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Do not dispose of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste and have to collect such WEEE separately. Revision User’s Manual for PLANET H.264 Indoor PTZ Internet Camera Model: ICA-H610 Rev: 1.00 (November. 2009) Part No. EM-ICAH610...
2.3.2 Ceiling Mount ..................12 2.4 Initial Utility Installation ................... 13 2.5 Preparation....................... 15 2.5.1. Search and View by PLANET IPWizard II........15 2.5.2. Configure Network by PLANET IPWizard II........16 2.6 Using UPnP of Windows XP or Vista............18 2.6.1.
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3.5.8. IP Notification..................46 3.6 Camera Configuration ..................48 3.6.1. Picture ....................48 3.6.2. Preset Setting ..................50 3.6.3. Tour Setting ..................51 3.7 System ......................52 3.7.1. System ....................52 3.7.2. Date & Time..................53 3.7.3. Maintenance..................54 3.8 Video ......................... 56 3.8.1.
1. Introduction The PLANET ICA-H610, H.264 10x Indoor PTZ Internet Camera, offers the next generation video compression – H.264. It is the most effective solution on the bandwidth limited networks, like Internet transmission. The ICA-H610 features a 100X zooming (10x optical zoom, 10x digital zoom), auto focus, and auto iris.
1.3 Package Contents User can find the following items in the package: IP Camera Unit x 1 Power Adapter x 1 Camera Mount Kit x 1 A/V Cable x1 User’s Manual CD-ROM x 1 Quick Installation Guide x 1 NOTE: 1.
1. The listed information is minimum system requirements only. Actual requirement will vary depending on the nature of your environment. 2. The ICA-H610 can be managed by PLANET Cam Viewer Plus if you want to configure more detail information and settings of camera viewer plus software please refer to the CD-ROM folder “D:\Manual\Cam Viewer Plus\”, assume D is...
2.2 Physical Description 2.2.1 Terminal Connections 2. LAN LED 1. Power LED 3. Microphone Front View Power LED This LED is used to indicate whether DC power is on or not. LAN LED This LED will be flashing while network accessing via Ethernet. The Camera has built-in an internal microphone.
1. Power Jack 5. LAN Socket 2. Audio/Video Output Jack 6. Factory Default Reset 3. External Microphone 7. DI/DO Connector 4. SD Card Slot Rear View Power Jack The input power is DC 12V. Audio/Video-out Jack allows this device to output audio and video signal. Audio/Video Use the attached A/V cable to connect A/V device where white cable is for Output Jack...
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Restore the device: a. Insert the paper clip or other tool and press and hold the button down continuously. Hold it at least 5 seconds and release the tool. Then the device has been restored to default settings and reboot again. DI/DO The Camera provides a terminal block with 4 pins of connectors for DI and Connector...
2.3 Hardware Installation 2.3.1 Wall Mount Step 1. Fix the L-type bracket to the wall using two holly wall anchors and screws. Step 2. Fix the IP camera to L-type bracket with the two supplied screws. Step 3. Connect the LAN cable to a switch or hub. When this switch/hub is a PoE device, you can ignore the next step.
2.3.2 Ceiling Mount Step 1. Fix the IP camera to L-type bracket with the two supplied screws. Step 2. Fix the bracket and IP camera to the ceiling using two holly wall anchors and screws. Step 3. Connect the LAN cable to a switch or hub. When this switch/hub is a PoE device, you can ignore the next step.
If the welcome screen does not appear, click “Start” at the taskbar. Then, select NOTE: “Run” and type “D:\Utility\IPWizard II\setup.exe”, assume D is your CD-ROM drive. 3. The “Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for PLANET IPWizard II” prompt will display on the screen and click “Next” to continue.
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4. Please click “Next” to install with original settings, or you may click “Change…” button to modify the install folder then press “Next” to continue. 5. Please click “Install” to start the installation. 6. Please click “Finish” to complete the installation and launch program immediately.
When you installed the Internet Camera on a LAN environment, you have two easy ways to search your cameras by PLANET IPWizard or UPnP discovery. Here is the way to execute PLANET IPWizard to discover camera’s IP address and set up related parameter in a camera.
View If PLANET IPWizard finds Internet Camera, View button will be available. Please select the camera you want to view and click the View button. Then you could see the video from camera directly. Furthermore you could double click the left button of mouse to link to the Internet Camera by browser.
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You could modify the relative settings of the selected device. Click “<<” button will quit the LAN setting procedure and click “>>” button will move to next page as below. In case, you do not want to change username and/or password, then just click “Submit” button to perform your setting accordingly.
