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  • Page 2 The model and serial numbers are located at the bottom of device. Record these numbers in the spaces provided below. Refer to these numbers whenever you call upon your dealer regarding this product. Model No. FH-330F3 Serial No. ____________________ To prevent fire or shock hazard, do not expose the unit to rain or moisture.
  • Page 3 Network Camera User’s Guide Declaration of Conformity This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Network Camera User’s Guide Table of Contents Overview ..........................7 Introduction ......................... 7 Features ........................7 Minimum System Requirements................. 8 Package Contents........................ 9 Connections........................10 Hardware Installation ....................... 15 Install the Camera in LAN ....................17 Preparation ........................18 Search and Set up by IPWizard II ................18 Search ........................
  • Page 5 Network Camera User’s Guide Bonjour ..................... 42 IP Filter ..................... 43 IP Notification ................... 43 Camera: Adjust Camera parameters..............46 Picture ....................... 46 Privacy Mask .................... 48 System: Configure and maintain system............50 System ....................... 50 Date & Time ....................51 Maintenance ....................
  • Page 6 Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix D: Bandwidth Estimation.................. 93 Appendix E: Specifications ....................94 Appendix F: Configure Port Forwarding Manually ............96 Appendix G: Power Line Frequency ................. 99 6/99...

  • Page 7: Overview

    Network Camera User’s Guide Overview The user’s guide explains how to operate this camera from a computer. User should read this manual completely and carefully before you operate the device. Introduction This camera is an inexpensive and fully scalable surveillance device. Because the Network Cameras can be plugged into your existing local area network (LAN), you will potentially save thousands of dollars from unnecessary cabling.

  • Page 8: Minimum System Requirements

    Network Camera User’s Guide  Composited video out  Micro SD slot  Intelligent motion detection up to 10 zones  Voice alerting while event triggered  Privacy masks  3D noise reduction to improve picture quality at low lux. ...

  • Page 9: Package Contents

    Network Camera User’s Guide Package Contents User can find the following items in the package: Item Descriptions 1. This camera is the main element of the product. 2. Accessories 3. User’s Manual CD provides important information and instructions for operating the Network Camera..

  • Page 10: Connections

    Network Camera User’s Guide Connections There are two types. One is cabling with built-in connector board and the other one is with connector cable. Note that user must choose only one of these two configurations. The camera does not support both cabling at the same time. Connector cable (option): 1.
  • Page 11 Network Camera User’s Guide In the LAN socket, there are two LEDs embedded: LAN LED (green color) This LED will be flashing while network accessing via Ethernet. Power LED (orange color) This LED is used to indicate whether DC power is on or not. 2.

  • Page 12: Connector Board

    Network Camera User’s Guide resolution. Furthermore, the video output is off by default. To turn on video, please refer to Setting\Camera\Picture chapter. Connector board: Note that to cabling this camera by type of connector board, firstly, user must remove the attached “connector cable” from wafer 1~ 6 shown as below: Terminal Pin12 Block...
  • Page 13 Network Camera User’s Guide LAN LED (green color) This LED will be flashing while network accessing via Ethernet. Power (orange color) This LED is used to indicate whether DC power is on or not. In addition, this LED will be flashing while the wireless accessing of the Camera.
  • Page 14 Network Camera User’s Guide problems after restart, user can restore the factory default settings and configure it again. Restore the device: (i) Press the button down continuously. (ii) Hold the button at least 5 seconds and release it. Then the device has been restored to default settings and reboot again.

  • Page 15: Hardware Installation

    Network Camera User’s Guide Hardware Installation 1. Use the provided L-wrench, loosen the tamper-resistant housing cover (with screws still attached on the cover). The unit has a factory installed side conduit entry and one may adjust the cables to back conduit entry according to installation requirement. 2.
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  • Page 17: Install The Camera In Lan

    Network Camera User’s Guide Install the Camera in LAN 1. Plug an Ethernet cable into the Camera Connect an Ethernet cable to the LAN socket and attach it into the network. 2. Connect the external power supply to Camera, if not powering by PoE Connect the attached power adapter to the DC power jack of the camera.

