Polaroid IP350 User Manual

Wireless surveillance camera

Advertisement

Quick Links

Wireless Surveillance
Camera
IP350
USER MANUAL
Questions?
Need some help?
This guide will help you
enjoy your new product
or visit
www.polaroid.com
For more information
consult the user
manual on the
included CD-ROM

Advertisement

Table of Contents
loading

Summary of Contents for Polaroid IP350

  • Page 1 Wireless Surveillance Camera IP350 USER MANUAL Questions? For more information or visit Need some help? consult the user www.polaroid.com This guide will help you manual on the enjoy your new product included CD-ROM...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Cloud and monitor them from any digital device, including 1.4 PC System Requirements your smart phone. Polaroid IP cameras transmit high quality video content at 1.5 Hardware Instruction 30fps on the LAN/WAN utilizing MJPEG hardware compression technology.
  • Page 3: Packing List

    * User Manual * DC Power Supply * CD * Network Cable NOTE: If any items are missing, contact Polaroid immediately at 1-877-836-1190 1.3 Product Views 1.3.1 Front View Figure: 1.2 Network Indicator LED: The green LED will on when connect to the network, the yellow LED will blink when data transferred RJ45 Port: RJ-45/10-100 base T, connect the network cable here.
  • Page 4: Pc System Requirements

    Polaroid • Introduction Polaroid • Introduction 1.5 Hardware Instruction 1.3.3 Bottom View Figure 1.3 Beware: If your camera does not include several stickers, such as MAC address and QC sticker, it could be a fake IPCAM and will not work with original firmware or be able to be serviced by our after sales service.
  • Page 5: Software Installation

    Polaroid • Introduction Polaroid • Introduction 1.6 Software Installation ATTENTION: In order to make the installation correctly, we suggest that turn off your Firewall and Antivirus before install the ActiveX, Don’t worry, it is safe. Software installation is the key to the successful use of this product.
  • Page 6: Ip Camera Tool

    Polaroid • Software Polaroid • Software you’re installing your first camera, it will naturally be the only one listed. 3.You will discover that several of the IP cameras installed on the LAN do not After this done, the icon “IP Camera Tool”...
  • Page 7 Polaroid • Software Polaroid • Software 2.1.1.1 Basic Properties Under Basic Properties you will find three options. 1) Device ID 2)System Firmware Version 3) Web UI version (see figure 2.1) Figure 2.2 In this Window you can configure your network parameter. If you click in the window requesting an IP from the DHCP server, your camera will be a dynamic Figure 2.1...
  • Page 8: Camera Login

    Polaroid • Software Polaroid • Software Safari, Firefox or Google Chrome browsers. To do so, follow the these procedures: 1. Double click the IP address of the IP Camera listed on your computer (see figure 1.9) Once you do this, whatever default browser you ordinarily use will automatically run and bring up the camera login interface.
  • Page 9: To Use Ie Browser To Gain Access

    Polaroid • Software Polaroid • Software 2.3 TO USE IE BROWSER TO GAIN ACCESS Figure 2.7 Figure 2.8 The first time you login to a camera, it is possible to get the ActiveX prompt with a box around it (as seen in fig. 2.8). In this case click this prompt first and choose Run Add-on.
  • Page 10 Polaroid • Software Polaroid • Software NOTE: If live video stream does not come up, but instead a red cross such as this appears on the screen or the screen goes black, follow the following steps: 1. Close your computer’s firewall.
  • Page 11: Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome Browser Access

    Polaroid • Software Polaroid • Software Here are some other things you can do if the video still does not appear. 1. Go to your computer’s Start menu and go to Internet Explorer, choose internet attributes to enter, or go directly to your Control Panel, choose Internet Explorer and go to security settings.
  • Page 12: Activex Mode For Ie Browser Access

    Polaroid • Software Polaroid • Software 2.6 ACTIVEX MODE FOR IE BROWSER ACCESS Also, there are 9 color coded icons at the bottom of the UI to indicate the status of each device. They are as follows: When you login the camera in ActiveX model you will be asked what level of Gray: Means no device is connected.
  • Page 13: Operator Access

    Polaroid • Software Polaroid • Software Rate and Resolution In order to listen to sounds in that area, speakers must be hooked up to the device you are monitoring from (see figure 1.2). Click on the Talk icon and it will turn red to indicate the talk mode is in operation.
  • Page 14: Administrator Access

    Polaroid • Software Polaroid • Settings 2.9 ADMINISTRATOR ACCESS For all administrator settings, please see 3.1-3.22) 3 ADMINSTRATOR SETTINGS When logged in as the Administrator you have access to all controls and Figure 4.2 functions of the camera which include the following functions visitors and operators cannot access: Audio Buffer.
  • Page 15: Multi-Device Settings

    Polaroid • Settings Polaroid • Settings 3.1 MULTI-DEVICE SETTINGS Polaroid IP Camera system software can support up to 9 devices on the network at one time. 3.1.1 Set Multi-Device on LAN When you call up the Multi-Service Device window, you can view all the devices you have set up on the LAN.
  • Page 16: Network Settings

    Polaroid • Settings Polaroid • Settings 3.1.4 Restore Factory Settings router’s identity, which means if you want to be able to access you camera from anywhere but home, you will need to know this address. The fourth step is to log into your wireless router. To do this, enter the IP address of your router into your browser and then enter the username and password when prompted.
  • Page 17: Basic Network Settings