2.6 Using UPnP of Windows XP or Vista 2.6.1. Windows XP UPnP™ is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals. This device is an UPnP enabled device. If the operating system, Windows XP, of your PC is UPnP enabled, the device will be very easy to configure.
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The following screen will appear, select “Networking Services” and click “Details” to continue.
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The “Networking Services” will display on the screen, select “Universal Plug and Play” and click “OK” to continue. Please click “Next” to continue.
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The program will start installing the UPnP automatically. You will see the below pop-up screen, please wait while Setup configures the components. Please click “Finish” to complete the UPnP installation...
Double-click “My Network Places” on the desktop, the “My Network Places” will display on the screen and double-click the UPnP icon with Internet Camera to view your device in an internet browser. ICA-H610 – 00304f0a145a 2.6.2. Windows Vista UPnP™ is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals.
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Double-click “My Network Places“ on the desktop, the “My Network Places” will display on the screen and double-click the UPnP icon with Internet Camera to view your device in an internet browser. ICA-H610 – 00304fA15076...
2.7 Setup ActiveX to use the Internet Camera The Internet Camera web pages communicate with the Internet Camera using an ActiveX control. The ActiveX control must be downloaded from the Internet Camera and installed on your PC. Your Internet Explorer security settings must allow for the web page to work correctly. To use the Internet Camera, user must setup his IE browser as follows: 2.7.1.
2.7.2. Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP From your IE browse ”Tools” ”Internet Options…” ”Security” ”Custom Level…”, please setup your “Settings” as follow. Set the first 3 items • Allow previously unused ActiveX control to run… • Allows Script lets •...
2.7.3. Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista From your IE browse ”Tools” ”Internet Options…” ”Security” ”Internet” ”Custom Level…”, please setup your “Settings” as follow. • Enable “Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls” • Prompt “Initialize and script active controls not marked….” From your IE browse ”Tools”...
The Default IP: “http://192.168.0.20“ The login window of Internet Camera will appear, Default login username/password is: admin / <no password> If the User name and Password have been changed with PLANET IPWizard, NOTE: please enter the new User name and Password here.
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After logged on, you should see the following messages at the top of Internet Explorer: Click on the message, and click Install ActiveX Control… When you see this message, click Install’ to install required ActiveX control After the ActiveX control was installed and run, the first image will be displayed. You should be able to see the images captured from the Internet Camera in the web page now.
3.3 Live View Start-up screen will be as follow no matter an ordinary users or an administrator. Video Profile ActiveX Control Streaming Protocol Language Monitor Image Section Setting Menu Client Menu PTZ Control OSD Control Video Information 2-Way Audio Full Screen Monitor Image The image shot by the camera is shown here.
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ActiveX Control The plug-in ActiveX control supports a lot of functions by clicking the left mouse button. Note that this feature only supports on the ActiveX control within Microsfoft® Internet Explorer. Setting Menu This function is detail setting for the camera that only available for user logged into camera as administrator.
3.3.1. Camera PTZ Control Hide PTZ Control Camera Direction Zoom Control Camera Speed Focus Control Preset Tour Go Tour Auto Pan Click the icon will hide the PTZ control function. Hide PTZ Control: Control camera up/down/left/right and home position. Camera Direction: Press WIDE to zoom out, and press TELE to zoom in.
3.3.2. Camera OSD Control OSD menu control Open OSD Select function Exit function OSD menu control Control OSD menu up/down/left/right. Open OSD Open OSD function. Select Select/change the option in the OSD menu. Exit Exit this OSD page and return to home page.
3.4 ActiveX Control The plug-in ActiveX control supports a lot of functions by clicking the left mouse button. Note that this feature only supports on the ActiveX control within Microsoft® Internet Explorer. On the ActiveX control icon, click the Left Mouse Button, then a menu pop-up. This menu provides features that are unique to the ActiveX control.
3.4.1. Digital Zoom Click Digital Zoom to active this function as above. User can drag or scale the box over the video to adjust zoom ratio and position. 3.4.2. Record Click Record to activate this function. Press Record button to start recording. The video file is saved as ASF format into your local PC.
3.4.3. Snapshot Click Snapshot to activate this function. Press Snapshot button to take a picture. The image file is saved as JPEG format into your local PC. Select Browser, the pop-up window to select the save path and file name prefix, select OK to continue. If you like to retrieve the saved image, select the file to display the saved image by using any one of graph editing tools.
3.4.5. Statistics Click Statistics to activate this function. A window will be popup to show the statistics information of the streaming status. NOTE: That this information is the statistics between the device and your local PC. 3.4.6. About Click About to show the ActiveX information...