  • Page 18: Preparation

    Network Camera User’s Guide Preparation Search and Set up by IPWizard II Once you installed the Camera on a LAN environment, you have two easy ways to search your Cameras by IPWizard II or UPnP™ discovery. Here is the way to execute IPWizard II to discover Camera’s IP address and set up related parameter in a Camera.

  • Page 19: View

    Network Camera User’s Guide View If IPWizard II finds network devices, View button will be available. Please select the device you want to view and click the View button. Then you could see the video from camera directly. Furthermore you could double click the left button of mouse to link to the network device by web browser.

  • Page 20: Lan

    Network Camera User’s Guide In case you want to change the IP related parameters of wired interface, please select the device you want to configure and click the LAN button. Relative settings will be carried out as below. You could modify the relative settings of the selected device. Click “ <<” button will quit the LAN setting procedure and click “...
  • Page 21 Network Camera User’s Guide In case, you do not want to change username and/or password, then just click “ Submit” button to perform your setting accordingly. Click “ <<” button will go back to previous page. If you like to change username and/or password of the device, just click the check button. Then, the related fields will show up as below.

  • Page 22: Wireless

    Network Camera User’s Guide After keying in new username and password, click “ Submit” button to perform your setting accordingly. Click “ <<” button will go back to previous page. Wireless This model does not support wireless function. Therefore, IPWizard II disables this function automatically.

  • Page 23: Upnp Of Windows Xp, Vista Or 7

    Network Camera User’s Guide ® UPnP of Windows XP, Vista or 7 UPnP™ is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals. This device is an UPnP enabled device. If the operating system, Windows XP, Vista or 7, of your PC is UPnP enabled, the Network Camera will be very easy to be found.

  • Page 24: Install The Device Behind A Nat Router

    Network Camera User’s Guide Install the Device behind a NAT Router Once installed, the device is accessible on your LAN. To access the device from the Internet you must configure your broadband router to allow incoming data traffic to the device.

  • Page 25: Access The Device From The Internet Explorer For The First Time

    Network Camera User’s Guide Access the device from the Internet Explorer for the first time If it’s the first you want to access your Network Camera by Windows PC, it would strongly recommend you to use Internet Explorer as default browser as possible. Start the web browser on the computer and type the IP address of the Camera you want to monitor as below: The Login Window of the Camera is prompted:...

  • Page 26: Logging In As An Viewer

    Network Camera User’s Guide That’s, type in “admin” on the “USERNAME” as a default name and “admin” PASSWORD. Click “OK” button to start the main menu. According your browser’s security setting, the IE Web Page may prompt the “Security Warning” window. If so, select “Yes” to install and run the ActiveX control into your PC.

  • Page 27: Operating The Network Camera

    Network Camera User’s Guide Operating the Network Camera Start-up screen will be as follow no matter an ordinary users or an administrator. ActiveX Control Monitor Image Section Full 2-Way Screen Audio Monitor Image Section The image shot by the device is shown here. The date and time are displayed at the top of the window if Text Overlay enabled.

  • Page 28: Streaming Protocol

    Network Camera User’s Guide Streaming Protocol User can select proper streaming protocol according to networking environment. Language The device could provide multiple languages to meet customer’s requirement. 2-Way Audio The device supports 2-way audio function. User can chose to enable or disable this function by toggling the icon below.
  • Page 29 Network Camera User’s Guide 1O3R - One Original and three Regional views 4R - Four Regional views 4R PRO - Four Regional views interactively displayed when the field of view changes in any of the views 1P2R - One Panoramic and two Regional views 1P3R - One Panoramic and three Regional views Camera direction...

  • Page 30: Activex Control

    Network Camera User’s Guide ActiveX Control The plug-in ActiveX control supports a lot of functions by clicking the left mouse button. Note that this feature only supports on the ActiveX control within Microsoft® Internet Explorer. On the ActiveX control icon, click the LeftMouseButton, then a menu pop-up. This menu provides features that are unique to the ActiveX control.

  • Page 31: Record

    Network Camera User’s Guide Click Snapshot to activate this function. Press Snapshot button to take a picture. The image file is saved as JPEG format into your local PC. Select Browser, the pop-up window to select the save path and file name prefix, select OK to continue. If you like to retrieve the saved image, select the file to display the saved image by using any one of graph editing tools.

