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Edimax IC-7000PT V2 User Manual

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  • Page 2 ErP Announcement Product: Internet Camera (IP CAM) Purpose: 24 hours surveillance and transfer the picture for safety and health of intended use. Detail description: Health purpose: User can pass through the internet (from everywhere) to control the product (IP CAM). To watch and listen the people who needs to be cared in house and automatically send e-mail and phone to warn you and ask your attention.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Chapter I: Familiar with your Internet IP Camera ............9 1.1 Package Contents ......................9 1.2 Basic Introduction ......................9 1.3 Product Highlights ......................10 1.4 Familiar with Key Components ..................11 1.5 Descriptions for LED Indicators ................... 15 1.6 Camera Installation ......................
  • Page 4 2.7.2 Space Alarm………………………………………….…………………………..43 2.7.3 File Management ..................50 Chapter III: Using Surveillance Software ............... 50 3.1 Installing IP Camera Surveillance Software ..............51 3.2 Using IP camera surveillance software ................ 54 3.3 Configure IP camera surveillance software ..............56 3.3.1 Configure cameras ................... 56 3.3.1.1 ‘Camera’...
  • Page 5 Copyright© by Edimax Technology Co, LTD. 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 this company.

  • Page 6: Interference Statement

    Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement FCC Part 68 This equipment complies with Part 68 of the FCC Rules. On the bottom of this equipment is a label that contains the FCC Registration Number and Ringer Equivalence Number (REN) for this equipment. You must provide this information to the telephone company upon request.
  • Page 7 FCC Part 15 This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
  • Page 8 CE Mark Warning This is a class B product. In a domestic environment, this product may cause radio interface, in which case the user may be required to make adequate measures. A CE declaration of conformity is available on www.edimax.com...

  • Page 9: Chapter I: Familiar With Your Internet Ip Camera

    Chapter I: Familiar with your Internet IP Camera 1.1 Package Contents Thank you for purchasing this IP camera! Before you start to use this IP camera, please check the package contents. If anything is missing, please contact the dealer of purchase and return the package to claim for missing contents.

  • Page 10: Product Highlights

    1.3 Product Highlights No pre-loaded software required - all you need is a browser like Internet Explorer 6 (and above, with plugin installed). With supplied video surveillance software, you can connect up to 16 video cameras and view images captured by every camera at the same time. Supports 3 video resolutions: MPEG4 XGA (1024 x 768), VGA (640 x 480), and QVGA (320 x 240).

  • Page 11: Familiar With Key Components

    The picture is similar with IC-7000PT(n) V2 Focus Ring Microphone IC-7000PTn V2 Power LED Audio LED LAN LED WLAN LED IC-7000PT V2 Power LED Audio LED ACT LED LAN LED Power LED: Indicates power status Audio LED: Indicates Audio status...
  • Page 12 Back View Ethernet Connector Antenna Power Connector WPS Button SD Card Slot Audio Connector Antenna: Connects to supplied antenna (IC-7000PTn V2 only) Power Connector: Connects to A/C power adapter SD Card Slot: Accepts SD / SD-HC memory card for image / video storage WPS Button: click the bottom on IP Cam and click it on the AP you want to connect for wireless Audio Connector: Connects to external speaker for audio output Ethernet Connector: Connect to your local area network...
  • Page 13 Side View Reset Button Reset Button: Press the button with pen nib and hold for 5 seconds to reset the camera settings to factory default value.
  • Page 14 Bottom View Tripod Connector Tripod Connector: Connects to tripod to secure the camera when the camera is not put on a horizontal surface.

  • Page 15: Descriptions For Led Indicators

    Transferring data via wireless LAN Audio function is disabled (Volume 0) Audio Audio function is enabled Flash Two way audio is working For IC-7000PT V2 LED Name Status Description Camera is not powered (camera off) Power Camera is correctly powered (camera on)

  • Page 16: Camera Installation

    1.6 Camera Installation Please follow the following instructions to set your IP camera up. 1. Unpack the product package and check if anything’s missing. Connect the Ethernet cable to your local area network, and connect the other end to the LAN jack of this IP camera.
  • Page 17 3. Connect two antennas to the antenna bases, which is located at the back of this IP camera. 4. Place the camera at a secure place, and point the camera to the place you wish to monitor. If you wish to hang the camera on the ceiling or wall, please use the tripod connector (located at the bottom of the camera) to secure the camera.
  • Page 18 5. Launch Internet Explorer on your computer, and following the instructions given in next section to set the IP camera.