    Polaroid • Settings Polaroid • Settings 3.3 Basic Network Settings There are two places you can manually fix the camera’s IP address. One, as we have mentioned earlier is the IP Camera Tool (figure 2.3) , the other is the Basic Network Settings window below: Figure 5.7...
  • Page 18: Wireless Lan Settings

    Polaroid • Settings Polaroid • Settings 3.4 Wireless LAN Settings Figure 6.1 Figure 6.3 Figure 6.2 Figure 6.4 Note: Follow the instruction numbers as they appear in this figure. 1. You must have a wireless router. 2. Your wireless antenna must be installed on camera.
  • Page 19: Adsl Settings

    Polaroid • Settings Polaroid • Settings 3.5 ADSL Settings When connect to the Internet through ADSL directly, simply enter ADSL user You may choose to use a Third Party DDNS. (i.e. for example from Dynds, Oray, name and password obtained from ISP. (see figure 6.6 and figure 6.7 below) 3322 etc.)
  • Page 20 Polaroid • Settings Polaroid • Settings SETTINGS AND SEARCHING FOR THE NETWORK PATH, ONCE IT COMES UP YOU CAN RUN YOUR MOUSE OVER THE ICONS FOR PC AND GATEWAY TO ASCERTAIN YOUR SYSTEM ADDRESSES.) Set Port Forwarding in the router. It is important to set the port forwarding in your router to the IP of your camera directly in order for the camera to work correctly.
  • Page 21 Polaroid • Settings Polaroid • Settings BELKIN: DLINK: 1. Login the router 1. Login router 2. Choose “Advanced” , select “Virtual Servers” 2. Choose “Firewall” , select “Virtual Servers” 3. Input the port, IP address, Protocol, then click SAVE. 3. Input the port (except 80) and IP address, then click SAVE.
  • Page 22: System Settings

    PC Time (figure 8.4) 3.11 User Settings You can have up to eight users on the Polaroid IP camera system. You can set up users names, passwords. The users can be listed as Visitors, Administrators, or Operators. Each is assigned a level of authority and permission to have access to the system with different levels of access.
  • Page 23: Pt Settings

    Polaroid • Settings Polaroid • Settings 3.13 Indicator Settings Visitor: See figure 2.7 details of usage at this level. Operator: You can control the direction of the IP Camera and set parameters. Administrator: You can set up advanced configurations of the IP Camera.
  • Page 24: Other Settings

    Polaroid • Settings Polaroid • Settings MSN Settings. 3.15 Other Settings Figure 9.0 Using the “other box, you can make settings for Motion Detection, Alarm. IO Linkage, Schedule, FTP Upload, Alarm Mail Alert, Record Path and more. 3.16 Mail Service Settings You can set Mail Service Settings to send you an email when motion is detected in the camera range.
  • Page 25: Ftp Service Settings

    Polaroid • Settings Polaroid • Settings 3.17 FTP Service Settings authorization selection. SMTP User. Input correct SMTP user; usually his or her full email address. Sometimes the address can be inputted without the suffix and just using the user name.
  • Page 26: Alarm Settings

    Polaroid • Settings Polaroid • Settings Enter Alarm Service Settings Page to set alarm to your specifications. 3.18.1 Motion Detection Armed When you enable Motion Detection Armed, the camera will sound an alarm when motion is detected and it will record the incident.
  • Page 27 Polaroid • Settings Polaroid • Settings 3.18.2 Motion Detection Sensitivity. Trigger Level You may choose up to 10 settings of sensitivity for motion, 10 being the most Option: sensitive. See figure below: High for closed circuit external alarm devices. Low for open circuit external alarm devices. When an object moves close to camera, alarm will trigger.
  • Page 28: Send Mail On Alarm

    Polaroid • Settings Polaroid • Settings 3.19 Send Mail on Alarm Sound on Alarm When you click on the “Send Mail On Alarm” box, an email with picture will automatically be sent if alarm is triggered. (Make sure your Mail Service Whenever motion is detected, there will be a beeping sound.
  • Page 29: Server Push Mode (For Safari, Firefox, Google Browser)

    Polaroid • Settings Polaroid • Settings Alarm Record Path. Here you may choose the file on your PC you want the 3.21 Server Push Mode (for Safari, FireFox, Google Browser) alarm messaging to go to. Choose Server Push Mode, login camera, and the following will appear on your...
  • Page 30: Sign In Mobile Phone

    For monitoring using a mobile phone, you must first choose Sign in mobile phone, login the camera, and the following will window and interface will DOES POLAROID IP CAMERA WORK ON MAC OS SYSTEMS AS WELL appear on your computer screen: AS MICROSOFT WINDOWS? Yes, the system is designed to work with both operating systems.
  • Page 31 Polaroid • FAQs Polaroid • FAQs UPnP ALWAYS FAILS? PROBLEMS WITH NETWORK BANDWIDTH? Sometimes your firewall or anti-virus software fails to allow the connection. It is The picture quality you are getting is subject to several factors: Network recommended you try port forwarding manually in your router.
  • Page 32 Polaroid • FAQs Polaroid, Polaroid & Pixel, and Polaroid Classic Border Logo are trademarks of PLR IP Holdings, LLC, used under license. All other trademarks are the property of the respective owner, who has not sponsored, endorsed or approved this product. PLR IP Holdings, LLC does not manufacture this product or provide any Manufacturer’s Warranty or support.

Table of Contents