Preface Thanks for using this HD Video Conferencing IP-Camera. This manual introduces the function, installation and operation of the HD camera. Prior to installation and usage, please read the manual thoroughly. Precautions This product can only be used in the specified conditions in order to avoid any damage to the camera: Don’t subject the camera to rain or moisture.
Contents Note ································································································ 3 Supplied Accessories ············································································· 4 Quick Start ························································································· 5 Features ···························································································· 8 Product Specification ············································································ 9 Main Unit ························································································ 10 IR Remote Controller Explanation ··························································· 11 Use IR Remote Controller ····································································· 13 RS-232 Interface ················································································ 16 Serial Communication Control ······························································· 18 Menu Setting ····················································································...
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Note " Electric Safety Installation and operation must accord with electric safety standard. " Caution to transport Avoid stress, vibration and soakage in transport, storage and installation. " Polarity of power supply The power supply of the product is +12V, the max electrical current is 2A .Polarity of the power supply plug drawing as follows.
Supplied Accessories When you unpack, check that all the supplied accessories are included: Camera ........1PCS AC power adaptor ...... 1PCS Power cord ........1PCS RS232 cable ......... 1PCS Remote controller ......1PCS User manual ....... 1PCS...
Quick Start Step1. Please check connections are correct before starting...
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Step2. Setting of the bottom switches Set both of the switch1 and switch2 to ‘OFF’. That is ‘Normal Working Mode’. SW-1 SW-2 Modes Normal Working Mode Step3. Setting of the system select switch The option of video format: VIDEO SYSTEM 1080i60 1080i50 720p60...
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the item [MENU] -> [RESTORE DEFAULT] -> [Restore]. Set the value [Yes], press [HOME] button to restore the factory default settings. RESTORE DEFAULT Restore Change Value [Home] OK [Menu] Back...
Features 1. The camera provides a high performance in low illumination situations, particularly suitable for which room's lighting is not very well. 2. With maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080 and output frame rate up to 30 frames / sec, this camera provides high-definition as well as fluent video.
Product Specification Video Format 1080i/60, 1080i/50, 1080p/30, 1080p/25, 720p/60, 720p/50, NTSC, PAL Video Output Interface HDMI,HD-SDI,CVBS Tilt Speed Range 1.7° ~ 69.9°/s Sensor Type CMOS,1/3 inch Vertical Flip&Mirror Support Effective Pixel: 2.12 million; Sensor Pixel Preset Total Pixel: 2.20million Scanning Mode Progressive Preset Accuracy 0.1°...
Main Unit 1. Audio LINE IN Interface 8. RS232 OUT jack 2. Audio LINE OUT Interface 9. Network 3. CVBS Interface 10. HDMI Interface 4. Dip switches 11. HD-SDI Interface 5. System select switch 12. USB2.0 6. RS485 jack 13. DC 12V jack 7.
IR Remote Controller Explanation 0. Standby Button Press this button to enter standby mode. Press it again to enter normal mode. (Note: Power consumption standby mode approximately half of the normal mode) 1. Position Buttons To set preset or call preset 2.
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[MANUAL] button, and adjust it with [Focus ] (Focus on far object) and [Focus ] (Focus on near object) 6. Camera Select Buttons Press the button corresponding to the camera you want to operate with the remote controller. 7. # Button 8.
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When the camera is working, you can use remote controller to perform panning, tilting, zooming and focusing, store and call back preset positions. Button Instruction 1. In this instruction, ‘press the button’ means the press and relax the two actions. Such as ‘press [HOME] button’...
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2. Zoom Zoom Out: press [ZOOM ] button Zoom In: press [ZOOM ] button Press and hold the button, the camera will keep zooming in or zooming out and it stops as soon as the button is released.
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3. Focus Control 4. Backlight Switch BLC ON/OFF: Press this button to enable the backlight compensation. Press it again to disable the backlight compensation. (Note: Backlight is only effective in full auto exposure mode) Focus Far: Press [FOCUS+] button (NOTE: Effective only in manual focus mode) 5.
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PRESET] button first and then press the numeric button 0-9. Note: Press [*]+[#]+[CLEAR PRESET] will erase all preset individually positions in the memory. 6. Recalling the Preset 1. To store a preset position: The users should press the [SET PRESET] button first and then press the numeric button 0-9.
