E-Guard 802.11 b/g Wireless IP Camera With pan/tilt function Model : IC502w User Manual Mundo Digital Guatemala http://www.digimundos.
E-Guard IC502w Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................6 2. HARDWARE DESCRIPTION AND QUICK INSTALLATION/USAGE ................................8 3. 4. 5. 2.1. MAJOR HARDWARE COMPONENTS. ......................................................................................8 2.2. QUICK INSTALLATION AND USAGE ...............................................................................
E-Guard IC502w APPENDIX F. THIRD PARTY AND EMBEDDED WEB PAGE INTEGRATION ........................
E-Guard IC502w List of Figures and Tables Figure 2-1: Major components in the front panel Figure 2-2: Major components in the back panel Figure 2-3: IP CAM connection diagram. Figure 2-4: Connect Ethernet cable to a switch/router.
E-Guard IC502w Figure 5-5: Installation CD Figure 5-6: ID/Password Card Table A-1: List of tested Wireless AP/router devices Table A-2: List of tested Wired NAT/router devices 5
E-Guard IC502w 1. Introduction The IC502w IP Camera is designed with the “user-friendly” idea deep in mind. The user can install the IC502w easily on his/her home network and then access the IP Camera anywhere in the world through the accompanied video management software - CamView program without setting some complicated DNS name or changing the router’s settings. It’s just a plug & play action.
E-Guard IC502w ♦ UPnP support in router ? No ♦ What’s needed ? ID and Password 7
E-Guard IC502w 2. Hardware description and quick installation/usage The IP CAM is designed to be very easy to install and use. First, let’s see the major components of the IP CAM products. 2.1. Major hardware components. The major components on the front panel of the IP CAM products are the built-in microphone, lens and LEDs : 1. Microphone – for receiving the audio/voice. Effective distance is about 5 meters. 2.
E-Guard IC502w 3. Ethernet jack – this is the place to plug in the RJ45 Ethernet cable. When the Ethernet link is ok, the Ethernet indication LED on the front side will be blue light. 4. Reset button – this is the button to reset the IP CAM to default factory settings. You need to use a small stick like pencil or tooth stick to press the reset button for more than 3 seconds to enable the reset function.
E-Guard IC502w constant red light to indicate this good connection status. If the LED is blinking, please refer to section 3.3~3.5 to try other network settings. Figure 2-3: IP CAM connection diagram. Figure 2-4: Connect Ethernet cable to a switch/router. Second, Install the CamView software on the notebook/PC Please insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive in your notebook or personal computer (must be running Microsoft Windows OS). Execute the program CamViewInstaller-xxx.exe on the disk.
E-Guard IC502w Figure 2-5: The installation CD disk Third, Use CamView program to see the video Figure 2-5 is the running window of the CamView program. If the computer and IP CAM is connected to the same network, the IP CAM ID will be displayed in the “Auto Search” list. You can double click the “Auto Search” to search all the connected IP CAMs any time. The only thing left right now for seeing the video is to double click the IP CAM ID item in the “Auto Search” list.
E-Guard IC502w Seeing the video in a remote location After the IP CAM is installed and you can see the video from the CamView software in the local network, it’s very easy to see the video in a remote location. All you need to do is add a camera item in the “CameraList” folder of the CamView software, key in the IP CAM ID and Password(from the ID/Password card). And then double click this camera item. You will then see the Camera video immediately. No further NAT/router setting modifications are needed.
E-Guard IC502w 2.3. Wireless connection The IP CAM can also be connected to the home/office network through the 802.11 b/g wireless connection. There are only three things that you need to do to have the wireless connection: 1. Set the WiFi security settings on the web configuration page. 2. Test if the WiFi settings are correct. 3. Unplug the Ethernet cable. First, set the WiFi security settings on the web configuration page. Make sure there is a WiFi router or AP on your home or office network.
