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  • Page 1 User’s Manual ICA-HM227W 3 Mega-Pixel Wireless IR PT IP Camera...
  • Page 2 Further, PLANET reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the contents hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes.

  • Page 3: National Restrictions

    In order to avoid the possibility of exceeding the FCC radio frequency exposure limits, human proximity to the antenna shall not be less than 20 cm (8 inches) during normal operation. Safety This device is designed with the utmost care for the safety of those who install and use it. However, special attention must be paid to the dangers of electric shock and static electricity when working with electrical device.
  • Page 4 Do not dispose of WEEE as unsorted municipal waste and have to collect such WEEE separately. Revision User’s Manual for PLANET 3 Mega-Pixel Wireless IR PT IP Camera Model: ICA-HM227W Rev: 1.0 (June. 2012) Part No. EM-ICAHM227W 3 ...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    1.3 Package Contents......................7 2. Basic Setup ........................ 9 2.1 System Requirement ....................9 2.2 Physical Description ....................10 2.2.1 Identification of ICA-HM227W physical detail ..........10 2.3 Hardware Installation....................12 2.4 Initial Utility Installation ....................18 2.5 Preparation........................18 2.5.1 Configure Network by PLANET IPFinder............
  • Page 6 3.4 Client Settings......................36 4. Advanced Configuration ..................38 4.1 System ......................... 39 4.2 Security........................41 4.3 Network........................43 4.3.1 General......................... 43 4.3.2 Advanced ......................45 4.3.3 Wireless........................ 47 4.4 IP Filter......................... 50 4.5 Video ..........................52 4.5.1 Image Setting ...................... 53 4.5.2 Video Setting .......................

  • Page 7: Introduction

    The 9 IR illuminators infrared LED built around the lens bring the clearest vision at night. The ICA-HM227W could work in a dark area and auto activate when the environment is getting dark also offers high-quality pictures both in the day and night with built-in CMOS sensor supporting up to 10 meters.

  • Page 8: Package Contents

    • Complies with IEEE 802.11b / g / n • WEP / WPA / WPA2 Wireless data encryption • Supports WPS function Management • PLANET IP Finder, CV3L and CV3P can manage the IP camera easily 1.3 Package Contents • IP Camera unit x 1 •...
  • Page 9 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 Internet camera packet NOTE will cause damage and void the warranty for this product. 8 ...

  • Page 10: Basic Setup

    1. The listed information is minimum system requirements only. Actual requirement will vary depending on the nature of your environment. 2. The ICA-HM227W can be managed by PLANET Cam Viewer Three if you want to configure more detail information and settings of camera viewer plus NOTE software please refer to the CD-ROM folder “D:\Manual\Cam Viewer 3\”,...

  • Page 11: Physical Description

    2.2 Physical Description 2.2.1 Identification of ICA-HM227W physical detail Front view Focus Ring Light sensor Infrared LED LED indicators Microphone Item Description Detects light level of the place where this IP camera install. Light sensor Lights up when it’s too dark...
  • Page 12 Rear Panel DI/ DO WPS/ Reset Button   Power Connector Antenna Base   SD/ SDHC Card Slot Audio Connector Button Description Button Function Press the WPS button and hold it for 3 seconds to enable the WPS function, the LED will flashed very fast which means connecting. When connect with the router, the LED flashed will be slow down means connect successful.

  • Page 13: Hardware Installation

    DO NOT CONNECT POWERED CABLE to DI/DO! This WARNING will damage the device permanently!   Function Connector Connect to your local area network by Ethernet cable. Allows device connects to the supplied antenna. Antenna Base Inserts SD card for video recording. Maximum 32GB** of SDHC card SD/ SDHC Card Slot supported.
  • Page 14   3. Secure wall mounting metal plate B by 2 screws.     4.Insert the IP camera (with wall mounting metal plate B installed) into wall mounting metal plate A, which is already secured on the wall. 5.Secure the IP camera on the wall by securing wall mounting metal plate A and B together by 13 ...
  • Page 15 screw at the place indicated by black arrow.     6.When mounted on the wall, cables can pass through wall mounting metal plate A as indicated by the picture below.     7.Insert Ethernet cable to the Ethernet port of this IP camera for Ethernet connection. 14 ...
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  • Page 17 8.Insert DI/DO signal cable(s) into DI/DO port of this IP camera. If you don’t have DI/DO accessories, you can skip this step.     9.Insert AC power adapter’s cable into DC12V port of this IP camera.   10.The LED lights should light up after few seconds, and the IP camera will test its Pan/Tilt motor within 1 minute (Do not disturb IP camera at this stage).
  • Page 18 chapters for detailed operating instructions. 11.If it needs to set up wireless connection, please attach the wireless antenna to the IP camera and configure through wired connection. Remove the network cable after finish all relative wireless configuration then user can access the camera through wireless connection. Please refer to the section 3 for detail configuration.

