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CCD PT Internet Camera
ICA-501
User's Manual
Version: 2.00
Date: April, 2009
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  • Page 1 CCD PT Internet Camera ICA-501 User’s Manual Version: 2.00 Date: April, 2009...
  • Page 2 Copyright Copyright © 2009 by PLANET Technology Corp. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of PLANET.
  • Page 3 Do not dispose of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste and have to collect such WEEE separately. Revision User’s Manual for PLANET CCD PT Internet Camera Model: ICA-501 Rev: 2.0 (April, 2009) Part No. EM-ICA501v2...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Content Introduction........................ 5 1.1 Overview ......................5 1.2 Features ......................5 1.3 Package Contents ..................... 6 Basic Setup ....................... 7 2.1 System Requirements..................7 2.2 Physical Description..................8 2.2.1 Front Panel....................8 2.2.2 Rear Panel ....................9 2.3 Hardware Installation ..................10 2.3.1 Ceiling Mount ..................
  • Page 5 3.6.3 Tour Setting ................... 48 3.7 System....................... 50 3.7.1 System ....................50 3.7.2 Date & Time................... 51 3.7.3 Maintenance..................52 3.8 Video........................54 3.8.1 Common ....................54 3.8.2 MPEG4/VGA ..................55 3.8.3 MPEG4/QVGA..................56 3.8.4 MPEG4/QQVGA................... 57 3.8.5 VIDEO/JPEG..................58 3.9 Audio........................

  • Page 6: Introduction

    1. Introduction Thank you for purchasing the CCD PT Internet Camera. The Pan/Tilt Internet Camera is a stand-alone camera system with a built-in processor and web server that provides highest quality video and system performance. 1.1 Overview This user’s manual explains how to operate the CCD PT Internet Camera from a computer, unless model name specified terms “PT Internet Camera”...

  • Page 7: Package Contents

    1.3 Package Contents 1 x ICA-501 1 x Camera Mount Kit 1 x Power Adapter 1 x CD-ROM 1 x Quick Installation Guide NOTE: 1. If any of the above items are missing, please contact your dealer immediately. 2. Using the power supply that is not the one included in PT Internet Camera...

  • Page 8: Basic Setup

    2. Basic Setup This chapter provides details of installing and configuring the PT Internet Camera 2.1 System Requirements Network Interface 10/100MBase-TX Ethernet Monitoring System Recommended for Internet Explorer 6.0 or later Basic System Hardware · CPU: Pentium 4, 3.0GHz or above ·...

  • Page 9: Physical Description

    2.2 Physical Description 2.2.1 Front Panel Lens & focus ring Microphone Power Wireless LED & LAN LED Lens & focus ring User could use this ring to adjust focus manually. Power & LAN LED This LED is used to indicate whether DC power is on or not. In addition, this LED will be flashing while network accessing via Ethernet.

  • Page 10: Rear Panel

    2.2.2 Rear Panel Factory Default Reset DC Power Jack Audio Output Jack LAN Socket Audio Output Jack Audio-out Jack allows this device to output audio or alerting sound. DC Power Jack The input power is 12VDC. NOTE Only use the power adapter supplied with PT Internet Camera.

  • Page 11: Hardware Installation

    2.3 Hardware Installation 2.3.1 Ceiling Mount 1. Fix the camera to L-ty pe bracket with two supplied screws. 2. ix the bracket and camera to the ceiling using two holly wall anchors and screws.

  • Page 12: Wall Mount

    2.3.2 Wall Mount 1. Fix the L-type bracket to the wall using two holly wall anchors and screws. 2. Fix the camera to L-type bracket with two supplied screws.

  • Page 13: Physical Installation

    2.3.3 Physical Installation 1. Connect an Ethernet cable Connect the LAN cable on the PT Internet Camera to the network device (hub or switch). 2. Check the LED (Front Panel) The LED is defined to identify LAN connection type. When LAN port is connected, the LED will be green.

