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  • Page 1 LevelOne WCS-2030 11g Wireless IP Network Camera User’s Manual...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Before You Use This Product................1 Warning Before Install.................. 2 Package Contents ..................4 Installation ....................5 Hardware installation................5 Software installation................7 User Interface ................13 Action buttons................14 Function buttons ................15 Setup ................... 16 System Setting ................
  • Page 3 Definitions in Configuration ................. 44 System parameters ................45 Security settings .................. 46 Network settings.................. 47 General ..................47 HTTP .................... 47 Streaming ..................47 WLAN Configuration ................ 48 Mail & FTP................... 49 SMTP .................... 49 FTP ....................50 DDNS and UPnP settings ............... 51 Video codec parameters ................
  • Page 4 Network configuration URL............... 54 DDNS & UPnP configuration URL ............56 Mail & FTP configuration URL ............56 Video configuration URL ..............57 Image quality configuration URL ............59 Application configuration URL ............59 Homepage layout configuration URL ..........60 D.

  • Page 5: Before You Use This Product

    Before You Use This Product The use of surveillance devices may be prohibited by law in your country. The Network Camera is not only a high-performance web-ready camera but also can be part of a flexible surveillance system. It is the user’s responsibility to ensure that the operation of such devices is legal before installing this unit for its intended use.

  • Page 6: Warning Before Install

    Warning Before Install...

  • Page 8: Package Contents

    Package Contents...

  • Page 9: Installation

    Installation In this manual, "User" refers to whoever has access to the Network Camera, and "Administrator" refers to the person who can configure the Network Camera and grant user access to the camera. Hardware installation Please verify that your product package contains all the accessories listed in the foregoing Package Contents.
  • Page 10 To install in wireless LAN If the Ethernet is not available while power on, the Network Camera will search for any access point with the SSID “default”. Once any access point is found, the LED will turn green to wait for installation. If the network environment cannot meet the default settings, install Network Camera in Ethernet to proceed with wireless LAN configuration.

  • Page 11: Software Installation

    Software installation The following are steps for the software installation. STEP 1 Put the Installation disk into the CD-ROM drive, and the installation should start automatically. If the installation does not start, click on “Start” on the lower left corner of your screen, open “My Computer” and double click on the CD-ROM icon. The Installation Wizard Installation Window will appear.
  • Page 12 STEP 2 There are links on this page, including Install Software, User’s Manual and Customer Homepage. Click on “Install Software” to enter Install Software page.
  • Page 13 STEP 3 There are links on this page, including Installation Wizard, User’s Manual and Surveillance Software. Click on “Installation Wizard” to launch the setup program.
  • Page 14 STEP 4 Select the installation directory for this application software and click on “Next”. You can also change the installation directory from the default directory by clicking on “Browse…”...
  • Page 15 STEP 5 Select a program folder to install the application software into and then click on “Next”.
  • Page 16 STEP 6 Click on “Finish” to finish installation. This completes the installation.

  • Page 17: User Interface

    Using Installation Wizard User Interface Once you run the Installation Wizard, you will see the user interface. You can click on the device list to select a device. The three buttons (Setup, Upgrade, and Reset to default) won’t be enabled until you select at least one device. Installation wizard allows you to setup or upgrade multiple devices (of the same model) at the same time.

  • Page 18: Action Buttons

    Action buttons Click on this button to clean up the device list and search all devices on the within the same subnet again. It will take about 5 seconds. To setup or upgrade the devices which can not be found by Installation Wizard, please click on this button to add them manually.

  • Page 19: Function Buttons

    Function buttons Click on this button to modify the settings of the selected devices. For more detail, please refer to Upgrade. Click on this button to upgrade the firmware of the selected devices. For more detail, please refer to Upgrade. Click on this button to reset the selected devices to default settings.

  • Page 20: Setup

    Setup When you select one or multiple devices (of the same model) , the “Setup” button will be enabled. Click on it to modify the settings of the selected device(s). After clicking on the “Setup” button, Installation Wizard will try to connect to the selected device(s). If the authentication is failed, it will popup a dialog) to ask for correct password and http port number.

