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Digital Pan & Tilt Dual Mode IP Camera
DN-16041-1
DN-16042-1
User Manual
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C A T A L O G
Chapter I: Familiar with your Internet IP Camera...................................................4
1.1 Package Contents............................................................................................4
1.2 Basic Introduction.............................................................................................5
1.3 Product Highlights ............................................................................................6
1.4 Familiar with Key Components.......................................................................7
1.5 Descriptions for LED Indicators....................................................................10
1.6 Camera Installation ........................................................................................11
1.7 Locate the IP Address of this IP Camera....................................................12
1.8 Log Onto Web Management Interface........................................................16
Chapter II: Using Web Management Interface.....................................................19
2.1 Camera Settings.............................................................................................19
2.2.1 Motion Detection..............................................................................22
2.2.2 Mute Audio........................................................................................25
2.2.3 About.................................................................................................26
2.2 PTZ Settings....................................................................................................27
2.3 LAN Settings....................................................................................................31
2.3.1 IP Address........................................................................................31
2.3.3 Dynamic DNS ..................................................................................34
2.3.4 UPnP.................................................................................................35
2.3.5 LoginFree..........................................................................................37
2.5.1 Dual Mode........................................................................................44
2.5.2 MPEG4..............................................................................................45
2.4.3 MJPEG..............................................................................................46
2.4.4 Audio..................................................................................................47
2.5 Email & FTP ....................................................................................................48
2.5.1 Email Settings..................................................................................49
2.5.2 FTP Settings ....................................................................................51
2.6 Motion Detection.............................................................................................53
2.7 System..............................................................................................................55
2.7.1 Camera Information........................................................................56
2.7.2 Date / Time Setting..........................................................................57
2.7.3 Utilities...............................................................................................58
2.8 Status................................................................................................................60
2.9 Users ................................................................................................................61
Chapter III: Windows-Based Utility.........................................................................64
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3.1 Install Windows-based Utility........................................................................64
3.1.1 Using the Administrator Utility.......................................................71
3.1.1.1 General Setting ....................................................................73
3.1.1.2 Configure Camera................................................................74
3.1.1.3 LAN Setting...........................................................................75
3.1.1.4 Security ..................................................................................76
3.2 Using the Viewer Utility..................................................................................77
3.2.1 Configure IP camera viewer..........................................................80
3.2.1.1 Configure cameras ..............................................................80
3.2.1.1.1 ‘Camera’ tab..............................................................81
3.2.1.1.2 Schedule Recording.................................................84
3.2.1.1.3 Audio...........................................................................87
3.2.1.1.4 Motion Record...........................................................88
3.2.1.2 General Settings ..................................................................90
3.2.1.2.1 ‘General’ tab..............................................................90
3.2.1.2.2 ‘E-Mail Setting’ tab....................................................92
3.2.1.2.3 Security ......................................................................94
3.2.1.2.4 About ..................................................................96
3.2.2 Change Display Layout..................................................................97
3.2.3 Full-screen mode...........................................................................101
3.2.4 Scan ................................................................................................102
3.2.5 Zoom-in / Zoom-out ......................................................................103
3.2.6 PTZ (for PZ camera only) ............................................................104
3.2.7 Snapshot.........................................................................................105
3.2.8 Recording.......................................................................................106
3.2.9 Video Playback..............................................................................107
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Chapter I: Familiar with your Internet IP Camera
1.1 Package Contents
Thank you for purchasing this IP camera! Before you start to use this IP
camera, please check the package contents. If anything is missing, please
contact the dealer of purchase and return the package to claim for missing
contents.
Item Name Quantity
1 IP Camera 1
□
2 Antenna 1
□
3 Power Adapter 1
□
4 Ethernet Cable 1
□
5 Driver and User Manual CD-ROM 1
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1.2 Basic Introduction
Thank you for purchasing this Internet IP camera! This IP camera is an ideal
product for all kinds of video-surveillance purposes, like home/office safety,
kid/pet monitoring, and remote video acquire etc. Unlink conventional
close-circuit vide camera, you’re not limited to the length of cable! Once this IP
camera is connected to Internet, you can receive video from anywhere in the
world where Internet access is available.
If you have problem installing a new cable from the place the camera is
installed to your monitoring computer, don’t worry! This IP camera also
supports wireless network, that is, you can link to this camera wirelessly! You
only have to provide this IP camera with 12V power by the power adapter that
comes with the product package, and you don’t have to set a new network
cable between the IP camera and monitoring computer.
Worry about the content will be intercepted by unauthorized person when the
video is transmitted over the air? That’s also not a problem! Unlink
conventional analog wireless camera, which video will be intercepted by
anyone who got a compatible video receiver, this IP camera supports data
encryption (WEP & WPA), which will provide ultimate data security level. All
video transmitted over the air is encrypted; therefore no one will be able to get
the video captured by the IP camera, expect yourself.
Some people may concern that there will be some places which will not be
covered by camera, but this problem is completely solved by this IP camera.
With built-in pan-tilt function, you can point the camera to the position where
you wish to look at with user interface. You can even define a preset path, and
the camera will cruise along the path you defined.
You can discover more useful functions in next section!
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1.3 Product Highlights
No pre-loaded software required - all you need is a browser like Internet
Explorer 6 (and above, with plugin installed).
Supports VGA (640 x 480), QVGA (320 x 240), and QQVGA (160 x 120)
and MJPG mega pixel mode SXGA(1280x1024), VGA(640x480)and
QVGA(320x240) video resolution.
Supports 2-way audio transmission, with speaker output and built-in
microphone.
Anti-flicker function (eliminates flash caused by fluorescent lights, 50 /
60Hz selectable).
Supports two video compression format (MJPEG and MPEG4).
Wired and wireless network (802.11b / 802.11g) support, supports up to
100Mbps for wired network and 54Mbps for wireless network.
Wireless data encryption (WEP / WPA)
Supports DHCP and PPPoE protocol, you can also assign a fixed IP
address to the camera also.
