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802.11 n Wireless IP Camera
With day&night function

User Manual

Revision: 030208
Date: 2012/04/06
For firmware version v030208

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  • Page 1: User Manual

    802.11 n Wireless IP Camera With day&night function User Manual Revision: 030208 Date: 2012/04/06 For firmware version v030208...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Day&Night IP Camera Table of Contents LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES......................4 INTRODUCTION..........................6 HARDWARE DESCRIPTION AND QUICK INSTALLATION/USAGE ........8 2.1..................8 AJOR HARDWARE COMPONENTS 2.2..................9 UICK INSTALLATION AND USAGE 2.3. ) ..........14 IRELESS CONNECTION IF ROUTER BUTTON 2.4. /AP) ......14 IRELESS CONNECTION NOT SUPPORTED ON ROUTER WEB CONFIGURATIONS ......................16...
  • Page 3 Day&Night IP Camera APPENDIX C. PERFORMANCE INFORMATION .................52 APPENDIX D. TROUBLE SHOOTING....................54 APPENDIX E. THIRD PARTY AND EMBEDDED WEB PAGE INTEGRATION .......56 APPENDIX F. SNAPSHOT PICTURE ON ANY BROWSER ............57...

  • Page 4: List Of Figures And Tables

    Day&Night IP Camera List of Figures and Tables Figure 2-1: Major components in the front panel Figure 2-2: Major components in the back panel Figure 2-3: IP CAM connection diagram. Figure 2-4: Connect Ethernet cable to a switch/router. Figure 2-5: The installation CD disk Figure 2-6: The ID/Password card Figure 2-7: Running window of CamView program Figure 2-8: Pop-up play-video password window...
  • Page 5 Day&Night IP Camera Figure 3-29: Stick the reset button to set to the factory default Figure 5-1: The IP camera body Figure 5-2: Power Adaptor Figure 5-3: Quick installation guide Figure 5-4: Ethernet cable Figure 5-5: Anchors and Screws Figure 5-6: Allen Key Figure 5-7: Installation CD Figure 5-8: ID/Password Card Table A-1: List of tested Wireless AP/router devices...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    Day&Night IP Camera 1. Introduction The IP Camera is designed for all day video surveillance on your iPhone/iPad and Android mobiles/pads. The setup is truly 1-2-3 : 1. Connect the camera to the network 2. Download the app mCamView into your iPhone/iPad or Android 3.
  • Page 7 Day&Night IP Camera The differences It’s very easy to see the video of the Day&Night IP Camera, you only need to key in the ID/Password of the IP CAM any where in the world, you do not need to remember the IP address or domain name or DDNS name or port number. And you do not need to modify the settings(like port mapping, fixed IP, DDNS, virtual server) of the NAT/router devices, it’s just a plug &...

  • Page 8: Hardware Description And Quick Installation/Usage

    Day&Night IP Camera 2. Hardware description and quick installation/usage The IP CAM is designed to be very easy to install and use. First, let’s see the major components of the IP CAM products. 2.1. Major hardware components. The major components on the front panel of the IP CAM products are the built-in microphone, lens and LEDs : 1.

  • Page 9: Quick Installation And Usage

    Day&Night IP Camera The major components on the back panel of the IP CAM products are the bracket screw jack, power jack, Ethernet jack and reset button: 1. Bracket screw jack – this is the position to screw in the bracket of the IP CAM. With the bracket, you can put the IP CAM on the desk, on the wall or on the ceiling.
  • Page 10 Day&Night IP Camera as shown in Figure 2-4. Since the default settings of the IP CAM use DHCP function and very often there is a DHCP server on most of the Home/office network, the IP CAM should be connected to the Internet immediately. The Internet status LED is constant red light to indicate this good connection status.
  • Page 11 Day&Night IP Camera the installation options, please press the “next” button to proceed with the installation. After the installation is complete, there will be a CamView icon on the desktop of your computer screen, please execute this icon. The CamView program will run immediately.
  • Page 12 Day&Night IP Camera have more convenient video display, please refer to the user manual of the CamView software for more functions. Notice 2: 1. For the iPhone usage, please download “mcamview” from App Store 2. For the iPad usage, please download “mcamviewHD” from App Store 3.
  • Page 13 Day&Night IP Camera Figure 2-8: Pop-up play-video password window...

  • Page 14: Wireless Connection (If Router/Ap Has Wps Button)

    Day&Night IP Camera 2.3. Wireless connection (if router/AP has WPS button) The IP Cam(w) can be connected to the home/office network through the 802.11 n wireless connection. If the router or AP has WPS button, then there are only three simple steps that you need to do to have the wireless connection: Unplug the Ethernet cable from the camera.
  • Page 15 Day&Night IP Camera If the WiFi test is successful, you can then enable the WiFi connection by unplugging the Ethernet cable from the IP CAM. The IP CAM will detect the Ethernet cable unplugged condition and start the WiFi connection. After the WiFi is connected, the IP CAM will connect to the Internet immediately.