  • Page 32: Volume

    Network Camera User’s Guide stop recording. Select Browser, the pop-up window to select the save path and file name prefix, select OK to continue. After stop recording, list the files, this file is named as Video_yyyymmddhhmmss.avi The ASF files can be display by the standard Windows Media Player, but it needs the DixectX 9.0 or later version to be installed.
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  • Page 34: Administrating The Device

    Network Camera User’s Guide Administrating the Device System Setting This function is only available for user logged into Camera as administrator. Click on each menu name to display its setting page. Item Action Network Configure Network settings such as DHCP, DDNS, RTSP, PPPoE and UPnP Camera Adjust camera parameters, position, and set camera tour...
  • Page 35 Network Camera User’s Guide MAC address: Displays the Ethernet MAC address of the device. Note that user can not modify it. Obtain IP address automatically (DHCP): DHCP: Stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Enable this checked box when a DHCP server is installed on the network to issue IP address assignment.

  • Page 36: Ipv6

    Network Camera User’s Guide number in back of IP address. For example: http://192.168.0.100:8080. Therefore, the user can access the device by either http://xx.xx.xx.xx/, or http://xx.xx.xx.xx:xxxx/ to access the device. If multiple devices are installed on the LAN and also required to be accessed from the WAN, then the HTTP Port can be assigned as the virtual server port mapping to support multiple devices.

  • Page 37: Https

    Network Camera User’s Guide HTTPS HTTPS: Stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure HTTPS is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol with the SSL/TLS protocol to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server. HTTPS connections are often used for sensitive transactions in corporate information systems.
  • Page 38 Network Camera User’s Guide Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) provides you at least one IP address which you use to connect to the Internet. The address you get may be static, meaning it never changes, or dynamic, meaning it’s likely to change periodically. Just how often it changes, depends on your ISP.

  • Page 39: Pppoe

    Network Camera User’s Guide User name: The user name is used to log into DDNS. Password: The password is used to log into DDNS. PPPoE PPPoE: Stands for Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet A standard builds on Ethernet and Point-to-Point network protocol. It allows your device with xDSL or cable connects with broadband network directly, then your device can dial up and get a dynamic IP address.

  • Page 40: Streaming

    Network Camera User’s Guide To enable or disable the PPPoE service here. User name: Type the user name for the PPPoE service which is provided by the ISP. Password: Type the password for the PPPoE service which is provided by the ISP. IP address, Subnet mask, and Gateway (read only): Shows the IP information got from PPPoE server site.

  • Page 41: Upnp

    Network Camera User’s Guide RTP Port: Specify the range of transmission port number of video stream. The default range is 50000 to 50999. User can specify a number between 1024 and 65535. UPnP UPnP is short for Universal Plug and Play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals.

  • Page 42: Bonjour

    Network Camera User’s Guide When enabled, the device will attempt to configure port mapping in a NAT router on your network, using UPnP™. Note that UPnP™ must be enabled in the NAT router first. Port Range: The port range will open in NAT router. External IP address: Show the IP address and port for WAN access through Internet.

  • Page 43: Ip Filter

    Network Camera User’s Guide Friendly Name: To show the friendly name of this device here. IP Filter You can enter different user’s IP address which are allowing enter or denying by the device. IP Filter: To enable or disable the IP filter function here. IP Filter Policy: Choose the filter policy where is denying or allowing.
  • Page 44 Network Camera User’s Guide Subject: Type the subject/title of the E-mail. TCP Notification: If enable this function, then the “TCP Server“, “TCP Port”, and “Message” fields need to be filled. TCP Server: Type the server name or the IP address of the TCP server. TCP Port: Set port number of TCP server.
  • Page 45 Network Camera User’s Guide Proxy Address: Type the server name or the IP address of the HTTP Proxy. Proxy Port: Set port number of Proxy. Proxy Login name: Type the user name for the HTTP Proxy. Proxy Login Password: Type the password for the HTTP Proxy. Custom parameter: User can set specific parameters to HTTP server.