Supports Dynamic DNS (used to allocate the IP camera’s Internet address,
when the ISP you’re using does not assign you with a fixed Internet
address).
Supports UPnP, Windows XP (and above) will discover this IP camera in
network neighbor automatically.
Send captured picture by Email or FTP when motion is detected.
Configurable motion detection sensitivity (6 levels from most sensitive to
least sensitive).
Built-in real-time clock, date and time information will be recorded with
every captured picture / video clip (also supports auto time
synchronization via network time protocol).
Upgradeable firmware - enjoy new functions without buying a new
camera!
Supports up to 4 users, and you can set different password to different
user.
Usage and event logging.
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1.4 Familiar with Key Components
Front View
LAN LED
WLAN LED
Power LED
Camera
Focus Ring
LAN LED: Indicates LAN activity
WLAN LED: Indicates Wireless LAN activity
Power LED: Indicates power status
Camera: Video camera with lens
Focus Ring: Adjusts focus
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Top View
B
ottom View
Reset Button: Press and hold for 5 seconds to reset the camera settings to
factory default value.
Power Jack: Connect to power adapter for power supply.
LAN Jack: Connect to your local area network by network cable.
Speaker Out: Connect to external speaker
Microphone: Built-in microphone for voice pick-up
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B
ack View
Tripod Connector: Connects to any standard tripod / camera wall holder.
MAC Address Label: Shows the MAC address of this IP camera. Useful when
you can’t locate the camera on the network.
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1.5 Descriptions for LED Indicators
LED Name Status Description
Off Network cable is disconnected
On Network cable is connected
LAN
Flash Transferring data via LAN port
Off No wireless LAN activity WLAN
On Transferring data via wireless LAN
Off Camera is not powered (camera off) Power
On Camera is correctly powered (camera on)
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1.6 Camera Installation
Please follow the following instructions to set your IP camera up.
1. Unpack the product package and check if anything’s missing.
2. Connect the antenna to the antenna base, which is located at the top of this
IP camera.
3. Plug the power adapter to wall socket, and connect the power connector to
the power jack located at the bottom of the IP camera.
4. Connect the Ethernet cable to your local area network, and connect the
other end to the LAN jack of this IP camera.
NOTE: You can skip this step if you plan to use wireless LAN only.
5. Connect your tripod / camera holder, and point the camera to the place you
wish to monitor.
6. Connect the external speaker’s audio cable to ‘Speaker’ jack located at the
bottom of this IP camera.
If you don’t need audio support, you can skip this step.
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1.7 Locate the IP Address of this IP Camera
Default IP address of this IP camera is 192.168.2.3. If you wish to assign
another IP address to this IP camera, you have to log onto the web
configuration interface of the camera first.
If the left three fields of the IP address of your computer is not 192.168.2, you’ll
have to change the IP address of your computer first:
1. Click ‘Start’ -> ‘Control Panel’
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2. Double-click ‘Network Connections’ icon.
3. Right-click ‘Local Area Connection’, and click ‘Properties’.
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4. Select ‘Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)’, then click ‘Properties’.
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5. In ‘IP address’ field, please fill in any IP address begins with ‘192.168.2’,
and ends with a value greater than 2 and less than 254 (You can use the
example in the picture ‘192.168.2.339’). In Subnet mask field, please fill
‘255.255.255.0’. Please keep all other fields empty, and click ‘OK’.
If you changed the IP address of this IP camera and you forget it, there’re 2
methods to recover it:
a. Press and hold the ‘Reset’ button located at the bottom of this IP
camera, to clear all settings of the IP camera and reset the IP address
back to 192.168.2.3. You’ll lose all settings in the IP camera.
b. Ask network administrator to check the DHCP release table, if the
camera was set to obtain the IP address by DHCP, a new record will be
added to DHCP release table on DHCP server when the IP camera is
connected to the local area network.
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1.8 Log Onto Web Management Interface
Make sure the IP camera is correctly powered (Power LED is on), and then
launch Internet Explorer and type the IP address of the IP camera in address
bar of Internet Explorer. You should be prompted to input the user name and
password:
Default user name is ‘admin’ (in lower case) and password is ‘1234’. Click ‘OK’
to continue after user name and password has entered.
If you’re rejected, maybe the password has been modified previously. This
should not happen if this is a newly-purchased camera, however, if you get the
camera from someone else, the password would be changed. Please try to
obtain the correct user name / password, or you’ll have to reset the camera.
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After logged on, you should see the following messages at the top of Internet
Explorer:
This IP camera requires a special ActiveX control (A.K.A. ‘Plugin’) to work.
Please click on the message, and select ‘Install ActiveX Control…’:
When you’re prompted, click ‘Install’ to continue.
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You should be able to see the image from camera now:
Note: If you see one of these messages (or both):
OR
Your com puter m ay not have the display cap ability that this IP camera requires,
or you don’t have Microsoft DirectX® installed. Please download Microsoft
DirectX® from Microsoft’s website (http://www.microsoft.com), and try again.
In some cases, your computer is able to display the image from IP camera
correctly, but you’ll still see these messages. If this happens, just ignore them.
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Chapter II: Using Web Management Interface
2.1 Camera Settings
The first menu after you logged onto web management interface is ‘Camera’,
and this is the only menu you can see the real-time image from camera.
You can always back to this menu by clicking ‘Camera’ on the top of web
management interface.
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The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Video Format Specifies video encoding format. You can choose
MPEG4 or MJPEG (Motion-JPEG).
MPEG4 mode also supports motion detection (see
chapter 2.2.1).
Speak to IPCam If your computer is equipped with a microphone, you can
click this button and speak to the microphone. Your voice
will be transmitted to the external speaker connected to
the IP camera. This makes the IP camera become a
network telephone, and you can talk to the people there.
Please note that your voice will only be transmitted
during the time you press and hold the ‘Speak to IPCam’
button. When you release the button, your voice will not
be transmitted to IP camera.