3.5 Network Configuration Use this menu to configure the network to connect the device and the clients. 3.5.1. Network This section provides the menu of connecting the device through Ethernet cable. MAC address Display the Ethernet MAC address of the device. Note that user cannot change it.
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Subnet Mask Subnets allow network traffic between hosts to be separated based on the network's configuration. In IP networking, traffic takes the form of packets. IP subnets advance network security and performance to some level by organizing hosts into logical groups. Subnet masks contain four bytes and usually appear in the same "dotted decimal"...
3.5.2. DDNS server Stands for Dynamic Domain Name Server The device supports DDNS If your device is connected to xDSL directly, you might need this feature. However, if your device is behind a NAT router, you will not need to enable this feature. Because DDNS allows the device to use an easier way to remember naming format rather than an IP address.
DDNS To enable or disable the DDNS service here. Server name Choose the built-in DDNS server. DDNS Host The domain name is applied of this device. User Name The user name is used to log into DDNS. Password The password is used to log into DDNS. 3.5.3.
PPPoE To enable or disable the PPPoE service here. User Name Type the user name for the PPPoE service which is provided by ISP. Password Type the password for the PPPoE service which is provided by ISP. IP Address / Subnet Shows the IP information got from PPPoE server site.
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RTSP Port Choose the RTSP port. The RTSP protocol allows a connecting client to start a video stream. Enter the RTSP port number to use. The default value is 554. RTP Port Specify the range of transmission port number of video stream. The default range is 50000 to 50999.
3.5.5. UPnP UPnP is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals. This device is an UPnP enabled Internet Camera. If your operating system is UPnP enabled, the device will automatically be detected and a new icon will be added to “My Network Places.”...
3.5.6. Bonjour The Bonjour service allows IP camera can be discovered with Apple Safari browser applied, once the option enable the IP camera will be show the Friendly Name in the Bonjour bookmarks menu of Safari browser. Bonjour To enable or disable the Bonjour service here. Friendly Name Shows the friendly name of this device here.
3.5.7. IP Filter You can enter different user’s IP address which are allowing enter or denying by the device. IP Filter To enable or disable the IP filter function here. IP Filter Policy Choose the filter policy where is denying or allowing.
3.5.8. IP Notification In case the IP address is changed, system is able to send out an email to alert someone if the function is enabled. If enable this function, then the “Send to“ and “Subject” field SMTP Notification (e-mail) need to be filled.
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HTTP Login name Type the user name for the HTTP server. HTTP Login Password Type the password for the HTTP server. Proxy Address Type the server name or the IP address of the HTTP Proxy. Proxy Port Set port number of Proxy. Proxy Login name Type the user name for the HTTP Proxy.
3.6 Camera Configuration Use this menu to set the function of the camera of Internet Camera 3.6.1. Picture Rotation Turn the “Mirror” and “Vertical Flip” On or OFF. The image will be overturned as below.
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Color Level It changes the image shadows, midtones and highlights. Can adjust an image's tonal range and contrast Brightness Large value will brighten camera. Contrast Large value will contrast camera heavily. Sharpness Large value will sharpen camera. De-Noise De-Noise can remove or lower unwanted noise and preserve fine details and edges.
3.6.3. Tour Setting Up to 64 positions can be preset, and the camera can be programming to move to the preset position sequentially. Tour Name The group name of the sequence of camera tour. The maximum number of camera tour is 16. Running Enable or disable this camera tour.
3.7 System Use this menu to perform the principal settings of Internet Camera. 3.7.1. System Device title You can enter the name of this unit here. It’s very useful to identify the specific device from multiple units. Software version This information shows the software version in the device. Network LED Switch the LED light of this Internet Camera on or off, that Network LEDs will stop working, in case you don’t want other people know the...
3.7.2. Date & Time User can setup the time setting of Internet Camera, make it synchronized with PC or remote NTP server. Also, you may select the correct time zone of your country. Server Date & Time Displays the date and time of the device PC Time Displays the date and time of the connected PC Synchronize...
Daylight Saving Sets up the date and time of daylight saving start time. Start Time Daylight Saving Sets up the date and time of daylight saving stop time. Stop Time Daylight Saving Sets up the date of daylight saving offset. Offset 3.7.3.
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8. A message will be shown while the firmware upgraded. Once the upgrading process completed, the device will reboot the system automatically. 9. Please wait for 80 seconds, and then you can use PLANET IPWizard to search the device again.
3.8 Video This device provides more video profiles as below to support different request to each client simultaneously. Each user can choose his preferred video profile as his request independently. 3.8.1. Common Text Overlay There are some important information can be embedded into image, Setting including date, time, and/or text.