  • Page 46: Camera: Adjust Camera Parameters

    Network Camera User’s Guide Camera : Adjust Camera parameters Use this menu to set the functions of the camera parameters of the device. Picture Rotation: Turn the “Mirror” and “Vertical Flip” On or OFF. The image will be overturned as below. White Balance: 46/99...
  • Page 47 Network Camera User’s Guide Auto: will adjust the white balance automatically. Hold: will hold the white balance. Exposure Control: Auto Exposure: will adjust the image sensor exposure automatically. Hold Exposure: will hold the exposure setting. Manual Exposure: User can configure sensor exposure to fixed setting. Maximum Exposure Time: Set the Maximum Exposure Time.

  • Page 48: Privacy Mask

    Network Camera User’s Guide mode. It should be lower or equal to Day Mode Threshold. Day Mode Threshold (0~10000): this value set the threshold to switch ICR to day mode. It should be higher or equal to Night Mode Threshold. Delay Time: The delay time between ICR Day/Night switching.
  • Page 49 Network Camera User’s Guide Add and Delete: To add or delete the privacy mask windows, user can specify up to 7 windows to mask the video captured by this device. By dragging mouse on the image, you can change the position and size of the selected window accordingly.

  • Page 50: System: Configure And Maintain System

    To enable or disable the Afidus DDNS function. Afidus DDNS ID: It’s a unique number of each device for identification and this ID is used for Afidus DDNS To use this service, just follow four steps below: (1) Enable Afidus DDNS function of the device (2) Check your Device ID from this page.

  • Page 51: Date & Time

    Enter your Device Number and press “OK” button. Then, a new web page will pop up and link to your device accordingly. You will see that Afidus DDNS is a much easier service than traditional DDNS. Device Title: You can enter the name of this unit here. It’s very useful to identify the specific device from multiple units.

  • Page 52: Maintenance

    Network Camera User’s Guide Adjust: - Synchronize with PC: Click this option to enable time synchronization with PC time. - Manual setting: Click this option to set time and date manually. - Synchronize with NTP: Click this option if you want to synchronize the device’s date and time with those of time server called NTP server (Network Time Protocol).
  • Page 53 Network Camera User’s Guide Recall the device hard factory default settings. Note that click this button will reset all device’s parameters to the factory settings (including the IP address). Factory Default (Except the network setting): The unit is restarted and most current settings are reset to factory default values. This action will not reset the network setting.
  • Page 54 Network Camera User’s Guide 5. Once the firmware file was selected, click “Firmware Upgrade” button. 6. The upgrade progress information will be displayed. Once the uploading process completed, the device will reboot the system automatically. 7. Please wait for timer countdown, and then you can use IPWizard II to search the device again.

  • Page 55: Video: Configure Osd, Overlay, Profile, And Roi

    Network Camera User’s Guide Video : Configure OSD, Overlay, Profile, and ROI Common Text Overlay Setting: There are some important information can be embedded into image, including date, time, and/or text. User also can change the font color, background color, or Transparency. Overlay Image User can upload bitmap file to the camera and overlay the picture on streaming video and set its attributes.
  • Page 56 Network Camera User’s Guide In “User Defined Text” mode, user can overlay a text string onto camera image as below: The font style can be chosen in this page. Once the font type settled, click “Save” button to upload text to image. Coordinates: Set position of image on the video.

  • Page 57: Video Profile

    Network Camera User’s Guide File: Information of the uploaded bitmap file. Resolution: Size information of the uploaded bitmap file. Chroma Key (Background Color): Define the Chroma key of the uploaded bitmap file. Then user can set transparency of the bitmap. Transparency: Lower value will lower transparent.

  • Page 58: Onvif Profile

    Network Camera User’s Guide Rate Control: Defines the rate control method of this profile. There are three options: Constant Bit Rate (CBR), Variable Bit Rate (VBR), and Enhanced Variable Bit Rate (EVBR). For CBR, the video bit rate is between low to high bandwidth based on different resolutions.
  • Page 59 Network Camera User’s Guide Name: To assign a name to the selected profile. Video Type: Video codec of the selected profile. If the H.264 encoder is selected, then there are 3 modes of profile selectable: baseline, main and high profile. Resolution: Show the resolution of the selected profile.