  • Page 21: Change Root Password

    Change root password To change the administrator’s password, type the new password in both root password and confirm password text boxes identically. What is typed will be displayed as asterisks for security purposes. The maximum password is 14 characters.

  • Page 22: Adjust Date And Time

    Adjust date and time There are three ways to adjust system date and time. The easiest way is to make Network Camera "Sync with computer time". The second way “Manual” is to set the date and time manually by entering new values. Notice the format in the related field while typing.

  • Page 23: Fix The Ip Address

    Fix the IP address Check "Reset IP address at next boot" will force Network Camera to reconfigure its IP address whenever it reboot. If you want the Network Camera to use a fixed IP, please uncheck the "Reset IP address at next boot" and assign a valid IP address. If you select more than one device, changing the IP address is not allowed and the IP address field will be disabled.

  • Page 24: Upgrade

    be reachable. Upgrade When you select one device or multiple devices (of the same model), the “Upgrade” button will be enabled. Click on it to upgrade the firmware of the selected device(s). After click on the “Upgrade” button, Installation Wizard will try to connect the selected device(s).

  • Page 25: Package Information

    Package Information The package information will show the information about the file that you selected. Firmware version: The version number of the selected firmware. Supported script version: The maximum script version that firmware can support. Web page version: The version number of the web page. Script version: Script version used by web page and server script.

  • Page 26: File Selection

    File Selection You can use the file combolist to browse the file that you want upgrade onto the selected device(s). After selecting the file, Installation Wizard will check whether the file you selected is correct. If it is correct, then the package information will display the information about the file and enable the “Upgrade”...

  • Page 27: How To Use

    How to Use Authentication After opening the Web browser and typing in the URL of the Network Camera, a dialogue window pops up to request a username and password. Upon successful authentication, the following figure is displayed. The foreground is the login window and the background shows the message if authentication fails.

  • Page 28: Installing Plug-In

    Installing plug-in For the initial access to the Network Camera in Windows, the web browser may prompt for permission to install a new plug-in for the Network Camera. Permission request depends on the Internet security settings of the user’s PC or notebook. If the highest security level is set, the computer may prohibit any installation and execution attempt.

  • Page 30: Primary User's Capability

    Primary user’s capability Main Screen with Camera View The main page layout has two parts: Configuration functions: The camera can be configured using these user interfaces. Camera View: What the camera sees. Click on the configuration link to the left of the image window to enter the configuration page.

  • Page 31: Digital Zoom

    Digital Zoom Click on the magnifier icon under the camera view then the digital zoom control panel will be shown. Uncheck “Disable digital zoom” and use the slider control to change the zoom factors.

  • Page 32: Snapshot

    Snapshot Click on “Snapshot”, web browser will pop up a new window to show the snapshot. Users can point at the snapshot and click the right button of mouse to save it.

  • Page 33: Client Settings

    Client settings At the initial access to the “Connection type” page in Windows, the web browser will ask for a new plug-in installation, the plug-in being the Network Camera. This plug-in has been registered for certification and can be used to change the parameters at the client’s site.
  • Page 34 packets may be lost due to network burst traffic and images may be obscured. The TCP protocol allows for less packet loss and produces a more accurate video display. The downside with this protocol is that the real-time effect is worse than that with the UDP protocol.

  • Page 35: Administrator's Capability

    Administrator’s capability Fine-tuning for Best Performance Best performance generally equates to the fastest image refresh rate with the best video quality, and at the lowest network bandwidth as possible. The three factors, “Maximum frame rate”, “Fix bit rate”, and “Fix quality” on the Video Configuration page, are correlative to allow for achieving the best performance possible.

  • Page 36: Only Quality Images Will Do

    and set the maximum frame rate to 30 fps. If the images vary dramatically in your environment, you may want to slow the maximum frame rate down to 20 fps in order to lower the rate of data transmission. This allows for better video quality and the human eyes cannot readily detect the differences between those of 20, 25, or 30 frames per second.