E-Guard IC502w Figure 2-9: Unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the WiFi function 14
E-Guard IC502w 3. Web configurations You can login into the web configuration page by directly key-in the IP address of the IP CAM or right-click the searched IP CAM in the “Auto Search” list of the CamView software and click the “Web Configure” to open the login window of the IP CAM. Figure 3-1: Open the web configuration page from CamView software The default login account is “admin”, leave the Password field empty.
E-Guard IC502w 3.1. Information The first page of the web configuration of the IP CAM IC502w is the information page. You can see the model name/firmware version, IP CAM ID, registration status, network type and current video settings( bandwidth, resolution) in this page. The IP CAM can be viewed remotely by the CamView software only when the IP CAM is registered. If this IP CAM is not registered, please check the Ethernet wiring of your network environment.
E-Guard IC502w 3.2. Video Display This display page allows you to view the video display and control the pan/tilt movement of the IP camera. For the first time use of this display on a computer, an activeX component will be automatically downloaded into the browser. This could take some time, depends on the internet speed. The component is downloaded from a public domain, so that the computer must be connected to the Internet. If you want to modify the video display screen size, please refer to section 3.
E-Guard IC502w updated accordingly. You can click the (x,y) axis of the patrol point to direct the view to this specific patrol point directly. After the patrol points are set, you can click the “Patrol” button to start the automatic patrol. The patrol movement will remain even after power-off and power-on, and will be stopped only after pressing “Stop” button. 6. Stay xx secs – this is the time for each patrol point to stay before going to next patrol point. 7.
E-Guard IC502w 3.3. Network The Network page allows you to modify the network settings of the wired Ethernet. The default settings use DHCP to obtain an IP address automatically. In most of the home and office network environment, there is a DHCP server running. In this situation, by using this default settings, the IP CAM can work immediately in most of the time. If the Ethernet cable is unplugged, the IP CAM will lose connection.
E-Guard IC502w Figure 3-6: Network settings page for fixed IP address 20
E-Guard IC502w 3.4. WiFi security You can use the wireless to connect the IP CAM to the network. If your network environment has a 802.11 b/g router or AP running, you can check the “Enable WiFi function” button to use the wireless. Figure 3-7: WiFi security disabled page In order to use the wireless network, you need to fill the following fields: 1. SSID – this is the ID of the wireless router or AP of your wireless network environment, must be set correctly. 2.
E-Guard IC502w All the fields in this page must be filled correctly with the same settings the wireless router or AP using. Figure 3-8: WiFi security enabled page You can also click the “WiFi test” button to check if the IP CAM can connect to the wireless network for these settings. You will need to unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the wireless connection after the “WiFi test” is successful.
E-Guard IC502w Figure 3-9: WiFi testing page 23
E-Guard IC502w 3.5. Advanced Network In some special situation, your network environment only provides PPPoE connection(ADSL service), there is no NAT/router available. You will then need to set the PPPoE settings in the “Advanced Network” page. Only the PPPoE username and password are needed to let PPPoE work. After the “Save&Apply” button is pressed, the PPPoE function will work immediately.
E-Guard IC502w 3.6. Video Settings The IP CAM is designed to provide high quality video for viewing from CamView software. In this page, you cam modify some settings related to the video viewing: 1. Password(play video) – this is the password needed for viewing the video from the CamView software. Together with the IP CAM ID, you can view the video of this IP CAM anywhere in the world through the Internet. 2. Internet speed – this is the Internet bandwidth of your network environment.
E-Guard IC502w very vague. For indoor usage, if there is strong sun light into the room, please select the “Indoor+sun light” choice. 12. Enable/disable audio microphone – you can enable or disable the audio microphone on the IP CAM. If disable, there will be no voice on the CamView video viewing. 13. Enable/disable time display on video – if enabled, the date/time of the system will be displayed on the left-upper corner of the video.