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Press the button corresponding to the camera you want to operate. 8. Camera IR Address Set Press any of the numeric buttons 0-9 directly to recall stored preset positions and settings. Note: [*]+[ ]+[F1]: Address1 No action is executed if a relative preset [*]+[ ]+[F2]: Address2 position is not stored.
Serial Communication Control In default working mode, the camera is able to connect to a VISCA controller with RS232C serial interface. RS232!Communication!Control! The camera can be controlled via RS232 ,the parameters of RS232C are as follows: Baud rate: 2400/4800/9600 bit/s. Start bit: 1 bit.
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Pan-Tilt will rotate to the maximum position of top right after the camera started, then it return to the center, the process of initialization is finished. (Note: If the position preset 0 has been stored, the position preset 0 will be called up after initialization) Then the users can control the camera with commands in the command list.
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VISCA Command List Part 1 Camera-Issued Messages Ack/Completion Message Command Function Command Packet Comments z0 4y FF Return when the command is accepted. (y: Socket No.) ACK/Comletion Messages z0 5y FF Return when the command has been Completion (y: Socket No.) executed.
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when received. Returned when a command which is being executed in a socket specified by z0 6y 04 FF Command Canceled the cancel command is canceled. The (y: Socket No.) completion message for the command is not returned. Returned when no command is executed z0 6y 05 FF in a socket specifild by the cancel No Socket...
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ab: Factory Code(00: VHD, 01:MR, 08:T) cd: Hardware Version mnpq: ARM Version y0 50 ab cd CAM_VersionInq 8x 09 00 02 FF rstu: FPGA Version mn pq rs tu vw FF vw: Camera model 01: C Type 02: M Type 03: S Type y0 50 00 FF 1920x1080i60...
Menu Setting 1. MENU MENU Press [MENU] button to display the main menu Exposure on the normal screen, using arrow button to move Color the cursor to the item to be set. Press the [HOME] Image button to enter the corresponding sub-menu. P/T/Z Noise Reduction Setup...
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main menu and press [home] button, EXPOSURE Optional items: On, Off (Effective only in Auto menu appears, as shown in the following figure. mode) ExpComp: Exposure compensation value, EXPOSURE Optional items:-7 ~ 7(Effective only in Mode Auto ExpComp Mode item to On) ExpCompMode Gain Limit: Maximum gain limit.
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F2.0,F2.4,F2.8,F3.4,F4.0,F4.8,F5.6,F6.8,F8.0,F9.6,F COLOR 11.0,Close Effective only in Manual, AAE mode WB Mode Auto Shutt: Shutter value. Optional items: 1/30,1/60, RG Tuning 1/90,1/100,1/125,1/180,1/250,1/350,1/500,1/725,1/1 BG Tuning 000,1/1500,1/2000,1/3000,1/4000,1/6000,1/10000 Saturation 100% (Effective only in Manual, SAE mode) IR Filter 3. COLOR AWB sens Move the cursor to the Color item in the main Style Style1 menu and press [home] button, COLOR menu...
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BG: Blue gain. Optional items: menu and press [home] button, IMAGE menu 0~255 Effective only in Manual mode appears, as shown in the following figure. RG Tuning: Red gain fine-tuning, Optional IMAGE items: -10~10 Effective only in Auto, Indoor, Luminance Outdoor mode Contrast BG Tuning :Blue gain fine-tuning, Optional...
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0 ~ 14 P/T/Z Sharpness: Sharpness adjustment. Optional SpeedByZoom On items: Auto, 0 ~ 15 AF-Zone Center Flip-H: Image flipped horizontally. Optional AF-Sense items: On, Off. Flip-V: Image Flip Vertical. Optional items: On, Off B&W-Mode: Image color. Optional items: On, Gamma: Optional items: Default, 0.45, 0.5, Select Item 0.56, 0.63...
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options, Optional items: Low, Normal, High NOISE REDUCTION NR2D-Level 3 NR3D-Level 3 6. NOISE REDUCTION D-HotPixel Move the cursor to the Noise Reduction item in the main menu and press [home] button, NOISE REDUCTION menu appears, as shown in the following figure.
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items: Off, 1 ~ 5 SETUP Language 7. SETUP Protocol VISCA Move the cursor to the Setup item in the main V_Address menu and press [home] button, SETUP menu V_AddrFix appears, as shown in the following figure. Net Mode Serial Baudrate 9600 Select Item...
