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Day & Night, wired/wireless
IP Camera
Model : IP Cam/IP Cam(w)

User Manual

Revision: 020308
Date: 2010/06/21
For firmware version v020308
IP Cam(w) for wireless model
IP Camera : for both wired and wireless model

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  • Page 1: User Manual

    Day & Night, wired/wireless IP Camera Model : IP Cam/IP Cam(w) User Manual Revision: 020308 Date: 2010/06/21 For firmware version v020308 IP Cam(w) for wireless model IP Camera : for both wired and wireless model...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Day&night IP Camera Table of Contents INTRODUCTION..........................5 HARDWARE DESCRIPTION AND QUICK INSTALLATION/USAGE ........7 2.1..................7 AJOR HARDWARE COMPONENTS 2.2..................8 UICK INSTALLATION AND USAGE 2.3. IP C )) ................12 IRELESS CONNECTION WEB CONFIGURATIONS ......................14 3.1........................15 NFORMATION 3.2........................16 IDEO ISPLAY 3.3.

  • Page 3: List Of Figures And Tables

    Figure 2-8: Pop-up play-video password window Figure 2-9: Unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the WiFi function Figure 3-1: Open the web configuration page from CamView software Figure 3-2: IP CAM Web configuration login page Figure 3-3: IP CAM Information page Figure 3-4:Video display page...
  • Page 4 Day&night IP Camera Figure 5-3: Bracket Figure 5-4: Antenna Figure 5-5: Quick installation guide Figure 5-6: Ethernet cable Figure 5-7: Installation CD Figure 5-8: ID/Password Card Table A-1: List of tested Wireless AP/router devices Table A-2: List of tested Wired NAT/router devices...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    Internet. The differences It’s very easy to see the video of the 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...
  • Page 6 Day&night IP Camera 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 & play usage. So, the differences are the followings: ♦...

  • Page 7: Hardware Description And Quick Installation/Usage

    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...

  • Page 8: Quick Installation And Usage

    Figure 2-2: Major components in the back panel 2.2. Quick installation and usage There are only three things that you need to do to see the video from the IP CAM. 1. Connect the IP CAM to the home/office network.
  • Page 9 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. If the LED is blinking, please refer to section 3.3~3.5 to try other network settings.
  • Page 10 IP CAMs any time. The only thing left right now for seeing the video is to double click the IP CAM ID item in the “Auto Search” list. For example, if the IP CAM ID is 001-001-029, you can then double click the 001001029 item in the “Auto Search” list to view the video.
  • Page 11 CamView software for more functions. Seeing the video in a remote location After the IP CAM is installed and you can see the video from the CamView software in the local network, it’s very easy to see the video in a remote location. All you need to do is add a camera item in the “CameraList”...

  • Page 12: Wireless Connection ( For Ip Cam ( W ))

    WiFi security parameters used in this WiFi AP/router, including the SSID , security mode, encryption protocols and the “key” values. The supported WiFi security mode of the IP CAM is WEP(64 bits and 128 bits) and WPA-PSK(TKIP and AES). In most of the home/office WiFi environment, this is quite enough.
  • Page 13 Day&night IP Camera Figure 2-9: Unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the WiFi function...

  • Page 14: 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 15: Information

    The IP CAM can be viewed remotely by the CamView software only when the IP CAM is registered. If this IP CAM is not registered, please check the Ethernet wiring of your network environment. The “Network type” field displays the network connection(wired or wireless) and method(DHCP, PPPoE or static ip) the IP CAM is running.

  • Page 16: Video Display

    Day&night IP Camera 3.2. Video Display This display page allows you to view the video display 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 17: Network

    If the Ethernet cable is unplugged, the IP CAM will lose connection. But as soon as the Ethernet cable is plugged in again, the IP CAM will obtain a new IP address immediately. Figure 3-5: Network settings page for DHCP function If the network environment does not support DHCP function, you will need to set the network settings of the IP CAM manually.
  • Page 18 Day&night IP Camera Figure 3-6: Network settings page for fixed IP address...

  • Page 19: Wifi Security (For Ip Cam W )

    Day&night IP Camera 3.4. WiFi security (For IP cam You can use the wireless to connect the IP CAM to the network. If your network environment has a 802.11 b/g router or AP running, you can check the “Enable WiFi function”...
  • Page 20 AP using. Figure 3-8: WiFi security enabled page You can also click the “WiFi test” button to check if the IP CAM can connect to the wireless network for these settings. You will need to unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the wireless connection after the “WiFi test”...
  • Page 21 Day&night IP Camera Figure 3-9: WiFi testing page...

  • Page 22: Advanced Network

    Please be noticed that the DHCP or static IP settings in the “Network” page can work together with the PPPoE connection. Only that the PPPoE has higher priority, so, if the PPPoE is working, the IP CAM will use PPPoE to connect to the Internet. The default setting is “Disable PPPoE”.

  • Page 23: Video Settings

    In this page, you cam modify some settings related to the video viewing: 1. Password(play video) – this is the password needed for viewing the video from the CamView software. Together with the IP CAM ID, you can view the video of this IP CAM anywhere in the world through the Internet.
  • Page 24 “Indoor+sun light” choice. 13. Enable/disable audio microphone – you can enable or disable the audio microphone on the IP CAM. If disable, there will be no voice on the CamView video viewing. 14. Enable/disable time display on video – if enabled, the date/time of the system will be displayed on the left-upper corner of the video.
  • Page 25 Day&night IP Camera 3GPP/RTSP settings The IP CAM is able to be viewed from a 3G mobile phone, for detailed settings on the 3G mobile phone, please refer to Appendix E. Users can disable the 3G mobile access ability in this page. After the 3GPP/RTSP feature is disabled, no 3G mobile phone is allowed to access the video of the IP camera.

