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PT Internet Camera
ICA-HM230
User's Manual
Version: 1.01
Date: October. 2009
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  • Page 1 H.264 Mega-Pixel CMOS PT Internet Camera ICA-HM230 User’s Manual Version: 1.01 Date: October. 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 H.264 Mega-Pixel CMOS PT Internet Camera Model: ICA-HM230 Rev: 1.01 (October. 2009) Part No. EM-ICAHM230...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Content Introduction........................ 6 1.1 Overview......................6 1.2 Features ......................6 1.3 Package Contents..................... 7 Basic Setup ....................... 8 2.1 System Requirements..................8 2.2 Physical Description..................9 2.2.1 Front Panel....................9 2.2.2 Rear Panel .................... 10 2.3 Hardware Installation ..................11 2.3.1 Ceiling Mount ..................
  • Page 5 3.5.7 IP Notification..................46 3.6 Camera Configuration..................48 3.6.1 Picture ....................48 3.6.2 Preset Setting ..................50 3.6.3 Tour Setting ................... 50 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 Common ....................

  • Page 6: Introduction

    Thank you for purchasing the H.264 Mega-Pixel CMOS PT Internet Camera. It is versatile and high image solution of surveillance application for day and night. The ICA-HM230 is also a stand-alone camera system with a built-in processor and web server that provides highest quality video and system performance.

  • Page 7: Package Contents

    1.3 Package Contents User can find the following items in the package: PT Internet Camera x 1 Power Adapter x 1 Camera Mount Kit x 1 User’s Manual CD x 1 Quick Installation Guide x 1 NOTE: 1. If any of the above items are missing, please contact your dealer immediately. 2.

  • Page 8: Basic Setup

    2. Basic Setup This chapter provides details of installing and configuring the ICA-HM230 2.1 System Requirements Network Interface 10/100MBase-TX Ethernet Monitoring System Recommended for Internet Explorer 6.0 or later System Hardware · CPU: Pentium 4, 3.0GHz or above · Memory Size : 512 MB (512 MB or above Recommended ) ·...

  • Page 9: Physical Description

    2.2 Physical Description 2.2.1 Front Panel Lens / Focus ring High-light LED Microphone LAN LED Power LED These LEDs are white-light type. It’s very useful for low-lux environment to High-Light LEDs provide supplementary light source for image sensor Lens / Focus ring User could use this ring to adjust focus manually.

  • Page 10: Rear Panel

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

  • Page 11: Hardware Installation

    2.3 Hardware Installation 2.3.1 Ceiling Mount 1. Fix the camera to L-type bracket with two supplied screws. 2. Fix 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 camera to the network device (hub or switch). NOTE: If there has an IEEE802.3af PoE switch in your network, you can connect the camera LAN cable to this PoE switch to obtain power. The power adapter is unnecessary when Internet camera is connected to a PoE switch.

  • Page 14: Initial Utility Installation

    2.4 Initial Utility Installation This chapter shows how to quick set up your H.264 camera. The camera is with the default settings. However to help you find the networked camera quickly the windows utility PLANET IPWizard II 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 5. Please click “Install” to start the installation. 6. Please click “Finish” to complete the installation and launch program immediately.

  • Page 16: Preparation

    2.5 Preparation When you installed the camera on a LAN environment, you may execute PLANET IPWizard II to discover camera’s IP address and set up related parameters in the camera. 2.5.1 Search and View by PLANET IPWizard II When you installed the Camera on a LAN environment, you have two easy ways to search your Cameras by PLANET IPWizard II or UPnP discovery.

  • Page 17: View

    View If PLANET IPWizard II finds network devices, View button will be available. Please select the device 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 network device by browser.
  • Page 18 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.

  • Page 19: Using Upnp Of Windows Xp Or Vista

    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.
  • Page 20 The following screen will appear, select “Networking Services” and click “Details” to continue...
  • Page 21 The “Networking Services” will display on the screen, select “Universal Plug and Play” and click “OK” to continue. Please click “Next” to continue...
  • Page 22 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 23 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-HM230 - 00304f1a2244...