  • Page 60: Roi

    Network Camera User’s Guide Multicast: Enable or disable the multicast function. Multicast Video: IP address and port for multicast video streaming of the selected profile. Multicast Audio: IP address and port for multicast audio streaming of the selected profile. Time to live: Time to live (TTL) is a mechanism that limits the lifespan of data in a computer or network.

  • Page 61: Aoi

    Network Camera User’s Guide Note that this function is not recommended for camera with PTZ/ePTZ actions. AOI means Area of Interest. Use this page to specify location and size of AOI windows. Only the profiles with H.264 codec and VBR rate control can support AOI function. It enables a non-uniform distribution of the image quality between a selected region (the AOI) and the rest of the image (background).

  • Page 62: Audio: Audio Parameters

    Network Camera User’s Guide Audio : Audio parameters Audio: To enable or disable audio function Audio Type: To select audio codec Push to talk: Disable (Simplex) / Enable (2-way audio mode) Input Gain: To adjust gain of input audio Output Gain: To adjust gain of output audio 62/99...

  • Page 63: User: Manage User Name, Password And Login Privilege

    Network Camera User’s Guide User : Manage user name, password and login privilege Use this menu to add, update, or remove the usernames and passwords of the Administrator and viewer. Viewer login: Select “Anonymous” to allow any one viewing the video once connected. Otherwise, only users in database can view the video after login.

  • Page 64: Snmp

    Network Camera User’s Guide ONVIF: To enable or disable the ONVIF interface here. And select the ONVIF version to match client’s supported version. SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an "Internet-standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks". Devices that typically support SNMP include routers, switches, servers, workstations, printers, and more.
  • Page 65 Network Camera User’s Guide SNMP version 1 (SNMPv1) is the initial implementation of the SNMP protocol. SNMPv1 operates over protocols such as User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Internet Protocol (IP), OSI Connectionless Network Service (CLNS), AppleTalk Datagram-Delivery Protocol (DDP), and Novell Internet Packet Exchange (IPX). SNMPv1 is widely used and is the de facto network-management protocol in the Internet community SNMPv2c, is defined in RFC 1901–RFC 1908.

  • Page 66: E-Mail: Setup E-Mail Configuration

    Network Camera User’s Guide E-Mail : Setup E-Mail configuration User may setup SMTP mail parameters for further operation of Event Schedule. That’s, if users want to send the alarm message out, it will need to configure parameters here first and also add at least one event schedule to enable event triggering. SMTP Server: Type the SMTP server name or the IP address of the SMTP server.
  • Page 67 Network Camera User’s Guide Type the sender’s E-mail address. This address is used for reply e-mails. E-mail To: Type the receiver’s e-mail address. E-mail Subject: Type the subject/title of the e-mail. 67/99...

  • Page 68: Event Detection

    Network Camera User’s Guide Event Detection This device supports 3 types of event detection: Motion detection, Camera tampering, and Audio detection. Motion Detection Use this menu to specify motion detection window 1 to window 10 and set the conditions for detection while observing a captured image. Add and Del: To add or delete the motion windows.

  • Page 69: Camera Tampering

    Network Camera User’s Guide detection too. Generally speaking, the smaller size will be easier to trigger event. Sensitivity Define the sensitivity value of motion detection. The higher value will be more sensitivity. Note that this function is not recommended for camera with PTZ/ePTZ actions. Camera Tampering Camera tampering detection is a new intelligent functionality that further strengthens the benefit of Network Camera.
  • Page 70 Network Camera User’s Guide detection can react to events in areas too dark for the video motion detection functionality to work properly. In addition, it can be used to detect activity in areas outside of the camera’s view. Audio Alarm Level: Define the threshold value of audio detection.

  • Page 71: Storage: Status And Configuration Of Sd Card And Samba Server

    Network Camera User’s Guide Storage : Status and configuration of SD card and SAMBA Server SD Card This page shows the status of attached SD card. You may setup related parameters to manage the attached SD card also. Enable automatic disk cleanup: Delete old recorded files while the conditions are reached as below.
  • Page 72 Network Camera User’s Guide Host: Type the SAMBA server domain name or the IP address of the SMTP server. Share: Type the share folder of remote SAMBA server which the camera will upload files to this space. User name: Type the user name for the remote SAMBA server. Password: Type the password for the remote SAMBA server.

