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Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Table of Contents Recommended PC Specifications 4 Preparation 5 Connect the Equipment .............................................................................5 Configure the IP Addresses .......................................................................5 Using DHCP server to assign IP addresses: .............................................. 5 Use the default IP address of a camera: ....................................................
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Type of Service ........................................................................................ 32 UPnPTM .................................................................................................... 32 Bonjour .................................................................................................... 33 ONVIF ...................................................................................................... 34 IP Settings ........................
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Recommended PC Specifications In order to configure or test the cameras, a PC with following basic specifications is needed: CPU Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz or above Memory 2 GB or above Operating System Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 2008 Windows 7 Windows 8 Browser for Accessing Internet Explorer 9.0 or newer (full functionality) Firmware Video Resolution 1024x768 or higher 4 www.acti.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Preparation Connect the Equipment To be able to connect to the camera firmware from your PC, both the camera and the PC have to be connected to each other via Ethernet cable. At the same time, the camera has to have its own power supply. In case of PoE cameras, you can use a PoE Injector or a PoE Switch between the camera and the PC. The cameras that have the DC power connectors may be powered on by using a power adaptor.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 The quickest way to discover the cameras in the network is to use the simplest network search, built in the Windows system – just by pressing the “Network” icon, all the cameras of the local area network will be discovered by Windows thanks to the UPnP function support of our cameras. In the example below, we successfully found the camera that we had just connected to the network.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Search and downloand the latest IP Utility for free from http://www.acti.com/DownloadCenter. With just one click, you can launch the IP Utility and there will be an instant report as follows: You can quickly notice the camera model in the list. Click on the IP address to automatically launch the default browser of the PC with the IP address of the target camera filled in the address bar of the browser already. 7 www.acti.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Use the default IP address of a camera: If there is no DHCP server in the given network, the user may have to assign the IP addresses to both PC and camera manually to make sure they are in the same network segment. When the camera is plugged into network and it does not detect any DHCP services, it will automatically assign itself a default IP: 192.168.0.100 Whereas the default port number would be 80.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Manually adjust the IP addresses of multiple cameras: If there are more than 1 camera to be used in the same local area network and there is no DHCP server to assign unique IP addresses to each of them, all of the cameras would then have the initial IP address of 192.168.0.100, which is not a proper situation for network devices – all the IP addresses have to be different from each other.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Access the Camera Now that the camera and the PC are both having their unique IP addresses and are under the same network segment, it is possible to use the Web browser of the PC to access the camera. You can use Microsoft Internet Explorer to access the camera with full functionality.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 The following examples in this manual are based on Internet Explorer browser in order to cover all functions of the camera. Assuming that the camera’s IP address is 192.168.0.100, you can access it by opening the Web browser and typing the following address into Web browser’s address bar: http://192.168.0.100 Upon successful connection to the camera, the user interface called Web Configurator would appear together with the login page.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Using IPv6 to Access the Camera The camera is IPv6-ready and has been assigned its unique static IPv6 address. The IPv6 address can be found under the System > System Info menu (see System Info on page 65 for more information). To access the camera with the IPv6 address, type the IPv6 address enclosed in square brackets on the web browser address bar. For example: http://[fe80::20f:7cff:fe10:db2e] 12 www.acti.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Live View This section describes how to configure the IP camera. The administrator has unlimited access to all settings, while the normal user can only view live video. Login Initially there exists only administrator’s account in the camera (Account: Admin, Password: 123456) – you have to use that account to log in. You can later create normal user accounts with limited access rights if necessary.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Live View The live view will appear automatically with its default video resolution. While being on the Live View page, the Live View icon appears as being pressed: If you leave the Live View page, you can later return by pressing that button. The buttons shown on the Live View page vary depending on the functions supported by the camera.