E-Guard IC502w 3.7. 3GPP/RTSP settings The IP CAM is able to be viewed from a 3G mobile phone, for detailed settings on the 3G mobile phone, please refer to Appendix E. Users can disable the 3G mobile access ability in this page. After the 3GPP/RTSP feature is disabled, no 3G mobile phone is allowed to access the video of the IP camera. When this is disabled, the rtsp stream with MPEG2 audio is still working, please refer to Appendix F for more details about rtsp stream with MPEG2 audio.
E-Guard IC502w 3.8. Motion Detection The IP CAM provides the motion detection function, you can enable the motion detection ability in this page, the IP CAM will then send out an email with a jpeg picture attached in the email and/or send out the jpeg picture file to a ftp server. The related settings are explained below: 1. Detection sensitivity – there are three possible choices in this field. “High” means high sensitivity, i.e., the detection is triggered by a very small movement in the video image.
E-Guard IC502w The default setting is “Disable Motion Detection”.
E-Guard IC502w 3.9. SD-card record control The IP camera has a micro-SD card slot that users could insert micro-SD card into the IP camera for video recording usage. The maximum size supported for the micro-SD card is 2G bytes. In the “Record Control” page, users could control the recording method for the micro-SD card : 1. Disable/motion trigger/Schedule recording – choose to disable the recording, trigger the recording by motion detection or doing the scheduled recording. 2.
E-Guard IC502w 3.10. Micro-SD card recorded files display The recorded files on the micro-SD card could be displayed and downloaded on the “Recording File” page. You can press the “Download” to download the recorded file into your computer and then be played by the CamPlay software. The file could also be deleted by pressing the “Delete” command. The recorded files are named and sorted by their beginning time of the recording duration.
E-Guard IC502w 3.11. Led Display Control The IP CAM provides the Led Display Control function, you can enable or disable the led display/indication on the front panel of the IP cam device. The related settings are explained below: 1. Normal led display – select this to enable the status led and ethernet led display. 2. Turn off led display always – select this to disable the status led and ethernet led display. 3.
E-Guard IC502w 3.12. Date/Time The IP CAM can synchronize the date/time with the universally available time server( for example stdtime.gov.tw) through NTP protocol. The date/time will then be corrected with the time server anytime when the Internet is connected. Users can choose the different TimeZone of their areas to display the correct time.
E-Guard IC502w 3.13. Admin In this page, you can modify the web login account. With this account, you can login to the IP CAM and do any modifications. The default account is “admin” without password. If the login account is forgotten, you can reset the IP CAM to the factory default settings by following the steps in section 3.15 and login with the “admin” account. Please be noticed that this account is different from the video play password in the “Video settings” page.
E-Guard IC502w 3.14. Upgrade If there is some new firmware available from the supplier of this IP CAM, you can upgrade the firmware on this page. Please ask for the correct information about FTP server, username/password account and firmware filename from your supplier, and then do this upgrade. A status message about the percentage done in the upgrade procedure is displayed.
E-Guard IC502w Figure 3-20: Firmware upgrade status page 36
E-Guard IC502w 3.15. Reboot You can restart the IP CAM manually on this page. All the connected video viewing users will be disconnected.
E-Guard IC502w 3.16. Safe Mode If by some abnormal operation, for example, powered off during the critical point of the upgrade procedure, the IP CAM will enter into the safe mode. In this mode, you will see the following “Safe mode” page when login into this IP CAM. Please do the upgrade operation immediately to recover the system. On this safe mode, the IP CAM can not display the video on the CamView software, but you can still find this IP CAM on the “Auto search” list.
E-Guard IC502w 3.17. Set to factory default For some reason, for example you forgot the web login password, you may want to set the IP CAM to the factory default settings. The only thing you need to do is using a stick to press the “reset” button on the back of the IP CAM body for more than 3 seconds and release it, do this when the IP CAM is powered on. The IP CAM will reset to the factory default settings and restart automatically.