  • Page 37: Opening Accounts For New Users

    Opening accounts for new users Protect Network Camera by passwords The Network Camera is shipped without any password by default. That means everyone can access the Network Camera including the configuration as long as the IP address is known. It is necessary to assign a password if the Network Camera is intended to be accessed by others.

  • Page 38: Change Homepage Layout

    viewers exceed the limit. The overloaded viewers will have snapshot mode instead. Change homepage layout...
  • Page 39 How to change the font color 1. Click on “Configuration” on homepage, 2. Click on “Homepage layout” at the left column, 3. Find “Font color” and pull down the list to choose any color you like, 4. Click on “Save” button. * The font color is better to contrast with the background.
  • Page 40 3. Find “Logo graph” and choose “blank”, 4. Click on “Save” button. If you want to use the image from another web site as logo, 3. Find “Logo graph” and choose “Url”, 4. Type the URL of the image on the Internet in the edit box, for example, “http://dgl.microsoft.com/thumbnails/j023/j0234430(t).gif”, 5.
  • Page 41 How to design my own homepage to replace the current one 1. Prepare your own homepage with size less than 65000 bytes and rename it to user.htm, 2. Insert the html codes of video object, the bold Italian text in the following example, into the appropriate position in user.htm.
  • Page 42 3. Open an FTP client program and connect to the Network Camera. The user name and password is as same as the Administrator’s. 4. Transfer user.htm in local folder to the Network Camera, 5. Close the FTP program and reload the homepage of the Network Camera, 6.

  • Page 43: Build A Multimedia Web Attraction Site

    Build a multimedia web attraction site Demo on multiple sites – mid-scale service The Network Camera can allow ten visitors on-line simultaneously. After Installation, focus the Network Camera on any view you would like friends to share and tell the visitors to type in the web browser address.
  • Page 44 If you want to expand to allow in more viewers, the host server should be able to handle large network traffic, which must handle the picture refreshing from the Network Camera. If the web space has FTP service, Set the Network Camera as an FTP client to upload the pictures. The access to the Network Camera will be independent of the number of viewers and the picture quality will remain constant.
  • Page 45 ****** Example homepage begin ****** <html> <head> <title>Example - auto refresh</title> </head> <body background="/pic/wallppr.jpg"> <p align=left> <font size="7" face="Comic Sans MS" color="#FF0000"> Network Camera Demo </font> </p> <p align=left> <!-- Begin of scripts to auto refresh the image. Change the IP address in the image URL and refreshrate if necessary.

  • Page 46: Build A Security Application

    Build a security application The Administrator can use the built-in motion detection to monitor any movement to perform many useful security applications. To upload the snapshots, users can choose either email or FTP according to user’s needs. Both e-mail and FTP use the network settings on the network page.

  • Page 47: Software Revision Upgrade

    Software revision upgrade Customers can obtain the up-to-date software from the web site. An easy-to-use Upgrade Wizard is provided to upgrade the Network Camera with just a few clicks. The upgrade function is opened to the Administrator only. To upgrade the system, follow the procedures below.

  • Page 48: Definitions In Configuration

    Definitions in Configuration Only the Administrator can access system configuration. Each category in the left column will be explained in the following pages. The bold texts are the specific phrases on the Option pages. The Administrator may type the URL below the figure to directly enter the frame page of configuration.

  • Page 49: System Parameters

    System parameters "Keep current date and time" Click on this to reserve the current date and time of the Network Camera. An internal real-time clock maintains the date and time even when the power of the system is turned off. "Sync with computer time"...

  • Page 50: Security Settings

    Security settings “Root password” Change the Administrator’s password by typing in the new password identically in both text boxes. The typed entries will be displayed as asterisks for security purposes. After pressing , the web browser will ask the Administrator for the new password for access.

  • Page 51: Network Settings

    Network settings Any changes made on this page will restart the system in order to validate the changes. Make sure every field is entered correctly before clicking on "Reset IP address at next boot", the default status is checked to get IP address automatically at the server start.

