Digisol DG-SC4600PI, DG-SC4600I User Manual

DG-SC4600PI / DG-SC4600I

MEGAPIXEL BOX IP CAMERA WITH IR CUT

FILTER and POE/NON POE

User Manual

V1.0

2012-04-09

As our products undergo continuous development the specifications are subject to change without prior notice

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This company makes no representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any warranties, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Any software described in this manual is sold or licensed "as is". Should the programs prove defective following their purchase, the buyer (and not this company, its distributor, or its dealer) assumes the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair, and any incidental or consequential damages resulting from any defect in the software. Further, this company reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the contents thereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes.

Trademarks:

DIGISOL™ is a trademark of Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of the respective manufacturers.

Safety

This equipment is designed with the utmost care for the safety of those who install and use it. However, special attention must be paid to the dangers of electric shock and static electricity when working with electrical equipment. All guidelines of this and of the computer manufacturer must therefore be allowed at all times to ensure the safe use of the equipment.

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Federal Communication Commission

Interference Statement

FCC Part 15

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limitations are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

• Connect the equipment into a different outlet from that to which the receiver is connected.

• Consult your local distributors or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

• Shielded interface cables must be used in order to comply with emission limits

Changes or modifications to the equipment, which are not approved by the party responsible for compliance could affect the user's authority to operate the equipment.

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FCC Caution

This equipment must be installed and operated in accordance with provided instructions and a minimum 20 cm spacing must be provided between computer mounted antenna and person’s body (excluding extremities of hands, wrist and feet) during wireless modes of operation.

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the authority to operate equipment.

Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Radiation Exposure Statement

This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure set forth for an uncontrolled environment. In order to avoid the possibility of exceeding the FCC radio frequency exposure limits, human proximity to the antenna shall not be less than 20cm (8 inches) during normal operation.

The antenna(s) used for this transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter.

The equipment version marketed in US is restricted to usage of the channels 1-11 only.

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INDEX

1. Product Information ........................................................................................................ 8

1-1 Product Introduction.....................................................................................................8

1-2 Safety Information........................................................................................................9

1-3 System Requirements................................................................................................ 10

1-4 Package Contents......................................................................................................10

1-5 Get Familiar with your new Network Box IP Camera................................................. 11

1-6 Installation of the Network IP Camera........................................................................14

2. Using Network IP Camera by Web Interface ...............................................................17

2-1 Locate the IP address of Network IP Camera............................................................ 17

2-2 Connect to IP Camera’s Web User Interface............................................................. 19

2-3 Viewing Live Video..................................................................................................... 23

2-4 Client Settings............................................................................................................26

3. Advanced Configuration............................................................................................... 28

3-1 System....................................................................................................................... 30

3-2 Security...................................................................................................................... 32

3-3 Network......................................................................................................................34

3-3-1 “General” Setup Page.........................................................................................34

3-3-2 Advanced Setup Page.........................................................................................37

3-4 IP Filter.......................................................................................................................39

3-5 Video .......................................................................................................................... 41

3-5-1 Image Setting...................................................................................................... 42

3-5-2 Video Setting ....................................................................................................... 44

3-5-3 Overlay Setting.................................................................................................... 46

3-6 Audio.......................................................................................................................... 48

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3-7 Motion........................................................................................................................49

3-8 PTZ Control................................................................................................................51

3-9 Event..........................................................................................................................53

3-9-1 Settings............................................................................................................... 54

3-9-2 Media .................................................................................................................. 56

3-9-3 Event Server ....................................................................................................... 57

3-10 Recording to SD Card..............................................................................................61

3-11 Log ........................................................................................................................... 62

3-12 Device Info............................................................................................................... 63

3-13 Maintenance ............................................................................................................ 64

3-14 Language................................................................................................................. 65

4. Using SKYROS iView software..................................................................................... 66

4-1 Installing SKYROS iView Software............................................................................66

5 Getting familiar with SKYROS iView Software............................................................. 73

5-1 Configure SKYROS iView..........................................................................................80

5-1-1 Device................................................................................................................. 81

5-1-2 Recording............................................................................................................84

5-1-3 System................................................................................................................ 87

5-1-4 Schedule............................................................................................................. 90

5-1-5 Event................................................................................................................... 93

5-1-6 Security............................................................................................................... 95

5-2 Video Playback.......................................................................................................... 98

5-2-1 Start Video Playback...........................................................................................98