  • Page 19: Chapter Ii: Using Web Management Interface

    Chapter II: Using Web Management Interface 2.1 Camera Settings The first menu after you logged onto web management interface is ‘Camera’, and this is the only menu you can see the real-time image from camera. You can always back to this menu by clicking ‘Camera’ on the top of web management interface.
  • Page 20 The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Specifies the moving speed when you use pan / tilt function to point the camera to a new direction. Available options are 1 (fastest) to 5 (slowest). Pan/Tilt Speed Select 1 to move the camera by a faster speed, but you will not be able to control the movement precisely.
  • Page 21 NOTE: When you change any setting(s) listed above, please click ‘Apply’ button so the change(s) will take effect. For following functions, changes will take effect right away. Pan / Tilt Control Moves camera to a new direction. Press one of 8 directional buttons to move the camera, and press ‘H’...

  • Page 22: Pan And Tilt

    2.2 Pan and Tilt This IP camera supports pan and tilt function, as you explored in last section. You can also make the camera move automatically in pan and tilt menu by defining a set of pre-defined path. You can access this menu by clicking ‘PTZ’ on the top of web management interface. 2.2.1 Preset Points You can define the camera position and save the position so you can recall the position later again.

  • Page 23: Guard Tour

    2.2.2 Guard Tour You can make the camera move between many pre-defined positions, and define the time you wish to pause at every position; this is called as ‘Guard Tour’. Before you can use this function, you have to define at least 2 positions in ‘Preset Points’ section (refer to last section for detailed information).
  • Page 24 The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Input the name of this set of guard tour here. As you may have many sets of guard Name tour, please give it a meaningful name so you can remember the main purpose of this set.

  • Page 25: Multi-Camera Display

    2.2.3 Multi-Camera Display If you have more than one IC-7000PT(n) V2 IP camera, you can view up to 9 videos captured by every camera, so you can monitor up to 9 places at the same time. Before you do this, please collect the following information: a.
  • Page 26 Please note that the upper-left camera view always show the video of the camera you connected to and cannot be changed. The following example uses four-camera view as example, and the video of the camera you connected to is displaying at upper-left view: The IP address and port will be displayed at the top of camera’s view: When IP and port information is displayed on the top of camera’s view, indicates the camera is configured.
  • Page 27 A new popup window will appear to allow you to set the information of camera. If you have popup blocker installed, you may have to disable it temporarily so you can see the popup window: Please input the information in respective field (Camera IP, HTTP Port etc.), then click ‘Add new IPCam’ button to connect to this IP camera and display it’s view in camera view.

  • Page 28: Network Settings

    2.3 Network Settings All network-related settings can be found in this menu, and you have to specify TCP/IP parameters in this menu if you want to change IP address, use PPPoE, Dynamic DNS, and activate UPnP function. You can access this menu by clicking ‘LAN’ on the top of web management interface. After you selected ‘Network’, network setting menu will appear.
  • Page 29 The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description This camera can obtain the IP address from DHCP server automatically (if you have one), or set a fixed IP address. Select ‘DHCP’ to obtain IP address automatically or ‘Static IP Address’...

  • Page 30: Wlan

    2.3.2 WLAN The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Wireless Select ‘Enable’ to activate wireless network function of this IP camera, select Connection ‘Disable’ to disable it. Select the network type of wireless connection. Available options are ‘Infrastructure’...
  • Page 31 MAC Address: If you there are many wireless access points in proximity or some wireless access point hides it’s SSID, you can use MAC address to distinguish them. Signal: Shows the radio signal strength in percent. Channel: Shows the radio channel of this wireless access point. Encryption: Shows the encryption type used by this wireless access point.

  • Page 32: Dynamic Dns

    2.3.3 Dynamic DNS If your ISP does not give you a fixed Internet IP address (i.e. the Internet address you’re using when you access the Internet is not always the same – ask your ISP for detailed information), you can use this function to help you locate the IP address of this IP camera when you’re away from home or office.

