2 General Introduction 2.1 Overview This device adopts audio video data collection, transmission and storage. It can connect to the network directly without any auxiliary device. This device uses standard H.264 video compression technology which maximally guarantees the video quality. It can be used alone or used in a network area.
2.3 Specifications 2.3.1 Function specification Model Ref. 4 306 24 Ref. 4 306 25 Parameter 1-ch analog video input. BNC port. 4-ch analog video input. BNC port. Video input Level: 1.0Vp-p. Resistance: 75Ω Level: 1.0Vp-p. Resistance: 75Ω 1-channel analog video output. BNC port. Level: 1.0Vp-p. Resistance: 75Ω...
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Specifications Note Support max 6 periods Schedule Record (This series product does not support this function.) After enabling manual record, no matter system is in Manual Record schedule or alarm status or not, system just begins recording Record System automatically enables recording function Alarm Record when alarm occurred When video changes, system automatically enables...
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2.3.3 Factory Default Setup Please refer to the following sheet for factory default setup information. Function configuration type Item Name Default setup Date format Y-M-D Disable by default Date separator ‘ _ ’ Time format General Setup Language English When HDD is full Overwrite Record duration 60 min...
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Function configuration type Item Name Default setup Snapshot Period 1 : Enable motion detection/alarm Schedule setup Time Setup Week Sunday Option COM01 Function Console Data bit RS232 Setup Stop bit Baud rate 115200 Parity None Ethernet Port 01 DHCP Disable IP address 192.168.1.108 Subnet mask...
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Function configuration type Item Name Default setup Event type Motion detection Channel Ch01, Disable Sensitivity Period: Start time 0:00:00 Time period setup End time:23:59:59 Period 1:enable Week: Sunday Anti-dither 5 seconds Video detection Alarm output Disable Alarm latch 10 seconds Record channel Disable Record latch...
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Function configuration type Item Name Default setup Snapshot Snapshot_Timing mode Frame rate 1f/s Snapshot Resolution Quality Advanced Auto reboot 2.00 each day Auto maintain Auto delete Never old files 0.0.0.0 Port 7000 221.123.33.228 DNS Setup Alternative DNS 221.12.1.228...
3 Framework 3.1 Front panel Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Indication light /Port Function / Port Color Note When connected to power: Red When device is working normally: Green Power/working status Red / Green light is on. indication light When device is upgrading: Green light is flashing.
3.2 Rear Panel 1ch NVS Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Port name Connection Function Receive the signal from the front-end device such V-IN Video input port as camera or speed dome Output analog video signal. V-OUT Video output port It can connect to the TV monitor to view video A-IN Audio input port...
3.3 Rear Panel 4ch NVS Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Port name Connection Function 4 video input ports to receive the signal from Video input port the front-end device such as camera or speed dome. 4 audio input ports to receive the analog Audio input port AVIN audio signal from the pickup or mike.
4 Quick Configuration Tool The quick configuration tool allows you to search for a device's IP address, even if it is in another segment (cameras, DVR, NVR, encoders and decoders) and to modify it. The configuration tool is available on the CD supplied with the product. It also allows the software to be upgraded or certain parameters to be modified.
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To connect to a device and open the web application: - Highlight it (single click in the list). - Right click the highlighted line. - Click on "Open Device Web". - The following web page opens: If the connection fails: - either the camera does not have an IP address in the same segment as the PC (see chapter 4.1.2 to change it), - or the Internet Explorer security parameters are not set correctly (see chapter 5 to change them).
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4.1.2 Connection with the configuration tool (to change the IP address or upgrade a device’s internal software) To search for devices connected to the network: - Click the «Refresh» button; the tool will search for devices connected to the network and display them in the form of a list (see chapter 4.1.1 for details of the interface).
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- Restart the procedure. The following window should open: - Click Login to access the parameter modifications. Function Note Enable DHCP Enable or disable the DHCP function IP address Device IP address Subnet mask Device subnet mask Gateway Device default gateway MAC address...
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4.1.3 PPPoE Select "PPPoE" on the right-hand side of the interface: Function Note Enable PPPOE Enable or disable the PPPoE function User name PPPOE user name Password PPPOE password IP address Device IP address in the WAN Save Save Return Return to the search interface - Click the "System Information"...
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4.1.4 System Select "System Information" on the right-hand side of the interface. Function Note Device serial number Software version Device software version Device name Model name Synchronization Synchronisation of the device date and time with the date and time on the PC. with PC Click "Sync"...