5-2-2 Advanced Search................................................................................................ 99

5-2-3 Event Search..................................................................................................... 103

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5-2-4 Video Playback ................................................................................................. 106

6 Appendix .......................................................................................................................109

6-1 Specification.............................................................................................................109

6-2 Troubleshooting....................................................................................................... 1 10

6-3 Glossary....................................................................................................................111

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1. Product Information

1-1 Product Introduction

DG-SC4600I & DG-SC4600PI are 3 Megapixel Box type IP cameras with CMOS sensor. With its 3 Megapixel image resolution and H.264 compression, users can stream high quality video at low bandwidth. The IR cut filter offers a true image quality during day/night operations. This IP camera has 2 Digital inputs for receiving triggers from external devices for notifying about an activity in the area covered by the camera. It can also send a Digital output to an external device, if the IP camera detects an activity.

DG-SC4600PI supports PoE, which helps in easy installation by eliminating the need of a dedicated power source for the camera.

Other features of this Network IP Camera include:

 Ultra-high resolution 3 Megapixel CMOS image sensor.  Analog video (BNC) output, works with conventional video devices such as TV

Monitors, analog DVR, etc.

 Digital input / output interface lets you connect peripherals such as external alarm,

sensor, etc.

 Audio input / output interface, lets you listen to voices from remote places as well as

speak to people in remote places.

 Built-in SD-card slot for local storage, which can act like a stand-alone DVR.  T wo Way audio.  3GPP Mobile Surveillance Supported.  RS-485 communication supported.  ONVIF Compliant.  Supports IEEE802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard (DG-SC4600PI only).

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1-2 Safety Information

In order to keep the safety of users and your properties, please follow the safety instructions as mentioned below. The warranty will become void if you disobey these safety instructions.



This Network IP Camera is sophisticated electronic device; DO NOT drop it from a height

 DO NOT place this IP Camera at hot / humid places, and avoid direct sunlight.

 Accessories of this IP Camera like power supply are dangerous to small children. KEEP

THIS IP CAMERA OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN.

 Make sure lens set is secured when you’re using this IP Camera, lens set may fall down

if it’s not properly secured, and cause damage to human and the camera itself.

 If you want to use this IP Camera at any place that may be spilled by water or dirt, a

secure and water-proof camera housing is required.

 DO NOT pull any cord that is connected to this IP Camera by force.

 The IP Camera will get heated up when used for a long time. (This is normal and is not a

malfunction). DO NOT put this IP camera on paper, cloth, or other flammable materials.

 DO NOT connect powered cable to IP Camera’s DI/DO contacts.

 If the IP Camera falls into water when powered, DO NOT attempt to retrieve it back by

yourself! Find a qualified electrical technician for help.

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1-3 System Requirements

 Windows XP, Vista or Win 7 operating system (both 32 or 64 bits version)  2GB of system memory  1GB of Display card memory  20GB of available hard disk space on system drive

1-4 Package Contents

Before you start using this IP camera, please check if there’s anything missing in the package, and contact your dealer of purchase to claim for missing items:

 DG-SC4600I / DG-SC4600PI Megapixel Box IP Camera (1 No.)

 Switching Power Adapter (12V DC, 2A)

 Installation Guide CD (includes User Manual, Utility & Firmware)

 Quick Installation Guide

 Mounting Kit

 C - Mount Fixed 6.0 mm Lens

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1-5 Get Familiar with your new Network Box IP Camera

Front View

Item Description

1. Lens mounting slot Mounts C-mount or CS-mount Lens

2. Iris control port Connects to lens with iris control cable

3. Mounting hole Connects to tripod or pan-tilt camera cradle to secure the IP camera. There’s another mounting hole located at the opposite side of IP camera’s body.

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Rear View

Item Description

1. MIC IN

Connects to external microphone to input audio signal to IP camera. Use 3.5mm audio cable.

2. AUDIO OUT

Connects to external audio amplifier to output voice. Use

3.5mm audio cable.

3. SD

Inserts SD card for video recording. Maximum 32GB of SDHC card supported.

4. RESET

When the IP camera is not functioning properly, you can use a pen or similar object to press this reset button to reset the IP camera. You can also press and hold this button till the power LED goes off to clear all settings of IP camera, including administrator password, then the IP camera will download default settings automatically.

