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Indoor IR Dome Network Camera
NDR721
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201409 A1

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  • Page 1 Indoor IR Dome Network Camera NDR721 User Manual 201409 A1...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Important Notices Overview Package Contents Installation Hardware Installation Software Installation Discover IP Cameras Assigning IP Address to the device Discovering devices in Windows Network ActiveX add-on Installation Accessing the camera Viewing the live video The Live view page Video &...

  • Page 3: Important Notices

    Overview The NDR721 is the compact size dome camera with full function. Measuring only 90mm in diameter, this ultra mini dome camera is built with PoE function and reaching 5M IR lighting design. With 3 steps setup makes installation easier and faster.

  • Page 4: Package Contents

    Package Contents Package Contents...

  • Page 5: Installation

    Installation Hardware Installation Physical Description & Connection Mounting the Camera...
  • Page 6 Tuning the Camera...

  • Page 7: Software Installation

    Software Installation Discover IP Cameras Discovery Tool is a utility provided for not only searching and displaying the available IP cameras information in a network but also managing the multiple networking settings such as static IP address assignment. After completing the hardware installation, run IPCAM Discovery.exe to search for the IP camera installed. Assigning IP Address to the device The steps of applying this search tool are described as below.
  • Page 8 Step2: Input desired IP information The default settings of account /password are admin / 1234. If that were been changed, please enter the set values. [Auto Set IP] This is applied to a group of specific cameras selected from the Device List. Step1: Select specific cameras...
  • Page 9 Step 2: Input Account / Password The default account information is admin / 1234. If the values have been re-set, please enter the set values. Step 3: Input IP information...

  • Page 10: 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 11: 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” on the message bar and follow the instructions to complete ActiveX installation.
  • Page 12 <Example> Internet Explorer 9: Internet Options → Security → Custom level Ensure the “Download signed ActiveX controls” setting is either “Enable” or “Prompt” selected.

  • Page 13: Accessing The Camera

    Accessing the camera Viewing the live video 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, Internet Explorer - Launch IE browser and input the IP address of the camera or - Click on “Browse”...
  • Page 14 NOTE: IP cameras also support the other web browsers for viewing the live video such as Firefox, Google Chrome or Safari. RTSP Player The live video of the camera can be played with RTSP players, such as VLC or QuickTime. The camera supports two simultaneous video streaming (see Video &...

  • Page 15: The Live View Page

    The Live view page The following illustration shows the front page of IP camera website. Quick Index Video Stream Operations Live Window Live Video Window Quick Functional Buttons...
  • Page 16 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 17: 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 18: Camera Setting

    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. Sharpness: refer to image acutance, which presents in the edges contrast of an image.
  • Page 19 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.

  • Page 20: Video Setting

    : 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. Video Setting Video Stream This tab provides detailed stream configurations.
  • Page 21 Resolution Ratio: 16:9 or 1.3M mode is selectable. The image ratio of Stream1 to Stream 3 will change at the same time based on a pre-defined table if user changes the ratio mode. Video Format: H.264, MPEG4 and MJPEG are available for the selection. The demand of bandwidth and storage requirement differs from the selection of video format.
  • Page 22 Enable ROI: Once the ROI function enabled, relative ROI area could be setup under the “ROI” page. Frame Rate: It represents the number of frames that are displayed per second. The higher the frame rate is the better/ smoother the video stream can be obtained. However, it would be the tradeoffs for the higher network bandwidth and storage requirement.
  • Page 23 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 24: Audio Setting

    Audio Setting Check the “Enable Audio” checkbox to enable the video streaming with audio. The audio encoding supports G.711 ulaw and AAC. For Audio Input Setting, the input source can only be Internal Microphone.

  • Page 25: 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. There are 6 subdirectories in “Network”: - Network Type - Wireless - Network Connectivity - Quality Service - Access Port...
  • Page 26 NDR721 supports WiFi function only when inserted a supported WiFi dongle. The WiFi dongle is an optional parts, please contact your distributor if needed. NDR721 provides 3 modes to setup WiFi as Manual Mode, WiFi Direct Mode, and WPS Mode. Please follow the steps for the WiFi Setup.
  • Page 27 Type in the shared key same as what set on your router/AP and click save button. Once the setting was complete and correct, the “Status” will show as Connected, then disconnect the Ethernet cable and reboot the camera.
  • Page 28 WiFi Direct Mode (WiFi Setup thru Mobile Device) Press WiFi Mode button on camera over 1 sec but less than 3 sec, Amber LED turns on. The camera will act as a WiFi AP at meantime. Scan the camera AP from smart phone/tablet WiFi Setup menu and link to the camera WiFi AP. Access the camera web page http://192.168.1.1/mobile by browser or scan the QR code as bellow.
  • Page 29 The camera WiFi will switch back to client mode and link with the configured WiFi router/AP automatically. WPS Mode (WiFi Setup thru WPS function supported WiFi router/AP) Press the WPS (WiFi Protected Setup) button on your WiFi router/AP to trigger connection function. Press WiFi mode button on camera over 3 seconds then LED1 and LED2 starts to flash (the Amber LED and Green LED start to flashing every 1 second which only last 2 minutes) Once successful connection or WPS function timeout (2 minutes), the LED2 (Green) keeps steady on...