  • Page 33: Upnp

    2.3.4 UPnP When UPnP function is activated, all UPnP-compatible computers / network devices will be able to discover this IP camera automatically (only those in the same local network). This function is useful and you don’t have to remember the IP address of this IP camera. Simply open ‘Network neighbor’...

  • Page 34: Login Free

    2.3.5 Login Free This camera provides a method to let unauthorized users to view the image captured by this camera, which is called as ‘LoginFree’. When you wish to let everyone to view the image captured by this camera, or integrate the image with your own web application, you can use this function: Input the filename here, and click ‘Apply’...

  • Page 35: Rtsp

    2.3.6 RTSP Before using RTSP player to view video image from camera, you will need to configure the RTSP settings in this menu. Item Description You can select ‘Enable’ when you wish to use RTSP player to view video image Enable RTSP from camera.

  • Page 36: Motion Detection

    2.4 Motion Detection When you wish to use this camera to monitor the activities, motion detection function will be very useful. Camera will detect the motion in captured image, and take a snapshot or video recording when motion is detected. So you can use this camera to keep the safety of the belongings you have. To use motion detection, click the following link from the top of menu: After you selected ‘Motion Detection’, a sub-menu will appear.
  • Page 37 2.4.1 Motion Detection You can use this menu to setup basic motion detection settings: The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Enable Motion Select ‘Enable’ to enable motion detection, and select ‘Disable’ to disable this Detection function.

  • Page 38: Motion Region

    2.4.2 Motion Region You can define the motion detection region within the image that camera captures, so this camera will ignore motions which are not covered by the motion region setting, and reduce the chances of false alarm. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Check the box to enable motion detection region 1 to 3.

  • Page 39: Email

    2.4.3 Email You can define the destination address of E-mail sending and mail server parameters here. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Input the email recipient’s Email address here. Recipient E-Mail Address Specify the title of sending email, so you can identify the mail sent from this E-Mail Subject camera from others quickly.

  • Page 40: Ftp Configuration

    2.4.4 FTP Configuration You can set FTP server’s parameters here. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description FTP Server Input the IP address or host name of the FTP server you wish to use here. FTP Port Input the port number of the FTP server you wish to use here.

  • Page 41: Sd Card Configuration

    2.4.5 SD Card Configuration You can define the filename and destination folder when saving a file in SD card. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description This option allows the IP cam to delete the oldest saved files when the capacity of Cycle Recording the SD card is full for saving the latest recorded image.

  • Page 42: System Info

    2.5 System Info You can use this menu to get the operational information of this camera: … After you selected ‘System Info.’, a sub-menu will appear. There are 4 sub-menus available here: Detailed descriptions of every setting will be given below. 2.5.1 Camera Information Camera information allows you to set the name and administrator’s password of this camera.

  • Page 43: Date / Time Setting

    2.5.2 Date / Time Setting This setting allows you to change the date and time of the real time clock in this IP camera. You can set the time manually, or use network time protocol (NTP) to set the time automatically. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description...

  • Page 44: Utilities

    2.5.3 Utilities This menu allows you to upgrade firmware, clear all settings, reboot the IP camera, and switch LED lights on/off. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description If you downloaded latest firmware file from our website, you can click ’Browse’ button to pick a firmware file located on your computer’s hard drive and you can upload the firmware file to the IP camera later.

  • Page 45: Status

    2.5.4 Status This menu provides all information about this IP camera, like firmware version, system uptime, date / time, and network information.

  • Page 46: Account

    2.6 Account If you wish to allow other people to view the live image captured by this camera, but don’t want to allow them to modify system settings, you can give them user-level user name and password, so they can only view the image and can not change any system setting.
  • Page 47 When a user is added, it will be listed: The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Enable or disable this user account. If you just want to remove the access privilege of certain account and will give the privilege back later, you don’t have Yes / No to delete it, you can set to ‘No’...

  • Page 48: Sdhc

    2.7 SDHC After you selected ‘System Info.’, a sub-menu will appear. There are 4 sub-menus available here: Please click the SD card setting you wish to set, then refer to instructions given below: 2.7.1 Status Here shows the remaining card space for you.

  • Page 49: Space Alarm

    2.7.2 Space Alarm When you’re using SD card to store captured image and video clip, you can have this camera to send an E-mail to you when there’s only little remaining space left on SD card. Please note: If you have set E-mail settings in ‘Motion Picture’ function, you can click ‘Copy Mail Config’ button to use the same setting.

