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G3211E
User's Manual
Version 1.1

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  • Page 1 G3211E User’s Manual Version 1.1...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Important Notices – Read Before Use ................2 Overview ......................... 2 Package Contents ......................3 Installation ........................4 Hardware Installation ............................... 4 Software Installation ................................ 4 Discover IP Cameras ................................ 4 Assigning IP Address to the device ..........................5 Discovering devices in Windows Network ........................
  • Page 3: Important Notices - Read Before Use

    Overview The ingenious Small 2MP IR Bullet Type IP Camera – G3211E is with incredibly tiny housing (length of 10 CM) and full-functioned design. The weather proof IP 67 housing makes an ease of installation in various environments including indoor and outdoor application.
  • Page 4: Package Contents

    Package Contents G3211E Quick Installation Guide Camera Stand Product CD Power Adapter (Optional) Warranty Card Hardware Pack VIP Card (Optional)
  • Page 5: Installation

    Installation Hardware Installation Define the type of network device. If the network device supports PoE Power over Ethernet) function, simply connect the camera to it via Ethernet cable. If not, the connections to the network device (via Ethernet cable) and DC12V or AC24V adapter are required.
  • Page 6: Assigning Ip Address To The Device

    Assigning IP Address to the device The steps of applying this search tool are described as below. 1. Launch IPCAM Discovery Tool (ingrasysDiscovery.exe) 2. Assign IP address The selection is based on a single or multiple camera devices. [Set IP] This is applied to one specific camera selected from the Device List.
  • Page 7 [Auto Set IP] This is applied to a group of specific cameras selected from the Device List. Step1: Select specific cameras Step 2: Input Account / Password The default account information is Admin / Admin. If the values have been re-set, please enter the set values.
  • Page 8: Discovering Devices In Windows Network

    Discovering devices in Windows Network If the IP camera is installed in a network with DHCP and UPnP services, after obtaining an IP address from DHCP server, it can then be discovered in “Windows Network” of a client PC, see figure below. The reason for being automatically discovered is that the IP camera’s UPnP is default enabled (see Network ...
  • Page 9: Activex Add-On Installation

    ActiveX add-on Installation It is recommended to use Internet Explorer 8 or later as the primary browser to access the IP cameras website. The first-time access to the camera webpage will be prompted to install the ActiveX. To allow the installation, click “Install”...
  • Page 10 NOTE If, however, there is not any prompted message or ActiveX can not be installed at all, it is needed to change the IE security level and settings. <Example> Internet Explorer 9: Internet Options  Security  Custom level Ensure the “Download signed ActiveX controls” setting is either “Enable” or “Prompt” selected.
  • Page 11: Accessing The Camera

    With the correct installation and IP settings, the camera device can be approached via network. There are three ways to view the live video from the camera, 1. Internet Explorer Launch IE browser and input the IP address of the camera or Click on “Browse” button on the selected IP camera address from Ingrasys Discovery Tool.
  • Page 12 NOTE Ingrasys IP cameras also support the other web browsers for viewing the live video such as Firefox, Google Chrome or Safari. 2. RTSP Player The live video of the camera can be played with RTSP players, such as VLC or QuickTime.
  • Page 13: The Live View Page

    The Live view page The following illustration shows you the front page of Ingrasys IP camera website. Quick Index Live Window Video Stream Operations Live Video Window Quick Functional Buttons...
  • Page 14 Snapshot: Press the button to capture an image photo Record: Press the button to start recording. Press again to stop it. Record Path: set up a file path that video clips and snapshots can be stored. Full screen: Press the button to enter the full screen mode. Press ESC key to return. Manual trigger: Press the button as triggering an event.
  • Page 15: Video & Audio