(If ‘Speak to IPCam’ button is grayed out, you have to
activate audio function of this IP camera before you can
use this function - see chapter 2.4 for detailed
instruction).
Snapshot Take a snapshot picture and save the picture to your
computer’s hard drive.
Record Start video recording and save recorded video clip to
your computer’s hard drive.
PTZ control
panel
Zoom in
Press , the image will be zoom in double sized big.
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Full View
Direction Panel
Press , you can see full size image.
There are 8 directions of control panel. You can control
Left-Right, Up-Down by this panel.
Pan/Tilt speed You can adjust Pan / Tilt moving speed from 1(Slow) to
5(Fast)
Position Name You can add name to locate position. Like Windows, Door or
other easy words.
Available Position You can check and see the existing position record here.
Add
After you named the position name, you can press to
store the preset position.
Goto
After you select an existing position and click , the screen
will go to the selection preset position immediately.
Remove If you want to remove preset position, you can select the
existing preset position and click
.
*After you set the preset positions, you can use Guard Tour function in PTZ menu.
Start Cruise
Pan/Tilt
Cruise Tour will follow Cruise Tour Path to start cruise.
Stop Cruise
Pan/Tilt
After press , the original button
will become
.
Press can stop Cruise Tour then
the original button will become .
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2.2.1 Motion Detection
When you’re using ‘MPEG4’ encoding format, you can use motion detection
function. When a motion is detected, the IP camera will take a picture
automatically . By using this function, you can turn this IP camera into a security
camera, and record all motions only for the area you defined, and ignore all
other areas you don’t need to record.
To setup motion detection, please select ‘MPEG4’ as encoding format, and
right-click on the image. A pop-up menu will appear:
TIP: You can setup motion detection area here; however, you have to enable
motion detection function of this IP camera before it really works. Please refer to
chapter 2.6 to see detailed instructions for how to enable this function.
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Please click ‘Motion Detection’ in pop-up menu, and a new setup menu
will appear:
The IP camera will display the image of the area that IP camera points to at the
left. The motion detection area must be rectangle, and cover the area you want
to use motion detection function.
You can define a new motion detection region by mouse cursor:
1. Click and hold left mouse button at the start point of rectangle on the image.
2. Drag the mouse cursor, to define a rectangle.
3. When you think the rectangle meets your needs, release left mouse button.
If you’re not satisfied with the area that covered by the rectangle you just
drawn, just repeat step 1 to 3 to establish a new rectangle. Then, click ‘Add
Region’ to add a new region to your motion detection region list.
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The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Region List Lists all existing motion detection regions. You can define
up to three pre-defined region.
Region Name When you define a new region by mouse cursor, a default
region name will appear here automatically (named by
the size of the region you defined). You can change the
name to the one you want to use by keyboard.
Sensitivity Define the sensitivity of motion detection. When the
sensitivity is lower, the IP camera will take a picture only
when a numerous changes in the area are detected. If
you want the IP camera to record all tiny changes in the
motion detection area you defined, use a higher
sensitivity setting.
Threshold When the threshold is lower, the IP camera will take a
picture only when a numerous motion is detected. If you
want the IP camera to record any motion in the motion
detection area you defined, use a higher threshold
setting.
Add Region When you defined a new region by mouse cursor, click
this button to add a new region to ‘Region List’, and use
the name listed at ‘Region Name’ as new region’s name.
Get snapshot If you moved the IP camera, or the objects that IP camera
faces to is moved, you can click this button to get a new
snapshot of the area that IP camera faces to, so you can
decide how to
When you finish with setting up motion detection region, click ‘OK’ to start
motion detection, or click ‘Cancel’ to discard all settings you just made, and
motion detection function will not be activated.
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2.2.2 Mute Audio
This IP camera will transmit all sound received by built-in microphone to your
computer by default. If you don’t want to hear it or want to save more
bandwidth for video on a slow network connection, you can mute audio for a
while.
To mute audio, please select ‘MPEG4’ as encoding format, and right-click on
the image. A pop-up menu will appear:
Click ‘Mute Audio’ to mute audio. A check will appear in front of ‘Mute
audio’ to indicate that sound received by IP camera’ s microphone will not
be transferred to your computer. Click ‘Mute audio’ again to hear the
sound received by IP camera’s microphone again.
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2.2.3 About
This function will provide you with the version number of current IP
camera plugin, which is useful when you need online support.
To see version information, right-click on the image. A pop-up menu will appear:
Select ‘About’ and the version information will appear:
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2.2 PTZ Settings
Item Description
Name The name of Guard Tour Name.
Running The status of Guard Tours.
No: Guard tour function is off.
Yes: Guard tour function is on.
Mode There are two modes of Guard Tour.
Sequential: Display preset position image by order.
Random: Random display preset position image.
Add Press “Add” button to create new Guard Tour.
Edit Press “Edit” button to modify the existing Guard Tour.
Start / Stop Press “Start/Stop” button to start or stop Guard Tour.
Remove Select existing Guard Tour then press “Remove” button to
remove Guard Tour.
How to create a new Guard Tour?
STEP1: Create Preset Position
1. Select position and enter Name into “Position Name” field (Ex: Window, Door…)
2. Press “Add” Button to save the preset position.
STEP2: Create a new Guard Tour
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1. Press “Add” button
STEP3: Setup Guard Tour
1. Enter Guard Tour name into “Name” filed
2. Select Available Positions then press “Add to list” button
3. Modify the Guard Tour list
4. You can modify the View Time and View Order or remove which position
5. After modified all items then press “Save” button to save all parameters.
6. Press “Close” button to finish Setup Guard Tour”
STEP4: Start Guard Tour
1. Select on Guard Tour list then press “Start/Stop” to active Guard Tour
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2. Click on Camera Item and view the Guard Tour process
After 10 seconds
Item Description
Position1 Position2
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Cruise Tour Path There are four paths of Cruise Tour. That means device can
follow different tour path for cruising.