  • Page 52: Wlan Configuration

    “Improve audio quality in low bandwidth environment” If the Network Camera seems to work in a low bandwidth network environment, the user can use this option to see if audio quality can be improved by sacrificing some real-time synchronization. “Mute” This can force the transmission protocol to HTTP and disable audio. WLAN Configuration “SSID”...

  • Page 53: Mail & Ftp

    “Key length” The administrator can select the key length among 64, 128 or 256 bits. 64bits is the default setting. “Key format” Hexadecimal or ASCII. “HEX” is the default setting. “HEX” digits consist of the numbers 0~9 and the letters A-F. “ASCII”...

  • Page 54: Ftp

    “Password of SMTP 2”, granted password on the backup email server. “Recipient email address 2” The email address of the recipients for the backup server. “Sender email address”, the email address of the sender. “Local FTP server port” This can be other than the default port 21. The user can change this value from 1 to 65535.

  • Page 55: Ddns And Upnp Settings

    DDNS and UPnP settings “Enable DDNS” This option turns on the DDNS function. “Provider” The provider list contains four hosts that provide DDNS services. Please connect to the service provider’s website to make sure the service charges. “Host name” If users wants to use DDNS service, this field must be filled. Please input the hostname that is registered in the DDNS server.
  • Page 56 fluorescent light. There are three dependent parameters provided for video performance adjustment. “Maximum frame rate” This limits the maximal refresh frame rate, which can be combined with the “Video quality control” to optimize bandwidth utilization and video quality. If the user wants to fix the bandwidth utilization regardless of the video quality, choose “Fix bit rate”...

  • Page 57: Motion Detection

    Motion detection “Enable motion detection” Check this option to turn on motion detection. Click on this button to add a new window. At most three windows can exist simultaneously. Use the mouse to click, hold, and drag the window frame to resize or the title bar to move.

  • Page 58: Application Settings

    Application settings Weekly schedule “Sun” ~ “Sat” Select the days of the week to perform the following operations. “Snapshots begin at” Set the time to start operations. “Snapshots stop at” Set the time to stop operations. Setting identical begin time and stop time means 24-hour operation. “All the time except for the above schedule”...
  • Page 59 names either sequential event operation. instance, “video@20030102030405.jpg” means the JPEG image was captured in the year 2003, January the 2 , at 3 o’clock, 4 minute, and 5 second. If this suffix is omitted, the file named “video.jpg” on the external FTP server will be refreshed at the specified interval.

  • Page 60: Homepage Layout Settings

    Homepage layout settings “Use the customized homepage”, check this option to use “user.htm” uploaded by the Administrator instead of the default one. Refer to the section “Administrator’s capability” for detail usage. The following options related to the default homepage will not affect the “user.htm”.

  • Page 61: Viewing System Log

    Viewing system log Click the link on the configuration page to view the system log file. The content of the file provides useful information about configuration and connection after system boot- Viewing system parameters Click on this link on the configuration page to view the entire system’s parameter set. The content is the same as those in CONFIG.INI.

  • Page 62: Appendix

    Appendix A. Troubleshooting Status LED After powering up, the Network Camera performs a self-diagnostic to detect any hardware defects. The following table lists the LED patterns in general. In case of any fatal error, the LED will blink in a pattern other than those below. Condition LED color During self-diagnostic after power on...
  • Page 63 needs authentication. If you are one of the managed users, you have to ask the Administrator for the password. If you are the Administrator, there is no way to recover the root password except for restoring factory default. Refer to Appendix A for the procedures.
  • Page 64 Q Why does the image not refresh regularly? A Some anti-virus programs filter the received web content. It takes time to perform data examination and affect the streaming application such as the Network Camera. However it only affects the HTP mode of the Network Camera. If the network allows only HTTP mode, disable the web filtering function of the anti-virus program temporarily.
  • Page 65 Q How can I keep the Network Camera as private as possible? A The Network Camera is designed for surveillance purposes and has many flexible interfaces. The user authentication and special confirmation in installation can keep the Network Camera from unauthorized access. You may also change the HTTP port to non-public number.