3.8.2. Video Profile User can modify the detail parameter for each video profiles in this page. Video Type Video codec of the selected video profile. Resolution There are four resolutions in this profile: D1(4CIF), CIF and QCIIF. Rate Control Defines the rate control method of this profile. There are two options: Constant Bit Rate (CBR) or Variable Bit Rate (VBR).
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GOP Control Defines the Intra/Inter-frame (I/P) ratio of this profile. For example, set the GOP to 30, then the video stream will have one Intra-frame every 30 frames. Multicast Video IP address and port for multicast video streaming of the selected profile.
3.9 Audio Configuration Audio: To enable or disable audio function. Audio Input Source Select either built-in MIC or external MIC. Mute While PT Mute the audio while pan and/or tilt motion Audio Mode: To select Simplex or Full duplex (2-way audio) mode. Input Gain: To adjust gain of input audio.
3.10 User Privilege Access Configuration Use this menu to set the user names and password of the Administrator and up to 10 users, and access right of each user. Viewer login Select “Anonymous” to allow any one viewing the video once connected.
3.11 E-Mail Configuration You may setup SMTP mail parameters for further operation of Event Schedule. That’s, if users want to send the alarm message out, it will need to configure parameters here and also add at least one event schedule to enable event triggering. SMTP Server Type the SMTP server name or the IP address of the SMTP server.
3.12 Object Detection Use this menu to specify motion detection window 1 to window 4 and set the conditions for detection while observing a captured image. Add and Del To add or delete the motion windows. User can specify up to 4 Included and/or Excluded windows to monitor the video captured by this device.
3.13 Storage Configuration This page shows the status of attached SD card. You may setup related parameters to manage the attached SD card also. Enable automatic disk cleanup Delete old recorded files while the conditions are reached as below. Remove recordings order than Delete old files by days.
3.15 Event Server Configuration 3.15.1. FTP Server You may setup FTP parameters for further operation of Event Schedule. That’s, if users want to send the alarm message to an FTP server, it will need to configure parameters here and also add at least one event schedule to enable event triggering as SMTP.
3.15.2. TCP Server In addition to send video file to FTP server, the device also can send event message to specified TCP server. Name User can specify multiple TCP servers as wish. Therefore, user needs to specify a name for each TCP server setting. TCP Server Type the server name or the IP address of the TCP server.
3.15.3. HTTP Server The device also can send event message to specified HTTP server. Name User can specify multiple HTTP servers as wish. Therefore, user needs to specify a name for each HTTP server setting. Type the server name or the IP address of the HTTP server. Test Check the HTTP server whether it is available or not.
3.15.4. SAMBA Server The device also can send video stream to specified SAMBA server. Most of the time, the SAMBA server will be another PC or NAS server. Name User can specify multiple HTTP servers as wish. Therefore, user needs to specify a name for each HTTP server setting. SAMBA Server Type the server name or the IP address of the SAMBA server.
3.16 Event Schedule Configuration This menu is used to specify the schedule of Events and activate the some actions provided by this device. Name Name of the Event or Schedule. Enable Enable or disable this Event or Schedule. Type Schedule start with Event trigger or Schedule trigger.
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Example1. Send file to FTP server by motion triggered always: Select event trigger Enable time: start from 00:00 to 24:00 every day Trigger by: Motion Area (Added in Object Detection page) Action : Send FTP (Add in Event Server -> FTP Server page)
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Example2. Send file to E-Mail server by motion triggered from Friday 18:00 to Saturday 06:00 Select event trigger. Enable time: start from Friday 18:00 and keep work in 12 hours, so it will stop on Saturday 06:00. Trigger by : Motion Area (Added in Object Detection page) Action : Send e-mail (Add in E-Mail page) To email address: You need to input the receiver email address.
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Example3. Enable Voice Alert every 10-minute during 18:00 to 24:00 from Monday to Friday. 1. Type: Select schedule trigger and interval is 10-minute. 2. Enable Time: Select Monday to Friday, and set start time from 18:00 and keep work in 6 hours. 3.
3.17 Record Configuration User can choose the type of record file for event or schedule application. Record File Type Choose AVI or JPEG file format. Record File Prefix Define the prefix of recorded filename. JPEG Picture Numbers Define the picture capture method.
Appendix A: Alarm I/O Connector Some features of the Internet Camera can be activated by the external sensor that senses physical changes in the area Internet Camera is monitoring. These changes can include intrusion detection or certain physical change in the monitored area. For examples, the external sensor can be a door switch or an infrared motion detector.