Apply After select the Cruise Tour Path, please press “Apply”
button to finish.
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2.3 LAN Settings
All network-related settings can be found in this menu, and you have to specify
TCP/IP parameters in this menu if you want to change IP address, use PPPoE,
Dynamic DNS, and activate UPnP function.
You can access this menu by clicking ‘LAN’ on the top of web management
interface.
2.3.1 IP Address
You can define IP address and select the port number you wish to use here.
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The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Network Type This camera can obtain the IP address from DHCP
server automatically (if you have one), or set a fixed IP
address. Select ‘DHCP’ to obtain IP address
automatically or ‘Static IP Address’ to assign this IP
camera with a fixed IP address.
When ‘DHCP’ is selected, IP address parameters below
will be grayed out.
IP Address Specify the IP address for this IP camera here.
Subnet Mask Specify the subnet mask for this IP camera here.
Gateway Specify the gateway address of the local network here.
Primary DNS Specify the IP address of DNS server here. Please input
IP address only. If you don’t know the address of DNS
server, ask network administrator or your ISP for help.
Secondary DNS Specify the IP address of backup DNS server here. When
primary DNS is unreachable, IP camera will use the IP
address specified here as DNS server.
This field is optional.
AV Control Port Specify the port number of video transfer here. If you
have firewall on your network, you need to allow
computers on Internet to access this port number of the
IP address of IP camera, or you’ll not be able to view
video from Internet.
HTTP Port Specify the port number of web management interface
here. If it’s not 80, you’ll have to add ‘:port’ after the IP
address / hostname of this IP camera.
For example, if the HTTP port number you specified here
is 90 and the IP address of IP camera is 10.20.20.30,
then you have to input ‘http://10.20.20.30:90’
in the address bar of Internet explorer.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
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2.3.2 PPPoE
If the ISP requires you to connect to the Internet by PPPoE, you can specify
PPPoE username and password here.
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Enable PPPoE Select ‘Enable’ to activate PPPoE function of this IP
camera, select ‘Disable’ to disable it.
User Name Input the PPPoE username assigned by your ISP here.
Password Input the PPPoE password assigned by your ISP here.
MTU Input the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) given by
your ISP here. Ask your ISP if you don’t know what value
you should input here, or use default value.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
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2.3.3 Dynamic DNS
If your ISP does not give you a fixed Internet IP address (i.e. the Internet
address you’re using when you access the Internet is not always the same –
ask your ISP for detailed information), you can use this function to help you
locate the IP address of this IP camera when you’re away from home or office.
Before you can use this function, you’ll need to apply for an account at
dyndns.org (http://www.dyndns.org). Detailed instructions of how to apply a
new account can be found on dyndns.org’s website.
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Enable DDNS Select ‘Enable’ to activate Dynamic DNS function of this
IP camera, select ‘Disable’ to disable it.
Provider Select dynamic DNS service provider here. Only
dyndns.org is available currently.
Host Name Input dynamic DNS host name here.
User Name Input dynamic DNS user name here, must be the same
as the one you applied on dyndns.org.
Password Input dynamic DNS password here, must be the same as
the one you applied on dyndns.org.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
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2.3.4 UPnP
When UPnP function is activated, all UPnP-compatible computers / network
devices will be able to discover this IP camera automatically (only those in the
same local network).
This function is useful and you don’t have to remember the IP address of this
IP camera. Simply open ‘Network neighbor’ and it’s there!
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Enable UPnP Select ‘Enable’ to activate UPnP function of this IP
camera, select ‘Disable’ to disable it.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
After UPnP function is activated, a popup message will appear:
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Click the message to open ‘My Network Places’, and you’ll see the IP camera:
You can double-click the icon to launch Internet Explorer and log onto IP
camera’s web management interface directly.
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2.3.5 LoginFree
You can specify a filename here, and everyone who know this filename
can gain access to the picture captured by the IP camera with this name
with .jpg file extension.
For example, if the filename you specified here is ‘loginfree’ and your IP
camera’s IP address is ‘192.168.2.3’, then everyone on the network can
access to the picture taken by the IP camera at
‘http://192.168.2.3/loginfree.jpg’.
This function is for convenience only, and anyone who knows this
filename will be able to see the picture taken by your IP camera. Please
think again before you use this function.
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
LoginFree Specify the file name of the picture here. If you want to
disable this function, leave it blank.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
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2.4 WLAN Parameters
If you wish to use wireless network instead of wired network connection, you
have to set wireless LAN parameters here.
You can access this menu by clicking ‘LAN’ on the top of web management
interface.
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The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Wireless
Connection
Select ‘Enable’ to activate wireless network function of
this IP camera, select ‘Disable’ to disable it.
Network Type Select the network type of wireless connection.
Available options are ‘Infrastructure’ (Connect the IP
camera to a wireless access point), and ‘Adhoc’ (This IP
camera will become a stand-alone wireless network
point, other wireless computers / devices can discover
this IP camera and connect to it without wireless access
point).
You can set to ‘Adhoc’ when you don’t have any wireless
access point, but your computer has wireless network
card. Set to ‘Infrastructure’ when you have wireless
access point, and you have computers with wired
network connection.
Available
Networks
Here shows all wireless access points found by this IP
camera. Please note not all access points will be
displayed at the same time, if the access point you wish
to connect does not appear, you may have to click
‘Refresh’ button for several times until it appears.
The descriptions of all fields is listed below:
Connect: You can select the wireless access point you
wish to connect here.**
SSID: the SSID of all found wireless access points will be
shown here. Some wireless access point may hide their
SSID, in this case, you have to identify them by their
MAC address.
MAC Address: If you there are many wireless access
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points in proximity or some wireless access point hides
it’s SSID, you can use MAC address to distinguish them.
Signal: Shows the radio signal strength in percent.
Channel: Shows the radio channel of this wireless access
point.