  • Page 14: Initial Utility Installation

    2.4 Initial Utility Installation This chapter shows how to quick set up your PT Internet Camera. The PT Internet Camera is with the default settings. However to help you find the networked camera quickly the windows utility-IPWizard can search the cameras in the network that shall help you to configure some basic setting before you started advanced management and monitoring.
  • Page 15 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.
  • Page 16 6. Please click “Finish” to complete the installation 7. Please double-click the utility icon on the desktop then you will see the PT Internet Camera utility.

  • Page 17: Ipwizard

    2.5 IPWizard When you installed the PT Internet Camera on a LAN environment, you may execute IPWizard to discover I PT Internet Camera’s IP address and set up related parameters in the PT Internet Camera. Search Button: When click Search button, a searching window will pop up. IPWizard is starting to search PT Internet Camera on the LAN.
  • Page 18 Wizard Button: When IPWizard finds your camera, Wizard button will become available. Please select the device you would like to configure in the Information Box. The device will turn into yellow which means this device is selected, please press “Wizard” button. Or you could double click the mouse left key on the selected camera.

  • Page 19: Configure With Ipwizard

    2.6 Configure With IPWizard After pressing Installation Wizard, please key in Username and Password of the device when login dialog box appears on the screen. You can login the setup page if authorized name and password is correct. Default username/password for machine login: admin/<no password> Wizard Page 1: Username and Password This page is about the change of the authorized user name and password of the selected device.
  • Page 20 Wizard Page 2: LAN Setting This page is about the select of Static IP or DHCP ON. LAN: You can configure this PT Internet Camera to obtain its address automatically or manually assign. If there is a DHCP server in your network environment and you select “DHCP ON”, PT Internet Camera can automatically obtain an IP address.
  • Page 21 Note: If no IP address is assigned after 30 seconds, the PT Internet Camera will work with its default IP address 192.168.0.20. User may now open your web browser, and key in http://192.168.0.20 in the address bar of your web browser to logon PT Internet Camera’s web configuration page.

  • Page 22: Upnp Function

    2.7 UPnP Function NOTE: Windows 2000 does not support UPnP feature. 2.7.1 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.
  • Page 23 The “Add or Remove Programs” will display on the screen and click Add/Remove Widows Components to continue. The following screen will appear, select Networking Services and click Details to continue...
  • Page 24 The “Networking Services” will display on the screen, select Universal Plug and Play and click OK to continue. Please click Next to continue...
  • Page 25 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...

  • Page 26: Windows Vista

    Double-click My Network Places on the desktop, the “My Network Places” will display on the screen and double-click the UPnP icon with PT Internet Camera to view your device in an internet browser. 2.7.2 Windows Vista  UPnP™ is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals.
  • Page 27 Double-click My Network Places on the desktop, the “My Network Places” will display on the screen and double-click the UPnP icon with PT Internet Camera to view your device in an internet browser.

  • Page 28: Setup Activex To Use The Pt Internet Camera

    2.8 Setup ActiveX to use the PT Internet Camera The PT Internet Camera web pages communicate with the PT Internet Camera using an ActiveX control. The ActiveX control must be downloaded from the PT Internet Camera and installed on your PC. Your Internet Explorer security settings must allow for the web page to work correctly. To use the PT Internet Camera, user must setup his IE browser as follows: 2.8.1 Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP ...

  • Page 29: Internet Explorer 7 For Windows Xp

    2.8.2 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 •...

  • Page 30: Internet Explorer 7 For Windows Vista

    2.8.3 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”...

  • Page 31: Web-Based Management

    3. Web-based Management This chapter provides setup details of the PT Internet Camera’s Web-based Interface. 3.1 Introduction The PT Internet Camera can be configured with your Web Browser. Before configure, please make sure your PC is under the same IP segment with PT Internet Camera. 3.2 Connecting to PT Internet Camera Use the following procedure to establish a connection from your PC to the PT Internet Camera.
  • Page 32 After the ActiveX control was installed and run, the first image will be displayed. NOTE: If you log in the PT Internet Camera as an ordinary user, setting function will be not available. If you log in the PT Internet Camera as the administrator, you can perform all the settings provided within the device.