  • Page 19: Initial Utility Installation

    However to help you find the networked IP Camera quickly the Windows utility (PLANET IPFinder) can search the IP Cameras in the network that shall help you to configure some basic setting before you start advanced management and monitoring.
  • Page 20 3. Press ‘Discover’ button to search for all IP Cameras on your local network (make sure all IP Cameras are powered on and connect to local network first). When you find any IP Camera, you can click on it and click ‘Link’ button to connect to it by your web browser. 4.

  • Page 21: Setup Activex To Use The Internet Camera

    2.6 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: 2.6.1 Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP From your IE browse...

  • Page 22: Internet Explorer 7 For Windows Xp

    2.6.2 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 23: Internet Explorer 7 For Windows Vista

    2.6.3 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 24: Internet Explorer 8 For Windows Xp

    2.6.4 Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP From your IE browse ”Tools” ”Internet Options…” ”Security” ”Custom Level…”, please setup your “Settings” as follow. Set the first some items as below. Under ActiveX ensure the following are set to enabled • Allow previously unused ActiveX control to run… •...

  • Page 25: Using Upnp Of Windows Xp Or Vista

    2.7 Using UPnP of Windows XP or Vista 2.7.1 Windows XP UPnP™ is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking device, software, and peripherals. This device is an UPnP enabled device. If the operating system, Windows XP, of your PC is UPnP enabled, the Internet Camera will be very easy to configure.
  • Page 26 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 25   ...
  • Page 27 The “Networking Services” will display on the screen, select “Universal Plug and Play” and click “OK” to continue. Please click “Next” to continue 26   ...
  • Page 28 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.

  • Page 29: Windows Vista

    2.7.2 Windows Vista UPnP™ is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking device, software, and peripherals. This device is an UPnP enabled device. If the operating system, Windows Vista, of your PC is UPnP enabled, the Internet Camera will be very easy to configure.

  • Page 30: Web-Based Management

    3. Web-based Management This chapter provides setup details of the Internet Camera’s Web-based Interface. 3.1 Introduction The Internet Camera can be configured with your Web Browser. Before configure, please make sure your PC is under the same IP segment with Internet Camera. 3.2 Connecting to Internet Camera Use the following procedure to establish a connection from your PC to the camera.
  • Page 31 OFF until the device is allocated a new IP Address during configuration. If the User name and Password have been changed with PLANET IPFinder, please enter the new User name and Password here. NOTE When you know the IP address of IP Camera, you can connect to it by Internet Explorer web browser by entering its IP address in address bar.
  • Page 32 If you’re prompted that: ‘Windows Firewall has blocked some features of this program’ Click ‘Allow access’, or IP Camera will not be able to function properly. When you’re installing Internet Explorer plugin, you may also be prompted that if you want to allow changes to be made to your computer: Click ‘Yes’...
  • Page 33 After ActiveX plugin is installed, you should be able to see the video stream from camera. If this is the first time you use this IP Camera, you can refer to chapter 2.4 for instructions on Setup Wizard, which will guide you to complete the software setup NOTE of your new IP Camera.

  • Page 34: Viewing Live Video

    3.3 Viewing Live Video After ActiveX control is installed, you can view IP camera’s video by web browser. Just connect to IP camera by web browser and login, and then you can see live video from IP camera: There are various controls on web page; here are descriptions of every control item: Item Description ‘Home’...
  • Page 35 If you want to see video in detail, switch to original size. If your computer monitor’s resolution is not enough and you want to see full image view, switch to fit screen and image size will adjust automatically. ‘Connect’ button Start live video view.
  • Page 36 That digital zoom uses computer algorithm to enlarge the video and some details may lost. If you need to focus on detail of specific objects in video view, please use optical zoom ring on lens NOTE set of IP camera. Enable / Disable mute When mute is enabled ( ), you will not hear the voice from...