Encryption: Shows the encryption type used by this
wireless access point. You must use the same encryption
type if you wish to connect to a certain wireless access
point. If the wireless access point does not use
encryption, ‘Disabled’ will be displayed here.
Network Type: Shows the network type of a certain
wireless access point (Infrastructure or Adhoc).
SSID Input the SSID of the wireless access point you wish to
connect. It should be less than 32 alphanumerical
characters.
When you select a wireless access point above, it’s SSID
will be filled in this field automatically. However, if the
SSID is not displayed (the wireless access point you
selected choose to hide it’s SSID), you have to know it’s
SSID and input it here, or you will not be able to connect
it.
Channel Select the radio channel you wish to use here. When
network type is ‘Infrastructure’, the radio channel is
auto-selected according to the channel that wireless
access point uses. You can only select the channel
number when network type is ‘Adhoc’.
Basic Rate Select the maximum wireless data transfer rate here,
from 1Mbps to 54Mbps. Maximum transfer rate for
802.11b wireless network is 11Mbps, and maximum
transfer rate for 802.11g wireless network is 54Mbps.
It’s recommended to select ‘Auto’, so the data transfer
rate will vary according to the actual signal strength and
quality.
Authentication Select the wireless authentication here, and this setting
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must be the same with the wireless access point you
selected.
When you select a wireless access point from the list, it’s
authentication type will be selected automatically, and
you should not modify it or you will not be able to connect
to the wireless access point you selected.
Available options are: None (no authentication), Open
System, Shared Key System, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK,
and WPANone (the last one is only for Adhoc).
Encryption Type Select the wireless encryption type here, and this setting
must be the same with the wireless access point you
selected.
When you select a wireless access point from the list, it’s
encryption type will be selected automatically, and you
should not modify it or you will not be able to connect to
the wireless access point you selected.
Available options are: None, WEP, TKIP and AES. The
options available here will vary depends on the
authentication type you selected above. If an
authentication type does not support need encryption,
this field will be grayed out.
WPA Pre-Shared
Key
Input the WPA pre-shared key here.
This field is only available when authentication type is
WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK, and will be grayed out when
other authentication type is selected.
WEP Key Length Please select the key length when you use WEP
encryption. Available options are 64-bit and 128-bit.
Selecting ‘128-Bit’ is safer, however, it would make the
network a little bit slower.
If the key length is 64-bit, you should input 10 HEX
characters or 5 ASCII characters, like 112233aabb (HEX)
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or MYWEP (ASCII).
If the key length is 128-bit, you should input 26 HEX
characters or 13 ASCII characters, like
11223344556677889900abcdef (HEX) or
myweppassword (ASCII).
WEP Key Format Select the Key Format of WEP key here. Available
options are ‘HEX’ and ‘ASCII’.
When you select ‘HEX’ WEP key format, you can only
use numbers (0 to 9), and alphabet a to f as WEP key;
when you select ‘ASCII’ WEP key format, you can use all
alphanumerical characters, and is case sensitive.
Default Key Select the default key set that is IP camera should use
against the wireless access point when WEP encryption
is used.
Available options are 1 to 4.
WEP Key 1 Input the 1st set of WEP key here. At least a set of WEP
key is required and you should use 1st WEP key if you
only have one WEP key.
WEP Key 2 Input the 2nd set of WEP key here.
WEP Key 3 Input the 3rd set of WEP key here.
WEP Key 4 Input the 4th set of WEP key here.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
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2.5 Audio/Video
You can specify the video and audio parameters of this IP camera here.
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2.5.1 Dual Mode
This IP camera supports two video encoding formats: MPEG4 and
MJPEG. You can select the encoding format from one of them.
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Default Video
Format
Specify default video encoding format of this IP camera
here. Available options are MPEG4 and MJPEG.
Default Video
Mode
Specify default video mode of this IP camera hear.
Available options are Mega-Pixel Mode and Normal
Power
Frequency
Adjust this property to fitting light frequency.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
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2.5.2 MPEG4
If you selected ‘MPEG4’ as the video encoding format of this IP camera,
you can specify the parameters of MPEG4 video encoder here.
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Video Resolution Specify video resolution of MPEG4 video encoder.
Available options are XGA,VGA and QVGA resolution
under mega pixel mode, VGA, QGVA and QQGVA under
Normal mode. VGA resolution provides more details than
QVGA, but requires more network bandwidth.
Video Quality Specify video encoding rate of MPEG4 video encoder by
either CBR or VBR.CBR available options are from
200Kbps to 2Mbps. VBR available options are from
highest to lowest. Greater video bit rate provides better
video quality, but requires more network bandwidth.
Video Frame
Rate
Specify video refresh rate of MPEG4 video encoder.
Higher video refresh rate provides more details about
motion, but requires more network bandwidth.
CAUTION: Choosing a low frame rate will save
bandwidth, but may not be able to capture every motion if
the object that IP camera points to is moving fast.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
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2.4.3 MJPEG
If you selected ‘MJPEG’ as the video encoding format of this IP camera,
you can specify the parameters of MPEG4 video encoder here.
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Video Resolution Specify video resolution of MJPEG video encoder.
Available options are SXGA, VGA and QVGA under
megapixel mode, VGA, QVGA, and QQVGA resolution
under normal mode. VGA resolution provides more
details than QVGA and QQVGA, but requires more
network bandwidth.
Video Quality Specify video encoding quality of MJPEG video encoder.
There are five levels of video quality from highest to
lowest. Higher video quality provides better video quality,
but requires more network bandwidth.
Video Frame
Rate
Specify video refresh rate of MJPEG video encoder.
Higher video refresh rate provides more details about
motion, but requires more network bandwidth.
CAUTION: Choosing a low frame rate will save
bandwidth, but may not be able to capture every motion if
the object that IP camera points to is moving fast.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
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2.4.4 Audio
This IP camera supports audio function, that is, when external speaker is
connected to this IP camera, you can talk to the people in front of the IP
camera like using a telephone, when your computer is equipped with
speaker and microphone.