  • Page 73: Continuous Recording

    Network Camera User’s Guide Continuous Recording This camera can continuously record video stream into files and save them to attached SD card or remote SAMBA server as possible. Note that there are various factors affecting the recording results, such as the camera’s system loading, network condition, SD card performance, multiple client accessing, and so on.

  • Page 74: Recording List: Files List Inside The Sd Card Or Samba Server

    Network Camera User’s Guide Recording List : Files list inside the SD Card or SAMBA server Recording List This page only shows the event recording files which stored in SD card. User may play or delete the selected file. Continuous Recording List This page only shows the continuous recording files which stored in SD card or remote SAMBA server.
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  • Page 76: Event Server: Setup Ftp/Tcp/Http/Samba Server Configuration

    Network Camera User’s Guide Event Server : Setup FTP/TCP/HTTP/SAMBA server configuration FTP Server You may setup FTP parameters for further operation of Event Schedule. That’s, if users want to send the alarm message to an FTP server, it will need to configure parameters here and also add at least one event schedule to enable event triggering as SMTP.

  • Page 77: Tcp Server

    Network Camera User’s Guide Set working directory path of FTP server. FTP Passive Mode: Select passive or active mode connecting to FTP server. TCP Server In addition to send video file to FTP server, the device also can send event message to specified TCP server.
  • Page 78 Network Camera User’s Guide Name: User can specify multiple HTTP servers as wish. Therefore, user needs to specify a name for each HTTP server setting. URL: Type the server name or the IP address of the HTTP server. Test: Check the HTTP server whether it is available or not. HTTP Login name: Type the user name for the HTTP server.

  • Page 79: Samba Server

    Network Camera User’s Guide SAMBA Server The device also can send event recording video files to specified SAMBA server. Name: User can specify multiple HTTP servers as wish. Therefore, user needs to specify a name for each HTTP server setting. SAMBA Server: Type the server name or the IP address of the SAMBA server.

  • Page 80: Event Schedule: Configure The Event Schedule

    Network Camera User’s Guide Event Schedule : Configure the event schedule Setting This menu is used to specify the schedule of Event or Schedule Trigger and activate the some actions provided by this device. Where the Schedule Trigger will be activated by user-define interval without event happened.
  • Page 81 Network Camera User’s Guide Example 1: Send file to FTP server by motion triggered always: Select event trigger Enable time: start from 00:00 to 24:00 every day Trigger by: Motion Area (Added in Object Detection page) Action : Send FTP (Add in Event Server -> FTP Server page) Example 2: Send file to E-Mail server by motion triggered from Friday 18:00 to Saturday 06:00...
  • Page 82 Network Camera User’s Guide Example 3: Enable Voice Alert every 10-minute during 18:00 to 24:00 from Monday to Friday. Type: Select schedule trigger and interval is 10-minute. Enable time: Select Monday to Friday, and set start time from 18:00 and keep work in 6 hours.

  • Page 83: Record

    Network Camera User’s Guide Record User can choose the type of record file for event or schedule application. Record File Type: Choose a profile to record. Record File Prefix: Define the prefix of recorded filename. Pre-Trigger Duration: Define the maximum duration of pre-alarm. Best Effort Duration: Define the best effort duration of post-alarm.
  • Page 84 Network Camera User’s Guide Input Status: Show either inactive or active. Output Status: Show either inactive or active. 84/99...

  • Page 85: Appendix A: Alarm I/O Connector

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix A: Alarm I/O Connector Some features of the Camera can be activated by the external sensor that senses physical changes in the area Camera is monitoring. These changes can include intrusion detection or certain physical change in the monitored area. For examples, the external sensor can be a door switch or an infrared motion detector.
  • Page 86 Network Camera User’s Guide Explanation of External I/O Circuit Diagram: CAUTION! • THE LOW VOLTAGE/CURRENT CIRCUITS AND HIGH VOLTAGE/ CURRENT CIRCUITS ARE IN THE NETWORK CAMERA CIRCUIT. QUALIFIED ELECTRICIAN SHOULD DO THE WIRING NOT BY YOURSELF. INCORRECT WIRING COULD DAMAGE NETWORK CAMERA AND YOU MIGHT RECEIVE THE FATAL ELECTRIC SHOCK.