  • Page 50: File Management

    2.7.3 File Management You can use this menu to manage the files stored on SD card.

  • Page 51: Chapter Iii: Using Surveillance Software

    Chapter III: Using Surveillance Software 3-1 Installing IP Camera Surveillance Software The IP camera surveillance software provides various functions like video recording, after this software is installed, you can use your IP camera to safeguard your property. Please follow the following instructions to install the surveillance software.
  • Page 52 3. If you need installation program to create a desktop icon or a quick launch icon for you, click all items you need here, than click ‘Next’ to continue. 4. Here lists all options you chose in previous steps, if everything’s correct, click ‘Install’ to start installing procedure, or click ‘Back’...
  • Page 53 6. The installing procedure will take some time, please be patient. 6. When you see this window, it means the software installing procedure is complete. Please click ‘Finish’ to finish the procedure (IP camera surveillance software will start after you click ‘Finish’ button, if you want to start it later, uncheck ‘Launch IPCam Surveillance Software’...

  • Page 54: Using Ip Camera Surveillance Software

    3-2 Using IP camera surveillance software You can click ‘IPCam Surveillance Software’ icon from desktop, quick launch bar, or start menu to start the IP camera surveillance software. Before you start: IP camera surveillance software will only work when your monitor’s resolution is ‘1024 x 768’.
  • Page 55 Full screen Click this button to switch to full screen mode (only display all camera’s image), press ‘ESC’ key to quit full screen mode. Click this button and the IP camera surveillance software will switch displaying Scan the image of all connected camera automatically. Click this button once to activate scan function (scan icon will become blue ), click again to stop scanning (scan icon will become white...

  • Page 56: Configure Ip Camera Surveillance Software

    3-3 Configure IP camera surveillance software 3-3-1 Configure cameras Before you use this IP camera surveillance software, you must configure the camera(s) you wish to connect. Please click ‘System configure’ button and a popup menu will appear: Please select ‘Configure Cameras’ to configure cameras: Note: If you’re prompted by a windows security alert which asks you if you want to block ‘IPCam Viewer’...

  • Page 57: Camera' Tab

    3-3-1-1 ‘Camera’ tab In this tab you can configure all cameras you wish to connect. Up to 16 cameras can be connected simultaneously: Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Description Channel Select the channel number you wish to set. Camera Search All cameras found on your local network will be displayed in ‘Camera Search’...

  • Page 58: Schedule Recording

    After you’ve set all channels you wish to set, click ‘OK’ to save settings, and if everything’s correct, you’ll see the camera’s image in IP camera surveillance software’s main menu: 3-3-1-2 Schedule Recording In this tab, you can setup scheduled video recording, so you can record the video captured by all cameras you have by a pre-defined schedule.
  • Page 59 Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Description Channel Select the channel number you wish to set. You can specify the one-time schedule for selected camera; this schedule One Time Schedules will be executed once only. Click this button and a new window will appear: (One Time Schedules) Please specify the time duration of this one-time schedule (the date and time of ‘From’...

  • Page 60: Audio

    3-3-1-3 Audio For cameras that support audio, you can use this tab to decide if you wish to hear the audio captured by selected camera. Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Description Channel Select the channel number you wish to set. Check this box and the IP camera surveillance software will not play the audio Mute Audio captured by this camera.

  • Page 61: Motion Record

    3-3-1-4 Motion Record With this function activated, only motions captured by the camera will be recorded, so you don’t have to waste hard disk storage space on images you don’t need to pay attention to. WARNING: For applications that security is highly concerned, it’s not recommended to use this function since some tiny changes you may need to know may not be able to trigger the camera and the camera will not start recording.

  • Page 62: General Settings

    3-3-2 General Settings You can set system-wide settings of this IP camera surveillance software in this menu. 3-3-2-1 ‘General’ tab All general settings like file storage directory and recording spaces can be set here. Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Description Set the directory (folder) you wish to store the recorded video and captured...