Using audio function requires additional bandwidth. If your network
bandwidth is not enough, you may not be able to use audio function
smoothly. In this case, you can try a lower video resolution / quality /
frame rate, to save more bandwidth for audio function.
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Audio Function Choose ‘Enable’ to enable audio function of this IP
camera, or choose ‘Disable’ to disable it.
Microphone
Volume
Specify the microphone volume. If you found that you can
not hear the sound from IP camera clearly, you may
increase the number here.
Audio Line-Out
Volume
Specify the line-out volume here. If you found that the
people encounters difficult when listening to you, you
may increase the number here. The default volume is 80.
CAUTION: Using a high number here with an amplified
external speaker may cause hearing problem to the
people standing in front of the speaker, or may cause
damage to the speaker itself.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
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2.5 Email & FTP
This IP camera is capable to send an Email or perform FTP upload with
captured image, when a motion is detected. This is very convenient since IP
camera will guard the environment automatically for you, and you don’t have to
look at the monitor all the time.
You can access this menu by clicking ‘E-Mail & FTP’ on the top of web
management interface.
The instructions of Email and FTP settings will be given below.
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2.5.1 Email Settings
These settings are used to send the captured picture via Email:
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Recipient E-Mail
Address
Input the email recipient’s Email address here.
SMTP Server Input the IP address or host name of the SMTP server
(the server that delivers the Email for you) here.
If you don’t know, please refer to the SMTP server you’re
using in your Email software (like Outlook, Outlook
Express etc.), or ask your network administrator or ISP.
Sender E-Mail
Address
Input the Email address of mail sender, this will help you
to identify the Email sent by this IP camera by sender’s
Email address.
NOTE: Some mail server would reject to deliver the
Email from unknown sender, it’s recommended to input
your own Email address here, or any other actual one.
SMTP
Authentication
Some SMTP server requires mail senders to be
authenticated before they can send Email. If your SMTP
server requires you to do so, please select ‘Enable’, or
select ‘Disable’ to disable it. If you don’t know, please
refer to the SMTP server you’re using in your Email
software (like Outlook, Outlook Express etc.), or ask your
network administrator or ISP.
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User Name Please input the user name of SMTP server here, if your
SMTP server requires the use of authentication.
Password Please input the password of SMTP server here, if your
SMTP server requires the use of authentication.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
After that, you can click ‘Send a test email’ to send a testing Email to the
address you set here, so you can make sure the setting you specified here is
correct and working.
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2.5.2 FTP Settings
These settings are used to send the captured picture by FTP:
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
FTP Server Input the IP address or host name of the FTP server you
wish to use here.
FTP Port Input the port number of the FTP server you wish to use
here.
User Name Input the user name of the FTP server you wish to use
here.
Password Input the password of the FTP server you wish to use
here.
Remote Folder Input the remote folder name on the FTP server here. If
nothing is specified here, all uploaded image files will be
placed in FTP server’s root directory.
Please ask FTP server’s administrator to know which
folder you should use. Certain user name may have
restrictions and therefore can not place the file in the
directory not owned by the user.
Passive Mode Select ‘Enable’ to use passive mode to send file, or select
‘Disable’ to not to use passive mode to send file.
Some FTP servers require passive mode, if you don’t
know, please ask FTP server’s administrator; most of
FTP servers will work fine with both modes, but if you
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found that non-passive mode is not working, you can try
to use passive mode.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
After that, you can click ‘Upload a test file’ to send a file to the FTP server you
set here, so you can make sure the setting you specified here is correct and
working.
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2.6 Motion Detection
Motion detection function makes this IP camera become your non-stop guard.
You don’t have to waste all the time monitoring the images from the camera,
and camera will detect all motions for you. Once motion is detected, a captured
image will be sent to you by Email or via FTP.
You can access this menu by clicking ‘Motion Detection’ on the top of web
management interface.
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Enable Motion
Detection
Select ‘Enable’ to start motion detection, and select
‘Disable’ to disabled it.
Next Event
Detected Interval
Specify the time interval between two motion detections
in seconds. If a motion is detected after last detection
time, and before next detection time, nothing will be send
by Email or via FTP.
Please specify a time interval that suites your need. If the
time interval is too long, you may not be able to know
what is happened between time interval; if the time
interval is too short, you may receive too much
unnecessary images, and consumes too much disk
storage spaces on Email and / or FTP server.
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Recording Time Set the maximum recording time of a video clip when
motion is detected.
Send snapshot
file to Email
Select ‘Yes’ to send a picture to the Email address you
specified in ‘E-Mail & FTP’ menu when a motion is
detection, and select ‘No’ to disable this function.
E-Mail Subject Set the subject of Email being sent here. This will help
you to distinguish the Email sent by this IP camera from
others.
Send snapshot
file to FTP
Select ‘Yes’ to send a picture to the FTP server you
specified in ‘E-Mail & FTP’ menu when a motion is
detection, and select ‘No’ to disable this function.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
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2.7 System
The system menu allows you to set some system-specific parameters, like
password and time setting. You can also upgrade the firmware of this IP
camera, to make new functions available on this IP camera. You may also
clear all settings or reboot the IP camera here.
You can access this menu by clicking ‘System’ on the top of web management
interface.
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2.7.1 Camera Information
Camera information allows you to set the name and administrator’s password
of this camera.
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Camera Name Please specify the name of this IP Camera here. This can
be used to identify your camera on the network when you
have more than one IP camera in the same network.
Default name begins with ‘IC-‘ plus the last 6 characters
of the MAC address of this IP camera. You can modify
the name to the one you can remember and meaningful
to you, but never give all IP cameras in the same network
with same name.
Password Please specify user name ‘admin’ ‘s password here. (The
one you need when you log onto web management
interface and use ‘admin’ as user name.
Confirm
Password
Please input the same password again, to make sure
there’s no typo.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
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2.7.2 Date / Time Setting
This setting allows you to change the date and time of the real time clock in this
IP camera. You can set the time manually, or use network time protocol (NTP)
to set the time automatically.