5. ETHERNET

Connect to your local area network by Ethernet cable. Left LED: LAN connectivity Right LED: Power Indicator

6. DI/DO (Digital

Input / Digital Output)

Digital input / output dry contacts. Connects to external peripherals by wire. See next page for pin definitions.

WARNING: DO NOT CONNECT POWERED CABLE!

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7. DC12V

Connects to 12VDC power adapter output.

8. VIDEO OUT Output video signal, connect to external video devices.

9. DC lens drive Adjust the DC lens driving ability.

DI/DO PIN ASSIGNMENT

Item Description

D+ RS485 signal positive (+) D- RS485 signal negative (-) GND Signal ground DO Digital Output #1 DI1 Digital Input #1 DI2 Digital Input #2 AC24V- AC 24V power input negative (-) AC24V+ AC 24V power input positive (+)

To insert or release a wire, press the button of the PIN you wish to insert or release.

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1-6 Installation of the Network IP Camera

Please follow the instructions mentioned below to setup your new IP camera.

1. Connect the lens to IP camera. Fix the circular ring to the sensor by moving

the ring in clockwise direction carefully until it is fixed.

NOTE: In this step, please keep lens set and camera’s CMOS sensor clean! Do not touch lens and CMOS sensor by finger!

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2. Hold the lens as shown below and twist lens set clockwise carefully and

slowly until it is fixed.

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3. Connect Ethernet cable to LAN port.

4. Plug DC power adapter to power outlet on the wall.

on connector.

please recheck every step and try again, or ask your dealer of purchase for help.

This Ethernet port supports IEEE 802.3af PoE standard. It gets power wh

it is connected to PoE switch.

5. C nect DC power cable to IP

Camera’s DC power

If everythi

ng is ok, you should see the left LED light on LAN port lit up. If not,

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2. Using Network IP Camera by Web Interface

our DHCP

server’s IP

ddress lease table to find the IP address of IP Camera.

inder.exe’ to find the IP address of IP

amera, which is located on CD-ROM.

2-1 Locate the IP address of Network IP Camera

You can use your new Network IP Camera by its web user interface via web browser. You must know the IP address of IP Camera before you can connect to it. The IP Camera will use DHCP server on your local network to obtain an IP address automatically by default. So, you can check y a

You can also use the utility named ‘IPF C

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Press ‘Discover’ button to search for all IP Cameras on your local network (make sure all IP Cameras are powered on and are connected to the local network first). When you find any IP Camera, you can click on it and click ‘Link’ button to connect to it by your web browser.

If you need to change a certain IP Camera’s IP address, you can also click on the IP Camera whose IP address you need to change, then click ‘Change IP’ button to change selected IP Camera’s IP address setting.

If you no longer need to use this utility, click ‘Exit’ button to close it.

Note:

If you have several network connections, such as “Wireless Function”, disable the “Wireless Functions” or other network connections that are not connected to the IP camera, as IP finder may fail to search IP camera.

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2-2 Connect to IP Camera’s Web User Interface

When you know the IP address of IP Camera, you can connect to it by Internet Explorer web browser by entering its IP address in the address bar. The user login screen will appear when you get connected:

IP Camera’s administrator username and password are both ‘admin’ (lower case) by default. Click ‘OK’ button or press ‘ENTER’ key on your keyboard when you finish entering username and password.

When you connect to IP Camera for the first time, you’ll see the following message. This message prompts you that you need to install ActiveX plug-in before you can see the video from IP Camera.

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For IE 8:

Right click the indi

cation bar and click: ‘‘Run Add-on” for All Users on This

Computer to install ActiveX plugin.

For IE 9:

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Click ‘Allow button located at the bottom of IE to install ActiveX plugin. If you’re prompted that Windows Firewall has blocked some features of this program’ as shown below.

Click ‘Allow access’

or IP Camera will not be able to function properly.

When you’re installing Internet Explorer plug-in, you may also be prompted if you want to allow changes to be made to your computer:

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Click on Continue. It will display the screen shown below:

Click ‘OK’ to allow changes.

After ActiveX plug-in is installed, you should be able to see the video stream from camera.

NOTE: If this is the first time you are using this IP Camera, you can jump to section 4

for instructions on Setup Wizard, which will guide

you to complete the software setup of your new IP Camera.

