MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Model : IP Cam/IP Cam User Manual Revision: 020205 Date: 2009/04/21 For firmware version v020205 IP Cam : for wired model IP Cam(w) for wireless model IP Cam/w : for both wired and wireless model...
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera List of Figures and Tables Figure 2-1: Major components in the front panel Figure 2-2: Major components in the back panel Figure 2-3: IP Camera connection diagram. Figure 2-4: Connect Ethernet cable to a switch/router. Figure 2-5: The installation CD disk Figure 2-6: The ID/Password card Figure 2-7: Running window of CamView program...
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SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 5-4: Antenna Figure 5-5: Quick installation guide Figure 5-6: Ethernet cable Figure 5-7: Installation CD Figure 5-8: ID/Password Card Table A-1: List of tested Wireless AP/router devices Table A-2: List of tested Wired NAT/router devices...
It supports the WEP and WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) security modes to provide the best security for wireless networks. (IP Cam model only support wired Ethernet interface) The IP Camera provides motion detection function. Users can easily setup this function and receive the notification with the snapshot images through email and/or ftp when some motion events are detected.
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SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera So, the differences are the followings: ♦ Public IP address needed ? ♦ Dynamic DNS needed ? ♦ Port mapping in router? ♦ Virtual server in router ? ♦ UPnP support in router ? ♦ What’s needed ? ID and Password...
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 2. Hardware description and quick installation/usage The IP Camera is designed to be very easy to install and use. First, let’s see the major components of the IP Camera products. 2.1. Major hardware components. The major components on the front panel of the IP Camera products are the built-in microphone, lens and LEDs : 1.
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Ethernet link is ok, the Ethernet indication LED on the front side will be blue light. 4. Reset button – this is the button to reset the IP Camera to default factory settings. You need to use a small stick like pencil or tooth stick to press the reset button for more than 3 seconds to enable the reset function.
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SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 2-3: IP Camera connection diagram. Figure 2-4: Connect Ethernet cable to a switch/router. Second, Install the CamView software on the notebook/PC Please insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive in your notebook or personal computer (must be running Microsoft Windows OS).
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IP Camera any time. The only thing left right now for seeing the video is to double click the IP CAM ID item in the “Auto Search” list. For example, if the IP CAM ID is 001-001-029, you can then double click the 001001029 item in the “Auto Search” list to view the video.
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SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera software, key in the IP CAM ID and Password(from the ID/Password card). And then double click this camera item. You will then see the Camera video immediately. No further NAT/router setting modifications are needed. Figure 2-7: Running window of CamView program...
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 2.3. Wireless connection (for Cam(w)) The IP Camera can also be connected to the home/office network through the 802.11 b/g wireless connection. There are only three things that you need to do to have the wireless connection: 1.
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SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 2-9: Unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the WiFi function...
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3. Web configurations You can login into the web configuration page by directly key-in the IP address of the IP Camera or right-click the searched IP Camera in the “Auto Search” list of the CamView software and click the “Web Configure” to open the login window of the IP Camera.
3.1. Information The first page of the web configuration of the IP Camera is the information page. You can see the model name/firmware version, IP CAM ID, registration status, network type and current video settings( bandwidth, resolution) in this page.
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.2. Video Display This display page allows you to view the video display of the IP camera. For the first time use of this display on a computer, an activeX component will be automatically downloaded into the browser. This could take some time, depends on the internet speed.
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.3. Network The Network page allows you to modify the network settings of the wired Ethernet. The default settings use DHCP to obtain an IP address automatically. In most of the home and office network environment, there is a DHCP server running. In this situation, by using this default settings, the IP Camera can work immediately in most of the time.
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SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 3-6: Network settings page for fixed IP address...
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.4. WiFi security (For Cam(w)) You can use the wireless to connect the IP Camera to the network. If your network environment has a 802.11 b/g router or AP running, you can check the “Enable WiFi function” button to use the wireless. Figure 3-7: WiFi security disabled page In order to use the wireless network, you need to fill the following fields: SSID –...
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SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 3-8: WiFi security enabled page You can also click the “WiFi test” button to check if the IP Camera can connect to the wireless network for these settings. You will need to unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the wireless connection after the “WiFi test”...
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.5. Advanced Network In some special situation, your network environment only provides PPPoE connection(ADSL service), there is no NAT/router available. You will then need to set the PPPoE settings in the “Advanced Network” page. Only the PPPoE username and password are needed to let PPPoE work.
1. Password(play video) – this is the password needed for viewing the video from the CamView software. Together with the IP CAM ID, you can view the video of this IP Camera anywhere in the world through the Internet.
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SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera also be noticed that in “Indoor video” setting, the video display of outdoor view is very vague. For indoor usage, if there is strong sun light into the room, please select the “Indoor+sun light” choice. 12.
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.7. 3GPP/RTSP settings The IP Camera is able to be viewed from a 3G mobile phone, for detailed settings on the 3G mobile phone, please refer to Appendix E. Users can disable the 3G mobile access ability in this page. After the 3GPP/RTSP feature is disabled, no 3G mobile phone is allowed to access the video of the IP camera.
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.8. Email/ftp alarm The IP Camera provides the Email/ftp function, you can enable or schedule the Email/ftp ability in this page, the IP Camera product will then send out an email with a jpeg picture attached in the email and/or send out the jpeg picture file to a ftp server. The related settings are explained below: 1.