  • Page 66: Url Commands Of The Network Camera

    C. URL commands of the Network Camera For some customers who already have their own web site or web control application, the Network Camera can be easily integrated through convenient URLs. This section lists the commands in URL format corresponding to the basic functions of the erase Network Camera.

  • Page 67: Restart System

    Restart system /setup/reset.cgi Restart the Network Camera without warning.

  • Page 68: Page Url

    Page URL The configuration page has a frame layout including an option list frame and an option page frame. Referenced URLs, except for the configuration page, direct users to the option page frame only. Some pages, such as image quality setting and preset setting, are opened in new windows for preview.

  • Page 69: General Format Of Command Url

    General format of command URL Every configuration can be set through URL with POST method by the Administrator only. <general format> URL[?[name=value][&name=value]……] <method> POST <authorized user> root System configuration URL URL: /setup/system.cgi NAME VALUE DESCRIPTION host <text string shorter than 40 system name characters>...

  • Page 70: Security Configuration Url

    Security configuration URL URL: /setup/security.cgi NAME VALUE DESCRIPTION rootpass <text string shorter than 16 change root password characters> username <text string shorter than 16 add new user characters> userpass <text string shorter than 16 new user's password characters> deluser <text string shorter than 16 existing user name characters>...
  • Page 71 band optimal for the low bandwidth keep the original way mute disable audio enable audio ssid <text string shorter than 32 SSID characters> set wireless mode to infrastructure set wireless mode to Ad-Hoc chan 1 ~ 14 wireless channel set TX rate to 1M bps set TX rate to 2M bps set TX rate to 5.5M bps set TX rate to 11M bps...

  • Page 72: Ddns & Upnp Configuration Url

    DDNS & UPnP configuration URL URL: /setup/ddns.html NAME VALUE DESCRIPTION enddns anything Enable DDNS function. This option must be resent whenever the URL is called, if DDNS function is to be enabled. provider DynDNS.org(Dynamic) DynDNS.org(Custom) TZO.com dhs.org host <text string shorter than 63 hostname Network characters>...

  • Page 73: Video Configuration Url

    smtp2Usr <string shorter than user name secondary SMTP characters> server smtp2pass <string shorter than password for secondary SMTP server characters> mail2 <text string shorter than 80 mail recipient address characters> retmail <text string shorter than 80 return email address characters> ftpp <number less than 65535>...
  • Page 74 normal normal x 2 double mode 50Hz synchronize with 50Hz utility 60Hz synchronize with 60Hz utility quality fixb fix bit rate <other than fixb> fix quantization quan lowest quality of video lower quality of video normal quality of video higher quality of video highest quality of video bitrate 64000...

  • Page 75: Image Quality Configuration Url

    fixed outdoor(6000K) Image quality configuration URL URL: /setup/image.cgi NAME VALUE DESCRIPTION brightness <-5 ~ 5> adjust brightness of image contrast <-5 ~ 5> adjust contrast of image <-5 ~ 5> adjust hue of image saturation <-5 ~ 5> adjust saturation of image preview <not required>...

  • Page 76: Homepage Layout Configuration Url

    Homepage layout configuration URL URL: /setup/layout.cgi NAME VALUE DESCRIPTION cuslogo blank hide logo use default logo use image from URL logourl <text string shorter than 80 URL of image for logo characters> linkurl <text string shorter than 80 URL to link when clicking on logo characters>...

  • Page 77: Technical Specifications

    D. Technical specifications - System Frequency: 50 – 16000Hz CPU: Trimedia PNX1300 S/N ratio: more than 60dB RAM: 16MB SDRAM ROM: 2MB FLASH ROM - LED indicator Dual color status indicator Networking - Dimension Protocol 28.6mm(D) * 72.8mm(W) * 115.2mm(H) TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, FTP, DDNS, UPnP , Telnet, NTP, DNS and DHCP - Weight...

  • Page 78: Gnu General Public License

    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it.
  • Page 79 Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
  • Page 80 c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this License.
  • Page 81 compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
  • Page 82 It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system, which is implemented by public license practices.
  • Page 83 NO WARRANTY 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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