  • Page 16: Web Configurations

    Day&Night IP Camera 3. Web configurations You can login into the web configuration page by directly key-in the IP address of the IP CAM or right-click the searched IP CAM in the “Auto Search” list of the CamView software and click the “Web Configure” to open the login window of the IP CAM.

  • Page 17: Information

    Day&Night IP Camera 3.1. Information The first page of the web configuration of the IP CAM is the information page. You can see the model name/firmware version, IP CAM ID, registration status, network type and current video settings( bandwidth, resolution) in this page. The IP CAM can be viewed remotely by the CamView/mcamview software only when the IP CAM is registered.

  • Page 18: Video Display

    Day&Night IP Camera 3.2. Video Display This display page allows you to view the video display and control the Day&Night 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. This could take some time, depends on the internet speed.

  • Page 19: Network

    Day&Night IP Camera 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. In this situation, by using this default settings, the IP CAM can work immediately in most of the time.
  • Page 20 Day&Night IP Camera Figure 3-6: Network settings page for fixed IP address...

  • Page 21: Wifi Security

    Day&Night IP Camera 3.4. WiFi security You can use the wireless connection to connect the IP CAM to the network. If your network environment has a 802.11 b/g/n router or AP running, you can click the “Enable WiFi function” button to enable the wireless. Figure 3-7: WiFi security disabled page In order to use the wireless network, you need to fill in the following fields: SSID –...
  • Page 22 Day&Night IP Camera All the fields in this page must be filled correctly with the same settings the wireless router or AP using. Figure 3-8: WiFi security enabled page You can click the “WiFi test” button to check if the IP CAM can connect to the wireless network for these settings.
  • Page 23 Day&Night IP Camera Figure 3-9: WiFi testing page Figure 3-10: WiFi scan page...

  • Page 24: Advanced Network

    Day&Night IP Camera 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.

  • Page 25: Video Settings

    Day&Night IP Camera 3.6. Video Settings The IP CAM is designed to provide high quality video for viewing from CamView 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 CamView/mcamview software.
  • Page 26 Day&Night IP Camera also be noticed that in “Indoor video” setting, the video display of outdoor view is very vague. For indoor usage, if there is strong sun light into the room, please select the “Indoor+sun light” choice. 13. Enable/disable audio microphone – you can enable or disable the audio microphone on the IP CAM.

  • Page 27: Mobile Video Settings

    Day&Night IP Camera 3.7. Mobile Video settings The IP CAM is able to be viewed from a 3G mobile phone, please download “mcamview”/”mcamviewHD” software from App Store for iPhone/iPad and “mcamview” 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 CamView access.

  • Page 28: Night Mode Control

    Day&Night IP Camera 3.8. Night mode control The IP Cam is able to work both in day time and night time. There is an IR LED 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 LED will be on.

  • Page 29: Email/Ftp Alarm

    Day&Night IP Camera 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 a ftp server. The related settings are explained below: 1.
  • Page 30 Day&Night IP Camera When this modification is “Save&Apply”ed, it works immediately, but all the connected video viewing users will be disconnected. The default setting is “Disable”. Figure 3-15: 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.
  • Page 31 Day&Night IP Camera Figure 3-16: SMTP server settings page...

  • Page 32: Speaker Alarm Settings

    Day&Night IP Camera 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.

  • Page 33: Nas Settings

    Day&Night IP Camera 3.11. NAS settings The IP Camera provides the recording of the video files into a standard NAS ( Network Access Storage ) device. The IP camera connects to the NAS device using the standard LMX_NS/CIFS/SSN protocols that are the same as the Microsoft Windows network neighborhood protocols.
  • Page 34 Day&Night IP Camera In the Microsoft Windows environment, you can access to the NAS device by keying the URL address \\”NAS name”\”shared folder name” or \\”NAS address”\”shared folder name” in the windows Internet Explorer, and then key in the “NAS access account” and “NAS access password” to the prompted login window. The video files are recorded under the subfolder IPCamRecordFiles/Recording/ID-ID, where ID is the ID of this IP camera.

  • Page 35: Sd-Card Settings

    Day&Night IP Camera 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. Notice : when the IP camera is doing SD-Card recording, this is counted as one video user.
  • Page 36 Day&Night IP Camera Figure 3-20: SD-Card information page...

  • Page 37: Scheduling

    Day&Night IP Camera 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.
  • Page 38 Day&Night IP Camera duration of each day. For “Every day”, can set the time duration of every day for the scheduling. For “Fixed time”, can set the starting date/time and the end date/time of the scheduling period. Figure 3-21: Schedule management page...

  • Page 39: Led Display Control

    Day&Night IP Camera 3.14. Led Display 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. Normal led display – select this to enable the status led and ethernet led display. 2.

  • Page 40: Date/Time

    Day&Night IP Camera 3.15. Date/Time The IP CAM can synchronize the date/time with the universally available time server( for example time.windows.com) through NTP protocol. The date/time will then be corrected with the time server anytime when the Internet is connected. Users can choose the different TimeZone of their areas to display the correct time.