  • Page 33: Live View

    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 Setting Menu PTZ Control 2-Way Audio Video Information Monitor Image Section De-Interlace Vertical Flip Monitor Image Section: The image shot by the PT Internet Camera is shown here.
  • Page 34 De-Interlace: The device also supports de-interlace function inside ActiveX. User can chose to enable or disable this function by toggling the icon below. : Disable de-interlace function. : Enable de-interlace function. Vertical Flip: According to camera position, user might need this function to correct the view angle avoiding upside down.

  • Page 35: Auto Pan

    PTZ Control: Click to display the following control panel: Hide PTZ Control Camera Direction Camera Speed Preset Go Tour Tour Auto Pan Hide PTZ Control: Click the icon will hide the PTZ control function. Camera Direction: Control camera up/down/left/right and home position. Camera Speed: Choose the speed of Pan and Tilt.

  • Page 36: Activex Control

    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 Microsfoft® Internet Explorer. On the ActiveX control icon, click the LeftMouseButton, then a menu pop-up. This menu provides features that are unique to the ActiveX control.

  • Page 37: Digital Zoom

    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.

  • Page 38: Snapshot

    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.

  • Page 39: Statistics

    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...

  • Page 40: Network

    3.5 Network 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.

  • Page 41: Ddns Server

    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"...
  • Page 42 Because DDNS allows the device to use an easier way to remember naming format rather than an IP address. The name of the domain is like the name of a person, and the IP address is like his phone number. On the Internet we have IP numbers for each host (computer, server, router, and so on), and we replace these IP numbers to easy remember names, which are organized into the domain name.

  • Page 43: Pppoe

    3.5.3 PPPoE PPPoE: Stands for Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet A standard builds on Ethernet and Point-to-Point network protocol. It allows PT Internet Camera connect to Internet with xDSL or cable connection; it can dial up your ISP and get a dynamic IP address.

  • Page 44: Streaming

    3.5.4 Streaming RTSP is a streaming control protocol, and a starting point for negotiating transports such as RTP, multicast and Unicast, and for negotiating codecs. RTSP can be considered a "remote control" for controlling the media stream delivered by a media server. RTSP servers typically use RTP as the protocol for the actual transport of audio/video data.

  • Page 45: Upnp

    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 Network 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.”...

  • Page 46: Ip Filter

    3.5.6 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.

  • Page 47: Ip Notification

    3.5.7 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. SMTP Notification (e-mail): If enable this function, then the “Send to“ and “Subject” field need to be filled. Send To: Type the receiver’s e-mail address.

  • Page 48: Camera

    3.6 Camera Use this menu to set the function of the camera of PT Internet Camera 3.6.1 Picture Brightness: Large value will brighten camera. Sharpness: Large value will sharpen camera. Contrast: Large value will contrast camera heavily.

  • Page 49: Preset Setting

    3.6.2 Preset Setting This page provides the edit tool to modify or delete the “Preset Setting” item by item. 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.
  • Page 50 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. Preset: Set the sequence of the tour. Maximum 16 points can be assigned. The selected preset position is added in the Sequence list from 1 to 16.

  • Page 51: System

    3.7 System Use this menu to perform the principal settings of PT 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.

  • Page 52: Date & Time

    3.7.2 Date & Time You can setup the time setting of PT Internet Camera, make it synchronized with PC or remote NTP server. Also, you may select the correct time zone of your country. Server Date Displays the date and time of the device &...

  • Page 53: Maintenance

    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 Maintenance Hard Factory Default Recall the device hard factory default settings. Note that click (Include network this button will reset all device’s parameters to the factory...
  • Page 54 2. Make sure that only you access this device at this moment 3. Disable Motion Detection function. 4. Select “Firmware name” 5. Select the Firmware binary file. (Note that it must make sure that the Firmware only applies to this device, once update, it will be burned into FLASH ROM of system.) 6.

