X1 (only available for wireless model) ●User Manual ●DC Power Supply X1 ●CD ●Network Cable ●Mounting bracket X1 NOTE: Please contact us immediately in case of any damaged or short of contents. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
RESET BUTTON: Press and hold the RESET BUTTON for 15 Seconds, then the IPCAM will be reset back to the factory default Parameter. (Please keep the power on when do RESET) Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
Original Apexis IPCAM have some stickers at the bottom/back, such as MAC address sticker, QC sticker etc. If your camera does not have these stickers, it may be a clone one, clone Apexis IPCAM could not use the original firmware and obtain our good after sale service.
Install the follow software: 1. IP Camera Tool: Open the CD, dbclick “IPCamSetup.exe”, only click next, you will complete the software installation.(figure1.6/ 1.7/ 1.8) 2. ActiveX: Double click “Appinstall.exe”—“Next”—“Install”—“Finish”. Figure1.5 Figure1.6 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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If you turn the lens, it may cause incorrect focus and vague images. For firmware upgrading or connection with an external, refer to detailed instructions contained in the CD. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
Choose the IP Camera list and Click right mouse, there are six options: (Figure 2.0) Basic Properties, Network Configuration, Upgrade Firmware, Refresh Camera List, Flush Arp Buffer, About IP Camera Tool . Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
WIFI router, check the host status, which will show all the WIFI device connect to this router, you can also find the IPCAM’s WIFI MAC ID there. Figure2.1 2.1.1.2 Network Configuration In this page, you can configure the Network parameter. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
Subnet Mask, Gateway, DNS Server once again, or enable Obtain IP from DHCP server. 2.1.1.3 Upgrade Firmware Enter the correct User and Password to upgrade system Firmware and Web UI. If you upgrade the camera, Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
1. Double click the IP address of the IP Camera listed (Figure 1.9). The default browser you use will run automatically and come to the camera login interface. (Figure 2.6) 2. To access the camera by IE Browser directly, just type the camera’s IP address, for example, if the camera’s Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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(1) Active Mode (For IE Browser): available in IE6.0 or above explorer (2) “Server Push Mode”: available in Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome browser. (3) “Sign in mobile phone”: available in Mobile phone Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
The first time login the camera, maybe get ActiveX prompt as the picture above, please click the prompt and choose Run Add-on, refresh and login the camera again, then will see live video, details as below Figure2.9 Figure 3.0 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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, not green, please change another port number to try. Don’t use port 80, use other port such as 128 , 10 08 etc. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
Server Push Mode doesn’t support ActiveX, so some functions are not available, s uch as Play, Stop, Record, etc. if you want to use these functions, please use IE browser . Figure 3.3 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
(See 3.11 User Settings, Figure 8.5) 2.7 For Visitor hen login as Visitor, you can enter the IP Camera for visitor. Visitor is the lowest level with only some operation available Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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Green color, means the device connected from this channel, and it works well. Red color, means the device of this channel is recording Yellow color, means set this channel in multi-device already, but it fails to connect to the main device Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
Color: Can set the OSD text color as black, yellow, red, white, blue etc. Add time stamp on record: Click this, there will be time OSD on record video files. Figure 3.8 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
NOTE: For visitor, if you click other menus which visitor don’t have the right to operate it, there will be a pop-up of login interface (Figure 2.6), please input the user name / password for at least 3 times to login again. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025...
Mirror: Click this icon to see the mirror image. Click again, will back to normal. NOTE: You can choose Reversal and Mirror function when you set up the camera in a special position. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025...