  • Page 41: Admin

    Day&Night IP Camera 3.16. Admin In this page, you can modify the web login account. With this account, you can login to the IP CAM and do any modifications. The default account is “admin” without password. If the login account is forgotten, you can reset the IP CAM to the factory default settings by following the steps in section 3.19 and login with the “admin”...

  • Page 42: Upgrade

    Day&Night IP Camera 3.17. Upgrade If there is some new firmware available from the supplier of this IP CAM, 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.
  • Page 43 Day&Night IP Camera Figure 3-26: Firmware upgrade status page...

  • Page 44: Reboot

    Day&Night IP Camera 3.18. Reboot You can restart the IP CAM manually on this page. All the connected video viewing users will be disconnected. Figure 3-27: System reboot settings page Figure 3-28: System reboot under-going page...

  • Page 45: Set To Factory Default

    Day&Night IP Camera 3.19. Set to factory default For some reason, for example you forgot the web login password, you may want to set the IP CAM to the factory default settings. The only thing you need to do is using a stick to press the “reset”...

  • Page 46: Features And Specifications

     Two way audio.  SD card video recording with 5 seconds of pre-recording..  802.11 n wireless with WEP and WPA/WPA2 security support.  WPS (WiFi Protected Setup) support.  Triple video streaming on PC, mobile and SD card recording.

  • Page 47: Specifications

    Day&Night IP Camera 4.2. Specifications Models Day & Night DC 12V, 1A or DC 5V, 1A Power RISC CPU, hardware video processing and Processors compression. Network interface Ethernet 10BaseT/100BaseTX, Auto-MDIX, RJ-45 Wireless interface IEEE 802.11n 90 - 150 Mbps IEEE 802.11g 6 - 54 Mbps IEEE 802.11b 1 - 11 Mbps Transmit power: 14.5dBm typically @ 802.11g...
  • Page 48 Day&Night IP Camera Bandwidth : 64k, 128k, 256k, 512k, 768k, 1M, 1.2M, 1.5M bps Frame rate : 1~5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 fps Audio Built-in microphone for audio monitoring Speaker jack for external speaker Audio compression: G.711 Security Web management username/password protection Video display ID/password protection WiFi WEP and WPA/WPA2 security mode Plug &...

  • Page 49: Package Contents

    Day&Night IP Camera 5. Package contents Figure 5-1: The IP camera Figure 5-2: Power Adaptor Figure 5-3: Quick installation guide Figure 5-4: Ethernet cable Figure 5-5: Anchors and Screws Figure 5-6: Cross-head Screw Driver Figure 5-7: Installation CD Figure 5-8: ID/Password Card...

  • Page 50: Appendix A. List Of Tested Nat/Router Devices

    Appendix A. List of Tested NAT/router Devices The followings are the list of tested NAT/router devices that can work with the IP CAM and CamView/mcamview software when viewing in a remote location. You do not need to do any modification on the default settings of the NAT/routers. In some office environment, if some strict firewall function is enabled, it’s possible that you can not view the IP CAM video through the firewall router.

  • Page 51: Appendix B. Maximum Allowed Video Users

    Day&Night IP Camera Appendix B. Maximum Allowed Video Users The maximum allowed video users for a single Day&Night camera at the same time is 20.

  • Page 52: Appendix C. Performance Information

    Day&Night IP Camera Appendix C. Performance Information 1. 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.
  • Page 53 Day&Night IP Camera temperature is about the same temperature of human body( about 37 degree Celsius ), the PIR detection could fail. The PIR detection distance is about 7 meters. If the detection purpose is on human intruders, the PIR will be the better choice to avoid false alarm.

  • Page 54: Appendix D. Trouble Shooting

    Day&Night IP Camera Appendix D. Trouble shooting 1. What’s going on when the red led light on the IP camera is flashing? A: When the IP Cam is connected to the Internet and working correctly, the red led light will be on constantly. If the red led light is flashing, it’s probably because there is some network connecting problem.
  • Page 55 Day&Night IP Camera A: It’s probably because the internet bandwidth (internet speed) is not big enough. Please try to apply for a better internet connection from your Internet Service Provider or decrease the bandwidth settings of the IP Cam. You can adjust the bandwidth requirement of the IP Cam either from the CamView software or login into the web configuration page of the IP Cam to do the modification.

  • Page 56: Appendix E. Third Party And Embedded Web

    IP camera to prevent others to see the video. For embedded web page integration, add the following codes into the proper position of the desired web page : <object classid="clsid:5C519EC4-2BAE-44CE-B7F5-AD0CCD4BEFBD" id="mpeg4ax" codebase="http://www.starvedia.com/ActiveX/axmpeg4.cab#Version=0,0, 0,0" width="320" height="240"> <param name="Src" value=" "> rtsp://ip_cam_address/CAM_ID.password.mp2...

  • Page 57: Appendix F. Snapshot Picture On Any Browser

    Day&Night IP Camera Appendix F. Snapshot picture on any browser If you want to have the live snapshot picture on any browser, use the URL http://ip_address/snapshot.cgi to access the snapshot of the camera. The ip_address is the IP address of the camera. This works for all the browsers on computer or mobile device.

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