  • Page 24: Windows Vista

    Go to Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center, and turn on “Network Discovery”. 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-HM230 – 00304fA15075...

  • Page 25: Install The Device Behind A Nat Router

    2.7 Install the Device behind a NAT Router Once installed, the device is accessible on your LAN. To access the device from the Internet you must configure your broadband router to allow incoming data traffic to the device. If the device is installed on the LAN with a router, then it may get a dynamic IP address from the DHCP server.

  • Page 26: Setup Activex To Use The Pt Internet Camera

    2.8 Setup ActiveX to use the PT 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: 2.8.1 Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP ...

  • Page 27: 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 28: 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 29: Web-Based Management

    This chapter provides setup details of the Internet camera’s Web-based Interface. 3.1 Introduction The ICA-HM230 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 PT Internet Camera Use the following procedure to establish a connection from your PC to the camera.
  • Page 30 Web browser may display the “Security Warming” window, select “Yes” to install and run the ActiveX control into your PC. After the ActiveX control was installed and run, the first image will be displayed. NOTE: If you log in the camera as an ordinary user, setting function will be not available. If you log in the camera as the administrator, you can perform all the settings provided within the device.

  • Page 31: 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 Client Menu Video Information PTZ Control Monitor Image Section Full Screen 2-Way Audio Monitor Image Section: The image shot by the camera is shown here.
  • Page 32 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. Setting Menu: This function is detail setting for the camera that only available for user logged into camera as administrator.
  • Page 33 2-way Audio and Full Screen. PTZ Control: Click to display the following control panel: Hide PTZ Control Camera Direction Camera Speed Preset Tour Go 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.

  • Page 34: 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 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.

  • Page 35: 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 36: 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 37: 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 38: Network Configuration

    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.
  • Page 39 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 40: Ddns Server

    3.5.2 DDNS server DDNS: 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.

  • Page 41: Pppoe

    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 PPPoE: Stands for Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet A standard builds on Ethernet and Point-to-Point network protocol.

  • Page 42: Streaming

    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.
  • Page 43 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.

  • Page 44: 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 45: 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 46: 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. If enable this function, then the “Send to“ and “Subject” field SMTP Notification (e-mail): need to be filled.
  • Page 47 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.

  • Page 48: Camera Configuration

    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.
  • Page 49 White Balance: Auto: will adjust the white balance automatically. Hold: will hold the white balance. Exposure Control: Auto: will adjust the internal gain automatically. Hold: will hold the internal gain. Brightness: Large value will brighten camera. Sharpness: Large value will sharpen camera. Contrast: Large value will contrast camera heavily.

  • Page 50: 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 51 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 52: System

    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...

  • Page 53: Date & Time

    3.7.2 Date & Time You 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 Displays the date and time of the device &...

  • Page 54: Maintenance

    Daylight saving: Check this item to enable daylight saving adjustment. 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.
  • Page 55 settings, if settings are changed and there is unexpected behavior. Restore Setting: Click the “Browse” button to locate the saved backup file and then click the “Restore Setting” button. The settings will be restored to the previous configuration. Firmware upgrade: The device supports new firmware upgrade.

  • Page 56: 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 57: H264 Profile

    3.8.2 H264 Profile It’s H.264 encoder mode in this profile. Resolution: There are four resolutions in this profile: SXGA, VGA, QVGA and QQVGA. 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 low to high bandwidth based on different resolutions.

  • Page 58: Mpeg4 Profile

    3.8.3 MPEG4 Profile It’s MPEG4 encoder mode in this profile. Resolution: There are three resolutions in this profile: VGA, QVGA and QQVGA. 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 low to high bandwidth based on different resolutions.