E-Guard IC502w 4. Features and specifications 4.1. Features ¾ Easily access the camera from anywhere in the world via the ID/password ¾ No complicated NAT/router settings needed. ¾ Free video management software - CamView program accompanied for easy access and multi-camera management. ¾ 3GPP/ISMA support. ¾ Wide range Pan/tilt motion control. ¾ Built-in Web server for managing via standard web browser.
E-Guard IC502w 4.2. Specifications Models IC502w Power DC 5V, 2A Processors RISC CPU, hardware video processing and compression. Network interface Ethernet 10BaseT/100BaseTX, Auto-MDIX, RJ-45 Wireless interface IEEE 802.11g 6 - 54 Mbps IEEE 802.11b 1 - 11 Mbps Transmit power: 14.5dBm typically @ 802.11g 17.5dBm typically @ 802.11b Receiver sensitivity: 54Mbps: Typical -73dBm @ 10% PER 11Mbps: Typical -86dBm @ 10% PER Modes: Infrastructure and ad-hoc Antenna gain: 1.
E-Guard IC502w Security Web management username/password protection Video display ID/password protection WiFi WEP and WPA security mode Installation, Installation tool on CD and Web-based configuration management and Automatic configuration backup and restore maintenance Video management software-CamView for video access and multi-camera management Firmware upgrades via FTP Minimum Web Built-in web server for standard web browser access browsing and Pentium 4 CPU 1.
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E-Guard IC502w Appendix A. List of Tested NAT/router Devices The followings are the list of tested NAT/router devices that can work with the IP CAM and CamView software when viewing in a remote location. You do not need to do any modification on the default settings of the NAT/routers. In some office environment, if some strict firewall function is enabled, it’s possible that you can not view the IP CAM video through the firewall router.
E-Guard IC502w Appendix B. Maximum Allowed Video Users The maximum allowed video users for a single IC502w camera at the same time is dependent on the video settings including “Internet speed” and resolution. The followings are the summary of the maximum allowed video users: 1. When audio is disabled. For video resolution of 160x120 pixels Frame rate\bandwidth 64k ~ 512k 1M ~ 1.5M 5fps ~ 30 fps 20 4 For video resolution of 320x240 pixels Frame rate\bandwidth 64k ~ 256k 512k 768k 1M ~ 1.
E-Guard IC502w Appendix C. Performance Information 1. Video Performance Information The video quality is dependent on the video parameter settings and the network quality. If you want to have a better video quality, you will usually set higher resolution and higher frame rate. This is fine when you are viewing the video locally in the same network. But when you want to see the video remotely through the Internet, you need to know the Internet speed (bandwidth) connected to your home network.
E-Guard IC502w Appendix D. Trouble shooting 1. What’s going on when the red led light on the IP camera is flashing? A: When the IP Cam is connected to the Internet and working correctly, the red led light will be on constantly. If the red led light is flashing, it’s probably because there is some network connecting problem. Please check the network connection again and follow the instructions on the user manual to set it up again. 2.
E-Guard IC502w A: It’s probably because the internet bandwidth (internet speed) is not big enough. Please try to apply for a better internet connection from your Internet Service Provider or decrease the bandwidth settings of the IP Cam. You can adjust the bandwidth requirement of the IP Cam either from the CamView software or login into the web configuration page of the IP Cam to do the modification. 9.
E-Guard IC502w Appendix E. 3GPP/ISMA operation 3GPP/ISMA is using RTSP protocol for 3G mobile phone to display the video stream from some network devices, including IP camera. The IC502w support the RTSP protocol and video/audio codec needed by 3GPP/ISMA. Users only need to access the address rtsp://ip_cam_address/CAM_ID.password on the 3G mobile phone to access the video of the IP camera. No other extra configuration is needed on the IP camera.
E-Guard IC502w Appendix F. Third party and embedded web page integration For third party and embedded web page integration, IC502w support the standard RTSP protocol and video/audio codecs needed by most generally used video play software, including Apple QuickTime and VideoLAN. The supported media protocols including TCP and UDP. IC502w will automatically use TCP or UDP media stream depends on the connection request.