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SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 8. Send FTP message – if this item is enabled, the IP Camera will send out a jpeg picture file to the specified ftp account. 9. FTP server – this is the FTP server address to receive the jpeg file. 10.
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.9. NAS settings The IP Camera provides the recording of the video files into a standard NAS ( Network Access Storage ) device. The IP camera connects to the NAS device using the standard LMX_NS/CIFS/SSN protocols that are the same as the Microsoft Windows network neighborhood protocols.
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SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera where ID is the ID of this IP camera. All the recorded files are with the name of hhmmss.crf format, where hh is the hour, mm is the minute, ss is the second of the starting time of the recording video.
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.10. Scheduling The IP Camera provides the scheduling function for the motion detection triggered email/ftp sending and/or the NAS recording with the individual parameters set in the . “Email/ftp alarm” settings and the “NAS settings” page. Totally 12 schedule list items are allowed.
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SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 3-15: Schedule management page...
Led Display Control The IP Camera provides the Led Display Control function, you can enable or disable the led display/indication on the front panel of the IP cam device. The related settings are explained below: 1. Normal led display – select this to enable the status led and ethernet led display.
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.12. Date/Time The IP Camera can synchronize the date/time with the universally available time server( for example stdtime.gov.tw) through NTP protocol. The date/time will then be corrected with the time server anytime when the Internet is connected. Users can choose the different TimeZone of their areas to display the correct time.
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.13. Admin In this page, you can modify the web login account. With this account, you can login to the IP Camera and do any modifications. The default account is “admin” without password. If the login account is forgotten, you can reset the IP Camera to the factory default settings by following the steps in section 3.15 and login with the “admin”...
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.14. Upgrade If there is some new firmware available from the supplier of this IP Camera, you can upgrade the firmware on this page. Please ask for the correct information about FTP server, username/password account and firmware filename from your supplier, and then do this upgrade.
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SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 3-20: Firmware upgrade status page...
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.15. Reboot You can restart the IP Camera manually on this page. All the connected video viewing users will be disconnected. Figure 3-21: System reboot settings page Figure 3-22: System reboot under-going page...
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.16. Safe Mode If by some abnormal operation, for example, powered off during the critical point of the upgrade procedure, the IP Camera will enter into the safe mode. In this mode, you will see the following “Safe mode” page when login into this IP Camera. Please do the upgrade operation immediately to recover the system.
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.17. Set to factory default For some reason, for example you forgot the web login password, you may want to set the IP Camera to the factory default settings. The only thing you need to do is using a stick to press the “reset”...
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 4. Features and specifications 4.1. Features Easily access the camera from anywhere in the world via the ID/password No complicated NAT/router settings needed. Free video management software - CamView program accompanied for easy access and multi-camera management. 3GPP/ISMA support for 3G mobile access.
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 4.2. Specifications Models IP Camera Power DC 5V, 1A Processors RISC CPU, hardware video processing and compression. Network interface Ethernet 10BaseT/100BaseTX, Auto-MDIX, RJ-45 Wireless interface IEEE 802.11g 6 - 54 Mbps IEEE 802.11b 1 - 11 Mbps (for Cam(w) only) Transmit power: 14.5dBm typically @ 802.11g 17.5dBm typically @ 802.11b...
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SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Built-in microphone for audio monitoring Audio Audio compression: MPEG2 audio, AMR-NB for 3GPP/ISMA Security Web management username/password protection Video display ID/password protection WiFi WEP and WPA security mode Installation, Installation tool on CD and Web-based configuration management and Automatic configuration backup and restore Video management software-CamView for video access and...
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Appendix A. List of Tested NAT/router Devices The followings are the list of tested NAT/router devices that can work with the IP Camera and CamView software when viewing in a remote location. You do not need to do any modification on the default settings of the NAT/routers.
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Appendix B. Maximum Allowed Video Users The maximum allowed video users for a single IP Camera at the same time is dependent on the video settings including “Internet speed” and resolution. The followings are the summary of the maximum allowed video users: Notice : when the IP camera is doing NAS recording, this is counted as one video user.
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Appendix C. Performance Information 1. Video Performance Information The video quality is dependent on the video parameter settings and the network quality. If you want to have a better video quality, you will usually set higher resolution and higher frame rate.
6. What should I do if the password is forgotten, and the ID/password card is missing? A: The easiest way to solve this problem is to reset the IP Cam to the factory default. Please stick on the reset button on the rear panel of the IP Cam for more than 3 seconds and release it.
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NAS storage device. Another software CamPlay is needed to playback the recorded vide/audio files. 10. The video seems a little dark when the IP Cam is used inside the house, how could I improve this? A: You can increase the “Low light sensitivity” in the “video settings” page either through web configuration or through CamView settings to “High”...
SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Appendix E. 3GPP/ISMA operation 3GPP/ISMA is using RTSP protocol for 3G mobile phone to display the video stream from some network devices, including IP camera. The IP Camera support the RTSP protocol and video/audio codec needed by 3GPP/ISMA. Users only need to access the address rtsp://ip_cam_address/CAM_ID.password on the 3G mobile...
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SprintSc MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Appendix F. Third party and embedded web page integration For third party and embedded web page integration, IP Camera support the standard RTSP protocol and video/audio codecs needed by most generally used video play software, including Apple QuickTime and VideoLAN. The supported media protocols including TCP and UDP.
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