  • Page 87: Appendix B: Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix B: Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions Question Answer or Resolution Features The video and audio The device utilizes H.264, MPEG4 and JPEG triple codec is adopted in the compression to providing high quality images. Where H.264 device.
  • Page 88 Network Camera User’s Guide IPWizard II program • Re-power the device if cannot find the unit within 1 minutes. cannot find the device. • Do not connect device over a router. IPWizard II program cannot detect device over a router. •...
  • Page 89 Network Camera User’s Guide • The port number assigned in your Network Camera might not be available via Internet. Check your ISP for available port. • The proxy server may prevent you from connecting directly to the Network Camera, set up not to use the proxy server. •...
  • Page 90 Network Camera User’s Guide web server running on your LAN. • Check the configuration of the router settings allow the device to be accessed outside your local LAN. • Check the bandwidth of Internet connection. If the Internet bandwidth is lower than target bit rate, the video streaming will not work correctly.
  • Page 91 Network Camera User’s Guide The video images might be noisy if the device is located in a Noisy images occur. very low light environment. Make the condition around the camera brighter or turn the IR LED on. Miscellaneous Cannot play the Have installed Microsoft®’s DirectX 9.0 or later and use the recorded AVI file Windows Media Player 11.0 or later to play the AVI files...

  • Page 92: Appendix C: Ping Ip Address

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix C: PING IP Address The PING (stands for Packet Internet Groper) command is used to detect whether a specific IP address is accessible by sending a packet to the specific address and waiting for a reply. It’s also a very useful tool to confirm the device installed or if the IP address conflicts with any other devices over the network.

  • Page 93: Appendix D: Bandwidth Estimation

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix D: Bandwidth Estimation The frame rate of video transmitted from the device depends on connection bandwidth between client and server, video resolution, codec type, and quality setting of server. Here is a guideline to help you roughly estimate the bandwidth requirements form your device.

  • Page 94: Appendix E: Specifications

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix E: Specifications Camera Image Device 1/2.8“ Sony Exmor™ image sensor Effective Pixels 1536 x 1536 pixels f=1.25mm Lens FOV=180 +/- 5°(D/H/V), F=2.0 IRIS Fixed IRIS Smart control mechanical ICR D-WDR IP Module Video H.264 and MJPEG simultaneously Video Encoder H.264 base line, main-profile, and hi-profile 8 video profiles...
  • Page 95 Operating Humidity 20% ~ 80% (non-condensing) Viewing System Windows® XP, Vista, 7, 8 Browser IE 6.0 or later, Firefox 2.0 or later, Safari , Google Chrome Software Afidus Cloud Service™, Afidus DDNS Service™, Afidus Smart Phone Apps, Afidus NVR64™ 95/99...

  • Page 96: Appendix F: Configure Port Forwarding Manually

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix F: Configure Port Forwarding Manually The device can be used with a router. If the device wants to be accessed from the WAN, its IP address needs to be setup as fixed IP address, also the port forwarding or Virtual Server function of router needs to be setup.
  • Page 97 Network Camera User’s Guide Your WAN IP Address will be listed here. Note: Because a dynamic WAN IP can change from time to time depending on your ISP, you may want to obtain a Static IP address from your ISP. A Static IP address is a fixed IP address that will not change over time and will be more convenient for you to use to access your camera from a remote location.
  • Page 98 Network Camera User’s Guide Private Port section, click Apply. Scheduling should be set to Always so that the camera images can be accessed • at any time. A check mark appearing before the entry name will indicate that the ports are enabled. Important: Some ISPs block access to port 80.

  • Page 99: Appendix G: Power Line Frequency

    Network Camera User’s Guide Appendix G: Power Line Frequency COUNTRY VOLTAGE FREQUENCY COMMENTS *Neutral and line wires are reversed from that used in Argentina 220V 50 Hz Australia and elsewhere. *Outlets typically controlled by adjacent switch. Australia 230V* 50 Hz Though nominal voltage has been officially changed to 230V, 240V is within tolerances and commonly found.

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