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MODEL NO:
PIC1006WN
 
User's Manual
Wireless IP Camera
Version 1.00
(English)
BEFORE GETTING STARTED
This UM is designed to aid you to get started with the device. If you experience problems following these guides or
need further information pertaining to the device, please visit our website at www.prolink2u.com. All specifications
are subject to the manufacturer's configuration at the time of shipping and may change without prior notice, written
or otherwise.

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  • Page 1 MODEL NO: PIC1006WN   User’s Manual Wireless IP Camera Version 1.00 (English) BEFORE GETTING STARTED This UM is designed to aid you to get started with the device. If you experience problems following these guides or need further information pertaining to the device, please visit our website at www.prolink2u.com. All specifications are subject to the manufacturer’s configuration at the time of shipping and may change without prior notice, written...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

      Table of Contents Table of Contents ................................1  1. Introduction .................................. 1  1.1.  The Differences ..............................1  2. Installation & Setup............................... 2  2.1.  Hardware Overview ............................2  2.2.  Quick Installation and Usage..........................3  2.2.1.  First, Connect the IP CAM to the home/office network ................3  2.2.2.  Second, Install the LiveView Software on the notebook/PC ..............3  2.2.3.  Third, Use LiveView program to see the video ..................4  2.2.4.  Seeing the video in a remote location ...................... 4  2.3.  Wireless Connection ............................

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    1. Introduction The PROLiNK® PIC1006WN Wireless IP Camera (will be referred to as “IP Camera” for the entire document) is designed with the “user-friendly” idea deep in mind. The user can install the IP Camera easily on his/her home network and then access the IP Camera anywhere in the world through the accompanied video management software - LiveView program without setting some complicated DNS name or changing the router’s settings.

  • Page 4: Installation & Setup

      2. Installation & Setup 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. Hardware Overview Figure 2-1: IP Camera Hardware Overview EN 2...

  • Page 5: Quick Installation And Usage

      2.2. Quick Installation and Usage There are only three things that you need to do to see the video from the IP Camera. 1. Connect the IP Camera to the home/office network. 2. Install the LiveView Software on the notebook/PC. 3.

  • Page 6: Third, Use Liveview Program To See The Video

      2.2.3. Third, Use LiveView program to see the video If the computer and IP Camera are connected to the same network, the IP Camera ID will be displayed in the “Auto Search” list. You can double click the “Auto Search” to search all the connected IP Cameras any time.

  • Page 7: Wireless Connection

      Figure 2-6: Pop-up play-video password window 2.3. Wireless Connection The IP Camera can also be connected to the home/office network through the 802.11 b/g/n wireless connection. There are only three things that you need to do to have the wireless connection: 1.

  • Page 8: Third, Unplug The Ethernet Cable

      2.3.3. Third, unplug the Ethernet cable If the WiFi test is successful, you can then enable the WiFi connection by unplugging the Ethernet cable from the IP Camera. The IP Camera will detect the Ethernet cable unplugged condition and start the WiFi connection. After the WiFi is connected, the IP Camera will connect to the Internet immediately.

  • Page 9: Web Configurations

      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 LiveView Software and click the “Web Configure” to open the login window of the IP Camera.

  • Page 10: Information

      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 Camera ID, registration status, network type and current video settings (bandwidth, resolution) in this page. The IP Camera can be viewed remotely by the LiveView Software only when the IP Camera is registered.

  • Page 11: Video Display

      3.2. Video Display This display page allows you to view the video display and control the pan/tilt movement 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.

  • Page 12: Network

      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.
  • Page 13   Figure 3-6: Network settings page for fixed IP address EN 11...

  • Page 14: Wifi Security

      3.4. WiFi Security You can use the wireless to connect the IP Camera to the network. If your network environment has an 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: 1.
  • Page 15   You can 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” is successful.
  • Page 16   Figure 3-9: WiFi testing page EN 14...

  • Page 17: Advanced Network

      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. After the “Save & Apply” button is pressed, the PPPoE function will work immediately.

  • Page 18: Video Settings

      3.6. Video Settings The IP Camera is designed to provide high quality video for viewing from LiveView Software. In this page, you can modify some settings related to the video viewing: 1. Password (play video) – this is the password needed for viewing the video from the LiveView Software. Together with the IP Camera ID, you can view the video of this IP Camera anywhere in the world through the Internet.
  • Page 19   Figure 3-11: Video settings page EN 17...

  • Page 20: Mobile Video Settings

      3.7. Mobile Video Settings The IP CAM is able to be viewed from a 3G mobile phone, please download “mLiveview”/”mLiveviewHD” software from App Store for iPhone/iPad and “mLiveview” from Android Market for Android Mobiles and pads.. The video frame rate, resolution and bandwidth for 3G mobile access could be set independently from the video settings for LiveView access.

  • Page 21: Night Mode Control

      3.8. Night Mode Control The IP Cam is able to work both in day time and night time. There are some IR LEDs that can let the IP camera see the objects in the night time. This night mode control page is to control when the time the IR LEDs will be on.

  • Page 22: Email/Ftp Alarm

      3.9. 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 will then send out an email with a jpeg picture attached in the email and/or send out the jpeg picture file to an ftp server.
  • Page 23   Figure 3-13: Email/FTP Alarm page For the email message to work, a SMTP server is required. Click the “advanced” button will display the SMTP server settings page. A default SMTP server is provided, so that the user does not need to use a specific SMTP server. But, any way, the user could also specify his own SMTP server.