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Notice: These digital zoom adjustments do not influence the actual video resolution of the camera. Regardless of how large or small the video appears on the display after pressing the digital zoom buttons, the actual video stream size of the camera is the same as before. You can also digitally re-scale the video to fully match the size of your display with just one click: - Full screen Mode You may use ESC key from the keyboard to exit the full screen mode.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Cameras with audio function have the audio controls on Live View page. - Speak to Camera To speak to the camera, press the button. If the camera is connected to a network video recorder, the audio will be recorded with the video stream.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Setup The following chapters guide you through the Setup functions of the camera. Access the Setup Page To configure any of the camera settings, go to the Setup menu by pressing the following button on Live View page: - Go to Setup The left side of the Setup page contains the list of Setup items. Notice: The exact content of the menu list varies for each camera, depending on the actual capabilities of each camera.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Host The Host menu allows the administrator to define the name of the camera and preferred user interface language. There are two kinds of names – Host Name and Camera Name. Host Name is used to identify the camera by a DHCP server.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 GPS Position The GPS Position section allows users to manually set the GPS position of the camera and find the location of the camera on the map when using a Network Video Recorder (NVR). Check the Enabled box to enable this feature. Find the camera location on google maps, for example, installed in the airport. Copy the first GPS coordinates from the URL bar and paste it on Degree of Latitude. Copy the second part of the GPS coordinates to Degree of Longitude.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Date & Time Each video frame contains a time stamp. The accuracy of the time stamp is very important for incident investigators. Therefore the clock of the camera has to be adjusted to most accurate time possible. The Date & Time menu provides the options for adjusting the date and time of the camera.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 If all the cameras are getting the date and time from the same NTP Server, you can be most sure that the video clips from different cameras can be well synchronized later for comparison purposes. To choose the most suitable NTP Server to synchronize date and time with, please refer to the worldwide pool of NTP Servers: http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/ When choosing Set Manually mode, you can adjust the date and time by the select boxes.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Network The Network menu provides the list of network related functions and services. The [+] mark before Network indicates that the list can be expanded by clicking on it. Once expanded, the list can later be collapsed again by clicking on the [-] mark. IP Address Filtering By “IP Address Filtering” function, it is possible to define which devices (their IP addresses) are allowed to connect to this camera, and which devices are forbidden to connect to this camera.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Using Netmask (Subnet Mask) allows you to set filtering for a whole range of IP address at once, without the need to enter all of them individually. If you are not sure about the function of Netmask, then you should use 255.255.255.255, and it will affect only a single IP address per line of entry, or use 255.255.255.0 to use the same setting for all IP addresses starting with the same three numbers. . After changing any of the items above, press Apply to save the changes.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Port Mapping Port Mapping provides the list of services and protocols that require their own port number for communication. By default, the camera already has all the ports defined. On this page, the user can modify the port numbers in case there is a specific need for that. Most often, the HTTP port is changed to something other than 80 in order to match with easy-to-remember port forwarding rules of the router that acts as a bridge between local area network and Internet.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Multicast Setting allows users to configure the IP addresses and ports for multicast video and audio (supported models only) streams. Multicast is a protocol where a data stream is sent only once and shared to requesting devices. This in turn saves network bandwidth. However, to use this feature, network devices, such as routers and switches, should support IP multicast. Parameters Description Stream 1 Refers to the video stream 1. Stream 2 Refers to the video stream 2.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 HTTPS HTTPS protocol allows creating a secure channel over an insecure network in order to protect the data sent between the camera and its counterpart. Two things are required to have a secure communication – encrypted data, and verified counterpart of the communication. To make sure that the messages are being sent and received from true counterpart, the certificate is needed.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 IEEE 802.1X IEEE 802.1X is an IEEE standard for port-based Network Access Control. 802.1X authentication involves three parties: a supplicant, an authenticator, and an authentication server. The supplicant is a client device (such as an IP camera) that wishes to attach to the LAN/WLAN.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 If certificates or private key exist already, there will be a Remove button behind these items, in order to remove these items when necessary. After changing any of the items above, press Apply to save the changes. The Reset button undoes the changes that had just been made but not applied yet. 28 www.acti.