  • Page 63: E-Mail Setting' Tab

    3-3-2-2 ‘E-Mail Setting’ tab If you want to use motion detection function and wish to get an email that contains the image captured by the camera, please setup your email related parameters here first. Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Description E-Mail Subject...
  • Page 64 Specify the IP address or host name of the SMTP server you wish to use. For most of ISPs they will only allow its subscriber to use their SMTP server, if you don’t SMTP Server know which SMTP server you should use, please refer to the setting of your email software or ask your ISP / network administrator.

  • Page 65: Security

    3-3-2-3 Security If you don’t want other people to access this IP camera surveillance software, you can set a password to protect it. You’ll need to input the password every time you wish to use this IP camera surveillance software: To set password, please use ‘Security’...

  • Page 66: About

    3-3-2-4 About This tab shows the version number of the IP camera surveillance software you’re using.

  • Page 67: Change Display Layout

    3-4 Change Display Layout This IP camera surveillance software provides 8 kinds of display layout: Every layout displays different number of camera and camera arrangement, you can click the icon that presents a specific kind of layout, and the video displaying area will change accordingly. Displays the video of 1 camera only.
  • Page 68 Displays the video of up to 8 cameras. Layout style 4: 8 Cameras Displays the video of up to 9 cameras. Layout style 5: 9 Cameras Displays the video of up to 10 cameras. Layout style 6: 10 Cameras Displays the video of up to 13 cameras. Layout style 7: 13 Cameras Displays the video of up to 16 cameras.

  • Page 69: Full-Screen Modes

    3-5 Full-screen modes If you want to use all available spaces on your monitor to display surveillance image, you can click ‘Full Screen’ button to switch display mode to full-screen mode. To exit full-screen mode, press ‘ESC’ key.

  • Page 70: Scan

    3-6 Scan If you have more than one camera configured, and you wish to switch the displaying image between cameras, you can click ‘Scan’ button to switch between all configured cameras. NOTE: If a camera is configured but disconnected, it will still be displayed in a scan sequence (you’ll see nothing and you’ll see ‘Disconnected’...

  • Page 71: Zoom-In / Zoom-Out

    3-7 Zoom-in / Zoom-out For cameras that support zoom-in / zoom-out function, you can use this function to see more objects that fall in the scope of camera’s view, or enlarge the image size of a certain object to see its detail. Please select a camera in video displaying area by clicking on its image, then click button to see more objects that fall in the scope of camera’s view, or click...

  • Page 72: Ptz

    3-8 PTZ For cameras that support pan - tilt function, you can change the position that camera points to, to see different places that fall in the scope of camera’s view. Please select a camera in video displaying area by clicking on its image, and then click the directions you wish the camera to move to (total 8 directions available).

  • Page 73: Snapshot

    3-9 Snapshot You can take a snapshot of selected camera and save it to ‘Snapshot’ sub-folder of pre-defined data directory. Click snapshot button once to take a snapshot; you can take as much snapshot as you want before hard disk is full.

  • Page 74: Video Playback

    3-11 Video Playback You can playback all recorded video by clicking this button. A new window will appear: You have to search the video file before you can play it. There are two kinds of video search: Time Search (search all videos file that falls in a specific period of time) and Motion Search (search all videos recorded by motion detection function and falls in a specific period of time).

  • Page 75: Chapter Iv: Appendix

    Chapter IV: Appendix 4.1 Specification Max Resolution: 1.3Mega @ MJPG; 800K @ MPEG4 Sensor: 1.3M pixels 1/4" color CMOS sensor Gain control: Automatic Exposure: Automatic White Balance: Automatic Focal Length: 4.8 mm Aperture: F=1.8 Image (Video Setting) Image compression: MJPEG & MEPG4 Image Video Digital 24-bit Color Frame rate: 30fps@QVGA, 20fps@VGA, 10-15@XGA, SXGA Video resolution: 320x240, 640x480, 1024x768 @MJPEG...

  • Page 76: Troubleshooting

    4.2 Troubleshooting If the IP camera is not working properly, before you contact the dealer of purchase for help, please check the troubleshooting list here, this may help you to solve the problem by yourself and therefore saves your valuable time. Scenario Possible Solution a.
  • Page 77 a. If the image is send by Email, please make sure it’s not blocked by any anti-spam mechanism. b. Please make sure you have enough permission for FTP uploading (You can try this by clicking ‘Upload a test file’ button). I set the IP camera to send image by c.

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