  • Page 30: Network Connectivity

    Network Connectivity This page provides the connectivity configuration, so that IP camera can be accessed without necessarily providing the numerical IP address. Enable UPnP Service: with UPnP enabled, IP camera device can be easily discovered in Windows Network (My Network Places).
  • Page 31 Access Port This page provides the ports configuration for requesting the services from the camera device. These services include Web Page access, HTTP and RTSP streaming services. 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.
  • Page 32 Access IP Filte 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 for IPv4 and IPv6.

  • Page 33: 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 local network storage (Samba) according to a time based schedule. There are 4 subdirectories in the “Recording”...
  • Page 34 Add / Edit Recording Plan Plan Name: Identifier of the recording plan Video Source: The selection of the video source to be recorded. Options: Stream1 / Stream 2 / Stream 3. Maximum File Size: This option defines the maximum file size of each video clip. Destination: The stored path for the recording file Select All: 24 hrs/ 7days (Mon-Sun) continuous recording Scheduled Pattern: User-defined time frame...
  • Page 35 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 36 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 37 Searching the Records The SD storage would keep massive records after the “recording plan” and/or “event handling” (see Event Management) has been launched. The search criteria are provided to look for particular records in the SD card. Example: Trigger Type – Schedule Recording There are 3 categories of search criteria: Trigger Type: It includes Motion Detection, Digital Input, Manual Trigger, Network Fail, Audio Detection and Periodically as the type...
  • Page 38 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 39: 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 40 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 41 Motion Configuration There are three 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. Check the box to enable the motion area Drag and drop to move the motion window Hold and drag any corner of the rectangle to resize the window.

  • Page 42: Audio Detection

    Audio Detection Checked the box of Enable Audio Detection, users may enable audio detection function to detect the monitoring area whether any abnormal sound over the threshold existed. This could be an event source to trigger event notification and alarms. DI/DO Setting The DI/DO setting provides the function of Digital I/O’s trigger condition configuration and current status information.
  • Page 43 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. To begin with it, click on “Add New” button to extend for the detailed configurations. Event Name: Enter an event name, e.g. Motion Detection, to identify this configured event. Select All: 24 hrs/ 7days (Mon-Sun) continuous recording Scheduled Pattern: User-defined time frame...

  • Page 44: Examples Of Event Handling

    Triggered by: This describes the selection of trigger conditions which include: • Motion Detection: Select the motion detection area(s) used for trigger condition. To enable and configure the motion detection areas, go to Motion Configuration. • Digital Input: Enable the system to detect the DI (Digital Input) status as a trigger condition. For more details about the DI setting, go to DI/DO Setting.
  • Page 45 Step 2: Configure Media Type • On the same web page, configure the Media Type. For the following example, the system is configured to capture 1 picture before (pre-alarm) the event and 2 pictures for the event and after (post-alarm). For video clip, pre-alarm and post-alarm could be configured for event video record.
  • Page 46 • Click on “Apply” to save the settings of this page.

  • Page 47: 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 48 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 Synchronize with NTP Server, Synchronize with PC or Set Manually. Current Date & Time Display current system date/time of the IP camera. The date format can be changed from the drop-down list under Configure Date &...

  • Page 49: User Management

    User Management By default, the access to the camera is not user authenticated. For security, the IP camera should be restricted only authenticated accounts to access. It is able to enable/disable user accounts, as well as to manage the added users in this page.
  • Page 50 Maintenance This page provides tools for camera system maintenances. Reboot: Restart the camera system Restore to Factory Default: Restore camera factory default settings. The network setting can be kept by checking the “Except Network Type” checkbox. Backup Configurations: The system settings can be backed up and exported to a file. The file can be applied to upload the previous user settings to the camera, or other cameras.

  • Page 51: Connectors & Led

    Connectors & LED Connectors Schematic diagram of Digital I/O...

  • Page 52: Led Indicators

    LED Indicators Bicolor LED indicator for Power & System Status: Power On / System Reboot Steady ON with Amber LED Initial Process Ready 3 Flashing then ON with Green LED Normal Operation Steady ON with Green LED Firmware Upgrade Flashing per second with Red LED Internal (Hardware) Failure Steady ON with...

  • Page 53: 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.
  • Page 54 Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3...

  • Page 55: 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”. Before executing hardware reset, please make sure the system booting process is completed.

  • Page 56: Appendix: Specifications Of Mini Dome Network Camera

    Appendix: Specifications of Mini Dome Network Camera Video Sensor Type 1/4" image sensor Active Pixels 1280 x 1024 (HxV) Compression H.264 / MPEG4 / Motion JPEG Streaming Simultaneously multi-profile streaming 1280x1024, 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480, 320x240, 160x120 (1.3M mode) Resolution 1280x720, 800x450, 640x360, 320x180 (16:9 mode) Max.
  • Page 57 Operating Humidity 20~ 80% RH Storage Temperature -10°C ~ 50°C (14°F~122°F) Regulatory Approvals CE, FCC, RoHS Ordering Information Model No. NTSC: NDR721-N1-MES; PAL: NDR721-P1-MES Accessories Surface mount: standard package support Note: Product specifications and pictures are subject to change without notice.

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