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4.1.5 System Upgrade Select "System Upgrade" on the right-hand side of the interface. Function Note Upgrade file/Open Click here to select the upgrade file. Current progress/Upgrade Click here to start the upgrade procedure. Return Return to search interface Steps for updating the device's internal software - Click on the "Open"...
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- Once the file has been transferred, the device upgrades automatically. - Once the device has been upgraded, the following dialogue box opens: - Click OK to finish the procedure.
5 Connecting to a Device and Opening the Web Application 5.1 PC Configuration This device supports Web access and management via PC. Web includes several modules including monitor channel list, record search, alarm setup, system configuration, PTZ control, monitor window, etc. The system pops up warning information to ask whether you wish to install the control webrec.cab or not.
5.2 Connection with the Search Tool To open the software, double click the "ConfigTool.exe" icon on the CD supplied with the product. To search for devices connected to the network: - Click the "Refresh" button; the tool will search for devices connected to the network and display them in the form of a list.
5.3 Connection with Internet Explorer IP camera factory default setup: - IP address: 192.168.1.108. - User name: admin - Password: admin Open Internet Explorer (IE) and enter your camera IP address in the address bar. For example, if your camera IP is 192.168.1.108, then enter http://192.168.1.108 in the IE address bar. Input your IP address here Note:...
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After you log in, the main window appears: Note: Use IE compatibility mode if you are using IE8 or above. See the detailed user guide for the Web interface.
6 Main Interface Introduction 6.1 Log in Input user name and password (default is admin/admin). After you logged in, IP Camera web main interface appears: There are six sections: - Section 1: Monitor channel menu tree. - Section 2: System menu. - Section 3: PTZ control.
6.2 Monitor Channel Menu Tree The monitor channel menu tree is shown below. Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function CAM 1 Monitor channel 1 IP Camera supports main stream and extra stream. - Main stream: In normal network width environment, main stream can record video and audio and realize network monitor.
Refer to the following sheet for monitor window parameter information. Parameter Function Display - 1: Device IP address. device - 2: Channel number. information - 3: Bit stream. - 4: Stream decode type. - S1: Overlay. - S2: Off stream. - S3:GD1 - H1: Overlay - H2: off stream decoding from the display card.
6.4 Monitor Window Switch The device support only 1-window and full-screen display mode. Video quality adjustment button. Displays the original image size in the webpage. 6.5 Preview Window Switch The device do not support this function. 6.6 PTZ Control PTZ interface is shown below Before operations make sure you have set the speed dome address.
6.7 Color and More Setup Color setup Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Adjust monitor video brightness. All the operations here apply to web display only. Adjust monitor video contrast ness. Video Go to chapter 7.2.2 System setup configuration->Encode Adjust monitor video saturation.
7 Configure See chapter 6.3 to see how to access to the configuration menu». 7.1 System Information 7.1.1 Version Information View device hardware feature and software version information. 7.1.2 HDD information View local storage status and network status including free capacity and total capacity.
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7.1.3 Log View system log. Refer to the following sheet for log parameter information. Parameter Function Type Log types include: system operation, configuration operation, data management, alarm event, record operation, user management, log clear and file operation. Search Select log type from the drop down list and then click search button to view the list. Clear Click this button to delete all displayed log files.
7.2 System Configuration Please click save button to save your setup before exiting each section. 7.2.1 General Setup Set system time, record length, video format, etc.
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Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function System Time Modify system time. Click “Save” button after your completed modification Sync PC Click this button to save the system time as your PC current time Data Format Select data format from the dropdown list. Data Separator Select separator such as –...
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Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Select a monitor channel. Channel Name Display current channel name. You can modify it . Compression H.264 It includes general stream, motion stream and alarm stream. Select different encode frame rates form different recorded events. Main Stream For example, use high frame rate to record important events, record scheduled event in lower frame rate and set different frame rates for motion detection...
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Click watermark button to open interface as below: 7.2.3 Schedule Set differents periods for various days. There are max six periods in one day.
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Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Select a channel first. Input pre-record value here. System can record the three to five seconds video Pre-record before activating the record operation into the file. (Depends on data size). Storage System support record/snapshot file local storage mode only.
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Refer to the following sheet for detailed information Parameter Function RS232 There is only one option COM 01, corresponding to RS232 Console is for debug. Control keyboard: Switch between RS232 and control keyboard. Network keyboard: COM control protocol. You can use network keyboard to control IPC via COM.