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 SNMP Setting SNMP Setting displays the SNMP configuration page. SNMP provides an easy way to manage network devices. The main features are: 1. Monitoring device uptime 2. System detail description. (Ex: model name, model description and firmware version.) 3. Collect interface information. (Ex: MAC address, interface speed, local port.) 4. Measuring network interface throughput.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 The security method of SNMP V3 uses account/password for authentication. “Security Name” is the account name to be used with your “Password”. The default security name is “public” and the password must be at least 8 characters long. You also can set any other security name or password. Click “Apply” after you’ve completed setup. SNMP function is now enabled. You may now install and run the SNMP management software on computer server.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 ICMP TCP UDP SNMP Provide the status and statistics of ICMP. Ex: amount of receive/error message of ICMP. Provide the status and operation of Transport Layer (Layer 4) using TCP protocol. Ex: TCP Local Port, incoming/outgoing TCP segments. Provide the status and operation of Transport Layer (Layer 4) using UDP protocol. Ex: UDP Local Port, in/out datagram. Provide the related statistics through SNMP RTP RTP allows user to configure RTP Settings.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Network (ToS, UPnP, Bonjour) The Network submenu contains the controls for following functions: Type of Service UPnP Bonjour ONVIF Type of Service Type of Service provides 4 options to define the priorities of how the data from the camera should be handled by the routers that support ToS concept. By the default, the ToS priority is set as “Normal Service”.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 After changing any of the items above, press Apply to save the changes. The Reset button undoes the changes that had just been made but not applied yet. Most of the Windows-based computers have the capability to discover the devices that support TM UPnP . Below is the example of Windows 7: by clicking on the Network icon of Windows 7, the PC will discover the cameras instantly.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 ONVIF The camera with given firmware is ONVIF 2.2 compliant. By default, the ONVIF function is enabled. To disable the ONVIF support, remove the check on the box and press Apply. If you need to activate ONVIF on multiple cameras conveniently, you may use the IP Utility instead, using system cgi and ONVIF_STATE=1 as URL command. 34 www.acti.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 IP Settings The IP Settings menu provides the options to define how the camera would obtain its IP address; and to which DNS server should the camera connect to, in order to resolve domain names. Connection Type The Connection Type section allows defining the method of obtaining the IP address of the camera. By default, the camera is in Dynamic IP Address mode and attempts to get the IP address from a DHCP server.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Most installation projects include clear network topology and static IP addresses for each camera. In such cases, you can change the camera to Static IP Address mode and modify the IP Address, Subnet Mask and Gateway accordingly. In some rare cases, the camera may be connected to the control center over Internet. Usually, the most cost efficient way is to use ADSL connection with PPPoE.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 DNS The section DNS allows setting up the Domain Name Service for the camera. The camera will connect to the DNS server when there is a need to resolve a domain name for sending data to. The most common usage is the ftp or e-mail server in the Event Handler section is defined by using domain names. Without having DNS service configured, the camera would not know how to resolve the domain names of FTP or e-mail servers.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 DDNS There are surveillance solutions that consist of single cameras scattered over a wide territory, therefore each of those cameras should be connected to the Internet in order to become accessible by Control Center. For example, the chain stores, bus stops, currency exchange booths, etc.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 How does it work? Look at the graph below. Using Dynamic DNS Internet IP Camera DSL Modem Control Center (NVR) Camera notifies DDNS service when IP changed NVR uses camera’s domain name to ask DDNS DDNS tells the NVR what the camera’s IP is Commands from NVR to camera’s IP address DDNS Service Video Stream from camera to NVR Every time the IP camera gets an IP that is different from previous one, it notifies the public DDNS Service about the change.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 To activate DDNS, please check the “Enabled“. Select the service reference, input the Host Name (the domain name given to the camera by DDNS service, User Name and Password of the DDNS server account. You will get the needed Host Name, User Name and Password information from the DDNS service provider once you have registered an account there and requested a domain name for your camera. After changing any of the items above, press Apply to save the changes.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 WiFi The WiFi page allows users to configure the wireless settings of the camera and connect to a wireless access point Select one of the WLAN modes or disable WiFi functionality. Ad-hoc mode is a “peer-to-peer” mode. In this mode, devices on the same network can connect directly to one another without need for a centralized access point. Infrastructure mode sets the device to communicate with a router/access point.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 SSID refers to the name of the wireless network the device is configured for. The field accepts up to 32 alphanumeric characters. The name must be exactly the same as the one used in the wireless access point or the connection will not be established. Security Mode shows which type of security the network uses. The device supports three security methods: None WEP WPA_PSK/WPA2_PSK By default, the camera is set to Dynamic IP Address.