User manual

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•  Connect the Ethernet cable from the cameras to the PoE
switch (or the Network Power Rack/Network Power Adapter). The PoE switch is con-
nected to the local area network (LAN) via another Ethernet cable.
The MOBOTIX cameras are now ready to use and available in the local area network.
They can now be integrated into MxEasy.

•  Download the MxEasy software for your operating system and install the
application (see
Section 2.1, Installing MxEasy ).
•    Launch MxEasy. The application automatically
searches for any available MOBOTIX cameras in the network and displays them
along with their preview images. At this point, you can assign names to the indi-
vidual cameras (see
Section 2.2.1, Automatic Camera Search ).
•  MxEasy will prompt you to enter the IP
addresses to be used for the cameras in the network (or you may select the option
DHCP ). If there is a DSL router in the network, MxEasy automatically selects DHCP
(see
Section 2.2.2, Adding New Cameras ).
•  When prompted, you may choose whether or not
you wish to reset the cameras back to the factory defaults. If you have already
confi gured the cameras using MxEasy, you may also choose to retain the current
settings. MxEasy automatically recognizes whether or not these settings have been
made and recommends the appropriate option.
After you have completed these steps, the cameras are displayed in MxEasy.
•  Click the button Next Camera to display each camera one
after another in the main window of MxEasy and select the desired image section
(see
Section 2.3, Displaying Live Images ).
•  If necessary, defi ne di erent image
sections and change the zoom settings (see
Section 2.4, Using Image Sections And
Zoom Functions
).
•  Defi ne the time period
during which alarms are to be detected and select the events for which the camera
alarms are to be triggered (see
Section 2.5, Setting Up Alarms And Recordings ).
•  Trigger a manual alarm by clicking  to test the
recording.
•   Evaluate the recorded video sequences (see
Section 2.6,
Evaluating Recordings
).
•  Make the settings for notifi cations via telephone,
sounds on event and e-mail (seeSection
Section 2.5.6, Setting Alarm Notifi cations ).