    Video & Audio This section describes how to configure the video streaming of the device and the related camera image  configurations. Users with Administrator or Operator authority (see System User Management) are able to do these configurations. Click on “Setup” of Quick Index to enter the Video & Audio page shown as below. There are 4 sub-settings under “Video &...
  • Page 16 Camera Setting Image Setting Brightness: the luminance of image view. Default value is 8; adjustable from 0 to 16. Contrast: the ratio of luminance of white to black. Default value is 8; adjustable from 0 to 16. Saturation: colorfulness of a color related to its own brightness. Default value is 8, adjustable from 0 to 16.
  • Page 17 Day/Night Day/Night Mode: Switch the video images for Day (plenty of light) or Night (Low light) scene. In default “Auto” mode, camera will switch to Day or Night vision according to the light intensity. The Day / Night modes contain 2 actions: switching IR Filter On / Off, and image hue Color / Mono. In day mode, the IR filter is switched in to avoid the image sensor from receiving the infrared, thus the true color image is provided.
  • Page 18 : represents the Day mode : represents the Night mode The setting items with the Day or Night mode symbol will be altered along with the setting of Day/Night mode. The examples are illustrated as below.
  • Page 19 Video Setting Video Stream This tab provides detailed stream configurations. These settings can affect video size, quality. The maximum transmission performance can be expected under the condition of full network bandwidth. The camera supports up to 2 video streams. Each stream can be configured with following items. Video Format: H.264, MPEG4 and MJPEG are available for the selection.
  • Page 20 The available resolutions for Stream 1 and Stream 2 are listed in the following table. Resolution Stream 1 Stream 2 1920 x 1080 1280 x 720 800 x 450 640 x 360 320 x 180 “V”: available “-“: not available The table for Stream 1 to Stream 2 enable list .
  • Page 21 Privacy Mask Privacy Mask can block out the specific areas from view. The blocked areas will not be seen in both live view and recorded video clips and the total of 8 profiles can be created to the list. To create Privacy Mask, simply input Privacy Mask Name and click “Add New” button and then apply it to complete the addition.
  • Page 22 Region of interest, you may determine the monitoring region by yourself, just hold and drag any corner of the red rectangle to resize the window, the modified video resolution will show on right window in red words. Audio Setting Check the “Enable Audio” checkbox to enable the video streaming with audio. The audio encoding supports G.711 ulaw and AAC.
  • Page 23: Network Configuration

    Network Configuration The IP Camera acts as one of the network devices. It allows user to configure the network functionalities based on applications. This section will describe the network configurations. Fundamentally, for instance, the IP assignment of the device can be done via DHCP server, static IP option or PPPoE to obtain IP from the service provider.
  • Page 24 NOTE1: If you would like to connect camera with IPv6 address, please note that this only works if your network environment and hardware equipment support IPv6. The browser should be Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.5, Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or above. NOTE2: (Link with IPv6 address as following steps) 1.
  • Page 25 Quality Service Quality Service provides network traffic management to guarantee the quality of services in higher priority, especially when network is insufficient. DSCP (Different Service Code Point) is a 6-bit IP header which defines the service level of the packet. According to the DSCP value, routers with PHB (Per-Hop Behavior) will define a specific class of traffic for the packet, in terms of bandwidth, latency, or loss rate, etc.
  • Page 26 HTTP port / HTTPS port: By default, the HTTP and HTTPs ports are set to 80 and 443 respectively. They can also be assigned to another port number between 1025 and 65535. The HTTP port is basically provided for device’s webpage access. When the video format is set to MJPEG, user is able to retrieve the live video via HTTP URL, e.g.
  • Page 27 Access IP Filter This setting also provides a basic security by filtering the accesses from other hosts. Enable this function and choose “Allow / Deny” of the listed IP addresses. Up to 15 IP address can be added in the list.
  • Page 28: Recording

    Recording This section provides the recording configuration on the camera. Unlike the recording function (Quick Functional Button) on the live view page, video can also be recorded to the storage attached to the camera (micro SD card) or local network storage (Samba) according to a time based schedule.
  • Page 29 Mon ~ Sun: Displays the hours in days of a week that recording is effective Src. (Source): The video source selected to be recorded Dest. (Destination): The stored path for the recording file Remove: Click to delete this recording plan. Add / Edit Recording Plan Plan Name: Identifier of the recording plan Video Source: The selection of the video source to be recorded.
  • Page 30 SD Storage This page shows the SD card information when it is attached to the IP camera. Normally, inserting the micro SD card will be done before entering this page and obtain the card information as below. However, if it is the other way around, click SD storage tab to refresh it. SD Card Status: ...
  • Page 31 SD File List This page provides the search of records. The SD storage may contain both “triggered-by-schedule” recordings and “triggered-by-events” snapshot / video. There are search conditions used to narrow down the search results. The latest 10 Records The most recent 10 records are listed in this table. Each record name is a link to view this video or image. Following the “Record Name”, each record is listed with its “Trigger Type”...
  • Page 32 Example: Trigger Type – Schedule Recording There are 3 categories of search criteria: 1. Trigger Type: It includes Motion Detection, Digital Input, Manual Trigger, Network Fail and Periodically as the type of “triggered-by-events” and Schedule Recording as the type of “triggered-by-schedule”. 2.
  • Page 33 Samba This page allows user to configure the file storage via Samba. To begin with it, click Enable Samba and then input the related information. NOTE Samba can only support mounting a shared folder located in the root directory. For example, to mount a folder called “Shared”...
  • Page 34: Event Management