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Video & Audio The Video & Audio section provides the options to adjust the video quality, configure the streaming details of the camera, which will be described in the succeeding pages. The default settings of the camera are sufficient for most environments and the video adjustments are not necessary. The following sections explain the ways to configure the video quality or streaming details in case it is required to do so.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Video The submenu is also named Video, The Video section is divided into page tabs. The functionality of each tab is explained separately below. Upon opening the Video submenu, the live view of the Stream 1 of the camera will appear. Since the camera is a dual stream device, users can select to view either Stream-1 or Stream-2 to see how the configurations look like.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Parameters Encoder Type H.264 Profile Resolution Frame Rate Video Bit Rate Mode (only for H.264) Description There are two encoder types available: H.264 (High Profile) and MJPEG. This item is available only if the Encoder Type is H.264. The H.264 Profile defines the video compression scheme: High Profile, Main Profile, and Baseline. These schemes vary from least compressed, Baseline, to most compressed, High Profile. By default, the H.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 the occasional peaks of bit rate. H.264 Compression: Quality Under VBR mode, the bit rate will be floating while the video quality will be stable and follows the quality standard set by the user. The user can choose either “High”, “Medium” or “Low” quality. The higher is the quality level, the more bit rate the camera will use to achieve the target quality. MJPEG Compression: The user can define the quality with the numeric scale from 1 to 100.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Motion Detection The section “Motion Detection” allows the user to configure the video motion detection system of the camera. Motion detection regions are based on Stream 1. By default, there are three (3) enabled pre-defined regions covering the whole camera view. Click on “Setup” to adjust the motion detection regions or its parameters. Microsoft Internet Explorer browser is required to configure the motion detection regions.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Enabled or disabled Although all 3 motion detection regions are enabled by default, each can be disabled and enabled individually. Look at the example: Only the region 1 is enabled while 2 and 3 are disabled. The disabled regions disappear from the video display. Note that the number of the motion detection region is written in the upper left corner of the region.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Trigger threshold Look at the moving object entering the area of motion detection: although moving quite slowly, it caused motion activity – several pixel regions reported a motion that was faster than allowed “speed limit” of sensitivity (70). The blue graph on the right side of the image shows how many percent of pixels within the motion detection region were considered as “currently in motion”.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 possible combinations of settings using sensitivity level and trigger threshold percentage. The objects listed in each cell will trigger an alarm under given settings: Low threshold (0-5%) Low sensitivity (0-65) Big and fast High threshold (5-100%) Big and fast Small and fast Big and fast High sensitivity (65-100) Big and fast Big and slow Small and fast Big and slow Small and slow The camera’s default sensitivity is 70 and threshold is 10%.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 There is one more item on the Motion Detection configuration page which was not explained above – the Profile of Motion Detection. Think of them as Profile 1 (Runtime MD Profile) and Profile 2 (Event MD Profile). It means that you can configure two independent groups of Motion Detection regions with at most 3 regions in each group. Normally, the Profile 1 (Runtime MD Profile) is used as an active profile of the camera.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Image The section Image allows user to control certain parameters of a video frame. Parameters Video Flipping / Video Mirroring Brightness Contrast Saturation Digital Noise Reduction 3D Noise Reduction Edge Enhancement WDR Defogging Description Check this box to flip the video up-down and left-right to achieve the 180-degree rotation effect. Select the Brightness value (0~100). The higher the value, the brighter the image.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 The button “Restore image settings to default” is a quick way of restoring factory default image settings without needing to reset the whole camera to factory default. 53 www.acti.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Exposure/White Balance The section Exposure / White Balance allows the user to configure Exposure (shutter, iris and gain control) and White Balance settings. In most cases, the default settings are sufficient and no adjustment is needed. Some options will only appear under certain Exposure / White balance modes. Each mode is described in detail below. White balance refers to the capability of the camera to understand what “true white color is”.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 correct for given scene. For advanced users, there is also an option to switch from Auto mode to Manual mode of White Balance directly and input the R Gain and B Gain values manually.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Exposure Mode - Auto In Auto Exposure Mode, you control the image brightness by configuring the AE Reference Target and Slowest Auto Shutter. AE Reference Target (Auto Exposure reference target) can be considered as the “Target Brightness on Sensor”. The camera will use several internal parameters to achieve best quality with reference to this. The higher this value, the brighter the overall scene, however, there may be more noise at night in such case.