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according to the agreement, AUTO, VISCA protocol DEFAULT menu appears, as shown in the following Optional items: 1 ~ 7 figure. P_D_Address: PELCO-D protocol Optional RESTORE DEFAULT items: 0 ~ 254 Restore? P_P_Address: PELCO-P protocol Optional items: 0 ~ 31 V_AddrFix: If I can change through the serial port of infrared switch, Optional items: On, Off When set to On, useless in 88 30 01 FF...
address and VISICA Address Save: Save Options. Optional items: Yes, No Equipment Setup and internet connection 1. Operating Environment Operating System: Windows 2000/2003/XP/vista/7 Network Protocol: TCP/IP Client PC: P4/128MRAM/40GHD/ support scaled graphics card, support DirectX8.0 or more advanced version.
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2. Equipment Installation 1) Connect internet camera to your internet or to your PC directly via internet cable. 2) Turn on DC12V power. 3) The orange light of internet port lit on, green light flashing, and the physical connection finished. 3.
Picture 1.2 Connect by router /interchanger IP camera visited/ controlled by LAN Setup IP address 1.1 Connect IP Camera to internet (or PC), then turn on the power on IP Camera, shown as above. IP address can be searched via update software(software upgrading tool,named upgrade_En.exe in small CD in package). shown as below: Run upgrade_En.exe (UPGRADE v1.8) by CD-Rom, click [Search].The software will show the current LAN camera's IP address, subnet mask number, network gateway number and camera MAC serial number etc, shown...
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If IPC IP address and PC IP address not in the same internet segment, upgrade_En.exe can modify IP address, subnet mask and port number etc. accordingly.
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In UPGRADE v1.8, select the camera needed to be modified, shown as below: Click “config” then go to below:...
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Enter new IP in "IP" bar, subnet mask in "Mask" bar, Gateway,First DNS, MAC address,and click “Set”. Shown as above.(For example: if your PC IP is 192.168.1.88, then camera IP must be 192.168.1.xx, the first, second, third number must keep the same)
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NOTE IP camera default IP address"192.168.100.88", user "admin", password "admin". Visit/Access IP Camera 2.1 Input http://192.168.100.88 to IE ( better with IE web browser, others will cause little latency),a login window pop up, input login name: admin, password: admin, shown as below:...
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2.2 Input login name and password, click "confirm", then pop up below window, language select button on the left bottom:...
If user first time use this camera by internet (only for new user), must install a player software (VLC). Then Install VLC Please go to http://4dx.pc6.com/xy/vlcplayer.zip,pop out the download window, click“Save”. (player software), After installation,login again,will show as above: IP Camera accessed/controlled by WAN (internet) 1.
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picture for reference,the position is the same)
Dynamic DNS visit camera 1.1 Camera accessed by dynamic DNS Set domain name to camera, setup the parameter, then dynamic DNS can access camera. Access link http://hostname :port number For example, setup host computer name: youdomain.f3322.org, camera port number: 554, Access link should be: http://youdomain.3322.org:554 NOTE...
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1.1 Open VLC media player, click "Media" "Open Network Steam", or click "Ctrl+N"; as below: 1.2 Input URL address: rtsp://ip: port number/1 (Main stream); rtsp://ip: port number/2(sub stream)(When RTSP port number default value is 554,then can be omitted as rtsp://ip/1 or rtsp://ip/2)
IP Camera parameter setup Homepage introduction 1.1 Menu All pages include 2 menu bars: Real time monitoring: displaying video image...
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Parameter setup: with function buttons 1.2 Video viewing window Video viewing window must be same as video resolution, the bigger the resolution is, the bigger the playing area is. Double click viewing window, will show full-screen, double click again, will return to initialized size. Status bar in viewing window shown as below Video playback pause button: control real-time video pause, stop the last picture, click recoverable video again.
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1) PTZ direction control box: Up, down, left, right, home oblique button as above 2) Rate: Vertical speed can be chosen as 1 ~ 24, horizontal direction at the rate of 1 ~ 20. select corresponding speed and click direction button to realize PTZ speed up or speed down.
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3) Zoom In/Zoom out: for zooming in or zooming out, Focus In/ Focus Out: Focusing on distant objects or Focusing on close objects. 4) Set/Call: When PTZ turn to expected position, can set up a number of preset that user want. click "Set"...