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Refer to the following sheet for detailed information Parameter Function Select the network card first. Ethernet Port 1 is the ethernet port. Port 2 is the wireless port (if available). Dynamically get IP address. Get the device IP adress from the server if this DHCP function is enabled.
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Email Interface Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function SMTP Server Input server address and then enable this function. Port Default value is 25. Modify it if necessary. User Name Sender email account user name. Password Sender email account password.
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DDNS interface Refer to the Annex 1 for NO-IP DDNS setup information. Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Server Type Select DDNS protocol from the dropdown list and then enable DDNS function. The private DDNS protocol means you use your self-defined private protocol to realize DDNS function.
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NTP interface Realize network time synchronization. Enable current function and input server IP, port number, time zone and time. Refer to the following sheet for detail information. Parameter Function Enable Enable NTP function or not. Server IP Server IP address Port Server port.
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IP Filter interface Enable IP filter function so that some specified IP user can or not access the device. You can not set white list and black list function at the same time.
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Parameter Function Event Type It includes local alarm/network alarm. - Local alarm: Device detects alarm from input port. - Network: Device detects alarm from network. Alarm in Select corresponding alarm channel. Enable Check to enable the alarm function. Type There are two options: normal open and normal close. NO becomes activated in low voltage, NC becomes activated in high voltage..
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7.2.7 Detect The dark blue squares correspond to a zone with active detection.
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Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Event Type There are three types: Motion detection/Video loss/Camera Masking. Channel Select channel name from the dropdown list. Enable Check to enable motion detection function. Sensitivity There are six levels. The level 6 has the highest sensitivity. Region - Region: after you select motion detection type, click this button to set motion detection zone.
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7.2.8 Default & Backup Default: Restore factory default setup. Select corresponding items. Backup: Export current configuration to local PC or import configuration from current PC. System can’t restore some information such as network IP address. Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Select All...
7.3 Advanced 7.3.1 HDD Management HDD management includes net storage management and local storage management. Select the storage device first and then the items on your right become valid. Check the corresponding item here. Click the Execute the button; system needs to reboot to activate current setup. Refer to the following sheet for detailed information.
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7.3.2 Alarm I/O Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Alarm output There is only one output channel. Please click the button 1. Trigger Enable/disable alarm output device. Refresh Search alarm output status.
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7.3.3 Record Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Auto System enables auto record function as set in record schedule setup. Manual Not available. Stop Stop current channel record, no matter what period applied in the record schedule setup.
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7.3.4 Account Add, remove user or modify password. Note : Reusable means that the account can be use for different login at the same time. 7.3.5 Auto Maintenance Select auto reboot and auto delete old files interval.
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7.3.6 Snapshot Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Monitor channel. Snapshot mode Two modes: Timing and activation. Frame rate Select from the dropdown list. The value ranges from 1f/s to 8f/s. Resolution Select from the dropdown list. The resolution may vary due to different series. Quality Select from the dropdown list.
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7.3.7 Abnormity Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function - The abnormal events include: no disk, no space, disk error, net error, offline, IP conflict. Event Type - XXXX Space Alarm: Set the minimum percentage value here. The device can alarm when capacity is not sufficient.
7.4 Additional Function 7.4.1 Configure Set camera property parameter. The following interface may vary regarding different devices. Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel Monitor channel 1 There are two modes: Auto exposure (AE) and Manual exposure (ME). Exposure Mode There are some ME time ranges from 1/50 to 1/10000.
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7.4.2 Auto Register Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Enable Enable auto register function. Device management server number. Device management server IP address. Port Server port number. Device ID Device ID in the device management server.
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7.4.3 Talk Encode Set audio compression bit rate. It includes PCM, G711a, G711u.
8 Search See chapter 6.3 to see how to access to the configuration menu». Click search button, the following interface appears:` Select record playback mode, and then select start time, end time and channel. Click search button, the corresponding files in the list appears. Select the file(s) to download and click download button, system pops up a dialogue box.
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Type Parameter Function Download by file: Select the file(s) and then click download button. Download Download by time: Download the recorded file(s) during specified type period. Select the file needed (multiple choices) and click download button, system pops up a dialogue box. Input the downloaded file name, specify the path and then click OK Download button.
9 Alarm See chapter 6.3 to see how to access to the configuration menu». Click alarm function, the folowing interface appears. Set device alarm type and alarm sound setup. . Refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Type Parameter Function Video loss System alarms when video loss occurs.