  • Page 59: Mjpeg Profile

    3.8.4 MJPEG Profile It’s M-JPEG mode in this profile. Resolution: There are four resolutions in this profile: SXGA, VGA, QVGA and QQVGA. Rate Control: The quality level is between 1 and 100. The higher value can reach the better quality but of course will consume higher bandwidth. Max Frame Rate: Defines the targeted frame rate of this profile.

  • Page 60: Audio Configuration

    3.9 Audio Configuration Audio: To enable or disable audio function 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 Output Gain: To adjust gain of output audio...

  • Page 61: User Privilege Access Configuration

    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.

  • Page 62: E-Mail Configuration

    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.

  • Page 63: Object Detection

    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.

  • Page 64: Event Server Configuration

    3.13 Event Server Configuration 3.13.1 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.

  • Page 65: Tcp Server

    3.13.2 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.

  • Page 66: Http Server

    3.13.3 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. URL: Type the server name or the IP address of the HTTP server. Test: Check the HTTP server whether it is available or not.

  • Page 67: Samba Server

    3.13.4 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.

  • Page 68: Event Schedule Configuration

    3.14 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.
  • Page 69 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)
  • Page 70 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.

  • Page 71: Record Configuration

    3.15 Record Configuration User can choose the type of record file for event or schedule application. Record File Type: Choose AVI or JPEG file format for record file. Record File Prefix: Define the prefix of recorded filename. JPEG Picture Numbers Define the picture capture method.

  • Page 72: 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 73: 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 Internet camera installed or if the IP address conflicts with any other devices over the network.

  • Page 74: Appendix C: 3Gpp Access

    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.

  • Page 75: Appendix D: Bandwidth And Video Size Estimation

    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.

  • Page 76: Appendix E: Ddns Application

    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).
  • Page 77 (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 78 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.
  • Page 79 (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 80 (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”...

  • Page 81: Appendix F: Configure Port Forwarding Manually

    Appendix F: Configure Port Forwarding Manually The device can be used with a router. If the device wants to be accessed from the WAN, its IP address needs to be setup as fixed IP address, also the port forwarding or Virtual Server function of router needs to be setup.
  • Page 82 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.
  • Page 83 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.

  • Page 84: Appendix G: Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions

    Appendix G: Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions Features The video and audio codec is The device utilizes H.264, MPEG4 and M-JPEG triple compression adopted in the device. to providing high quality images. Where H.264 and MPEG4 are standards for video compression and M-JPEG is a standard for image compression.
  • Page 85 PLANET IPWizard II program Re-power the device if cannot find the unit within 1 minutes. cannot find the device. Do not connect device over a router. PLAJNET IPWizard II program cannot detect device over a router. If IP address is not assigned to the PC which running PLANET IPWizard II program, then PLANET IPWizard II program cannot find device.
  • Page 86 Make sure the http port used by the Network Camera, default=80, is forward to the Network Camera’s private IP address. The port number assigned in your Network Camera might not be available via Internet. Check your ISP for available port. The proxy server may prevent you from connecting directly to the Network Camera, set up not to use the proxy server.
  • Page 87 Make sure that the device isn’t conflicting with any other web 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.
  • Page 88 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.

  • Page 89: Appendix H: Product Specification

    Appendix H: Product Specification Product ICA-HM230 Video Specification Image Sensor 1.3 Mega-Pixel CMOS image sensor Lens 4.3 mm, F1.8 Scan Method Progressive Signal to Noise 44 dB White-light LED x 4pcs total Video Encoder H.264 / MPEG-4 / M-JPEG Rate Control CBR(Constant Bit Rate) / VBR(Variable Bit Rate) H.264 : SXGA / VGA / QVGA / QQVGA...
  • Page 90 EC Declaration of Conformity For the following equipment: *Type of Product H.264 Mega-Pixel PT IP Camera *Model Number ICA-HM230 * Produced by: Manufacturer‘s Name : Planet Technology Corp. Manufacturer‘s Address : 11F, No. 96, Min Chuan Road, Hsin Tien Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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