    Event Management Event management describes the handling of events with the corresponding actions. A common case can be exampled is storing a captured image to a local storage (Actions), when there is a Motion Event (Trigger Condition). This chapter gives the configurations of Triggers (what to detect?) and Actions (“what to send”...
  • Page 35 Server Name: Identifier of the event server Server Type Email: Send the media file via email when an event is triggered.  Mail Server Address: Enter a host name or IP address of the email server.  User Name: Enter the user name of the email account. ...
  • Page 36 Motion Configuration There are 3 MD (Motion Detection) areas can be enabled. Each MD can be individually enabled/disabled, defined the covering range and trigger sensitivity. To enable and verified the MD, follow the steps provided below. 1. Check the box to enable the motion area 2.
  • Page 37 Audio Detection If you have enabled audio function for the camera, you may enable audio detection function to detect the monitoring area whether has any abnormal sound over the threshold, this could be an event source to trigger event notification and alarms. Tamper Detection With tamper detection, the camera is capable to detect tampering and could be event source to trigger event notification and alarms.
  • Page 38 DI/DO Setting The DI/DO setting provides the information of Digital I/O’s initial and current status. The initial status can be configured while current status is detected by the IP camera system. Digital input (DI) can be configured as one of the trigger conditions. When its current status is different from the initial, the trigger is activated.
  • Page 39 Event List List a summary of configured events. That is the selection of trigger condition(s) and the corresponding actions, as well as the scheduling. Up to 10 event objects can be configured. To begin with it, click on “Add New” button to extend for the detailed configurations. Event Name: Enter an event name, e.g.
  • Page 40  Manual Trigger: Enable the system to detect the user input action (press the alarm button, on the live view page).  Network Fail: Enable system to detect the network connection status.  Periodically: Enable the system to perform the set Action periodically by entering number of minute(s) in the field as below.
  • Page 41: Examples Of Event Handling

    Examples of Event Handling The following cases are provided as the examples of Event Handling. Scenario While viewing live video, user can manually trigger an event anytime simply by pressing the button, on the web page. It will then start generating a video clip to SD card and sending email with the captured pictures.
  • Page 42  Click on “Apply” to save the email server and media settings. Step 3: Configure Event List  On Event List page, click on “Add New” button.  Enable and configure this event - Event of manual triggering - Click the check box to enable this event. Give a name of this event setting;...
  • Page 43: System Options

    System Options System Options provide users to obtain and configure the system settings of the IP camera system. It contains the page of System Information, Date and Time, User Management, Maintenance and Log Service. The details about each subcategory will be described as below. System Information The page gives the general information of the IP camera system.
  • Page 44 Date and Time This section describes the date/time adjustment for the IP camera system. The ways to adjust the IP camera’s date/time can be automatic (Synchronize with NTP Server / PC) or manual settings. Current Date & Time Display current system date/time of the IP camera. The date format can be changed from the drop-down list in Configure Date &...
  • Page 45 User Management By default, the access to the camera is user authenticated. For security, the IP camera should be restricted to account only accesses. It is able to enable/disable user accounts, as well as to manage the added users in this page.
  • Page 46 NOTE The backup file can be applied to other Ingrasys IP cameras, so users won’t need to configure each device. It is recommended to switch the IP setting to DHCP mode before exporting the backup file.
  • Page 47: Connectors & Led

    Connectors & LED Cable connectors Terminal Block Pin Assignment Schematic diagram of Digital I/O LED Indicators RJ45 LEDs for Network Status: LED1 (Green) LED2 (Amber) 10 Link / Traffic Steady ON / Flashing 100 Link / Traffic Steady ON / Flashing Steady ON...
  • Page 48: Install A Micro-Sd Card

    Install a Micro-SD card G3211E supports on-board micro-SD storage. Due to the water-resistance design, it is necessary to follow the SOP provided below to complete the installation properly. Step 1: Unscrew the rear cover of the camera Step 2: Carefully open the rear cover and find the card slot for installation...
  • Page 49: Desiccant Bag Replacement

    Desiccant Bag Replacement G3211E comes with a desiccant bag placed inside. It is not necessary to replace it until the rear cover of the camera has been opened for some reasons. The SOP is described below for users to complete the replacement.
  • Page 50: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting Check firmware version Firmware version may imply the functionalities’ updates or availability in the camera system. Therefore, in the first step of troubleshooting and then reporting, it helps to locate the found issues. Newer version firmware may have these issues corrected. The version code can be found in Setup ->...
  • Page 51 Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3...
  • Page 52: Recover Device Settings

    Recover device settings In some cases, camera system does not respond to any operation. A certain recovering processes would help to get the unit back to initial status, so that it can resume operable / configurable. This will be the operations on the “Reset Button”.
  • Page 53: Technical Specifications

    Technical Specifications *Design and specifications are subject to change without notice. Model No. G3211E Types of camera Description Ultra-mini 2MP Full HD IR Bullet IP Camera Image Sensor 1/2.7” Progressive CMOS Image Pixel 2.0 Megapixel Lens type Board lens, 4.0mm,F=1.8, Fixed IRIS IR Distance 10meters/32.8 ft...

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