  • Page 55: Video

    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 Setting: There are some important information can be embedded into image, including date, time, and/or text.

  • Page 56: Mpeg4/Vga

    3.8.2 MPEG4/VGA Video Type: It’s MPEG4 mode in this profile Resolution: It’s VGA mode (640x480) in this profile Bit rate control: Defines the rate control method of this profile. There are two options: Constant Bit Rate (CBR) or Variable Bit Rate (VBR). For CBR, the video bit rate is between 384kbps and 4096kbps.

  • Page 57: Mpeg4/Qvga

    3.8.3 MPEG4/QVGA Video Type: It’s MPEG4 mode in this profile. Resolution: It’s QVGA mode (320x240) in this profile. Bit rate control: Defines the rate control method of this profile. There are two options: Constant Bit Rate (CBR) or Variable Bit Rate (VBR). For CBR, the video bit rate is between 128kbps and 1024kbps.

  • Page 58: Mpeg4/Qqvga

    3.8.4 MPEG4/QQVGA Video Type: It’s MPEG4 mode in this profile. Resolution: It’s QQVGA mode (160x120) in this profile. Bit rate control: Defines the rate control method of this profile. There are two options: Constant Bit Rate (CBR) or Variable Bit Rate (VBR). For CBR, the video bit rate is between 24kbps and 320kbps.

  • Page 59: Video/Jpeg

    3.8.5 VIDEO/JPEG Video Type: It’s JPEG mode in this profile. Resolution: User can select VGA, QVGA, or QQVGA mode as the resolution of this JPEG profile. Rate Control: The quality level is between 1 and 100. The higher value is the better quality.

  • Page 60: Audio

    3.9 Audio Audio: To enable or disable audio function Audio Mode: To select Simplex or Full duplex (2-way audio) mode Input Gain: To adjust gain of input audio Output Gain: To adjust gain of output audio...

  • Page 61: User

    3.10 User 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: Anonymous: Choose this to enable anonymous user login. Only users Choose this to disable anonymous user login.

  • Page 62: E-Mail

    3.11 E-Mail 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.

  • Page 63: Ftp

    3.12 FTP 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. Name: User can specify multiple FTP paths as wish.

  • Page 64: Object Detection

    3.13 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.

  • Page 65: Event Schedule

    3.14 Event Schedule 3.14.1 Setting 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.

  • Page 66: Record

    NOTE: Camera will send a 15sec recording file to FTP server every min. 3.14.2 Record You can select which file type you would like to record and set a prefix file name. Name Name of the Event or Schedule. Record File Type You can select AVI or JPEG format for event recording.

  • Page 67: Appendix A: Reset Factory Default Settings

    Appendix A: Reset Factory Default Settings There is a button hidden in the pinhole near to the RJ-45 connector. This button is used to restore the all factory default settings. Sometimes restarting the device will make the system back to a normal state.

  • Page 68: Appendix B: Ping Ip Address

    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 PT Internet Camera installed or if the IP address conflicts with any other devices over the network.

  • Page 69: Appendix C: Bandwidth And Video Size Estimation

    Appendix C: Bandwidth and Video Size Estimation The frame rate of video transmitted from the PT 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 PT Internet Camera.
  • Page 70 MPEG4 Resolution Stream setting fps setting Current stream Current fps 640*480 VGA 384Kbps 5 fps 373Kbps - 388Kbps 5 fps 640*480 VGA 1024Kbps 5 fps 1024Kbps - 1036Kbps 5 fps 640*480 VGA 2048Kbps 5 fps around 1800Kbps 5 fps 640*480 VGA 384Kbps 20 fps around 550Kbps...

  • Page 71: Appendix D: Ddns Application

    Appendix D: 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).
  • Page 72 (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...
  • Page 73 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. Then DDNS you applied activated.
  • Page 74 Click to confirm (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.
  • Page 75 (8). Click the “Services”. (9). Click the “ Dynamic DNS ”. (10). Click the “Create Hosts”.
  • Page 76 (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” to submit the domain name information. (No.3) 4.

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