  • Page 24: Speaker Alarm Settings

      3.10. Speaker Alarm Settings The IP Camera provides speaker alarm function, a PIR or video motion detection could trigger the speaker alarm. The duration of the alarm could also be set. The related settings are explained below: 1. Speaker alarm trigger– select the trigger mode of the speaker alarm A.
  • Page 25   connect to the NAS device by the “NAS name”. If the NAS device uses a fixed IP address (either in the local area network or in the public internet), the IP Camera can connect to it by the “NAS IP address”. 4.

  • Page 26: Sd-Card Settings

      3.12. SD-Card Settings The IP Camera provides the recording of the video files into a standard Micro SD-Card. Since this recording is directly to the SD-Card, there is no network packets loss problem when recording to remote device through internet.
  • Page 27   Figure 3-17: SD-Card information page EN 25...

  • Page 28: Scheduling

      3.13. 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. There is no conflict check for the scheduling, it means that the scheduling time could be overlapped, and the IP Camera will do all the scheduled events during the overlapped time period.

  • Page 29: Led Control

      3.14. LED Control The IP CAM 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. 1. Normal led display – select this to enable the status led and Ethernet led display. 2.
  • Page 30   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 3.19 and login with the “admin”...

  • Page 31: Upgrade

      3.17. 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. A status message about the percentage done in the upgrade procedure is displayed.

  • Page 32: Reboot

      3.18. Reboot You can restart the IP Camera manually on this page. All the connected video viewing users will be disconnected. Figure 3-24: System reboot settings page Figure 3-25: System reboot under-going page EN 30...

  • Page 33: Safe Mode

      3.19. 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.

  • Page 34: Set To Factory Default

      3.20. 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” button on the back of the IP Camera body for more than 4 seconds and release it, do this when the IP Camera is powered on.

  • Page 35: Features & Specifications

      4. Features & Specifications 4.1. Features Easily access the camera from anywhere in the world via the ID/password (Through accompanied video • management software, no complicated DNS settings needed ) 802.11 b/g/n wireless with WEP and WPA/WPA2 security support •...
  • Page 36   Indicators One LED for internet connection status indication One LED for Ethernet connection indication One LED for SD card recording indication Video compression H.264, baseline profile level 3.1 Video streaming Separate frame rate/resolution/bandwidth settings for PC and mobile. Video Settings Resolution: VGA(640x480), QVGA(320x240), QQVGA(160x120) Bandwidth : 64k, 128k, 256k, 512k, 768k, 1M, 1.2M, 1.5M bps Frame rate : 1~5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 fps...

  • Page 37: Package Contents

      5. Package Contents Figure 5-1: The IP Camera body Figure 5-2: Quick Installation Guide Figure 5-3: Setup CD Figure 5-4: Power Adapter Figure 5-5: Ethernet Cable Figure 5-6: Camera Mounting Bracket Figure 5-7: Cross-head Screwdriver Figure 5-8: Anchors & Screws EN 35...

  • Page 38: Appendix A. List Of Tested Nat/Router Devices

    IP Camera video through the firewall router. In this situation, please contact your MIS person to solve the problem. Brand Name Model Name WNR1004, WNR1008, WNR1009, WN1010, PROLiNK WNR1011, H5001N, H5004N, PWH2004 Asus WL-550gE Belkin...

  • Page 39: Appendix B. Maximum Allowed Video Users

      Appendix B. Maximum Allowed Video Users The maximum allowed video users for a single Pan/Tilt 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: When audio is disabled.

  • Page 40: Appendix C. Performance Information

      Appendix C. Performance Information 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. This is fine when you are viewing the video locally in the same network.

  • Page 41: Appendix D. Troubleshooting

    4. What is the viewing angle of the pan and tile control? PIC1006WN does not designed with Pan and Tile control; please refer to model PIC1003WP which is designed with Pan and Tile control. The viewing angle of the IP Camera is about 60 degrees.
  • Page 42   7. Can I use LiveView in Macintosh OS X or other operating system without ActiveX? As most IP surveillance devices are using ActiveX control for seeing live video, if you would like to use Plug & Play IP video system on Mac OS, you will need to install software to emulate Microsoft Windows OS like Parallels Desktop for Mac.
  • Page 43   14. How can I do a turn the camera lens 180° if I want to hang the camera on the ceiling wall? Go to the web configuration page of the camera > Login Credential > Video > Video Flip > Select Video Flip > Save &...
  • Page 44 Right click camera image > tick Motion Recording Motion Recording Status: Green: Standby mode Yellow: Motion detected and Recording in progress. 20. How to view or playback the recorded clips? Execute LivePlay from Start > All Programs > PROLiNK(R) > IP Camera > LivePlay EN 42...
  • Page 45   Click Open Record, the record data windows will be prompted and all recorded clips are listed on the Recorded Files section follow by date (YYYYMMDD) of the recording sessions. Select a date. iii. Select Cam Name available on the left side (below the Recorded Files) and the video clips will be playing automatically.
  • Page 46   22. How to configure with Night Mode? There are two way in configure the IP Camera with Night Mode: Method 1 : Via Web Configuration Method 2 : Via LiveView Open IE and locate to the IP Address of the IP From the Camera List, right-click any IP Camera>...
  • Page 47 LiveView settings to “High” or “Very high”. This will tremendously improve the video quality in dark environment. Another model of our IP Cam products PIC1006WN with IR led inside could help on some of the very tough environment even in wholly darkness. But please be noticed that when the IR led is turned on in the dark room, the video will be black and white only.

  • Page 48: Worldwide Customer Care Centers

    Register Online For Your Product Warranty @ www.prolink2u.com/register PROLiNK® is a trademark of FIDA INTERNATIONAL (S) PTE LTD and is manufactured under its authority. All other brands, products, services, logos and company names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. All specifications, designs and...

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