NOTE: For Operator, if you click other menus which operator don’t have the right to operate it, there will be a pop-up of login interface (Figure 2.6), please input the user name / password for at least 3 times to login again. 2.9 For Administrator Details see Settings as Administrator (details3.1-3.20). Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
In the Multi-Device Settings page, you can see all devices searched in LAN. The 1st device is the default one. You can add more cameras listed in LAN for monitoring. This web software supports up to 9 IP Cameras online simultaneously. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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Add. Set more devices in the same way, after all done, please click Submit. Figure 4.7 Click Live Video and then select to see four channels, or click to see nine channels. Figure 4.8 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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Click Multi-Device, select Multi-Device Settings. Choose the 2nd Device; fill in the 2nd camera’s Alias, Host, Http Port, User, Password by manual, click Add. Set more devices in the same way, after all done, please click Submit. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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If you have several cameras, you can use the same DDNS domain name, just set different port number for each different camera. Figure 5.1 Note: Add the other camera in the same way, Click submit to add all of them. Figure 5.2 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
Attention: Please must keep the power on during upgrading, and the better use wired mode. Please don’t try upgrade freely, because wrong operation or incorrect upgrade bin file will damage the camera. Figure 5.4 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
3.3 Basic Network Settings Here you can fix the camera’s IP address; means set the static IP address of camera manually. You can also do the same settings from IP Camera Tool. (Figure 2.3) Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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1. Control Panel Network Connections Local Area Connections Support Details 2. Find the local connection icon from taskbar, left click it, choose Support Details Figure 5.9 Figure 6.0 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
6. If there is encryption, please input the share key, then click “Submit”. (Figure 6.6) 7. Wait about 30 seconds, the camera will reboot, then unplug the network cable. Figure 6.3 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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. (Details see Figure 7.5-7.9) 3.7 DDNS Service Settings Figure 7.0 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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You have to register an account firstly, keep the user, password, host, then input it. NOTE: Only one DDNS can be chosen, for example, if you use manufacturer’s DDNS, the 3 one won’t work, if use the 3 DDNS, the manufacturer’s one won’t work. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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3. Click the Add New button, pop-up below: Figure 7.5 Fill the service port (except 80), IP address of the camera, then click Save NOTE: The port and IP address should be the same as Camera. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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After all these 4 steps done, then you can use the DDNS freely, check the DDNS status from the camera as below, and get the link of DDNS for internet view. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
3.8 System Settings Figure 8.0 3.8.1 Device Info You can find the information about Device ID, Firmware Version, Embedded Web UI Version, Alias, Alarm Status, DDNS Status and UPnP Status. Figure 8.1 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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, the permission for them as below: Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
(2)Restore: Restore IP Camera all the Parameter, 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. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025...
Here you can configure some additional functions such as Motion Detection, Alarm, IO Linkage, Schedule, FTP Upload, Alarm Mail Alert, Record Path etc. 3.14 Mail Service Settings Set Mail Service Settings to enable the camera send email alert when motion detection triggered. Figure 9.0 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
Internet IP changed, it will send the internet IP by mail. (For example: IPCAM's URL is http://121.213.109.69:1008). 3.15 FTP Service Settings Set the FTP Service, you can upload images to your FTP server when motion detection triggered . Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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NOTE: Here upload image now means it can upload images freely, no need alarm triggered. Click Submit after these settings. Then click Test. You will see the following picture. Figure 9.4 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
If enable Motion Detect Armed, it will record and make a sound of alarm when there is motion detection triggered. Figure 9.6 After enable motion detect armed, if there is motion triggered, the Alarm Status will turn to Motion Detect Alarm. (Figure 9.7) Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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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 9.9 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
Click it again, it will turn back to grey, means delete the scheduler. NOTE: Make sure the date & time settings are correct firstly. (Figure 8.3) ATTENTION: If you don’t choose Scheduler, the camera will alarm anytime when motion triggered. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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When you enable motion detect and open the camera monitoring page on the PC. If there is an alarm triggered, REC will start automatically for several seconds and save to the PC. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
1. User could add the Device IP address to the IE’s ‘Trusted sites’ firstly. The step is: “IE browser→Tool→Internet Proper→Security→Trusted sites→Sites→Add”. 2. You can also run the IE as administrator, input the IP address of the camera manually. (Figure 10.9) Figure 10.9 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
The other functions are the same as ActiveX Mode (For IE Browser) 3.20 Sign in mobile phone If you are using a mobile phone, choose Sign in mobile phone, login the camera, you will see the main user interface as below: Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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More Security, More Convenience http://www.apexis.com.cn Figure 11.1 NOTE: Mobile phone Mode doesn’t support ActiveX. In mobile phone mode, it only supports some easy functions, such as Resolution, Mode, Bright, Contrast, Snapshot, Reversal, Mirror functions Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
Make sure DHCP is enabled in your router, don’t enable MAC address filter. Make sure that firewall or anti-virus software does not block the camera. You can add the camera as a trusted site in your firewall or anti-virus software. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
If you could access the login page in remote place, it indicates that your DDNS settings are correct. You could not see living video but only some undefined characters, it may be the internet speed problems, especially the camera work on Wi-Fi. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
NOTE: Some old version cameras can’t be upgraded to the latest version, that’s not only the software difference, but also the hardware difference. If you can’t make sure of it, please contact with our technical support team directly. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co., Ltd Tel: +86-755-26509025 Fax: +86-755-26509229...
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