  • Page 26: Night Mode Control

    Day&night IP Camera 3.7. Night mode control The IP Cam is able to work both in day time and night time. There are some IR LEDs 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 LEDs will be on.

  • Page 27: Email/Ftp Alarm

    The IP CAM provides the Email/ftp function, you can enable schedule the Email/ftp ability in this page, the IP CAM 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 28 Day&night IP Camera 8. Send FTP message – if this item is enabled, the IP CAM will send out a jpeg picture file to the specified ftp account. 9. FTP server – this is the FTP server address to receive the jpeg file.

  • Page 29: Nas Settings

    Day&night IP Camera 3.9. 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 30 Day&night IP Camera files on the NAS devices. 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”...

  • Page 31: Scheduling

    Day&night IP Camera 3.10. 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 32 Day&night IP Camera Figure 3-16: Schedule management page...

  • Page 33: Led Display Control

    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.

  • Page 34: Date/Time

    Day&night IP Camera 3.11. Date/Time The IP CAM can synchronize the date/time with the universally available time server( for example stdtime.gov.tw) through NTP protocol. The date/time will then be corrected with the time server anytime when the Internet is connected.

  • Page 35: Admin

    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 3.16 and login with the “admin”...

  • Page 36: Upgrade

    3.13. 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 37 Day&night IP Camera Figure 3-21: Firmware upgrade status page...

  • Page 38: Reboot

    Day&night IP Camera 3.14. Reboot You can restart the IP CAM manually on this page. All the connected video viewing users will be disconnected. Figure 3-22: System reboot settings page Figure 3-23: System reboot under-going page...

  • Page 39: Safe Mode

    If by some abnormal operation, for example, powered off during the critical point of the upgrade procedure, the IP CAM will enter into the safe mode. In this mode, you will see the following “Safe mode” page when login into this IP CAM. Please do the upgrade operation immediately to recover the system.

  • Page 40: Set To Factory Default

    IP CAM to the factory default settings. The only thing you need to do is using a stick to press the “reset” button on the back of the IP CAM body for more than 4 seconds and release it, do this when the IP CAM is powered on. The IP CAM will reset to the factory default settings and restart automatically.

  • Page 41: Features And Specifications

    Day&night IP Camera 4. Features and specifications 4.1. Features Easily access the camera from anywhere in the world via the ID/password No complicated NAT/router settings needed. Free video management software - CamView program accompanied for easy access and multi-camera management. 3GPP/ISMA support.

  • Page 42: Specifications

    Day&night IP Camera 4.2. Specifications IP Camera Models DC 5V, 1A Power RISC CPU, hardware video processing and compression. Processors Network interface Ethernet 10BaseT/100BaseTX, Auto-MDIX, RJ-45 Wireless interface IEEE 802.11g 6 - 54 Mbps IEEE 802.11b 1 - 11 Mbps Transmit power: 14.5dBm typically @ 802.11g 17.5dBm typically @ 802.11b Receiver sensitivity: 54Mbps: Typical -73dBm @ 10% PER...
  • Page 43 SMTP, SNTP, FTP, DHCP, UPnP, ARP, DNS, PPPoE, etc. Power adaptor, camera bracket, RJ45 ethernet cable, quick Accessories (included) installation guide, CD with installation tool/software and User’s Manual, ID/Password card, antenna(for IP Cam Video management Surveillance application for viewing and archiving up to 16 software cameras...

  • Page 44: Package Contents

    Day&night IP Camera 5. Package contents Figure 5-1: IP Camera body Figure 5-2: Power Adaptor Figure 5-3: Bracket Figure 5-4: Antenna Figure 5-5: Quick installation guide Figure 5-6: Ethernet cable Figure 5-7: Installation CD Figure 5-8: ID/Password Card...

  • Page 45: Appendix A. List Of Tested Nat/Router Devices

    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. In this situation, please contact your MIS person to solve the problem.

  • Page 46: Appendix B. Maximum Allowed Video Users

    Day&night IP Camera Appendix B. Maximum Allowed Video Users The maximum allowed video users for a single IP Camera at the same time is dependent on the video settings including “Internet speed” and resolution. The followings are the summary of the maximum allowed video users: Notice : when the IP camera is doing NAS recording, this is counted as one video user.

  • Page 47: 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 48: Appendix D. Trouble Shooting

    6. What should I do if the password is forgotten, and the ID/password card is missing? A: The easiest way to solve this problem is to reset the IP Cam to the factory default. Please stick on the reset button on the rear panel of the IP Cam for more than 3 seconds and release it.
  • Page 49 IP Cam to do the modification. 9. Does the IP Cam provide the recording function? A: You can do the recording of the video/audio of the IP Cam from the CamView software with the CamView software. You can also do the video/audio recording to the standard NAS storage device.

  • Page 50: Appendix E. 3Gpp/Isma Operation

    Day&night IP Camera Appendix E. 3GPP/ISMA operation 3GPP/ISMA is using RTSP protocol for 3G mobile phone to display the video stream from some network devices, including IP camera. The IC202w support the RTSP protocol and video/audio codec needed by 3GPP/ISMA. Users only need to access the address rtsp://ip_cam_address/CAM_ID.password on the 3G mobile...

  • Page 51: Appendix F. Third Party And Embedded Web

    Day&night IP Camera Appendix F. Third party and embedded web page integration For third party and embedded web page integration, IP Camera support the standard RTSP protocol and video/audio codecs needed by most generally used video play software, including Apple QuickTime and VideoLAN. The supported media protocols including TCP and UDP.

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