  • Page 37: Client Settings

    3.4 Client Settings In ‘Client Settings’ menu, you configure basic IP camera settings like data transfer protocol and data storage folder. To access ‘Client Settings’ menu, click ‘Client Settings’ button on the left. The following screen will appear: Here are the descriptions of every setup item: 36 ...
  • Page 38 Item Description RTSP Select this option to use RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) to transfer video data. HTTP Select this option to use HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol) to transfer video data. If you don’t know which one you should use, select ‘RTSP’. Folder Select a folder on your computer to save recorded video.

  • Page 39: Advanced Configuration

    4. Advanced Configuration If you wish to configure IP camera’s settings, you can access IP camera’s ‘Configuration’ menu, which provides various kinds of system setting. To access configuration menu, click ‘Configuration’ button on the left. The ‘Configuration’ submenu will appear, please pick a setup item you wish to configure. 38 ...

  • Page 40: System

    4.1 System In this menu, you can configure basic IP camera settings like hostname and time. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: 39   ...
  • Page 41 Item Description Host Name Input the IP camera’s hostname here, it can be any meaningful words or characters that will help you to identify this IP camera. You can use IP camera’s installation location as host name, and this will help you to identify IP camera when you have many IP cameras installed.

  • Page 42: Security

    4.2 Security In this menu, you can configure IP camera’s login account. There are three kinds of account: Administrator : Can view IP camera’s video and make changes of camera setting ‐ ‐ User : Can view IP camera’s video and see LOG, and change Client Setting  ...
  • Page 43 Password ‘Retype Password’ field, and click ‘Modify’ button to change administrator’s password. (Administrator) Don’t forget administrator’s password! Or you’ll need to reset IP camera’s all settings to get administrator’s password recovered. NOTE Account List Here lists all users existed in IP camera. If you want to remove one user, click it in the list, and then click ‘Remove’...

  • Page 44: Network

    4.3 Network 4.3.1 General In this menu, you can configure IP camera’s network setting. This IP camera supports both IPv4 and IPv6 IP address. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Select this option to assign an IP address to LAN port (or obtain an address from DHCP server automatically).
  • Page 45 DHCP IPv4 / IPv6: Obtain both IPv4 and IPv6 address from DHCP ‐ server on LAN automatically. Static IPv4 / IPv6: Assign an IPv4 / IPv6 address to IP camera ‐ manually. If you don’t have a DHCP server on your local area network, you must use this option to specify an IP address.

  • Page 46: Advanced

    4.3.2 Advanced In this menu, you can configure IP camera’s advance network setting. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Multicast Enable video multicast: Multicast Group Address: Input multicast group address here, must be an address between 232.0.0.0 to 232.255.255.255.
  • Page 47 DDNS Enable DDNS support if your ISP assigns dynamic IP address to you. You must register a dynamic IP service first. Currently this IP camera supports Planet DDNS, DynDNS and TZO dynamic IP service. Provider: Select dynamic IP service provider.

  • Page 48: Wireless

    4.3.3 Wireless In this menu, you can configure IP camera’s wireless network setting. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Wireless Connection Select “Enable” to activate wireless network function of this IP camera, select ”Disable” to disable it. Network Type Select the network type of wireless connection.
  • Page 49 Channel: Shows the radio channel of this wireless access point. Encryption: Shows the encryption type used by this wireless access point. You must use the same encryption type if you wish to connect to a certain wireless access point. If the wireless access point does not use encryption, “Disabled”...
  • Page 50 below will transfer gray scale to black scale. Configure the setting consistent with the setting on the wireless router/AP that this IP camera will join the wireless network. Apply the settings then check the wireless networking. Item Description Pin Code Here displays the WPS pin code used to connect to WPS-enabled wireless access points.