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Set Date/Time
manually
Please input the date and time you wish to set here.
Date / time format is YYYY / MM / DD HH:MM:SS
Time is in 24-hour format.
You can click ‘Synchronize to PC time’ to use the time of
the computer you’re using.
Example: 24th August 2007 = 2007/ 08 / 24,
and PM 9:24:30 = 21:24:30
Time Zone Please select the time zone of the country / city of
resident from dropdown menu here.
NTP Server Please input the IP address or host name of NTP server
here. You can use default value ‘pool.ntp.org’, or ask your
ISP for the IP address or host name, if they have one.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
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2.7.3 Utilities
This menu allows you to upgrade firmware, clear all settings, reboot the IP
camera, and switch LED lights on/off.
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
Upgrade
Firmware
If you downloaded latest firmware file from our website,
you can click ‘Browse’ button to pick the firmware file you
wish to use. Then click ‘Upgrade’ button to start firmware
upgrade procedure.
It’s recommended to use wired Ethernet connection
when you use this function, and DO NOT DISCONNECT
OR CLOSE WEB BROWSER DURING UPGRADE!
Reset Clear all settings in the camera. Please think again
before you do this, and then click this button to reset all
settings.
NOTE: IP address will be reset to default value
‘192.168.2.3’ also. You’ll need to change the IP address
setting of your computer if the IP address of your
computer does not begin with ‘192.168.2’, and subnet
mask is not ‘255.255.255.0’, or you’ll not be able to
connect to this IP camera again.
Reboot Device If you found the IP camera is responding slowly or
behaves strange, you can click this button to try to reboot
the IP camera, this may help.
LED Setting Switch the LED light of this IP camera off, so ‘LAN’ and
‘WLAN’ LED on the IP camera will stop working, in case
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you don’t want other people know the camera is
transferring data.
You can click this button again to switch LED lights on
again.
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2.8 Status
This menu provides all information about this IP camera, like firmware version,
system uptime, date / time, and network information.
You can access this menu by clicking ‘Status’ on the top of web management
interface.
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2.9 Users
If you wish to allow other people to view the image captured by this camera,
but don’t want to allow them to modify system settings, you can give them
user-level user name and password, so they can only view the image and can
not change any system setting. When they want to click menus other than
‘Camera’, they will see the following message informing that they don’t have
permission to do that:
This IP camera supports up to 4 users.
You can access this menu by clicking ‘Users’ on the top of web management
interface.
Please note: only one user (including administrator) will be able to view the
image of IP camera at the same time.
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The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below:
Item Description
User (1 - 4) Select ‘Enable’ to enable this user (allow him / her to
login), and select ‘Disable’ to disallow him / her to login.
Selecting ‘Disable’ won’t erase the user name and
password, so you can select ‘disable’ to disallow a user
from logging in temporarily, without erasing it’s account
information.
Login Specify the user name here. Please use alphanumerical
characters (0 to 9, A to Z, and a to z). Not using symbols
and space.
Password Specify the password for this user here.
Confirm
Password
Specify the password for this user here again.
Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
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2.10 Log
All activities of this IP camera will be logged, and you and enter ‘Log’ menu to
view these logs.
You can access this menu by clicking ‘Log’ on the top of web management
interface.
Click ‘Refresh’ to get latest update.
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Chapter III: Windows-Based Utility
3.1 Install Windows-based Utility
Follow the simple steps below to run the Install Wizard to guide you quickly through
the Installation process. The following installation is implemented in Windows XP.
The installation procedures in Windows 2000/Server 2003 are similar.
1. Insert the CD shipped along with the Internet Camera into your CD-ROM drive.
The “Autorun.exe” program should be executed automatically. If not, run
“Autorun.exe” manually from “Autorun” folder in the CD.
2. The Install Wizard will show four selections, select the program you want to
install or click “Exit” to install the program later. The following installation steps
are the demonstration of “Install Administrator Utility”.
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3. The system will start the installation procedures. Click “Next” to continue
installation.
4. If you wish to install the software program in an alternate location, click “Change”;
otherwise click “Next” to move on to the next step.
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5. Click “Install” to start installing the program.
6. The system will install the program automatically.
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7. Click “Finish” to complete ‘’Administrator Utility’’ installation.
8. After finished the installation of Administrator Utility, please go back to wizard
page and click ‘’Install 16 Chan camera viewer’’, the system will start running
viewer installation and the procedures are similar to the installation of
administration utility.
9. ”Administrator Utility“ will be run automatically after installation. On the Internet
Camera first page, the cameras found in the network are listed. Choose the one
you want to configure and click “Setting Wizard” to proceed.
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10. Please enter the default password “1234” and click “OK” to login to the IP setup
page.
11. Internet Camera is working through the network (TCP/IP Protocol). The IP
address and subnet mask setting must be correct, or you cannot access to the
camera. The wizard program will detect the IP address status of your network
automatically and suggest a free IP address for the Camera. You can accept the
suggested value or enter the value manually. If you enter the value manually,
please be aware that the “Subnet Mask” must be the same for both the camera and
the PC. Click “Finish” to apply the configuration.
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12. Click ‘IP Cam Surveillance Software’ icon from desktop, quick launch bar, or start
menu to start the IP camera surveillance software.
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13. Please click ‘System configure’ button and a popup menu will appear
Please select ‘Configure Cameras’ to configure cameras
14. In this table you can configure all cameras you wish to connect. Up to 16 cameras
can be connected simultaneously, choose the camera you want to connect on the
‘’Camera Search’’ list and click ‘’Select’’ to add it into the channel you want to
view then click ‘’ok’’
Tip: You can do the settings by right click your mouse on the panel.
15. The IP Cam Viewer will pop out and the video will show on the channel you
choose automatically. Congratulations!! you have settled the camera successfully.