Annex 1: No-IP DDNS If you do not have a Static IP address on the Internet, you need to have a dynamic IP. Because your IP address changes after a certain period of time. So you need to configure a dynamic DNS service. After completed configuration in the device.
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To receive domain name in the No-IP DDNS service, please follow the steps listed below. Please visit www.no-ip.com; the page of No-IP appears as below. Left click mouse on the “Create Account” button, account Information interface Fill in the requested fields and click I Accept button. Then you can get an email containing username and password.
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Click to sign and enter the email address and password you get earlier. Click “login” to sign up, you can see the welcome interface and configuration option of account. You can highlight manage host item. The Manage Hosts interface is shown belox. Click the Add Host button you can access the creation of a domain name.
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Input corresponding host name in the filed. You can use this name to access device from an external network. In the field to the right of the name, select the desired area. This is your domain name for access to the device. Click “Create Host”...
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11. Please go to the device and access the MAIN MENU> SETTING> NETWORK> DDNS. Input server IP you get in the above step. Select the DDNS Type as No-IP DDNS and highlight the icon in front of Enable to enable the DDNS function.
Annex 2: Using Google Chrome 1- Download and Install Extension Click “Extension” in Google Chrome configuration dropdown list to go to the extension management interface. The Google Chrome extension management interface is shown below. Click “Browse the gallery” and search for “IE Tab” extension.
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Install the latest “IE Tab” extension (version 1.0.11208.1 or above). After installation, you will get an IE icon on top right of your Google Chrome interface. 2. Visit Web Interface - Get an IE address bar by clicking the icon showed previously. - Enter the IP address of your device.
Annex 3: Using Firefox 1- Dowload and install extension: - Click “Tools” and “Add-ons”. - Search and install IE Tab: ie_tab_plus-1.95.20100930-fx+sm After installation, restart Firefox. 2- After restart of Firefox, choose Tools—Add-ons to check if the plugin has been installed. 3- After installation, add the target address to IE Tab before start to access device web client.
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After this, open the webpage http://10.15.5.127 with Firefox . Note : If you have done the follows above and you still can not open the web normally, you need to check the setting in IE to enable downloading of the ActiveX.
Annex 4: Using IE8 1- Run Web interface with IE8 With IE8, sometimes it will not run with the normal mode, there 2 ways to solve this. 1.1 Use the Compatibility View function of IE8 With this way, every time you open the IE interface, must click this button 1.2 Add the certain IP address or website into Compatibility View Settings - Choose Compatibility View Settings in Tool menu...
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- Add the IP or domain name of device into Compatibility View Settings list - Now the web interface can be accessed in normal mode. 3- Download ActiveX with IE8 - For some PC when update windows and install IE8, it will not install the ActiveX.
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Note : If you have done the follows above and you still can not open the web normally, you need to check the setting in IE to enable downloading the ActiveX.
Annex 5: Email Function First, the Email sender must support smtp 1- Email Setting 1 Set as follow, I use Email server: www.126.com as an example 220.181.15.112 user user@126.com Désignation Email server IP address (ping the server to get the IP) Must be enable Server port (usually 25) User Name - Password...
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2- Email Setting 2 - Input domain name of the email server, such as:smtp.126.com, if you have already set DNS settings smtp.126.com user user@126.com Désignation Email server: if it is domain name, set DNS as follow Must be enable Server port (usually 25) User Name - Password Sender.
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- Get DNS setting from your PC in the same network by command: ipconfig /all 3- Send Email Setting - Enable “send email function” of Detect or Alarm settings, so when there are alarms the device will send Email.
Annex 6: Routers configuration If you need to access to your device from external network, you will need to set NAT settings on your router. In the circumstance that your device is behind a router or gateway, you need to open the port on that router for the device behind it.
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Note : Do not copy the information in this sample configuration. It is different according the setting on each device. The picture above shows an example of how to open the service port on router for a device in local network. - Check the “Enabled”...
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2- LINK SYS Router Log on to the router. Select “Applications & Gaming” tab on the top. Select “UPNP Forwarding” tab on the left. Then the following screen will be displayed. The screen might be very different regarding to the different model of routers. You can add entry on the first available row in the list table.
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3 SMC Router Log on to the router, select “Advanced Setup” tab on the top, and click “NAT” button on the left panel. Select “Virtual Server” in the expanded list structure, you will see the following screen. Notice that it might look very different according to different models of routers. - In “Private IP”...
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