  • Page 51: Ip Filter

    4.4 IP Filter When this IP camera is directly connected to Internet and not protected by firewall, this function acts like a mini built-in firewall to protect the safety of this IP camera and avoid attacks from hackers. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable Filter...
  • Page 52 address in both field. Click ‘New’ button to add IP address into accepted IP list. Deny IP list Here lists all IP address that cannot build connections to this IP camera. If you want to remove a set of IP address from the list, click on the IP address and click ‘Remove’...

  • Page 53: Video

    4.5 Video You can adjust the image of the IP camera in this menu. There are 3 sub-menus in this menu: Image Setting, Video Setting, and Overlay, which can be accessed by tabs on the top: 52   ...

  • Page 54: Image Setting

    4.5.1 Image Setting You can adjust the image parameters in this page. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Brightness / Control the image parameters. Click ‘ - ' to decrease value, or click ‘ + Contrast / ‘...
  • Page 55 Power Line Select the frequency of power line of the place you’re using this IP Frequency camera. This will help to reduce the flicker of certain lights in the image. Condition Select the condition that you’ll be using this IP camera from dropdown menu.

  • Page 56: Video Setting

    4.5.2 Video Setting You can adjust the video transfer parameters in this page. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description H.264 /MPEG4 Select the compression of main stream: H.264 / MPEG4. Video Select video resolution. Resolution H.264: ‐...
  • Page 57 MJPEG: That some video resolution is not available when video encoder is ‘MPEG4’. NOTE 1280x720 (720p) / 720x480 (D1) 640x480 (VGA) / 320x240 (QVGA) Frame Rate Select video frame rate. Please note that some frame rate is not available when video encoder is ‘H.264’. When network speed is insufficient, select a lower frame rate will help.

  • Page 58: Overlay Setting

    4.5.3 Overlay Setting You can adjust the video overlay parameters in this page. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable Time Stamp Check this box to enable overlaying time stamp on video. Remove the Check this box to remove time stamp’s background color. You background color of may find this will help the readability of time stamp text in some the text...
  • Page 59 Enable Image Overlay Check this box to overlay a specific image on video, so you can show certain text / picture on the video and help people to identify this IP camera. Click ‘Browse’ button to pick a picture on your computer, then click ‘Update’...

  • Page 60: Audio

    4.6 Audio You can adjust audio input / output parameters here. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable Microphone Check this box to enable microphone. If you don’t want to hear voice from IP camera, you can uncheck this box to disable it. Audio Type The format is fixed as G.711 Microphone Gain...

  • Page 61: Motion

    4.7 Motion This IP camera is capable to detect object’s motion, so IP camera will only record when there’s motion and save disk storage space. Motion detection is performed by examine the movement of objects in rectangular motion detection area. You can define up to 3 motion detection areas. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description...
  • Page 62 Move: Use the mouse to drag the title text. ‐ Resize: mouse drag four corners ‐ (upper-left/right, lower-left/right) to resize it. If you only want to adjust width or height, drag the four sidebars (top, bottom, left, and right). Title Input characters in title field to change motion detection area’s title (Window 1 to text so you can identify it.

  • Page 63: Ptz Control

    4.8 PTZ Control In this page, you can setup PTZ Control settings like auto pan-tilt control and patrol. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: 62   ...
  • Page 64 Item Description Pan-tilt control Control pan-tilt of camera by click up, down, left, right and upper-left/right, lower-left/right. Pan Speed Adjust the pan speed. It should be an integer between 1 (slower) to 10 (faster). Tilt speed Adjust the tilt speed. It should be an integer between 1 (slower) to 10 (faster). Set home Click this button to set current position as home position.

  • Page 65: Event

    4.9 Event When there’s an event, you can use this setup page to define what IP camera should do, like send an Email or trigger digital output to activate external alarm. There are three setup pages: Setting: Define a new event and manage events. Media: Define what kind of media file should be saved on designate media.

  • Page 66: Settings

    4.9.1 Settings This page lists all existing events. You can click ‘Modify’ button to edit an existing event, or ‘Remove’ to delete an existing event. To create a new even, just click “New” button to add an Event setting.   65 ...
  • Page 67 To add a new event, click ‘New’ button and the descriptions of every setup item is listed below: Item Description Enable Setting Check this box to enable this event. If you just want to disable this event temporarily, you can uncheck this box to keep this event and disabling while not deleting it.
  • Page 68 (no spaces allowed). Motion Detection Check this box and this event will be activated when one of motion detection window detects motion. Digital Input Check this box and this event will be activated when digital input 1 or 1 ~ 2 2’s input signal is high or low (select from dropdown list).