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Explanation of External I/O Circuit Diagram: CAUTION! The low voltage/current circuits and high voltage/current circuits are in the Internet Camera circuit. The qualified electrician should do the wring not by yourself incorrect wiring could damage Internet Camera. You could receive the fatal electric shock.
Appendix B: PING IP Address The PING (stands for Packet Internet Groper) command is used to detect whether a specific IP address is accessible by sending a packet to the specific address and waiting for a reply. It’s also a very useful tool to confirm Internet Camera installed or if the IP address conflicts with any other devices over the network.
Appendix C: 3GPP Access To use the 3GPP function, in addition to previous section, you might need more information or configuration to make this function work. That to use the 3GPP function, it strongly recommends to install the Networked Device Note with a public and fixed IP address without any firewall protection.
Appendix D: Bandwidth and Video Size Estimation The frame rate of video transmitted from the Internet Camera depends on connection bandwidth between client and server, video resolution, codec type, and quality setting of server. Here is a guideline to help you roughly estimate the bandwidth requirements for your Internet Camera. The required bandwidth depends on content of video source.
Appendix E: DDNS Application 1. Preface If you have a Cable modem or xDSL, this is a great way to host your own Networked Device or other TCP/IP Service. Get your own domain like www.yourname.com, www.yourname.com.tw etc. (Note: This domain must be registered with Internic via registration authorities such as Network Solutions, DirectNIC, Register.com etc).
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(3). After the columns show up at the left side, click “Create Account”. (4). Fill the application agreement and necessary information. a. Username b. E-mail address and confirmation c. Password and confirmation d. Submit all the input information and finish creating an account...
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Click these two options (5). Check your e-mail mailbox. There will be an e-mail with a title “Your DynDNS Account Information“. Click the hyperlink address to confirm the DDNS service that you just applied. Click to confirm Then DDNS you applied activated.
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(6). Enter the web page http://www.dyndns.org/ again. Input your username and password that you just applied to login administration interface of DDNS server. Input your account (7). If the correct username and password are input, you can see the following picture at the top-right of the login page.
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(9). Click the “ Dynamic DNS ”. (10). Click the “Create Hosts”. (11). We could create a domain name without any charge at this step. First, we input the host name. (No.1) Then we pick a domain that is easy to remember. Finally (No.2), click the “Add Host”...
Manually setup the device with a fixed IP address, for example, 192.168.0.100. 2. Access the Router with Your Web browser The following steps generally apply to any router that you have on your network. The PLANET WNRT-620 is used as an example to clarify the configuration process. Configure the initial settings of the router by following the steps outlined in the router’s Quick Installation Guide.
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Your WAN IP Address will be listed here. 3. Open/set Virtual Server Ports to enable remote image viewing The firewall security features built into the router and most routers prevent users from accessing the video from the device over the Internet. The router connects to the Internet over a series of numbered ports.
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A check mark appearing before the entry name will indicate that the ports are enabled. NOTE Some ISPs block access to port 80. Be sure to check with your ISP so that you can open the appropriate ports accordingly. If your ISP does not pass traffic on port 80, you will need to change the port the camera uses from 80 to something else, such as 8080.
Appendix G: Power Line Frequency COUNTRY VOLTAGE FREQUENCY COMMENTS *Neutral and line wires are reversed from that Argentina 220V 50 Hz used in Australia and elsewhere. *Outlets typically controlled by adjacent switch. Australia 230V* 50 Hz Though nominal voltage has been officially changed to 230V, 240V is within tolerances and commonly found.
3 seconds on the device. 2. Reconfigure the device. Forgot the IP address of the Check IP address of device by using the PLANET IPWizard program device. or by UPnP discovery or set the device to default by Reset button.
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Do not connect device over a router. PLANET IPWizard program cannot detect device over a router. If IP address is not assigned to the PC which running PLANET IPWizard program, then PLANET IPWizard program cannot find device. Make sure that IP address is assigned to the PC properly.
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The port number assigned in your Internet Camera might not be available via Internet. Check your ISP for available port. The proxy server may prevent you from connecting directly to the Internet Camera, set up not to use the proxy server. Confirm that Default Gateway address is correct.
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server running on your LAN. Check the configuration of the router settings allow the device to be accessed outside your local LAN. Check the bandwidth of Internet connection. If the Internet bandwidth is lower than target bit rate, the video streaming will not work correctly.
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The color of the image is poor or Adjust White Balance. strange. To insure the images you are viewing are the best they can be, set the Display property setting (color quality) to 16bit at least and 24 bit or higher if possible within your computer. The configuration on the device image display is incorrect.