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 clearer images at night for slow moving objects, but more motion blur for fast moving objects. Exposure Mode - Manual When the lighting conditions are stable 24 hours a day, the advanced users may consider using manual exposure mode, to further fine tune the image quality in order to fulfill the special project requirements.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 OSD/Privacy Mask The section OSD / Privacy Mask allows user to do one of the two on-video operations: Text Overlay or On-Screen Display (OSD): This function allows users to add text, such as the camera name, date and time, or custom text, to the upper or lower left corner of the video. Privacy Mask: This function covers up some sensitive areas of the video that should not be captured by the camera, such as manager’s computer screen or bathroom entrance.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Below is the list of characters with special meaning that can be used in the text field: Parameters %YYYY %YY %MM %DD %hh %mm %ss %H %C %X %N Description Year in four-digit format. For example, 2008 Year in two-digit format. For example, 08 Month in two-digit format. For example, 01 for January, 12 for December Date in two-digit format. 01~31 Hour in two-digit format. 00~23. Note that only 24-hour indication is supported. Minutes in two-digit format.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Privacy Mask Setup Privacy Mask covers up sensitve areas of the video which should not be captured by the camera, such as manager’s computer screen or bathroom entrance. Up to 4 independent regions can be configured. The adjustment of the privacy mask region can be done when a region is checked under “Setup“ column. The privacy masks will be embedded into video and cannot be removed later upon playback or export.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 After changing any of the items above, press Apply to save the changes. The Reset button undoes the changes that had just been made but not applied yet. NOTE: It may take several seconds to update the region location on video display after pressing Apply! On-Screen Graphics On-Screen Graphics (OSG) is a new feature that allows placing custom image files on the top of the video as a layer.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Upon successful entry of user name and password, the following upload window will appear. Browse for the yuv file in your computer that you had prepared and press Apply. When done, use another URL command to configure its position: http://192.168.0.100/cgi-bin/cmd/encoder?OSG_CONFIG= 1,0,0,240,106,EB8080,4 ...
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Audio The section Audio is available only for audio-supported models. The user interface for audio control looks as below: Parameters Audio In Audio In Level Audio Out Volume Audio Format Description The option “Enabled” would activate incoming audio (either line in or built-in microphone). The option “Disabled” would turn off the incoming audio. In such case, the video stream is captured without audio. Use this function to adjust the sensitivity level of audio input.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 System The System menu provides the list of functions that help manage the camera. The [+] mark before System indicates that the list can be expanded by clicking on it. Once expanded, the list can later be collapsed again by clicking on the [-] mark. User Account The section User Accounts allows the following user management tasks: 1. Change the account name or password of the Root account that has a full access to the camera. 2.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 System Info The section System Info provides the full information about camera status, settings and log. This information is very helpful while doing the camera configuration, maintenance or troubleshooting. The Server Report is a convenient way of exporting the full list of camera related information in a text format, so that it can be sent to the technical support team for faster service. 65 www.acti.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Factory Default The section Factory Default allows the camera settings be reset to the original factory settings. If you want to keep network settings and restore other settings to factory default, please select the first option. If you select the second one instead, all the settings would be removed during factory default. You will have to use factory default IP setting to connect to this camera. 66 www.acti.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Firmware Upload The section Firmware Upload allows remote upgrade or downgrade of camera firmware. The upgrade to newer version is usually done in order to gain new functions or fix existing bugs or limitations while downgrade to older version is used mostly for integration purposes where the newly purchased camera model comes with the newer firmware version than supported by a third party video management system of a given project.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Save & Reboot The Save & Reboot section allows saving the settings and rebooting the camera remotely. This is critical because some settings might not take effect before save & reboot. 68 www.acti.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Logout Clicking this item allows you to log out of the IP device. Be sure to logout this IP device once you have completed all the tasks via Web Configurator. 69 www.acti.
Firmware User’s Manual A1.00.05 Troubleshooting Although the default settings of the camera are ideal for 90% of the cases, there may be some rare cases when the settings need to be adjusted or the device has to be examined. The following section provides easy troubleshooting solutions for most cases. In some occasions, the unexpected symptoms may be the result of selecting the product that is not suitable for given environment.
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