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Video format Support 50HZ(PAL)and 60HZ(NTSC),and Dial priority three formats. Video Coding Support baseline and mainprofile format Resolution Main bit flow support 1920x1080,1280x720,minor bit flow support 640x360,320x180,the bigger resolution is, the clearer the image will be, more network bandwidth will be taken. Bit Rate User can assign bit flow/stream, normally speaking, the bigger bit flow is, the clearer the image will be.
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Constant bit rate: video coder will be coding according to preset speed Variable bit rate: video coder will adjust the speed based on preset speed to gain the best image quality. I key frame interval: Set interval between 2 I frame, the bigger interval is, the response will be lower from viewing window. Fluctuate level Restrain the fluctuation magnitude of variable rate, grade 1 ~ 6 Image Setup,please click “Image”...
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Brightness Image bright 0~100, slider control, on the right shows the corresponding numerical. Default 43. Saturation Saturation 0~100, slider control, on the right shows the corresponding numerical. Default 50. Contrast Contrast0~100, slider control, on the right shows the corresponding numerical. Default 57. Sharpness Sharpness0~100, slider control, on the right shows the corresponding numerical.
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Audio Setup,please click “Audio” Audio Type Audio type AAC Sample rate Sample rate 44.1 K and 48 K,selectable.
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Bit rate Bit rate 96k,128k,256k,selectable Input Type line in only Input VolL The volume of the left channel Input VolR The volume of the right channel Button Press "apply" button to save parameters, press "cancel" button to cancel parameter System Setting,please click “System”...
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Work Mode Work Mode RTSP Reboot Click the "Reboot" button, system restart. User and password The user can modify the password (letters and Numbers only) Apply / Cancel Modify password and click the "apply" button to the login page, press "cancel" button to cancel password change.
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Lan Settings! Default the IP address is 192.168.100.88, The MAC address can be modified. Port Settings! IP address identifies the network device, the device can run multiple web applications, each network program using network port to transmit data, so data transmission to be carried out between the port and port.
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Modify network parameters then press "Apply" button to modify network parameters, press "Cancel" button to cancel network parameters. Device Information,please click “information” Show the current device information, as shown below.
Network Control 1. View from Web browser (better in IE) " To view from web browser, firstly need to check camera IP address. There are 2 methods to check: Method 1: press * and # and 4 on remote controller one by one, the camera IP address will be shown on screen.
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Method 2: Open “upgrade_En.exe”, change IP and click “Set” Once IP changed, need to restart the camera. 2 methods to restart as below: Method 1: Turn off and turn on manually to restart camera...
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Method 2: On web page, find “System” and click “Apply” (when under remote controlling environment, better use this method)
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PTZ ON IP NETWORK This model currently supports various PTZ control methods, including RS232, RS485, IR remote control, HTTP CGI, and TCP protocol. The following is the detailed description about HTTP CGI and TCP Protocol control methods. 1. TCP Protocol Method This model implements TCP server inside, there is a port configurated by Web for receiving the connection from TCP client,the TCP port number is 5678.
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2. HTTP CGI Method This camera integrated with web server inside, support CGI related with PTZ. 2.1 Pan and Tilt control URL format as below: http://[Camera IP]/cgi-bin/ptzctrl.cgi?ptzcmd&[action]&[pan speed]&[tilt speed] More descriptions: [Camera IP]: This camera IP address; [action] including up, down, left, right, ptzstop; [pan speed] : 1(low speed) –...
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More descriptions: [Camera IP]: This camera IP address; [action] including: focusin, focusout, focusstop; [focus speed]: 0(low speed) – 7(high speed) 2.4 Preset Position control URL format as below: http://[Camera IP]/cgi-bin/ptzctrl.cgi?ptzcmd&[action]&[position number] More descriptions: [Camera IP]: This camera IP address; [action] including: posset, poscall; [position number]: 0-89,100-254.
Maintenance and Troubleshooting Camera Maintains " If camera will not be used for a long time, please turn off the power switch, disconnect AC power cord of AC adaptor to the outlet. " Use soft cloth or tissue to clean the camera cover. "...
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3. Check the BOTTOM switch and make sure the two switches are both set OFF. 4. Check video cable is connected correctly. " Abnormal display of image Check video cable is connected correctly. " Image dithering even at widest zoom position 1.
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5. Web port is occupied by other devices. " When modify IP address in an incorrect way cause the wrong IP address or forget web passwords, press the IR remote controller "[*]+[ ]+[Manual]" to restore the default value (Default IP: 192.168.100.88 Default username: admin Default password: admin) Sound "...
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