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System Tab
General Settings: Includes programmable fields for the device name, time server, and text overlay settings. You can also use the
General Settings page to configure the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server to send an email notification when an event
handler is activated.
System Information: Includes read-only fields for the firmware version, hardware version, model number, and serial number of
the system. This information is typically required by technical support for troubleshooting purposes.
Network Tab
General: Displays the hardware address, hostname, DHCP settings, and IP address settings.
SSH: (Secure Shell) allows technical support to log on to and service the camera for advanced troubleshooting purposes.
Imaging Tab
General: Includes camera orientation and digital processing settings. The orientation settings allow for standard or inverted
installation of the camera. The digital processing settings adjust the sharpness, saturation, and contrast of the scene.
Exposure: Adjusts scene detail and contrast. A scene with correct exposure settings has adequate detail and contrast between
white and dark values. An image with too little or too much exposure eliminates detail in the scene. The camera features auto
and manual exposure settings.
Focus: Includes auto back focus and manual focus settings (refer to Focus in the IX Series Installation/Operation manual or the
IXE Series Installation/Operation manual for detailed instructions). Focus sets the back focus to the center focal point of the
scene. Auto focus automatically back focuses the camera on the subject in the center of the scene. Manual focus turns off the
auto focus mechanism and locks the camera at a user-specified position. The manual focus setting is recommended only for
indoor applications that have a single, unchanging primary light source.
Tone Map: Balances the brightest and darkest sections of an image to produce a picture with more balanced lighting and more
detail.
White Balance: Defines how the camera processes video images to render true colors in a scene. White balance is especially
effective in scenes with changing lighting conditions or in scenes with more than one type of light source.
Window Blanking: Conceals user-defined privacy areas. A blanked area appears on the screen as a solid gray window. The
camera can handle up to four blanked windows as long as the total blanked area does not exceed 50 percent of the field of view.
A/V Streams Tab
Use the A/V Streams tab to configure the video and audio streams for the camera. The A / V Streams tab includes a Video Presets
page, a Video Configuration page, and an Audio Configuration page.
Video Presets: The Video Preset page includes three fully-configured video presets, which include primary and secondary video
stream settings for easy setup. These presets may also be used as a starting point for a custom video configuration. These preset
configurations vary depending on camera model.
Video Configuration: The Video Configuration page allows you to customize the compression, resolution, image rate, and bit
rate of the video streams. The default names for the streams are Primary Stream and Secondary Stream. Although each stream
can be configured independently, the settings of one stream can limit the options available to the other stream, depending on
the processing power used.
Always configure the primary stream before the secondary stream. The primary stream should always be the most
Note
resource-intensive of the streams.
Audio Configuration: The Audio Configuration page allows you to setup the internal audio device or an external audio device.
The default setting for Audio is disabled, which means that no audio is transmitted from the camera. When enabled, audio is
transmitted from the camera to the PC. Based on your system configuration, images and audio may not be synchronized.
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