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2-3 Viewing Live Video

After ActiveX control is installed, you can view IP camera’s video by web browser. Just connect to IP camera by web browser and login, and then you can see live video from IP camera:

There are various controls on the web page; here are descriptions of every control item:

Item Description

‘Home’ button This button is visible in all setup pages of IP

camera, and you can go back to live video view by clicking this button when you’re in other tab.

Stream Select video stream type: H.264 or MJPEG.

MPEG4 option is visible, when you navigate to Video-> video settings and enable the ‘MPEG4’ option. H.264 requires less network bandwidth and this will help when network connection is

slow. Digital Output (ON / OFF)

Switch digital output interface on or off.

Client Settings Open ‘Client Setting’ menu. Configuration Open ‘Configuration’ menu.

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Language Opens language menu, you can switch web

interface to other language.

Available languages: English, Simplified

Chinese, Traditional Chinese Original size /

Fit screen

Switches live image view between original size

(full size: 3M pixels) and fit screen (smaller

size).

If you want to see video in detail, switch to

original size. If your computer monitor’s

resolution is not enough and you want to see full

image view, switch to fit screen and image size

will adjust automatically. ‘Connect’ button

Start live video view.

‘Disconnect’ button

Stop live video view.

‘Snapshot’ button

Take a snapshot and save image file on your

computer. When you click this button, a new

window will appear:

Click ‘Save’ button when you see the image you

wish to save, and you’ll be prompted to indicate

the folder on your computer to save image file.

If you don’t want to save image file, click

‘Cancel’.

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‘Start Video Record’ button

Click this button to record video and save video

file on your computer. The recorded file by

default will be saved at C:\Program

Files\Recording. To change the path for saving

video files go to Client settings-> Storage

option->folder and change the path there. ‘Enable Digital Zoom’ button

This function will enlarge video view digitally

from 1X to 10X, so you can see objects in video

in detail.

Note: Digital zoom uses computer algorithm

to enlarge the video and some details may be

lost.

Enable / Disable mute button

When mute is enabled (

), you will not hear the voice from IP camera; If you want to hear voice from IP camera, click this button to disable mute (

You can drag the slide bar (

) beside

enable/disable mute button to adjust audio playback volume.

Start / Stop talk Button

Start or stop playing your voice through IP camera’s audio output. When talk is stopped, people at IP camera will not hear you.

Note: You need a microphone connected to your computer, and computer’s mixer setting must enable microphone recording, or there will be no output from the IP camera.

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2-4 Client Settings

In ‘Client Settings’ menu, you configure basic IP camera settings like data transfer protocol and data storage folder.

To access ‘Client Settings’ menu, click ‘Client Settings’ button on the left. of the web page as shown below.

The following screen will appear:

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Here is the description of every setup item:

Item Description

RTSP Select this option to use RTSP (Real-Time

Streaming Protocol) to transfer video data.

HTTP Select this option to use HTTP (Hyper-Text

Transfer Protocol) to transfer video data. If you don’t know which one you should use,

select ‘RTSP’.

Folder Select a folder on your computer to save

recorded video. Click ‘Browse’ button and you’ll be prompted to select a folder.

Prefix When saving video files, the characters you

typed in ‘Prefix’ field will be used as leading characters of video file’s name. For example, the default setting of ‘Prefix’ is ‘CLIP’, and video file’s name will be

‘CLIP.avi’ Add date and time suffix to file name

Check this box to add date and time to the

ending part of video file’s filename, so you can

see the date and time the video file is created

directly from its filename.

When you finish with above settings, click ‘Apply’ button to save changes.

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3. Advanced Configuration

If you wish to configure IP camera’s settings, you can access IP camera’s ‘Configuration’ menu, which provides various kinds of system setting.

To access configuration menu, click ‘Configuration’ button on the left of the webpage.

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The ‘Configuration’ submenu will appear, please pick a setup item you wish to configure.

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3-1 System

In this menu, you can configure basic IP camera settings like hostname and time.

Here is the description of every setup item:

Item Description

Host Name Input the IP camera’s hostname here, it can be

any meaningful words or characters that will help you to identify this IP camera. You can use IP camera’s installation location as host name, and this will help you to identify IP camera when you have many IP cameras installed.

Indicator LED The LED lights located at the back of IP camera

is switched on by default. But, if you don’t want other people to know the status of this IP camera (so they will know this IP camera is operating etc.), you can select ‘Off’ and LED lights will be switched off.

Timezone Select the time zone of residence from dropdown

menu to keep correct date and time.

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