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Pan/Tilt IP Camera Table of Contents LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES......................................................................................................4 1. INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................6 2. HARDWARE DESCRIPTION AND QUICK INSTALLATION/USAGE ................................8 3. 4. 5. 2.1. MAJOR HARDWARE COMPONENTS. .....................................................................
Pan/Tilt IP Camera APPENDIX C. PERFORMANCE INFORMATION .........................................................................52 APPENDIX D. TROUBLE SHOOTING............................................................................................53 APPENDIX E. 3GPP/ISMA OPERATION........................................................................................55 APPENDIX F. THIRD PARTY AND EMBEDDED WEB PAGE INTEGRATION ........................
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera Figure 5-1: The IP camera body Figure 5-2: Power Adaptor Figure 5-3: Quick installation guide Figure 5-4: Ethernet cable 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
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 1. Introduction The Pan/Tilt IP Camera is designed with the “user-friendly” idea deep in mind. The user can install the IP camera 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. With pan/tilt support, users can monitor the video in a much larger viewing angle range.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera the IP address or domain name or DDNS name or port number. And you do not need to modify the settings(like port mapping, fixed IP, DDNS, virtual server) of the NAT/router devices, it’s just a plug & play usage.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera CAM should be connected to the Internet immediately. The Internet status LED is 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera Figure 2-9: Unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the WiFi function 14
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 3.1. Information The first page of the web configuration of the IP CAM 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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 patrol through these points one time. 6. Stay xx secs – this is the time for each patrol point to stay before going to next patrol point. 7. Patrol – click this button to start the patrol movement of the IP CAM. 8. Stop – this will stop the patrol movement.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera Figure 3-6: Network settings page for fixed IP address 20
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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 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. You can click the “WiFi scan” button to scan for all the available access points nearby.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera Figure 3-9: WiFi testing page 23
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera this situation, change the setting to “Indoor video” will solve the problem. Please also be noticed that in “Indoor video” setting, the video display of outdoor view is very vague. For indoor usage, if there is strong sun light into the room, please select the “Indoor+sun light” choice. 13. 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. 14.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 3.8. Email/ftp alarm The IP Camera provides the Email/ftp function, you can enable or schedule the Email/ftp ability in this page, the IP Camera 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. Email/FTP trigger – choose between “motion”, “D/I”, “schedule” and “disable” A.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera username and password fields could be left empty if no authentication is needed for the SMTP server. 7. SMTP server test – after the settings are filled, you could press “SMTP server test” to check if all the settings are correct. 8. Send FTP message – if this item is enabled, the IP Camera will send out a jpeg picture file to the specified ftp account. 9. FTP server – this is the FTP server address to receive the jpeg file. 10.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 3.9. DI/DO settings The video server product provides DI/DO alarm function, a video motion detection or the digital input signal could trigger the digital output alarm. The duration of the alarm could also be set. The related settings are explained below: 1. Digital input – can select the normal status of the digital input as either open circuit or closed circuit. The current status is also displayed. 2.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 3.10. NAS settings The IP Camera provides the recording of the video files into a standard NAS ( Network Access Storage ) device. The IP camera connects to the NAS device using the standard LMX_NS/CIFS/SSN protocols that are the same as the Microsoft Windows network neighborhood protocols. This makes the IP camera easily record the video files to all the standard NAS devices in the market.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera files on the NAS devices. In the Microsoft Windows environment, you can access to the NAS device by keying the URL address \\”NAS name”\”shared folder name” or \\”NAS IP address”\”shared folder name” in the windows Internet Explorer, and then key in the “NAS access account” and “NAS access password” to the prompted login window. The video files are recorded under the subfolder IPCamRecordFiles/Recording/ID-ID, where ID is the ID of this IP camera.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 3.11. SD-Card settings The IP camera provides the recording of the video files into a standard Micro SD-Card. Since this recording is directly to the SD-Card, there is no network packets loss problem when recording to remote device through internet. Notice : when the IP camera is doing SD-Card recording, this is counted as one video user. Please refer to appendix B about allowed maximum video users. 1.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera Figure 3-17: SD-Card information page 34
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 3.12. Scheduling The IP camera provides the scheduling function for the motion detection triggered email/ftp sending and/or the NAS recording with the individual parameters set in the . “Email/ftp alarm” settings and the “NAS settings” page. Totally 12 schedule list items are allowed. There is no conflict check for the scheduling, it means that the scheduling time could be overlapped, and the IP camera will do all the scheduled events during the overlapped time period.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera B. For “Every day”, can set the time duration of every day for the scheduling. C. For “Fixed time”, can set the starting date/time and the end date/time of the scheduling period.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 3.13. 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 3.14. 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. For some TimeZone areas, the “Daylight Saving Time” could be enabled or disabled.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 3.15. 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 3.19 and login with the “admin” account. Please be noticed that this account is different from the video play password in the “Video settings” page.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 3.16. 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera Figure 3-23: Firmware upgrade status page 41
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 3.17. Reboot You can restart the IP CAM manually on this page. All the connected video viewing users will be disconnected.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 3.18. 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 3.19. 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 4 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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 Dual video streaming with separate frame rate/resolution/bandwidth settings for PC and mobile. ¾ Wide range Pan/tilt motion control.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 4.2. Specifications Models Pan/Tilt 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera Bandwidth : 64k, 128k, 256k, 512k, 768k, 1M, 1.2M, 1.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera Humidity 20 - 80% RH (non-condensing) 48
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Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera Appendix B. Maximum Allowed Video Users The maximum allowed video users for a single Pan/Tilt 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera 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 IP camera supports 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.
Pan/Tilt IP Camera Appendix F. Third party and embedded web page integration For third party and embedded web page integration, the IP camera supports 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. The IP camera will automatically use TCP or UDP media stream depends on the connection request.