  • Page 69: Media

      4.9.2 Media You can define what kind of media file should be saved on designated media. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description One Snapshot Save a picture file when event is triggered. That this function will be enabled while “MJPEG codec”...

  • Page 70: Event Server

    4.9.3 Event Server You can define the details of remote media server: FTP (File), SMTP (Email), and Samba (File). A Samba server can be any computer running windows operating system with network neighbor function enabled. Many stand-alone network file server also support samba server function.
  • Page 71 Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable FTP Check this box to enable FTP server upload. Server FTP Server: Input FTP server’s IP address or hostname. ‐ Port: Input FTP server’s port number. In most cases it should be ‐...
  • Page 72 SMTP Server: Input SMTP server’s IP address or hostname. ‐ Port: Input SMTP server’s port number. In most cases it should be ‐ default value ‘25’. Sender Email Address: Input the sender’s email address that will ‐ appear in the Email send by IP camera. This will help you to identify the Email sent by this IP camera, and may help when you have anti-spam software installed (you can set this Email address to ‘White List’...
  • Page 73 STARTTLS: If your Email server required STARTTLS encryption, ‐ check this box. Please note that some Email server uses different port number than standard port 25 when STARTTLS encryption is used. Test SMTP: Click this button to test SMTP server settings above ‐...

  • Page 74: Recording

    4.10 Recording When a SD card is inserted into IP camera, you can save video files on it. 1. Be sure that the SD Card format should be FAT32. The NTFS format cannot be supported by this camera. 2. Unlike motion detection, this function will record video at specified time period on NOTE selected weekday(s).

  • Page 75: Log

    4.11 Log You can check the usage log of IP camera here. In this page, you can click: First page / Final page: Jump to first / final page of log. Previous / Next: Jump to previous or next page of log. Remove: Clear log.

  • Page 76: Device Info

    4.12 Device Info You can check the information and network settings of this IP camera. This information is very useful when you need to repair or fix the problem of this IP camera. An example of device info page looks like this:  ...

  • Page 77: Maintenance

    4.13 Maintenance You can do some maintenance job about this IP camera here. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Reboot Click this button to reboot the IP camera. This function is useful when you find IP camera is not working properly. Reset Clear all settings of IP camera and reset to factory default setting.

  • Page 78: Language

      4.14 Language You can change the display language of web interface. Click ‘Language’ button and select one language. More languages may available in latest firmware file. 77   ...

  • Page 79: Appendix A: Troubleshooting

    Appendix A: Troubleshooting Please don’t panic when you found this IP Camera is not working properly. Before you send this IP Camera back to us, you can do some simple checks to save your time: Problem description Possible solution(s) Can’t connect to IP Camera 1) Please check the IP address of IP Camera again.

  • Page 80: Appendix B: Specification

    Appendix B: Specification Model ICA-HM227W Image Sensor Format 1/2.5" Progressive CMOS Effective Pixels 2592H x 1944V Pixel size 2.2 x 2.2μm 5.70mm(H) x 4.28mm(V) Active Image Area 7.13mm diagonal Lens Mount Board Focal Length 6mm CS mount Lens F No.
  • Page 81 H.264@720p/D1/VGA/QVGA MPEG4@720p/D1/VGA/QVGA Multi-stream mode MJPEG@720p/D1/VGA/QVGA Audio Codec Built-in TI DM368 H.264: 5 Levels or Bit Rate Codec Quality Options MPEG4: 5 Levels or Bit Rate MJPEG: 5 Levels Network Interface and Configuration Network Interface 1 x 10/100Base-TX / RJ45 Network Standard IEEE 802.3 / IEEE 802.3u TCP/IP, IPv6, Network Protocol...
  • Page 82 Windows® XP, 2000 / 2003 / 2008 server, Vista, Win 7 Browser IE 6.0 or latter Search & Installation PLANET IPFinder Monitor/ Recording / PLANET CV3P (4-ch Cam Viewer Three Pro Trail Version) Management PLANET CV3L (64-ch Cam Viewer Three Lite Bundle Version)   81   ...

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