issues with your routers security settings, and sometimes may error.
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Select which camera you'd like to change the port for, and right click . Modify the Http Port. Enter the Username and password, click OK. Step 2: Enter the username and password of the Administrator (default username is admin with a blank password), and click OK to apply changes.
NOTE If the camera cannot be accessed, please make sure the port forwarding is succeed. HTTPS Port: The default port is 443. You can use the url to access the camera: https:// IP + HTTPS port. ONVIF Port: By default, the ONVIF port is set to 888. Also, they can be assigned with another port number between 1 and 65535 (except 0 and 65534).
Test result. If the test success, you can see the Success behind the Test, at the same time the receivers will receive a test mail. If the test fails with one of the following errors after clicking Test, verify that the information you entered is correct and again select Test .
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FTP server: If your FTP server is located on the LAN, you can set as Figure as above. If you have an FTP server which you can access on the internet, you can set as below. Port: Default is port 21. If changed, external FTP client program must change the server connection port accordingly.
4.4.7 P2P Access the camera by smart phone (Android or iOS operating system), please refer to the Quick Installation Guide. First of all, you need to open the P2P function of the camera at Settings > Network > P2P. 4.5 Video This section allows you to configure Video stream settings, On screen display and Snapshot settings.
Bit Rate: Generally speaking, the larger the bit rate is, the clearer video will become. But the bit rate configuration should combine well with the network bandwidth. When the bandwidth is very narrow, and bit rate is large, that will lead to video can not play well. Frame Rate: Note that a larger frame size takes up more bandwidth.
Allow On Screen Display Mask There are two options: Yes or NO. Select yes and draw a mask area on the video, the mask area will be black on the video. The privacy zone Click OK button and return to the Privacy Zone page, click Save to take effect. Back to the surveillance window, you can see the privacy area as the following picture: 4.5.4 Snapshot Settings n this page you can set the snapshot pictures' image quality and the storage path.
Manual snap Quality: Low, Middle and High. The higher the quality, the picture will be clearer. Pictures Save To: FTP or SD card. If you have done FTP and Alarm settings, when alarming, the camera will snap pictures to the FTP or SD card automatically. If you select the FTP, you can set the file name which the picture save to.
4.6 Motion Detection IP Camera supports Motion Detection Alarm, when the motion has been detected, it will send emails or upload images to FTP. To enable motion detection, follow the steps below: 1 Enable Motion detection 2 Trigger interval--- The interval time between two motion detections. Here supports 5s / 6s / 7s / 8s / 9s / 10s / 11s / 12s / 13s / 14s / 15s.
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Settings first. C Take Snapshot If you select this checkbox, when the motion has been detected, the camera will snap the live view window as a still picture and load it to the FTP. Make sure you have set FTP and set FTP as the storage path in Video > Snapshot settings panel.
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Click this button and select all time range . ② Specify an alarm schedule Click the week day words, the corresponding column will be selected. For example, click TUE, the all column of TUE turns to red, that means during Tuesday whole day, when something moving in the detection area, the camera will alarm.
4.7 Record 4.7.1 Storage Location Recording Location: SD card, FTP. SD card: The video will be saved in SD card. Make sure the camera has been inserted the SD card. On this page, you can see the available space of the SD card. FTP: The video will be saved in FTP.
4.7.4 Schedule Recording When the video is selected as FTP, the device supports scheduled recording. When the video is selected as SD card, the device supports pumping frame recording.
Record frame: There are six frame selections, such as 1 / 30, 4 / 30, 8 / 30, 15 / 30, 24 / 30, 30 / 30. Recommended default is 4 / 30. The greater the Frame rate is, the sharper picture quality is, and the greater of storage space is, the shorter the storage time is.
Go to the Settings > Status > Device Status page, you can see the SD card status. The default storage path of alarm record files is SD card, when the available size of SD card is less than 256M, the old record files will be deleted automatically. 4.8 Firewall This section explains how to control the access permission by checking the client PC's IP addresses.
parameters. 4.9.2 System Upgrade Click Download the latest firmware, you will see the following screen. And click Save to save the firmware on your computer locally. Your current firmware version will be displayed on your screen. You may go to the Status > Device Information page to check for the latest firmware versions available.
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CAUTION: If your camera works well with the current firmware, we recommend not upgrading. Please don't upgrade the firmware unnecessarily. Your camera may be damaged if mis-configured during an upgrade. NOTE 1) Don't upgrade the firmware through the web UI in WAN, or else the upgrade may be failed. 2) Please ensure you have download the correct firmware package for your camera before upgrading.
4.9.3 Patch Installation Click Browse to select the correct patch file, and then click Install Patch to install the patch. Do not turn off the power during it installing. After installing is complete, you will receive a system prompt. 4.9.4 Factory Reset Click Factory Reset button and all parameters will return to factory settings if selected.
5 Playback On this page you can view the record files stored in the SD card. Section 1 Define the Record files time and Type : The storage path of record files : Here supports three types: current day, current month and All records. Another way, select the time on the time&date manually.
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Section 2 Search record files On this panel you can see all record files satisfy the conditions you set. Section 3 Play / Stop / audio / Full screen Buttons Please select one record file before use these buttons. Click this button to play the record files. Click this button to stop the record files.
6.1.3 I have Forgotten the Administrator Password To reset the administrator password, you had better unplug the network cable firstly. After that, press and hold down the RESET BUTTON about 5 seconds. Releasing the reset button, the password will turn to the factory default.
If you allow the ActiveX running, but still could not see living video. Please change another port number to try. Don't use port 8000. NOTE : Make sure that your firewall or anti-virus software does not block the camera or ActiveX. If you could not see video, please shut down firewall or anti-virus software to try again.
you do port forwarding manually in your router. 6.2 Default Parameters Default network parameters IP address: obtain dynamically Subnet mask: obtain dynamically Gateway: obtain dynamically DDNS: Embedded ipcamera DDNS Service Username and password Default admin username: admin with a blank password 6.3 Specification Sensor High Definition Color CMOS Sensor...
Apple Safari. Motion Detection Alarm via E-Mail, upload alarm snapshot to FTP Privacy Block Set privacy area manually User Accounts Three levels user role Other Features Firewall Supports IP Filtering Storage SD card, FTP and local storage Reset Reset button is available Power Supply DC 12V / 1.0A Power...
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user's authority to operate this equipment. This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment. This equipment should be installed and operated with minimum distance 20cm (7.9in) between the radiator& your body. This transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter. CE Mark Warning This is a Class A product.
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