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3.1.1 Using the Administrator Utility
The Administrator Utility allows users to search and setup the cameras located within
the Intranet or on the Internet. From the utility, users can view all the information of
the selected camera; furthermore, it provides a setting wizard, which can guide users
to add the camera to the network easily and promptly.
There are two ways to run the Administrator Utility as follows.
1. Click “Start”, select “Programs\IP Camera\Admin Utility” to run the utility.
2. Double click the “IP Camera Admin” icon to run the utility.
Once the utility is started, it will search all the cameras within the network. To do
more settings, please refer to the description in the following sections.
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3.1.1.1 General Setting
Information of Camera
Camera Information It displays all information of the selected camera. The
information includes MAC address, IP Address, Camera
Name and Model.
Task Bar
Search Camera Click ‘’Search Camera’’ to search cameras on the network.
Browse Camera via Web Click ‘’Browse Camera via Web’’ to activate browser and
auto connect to IP cam to get video
Configure Camera Click ‘’configure camera’’ to change the IP setting and user
name password of the IP Cam you selected.
Languages
Language It displays 3 languages of this utility. This utility supports,
English, Japanese and Chinese.
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3.1.1.2 Configure Camera
When you click the “Configure Camera”, a screen will pop up for you to enter the
“Administrator Name” and “Password”. The default value is as fo llows.
Name: “Admin”
Password: “1234”
If the name and password you enter are correct, you can start to setup the camera.
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3.1.1.3 LAN Setting
LAN Setting
IP Address Enter an unused IP Address within the IP address range
used on your LAN. If the IP Address of your LAN is from
the 192.168.2.1 to 192.168.2.254, you can set an unused IP
Address from the range for the camera, for example:
192.168.2.250.
NetMask The Subnet Mask field must match the subnet setting on
your LAN. For example: 255.255.255.0.
Gateway The Gateway is used to forward frames to destinations in a
different subnet on the Internet. The Gateway setting must
be the same with the gateway used by the PCs on your
LAN.
DNS Server
DNS Server (Domain Name Server) that translates names to
IP addresses. Set the same DNS Server as the PCs on your
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Web Port
LAN.
This Camera support web connection, the default web port
is 80. You could give the port name from 1-65536. Since the
web server may use port 80, you can use a different port for
the camera. If you change the web port from 80 to 8080,
you must type http://192.168.2.3:8080 to connect the
camera through web browser.
3.1.1.4 Security
Security
Camera Name
New Password
Confirm Password
The default camera name is “IC1500WG”. It is
recommended to name a meaningful name for the camera..
Enter the new password you want to use for the camera.
Retype the new password to confirm the setting.
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3.2 Using the Viewer Utility
You can click ‘IPCam Surveillance Software’ icon from desktop, quick
launch bar, or start menu to start the IP camera surveillance software.
I
P camera surveillance software will only work when your monitor’s resolution
is ‘1024 x 768’. Please change the resolution before you use IP camera
s
urveillance software, or it won’t start.
Bef
ore you start:
Here are descriptions for all components of IP camera viewer:
You can put the mouse cursor on a certain component and see its button
name, and here’re detailed descriptions of all buttons:
Language
Display
layout
Full screen /
Scan
Zoom Out /
Zoom In
PTZ Control /
Home
Recording / System configure
Playback / Snap shot
Close window (stop
surveillance) / Minimize
Message display
box
Video displaying area
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Item Description
Video displaying
area
The image of all connected cameras will be displayed here.
Language Select a language from this dropdown menu to change
display language.
Display layout
Change camera image display layout (Click a layout icon to
change camera display layout). There are 8 kinds of available
display layouts.
Full screen
Click this button to switch to full screen mode (only display
all camera’s image), press ‘ESC’ key to quit full screen
mode.
Scan
Click this button and the IP camera surveillance software will
switch displaying the image of all connected camera
automatically. Click this button once to activate scan function
(scan icon will become blue ), click again to stop scanning
(scan icon will become white ).
Zoom out
Zoom-out (To see more objects).
This function is only available for supported cameras.
Zoom In
Zoom-in (Too see more details).
This function is only available for supported cameras.
PTZ control
There are 8 directions in PTZ control ring. If the camera you
connect support PTZ, you can use PTZ control ring to change
the direction that camera points to.
This function is only available for supported cameras.
Home
Click this button to return the camera to ‘Home’ (default)
position.
This function is only available for supported cameras.
Recording
Start video recording.
Configure
Software / camera configuration.
Playback
Playback a recorded video file.
Snapshot Take a snapshot of current camera.
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Message display Displays all system messages like camera is disconnected
etc.
Close window
(stop
surveillance)
Terminates IP camera surveillance software.
Minimize
window
Minimizes IP camera surveillance software window.
Video displaying
area
Displays the image of all cameras by the display layout you
selected.
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3.2.1 Configure IP camera viewer
3.2.1.1 Configure cameras
Before you use this IP camera surveillance software, you must configure
the camera(s) you wish to connect. Please click ‘System configure’ button
and a popup menu will appear:
Please select ‘Configure Cameras’ to configure cameras:
N
ote: If you’re prompted by a windows security alert which asks you if you
want to block ‘IPCamViewer’ program, please click ‘Unblock’ button, of IP
camera surveillance software will not be able to function correctly.
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3.2.1.1.1 ‘Camera’ tab
In this tab you can configure all cameras you wish to connect. Up to 16
cameras can be connected simultaneously:
Here are the descriptions of all setting items:
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Item Description
Channel Select the channel number you wish to set.
Camera Search All cameras found on your local network will be displayed in
‘Camera Search’ box.
Select Select a camera listed in ‘Camera Search’ box, and click
‘Select’ button to fill all parameters of selected camera in
every camera configuration fields.
Refresh Rescan all cameras on your local network. If you didn’t see
the camera you expected in ‘Camera Search’ box, or new
cameras has been joined to your local network after last scan.
Name* Input the name of camera here. Default value is the first 6
bytes of camera’s MAC address, you can change the name of
camera so you can remember the camera’s location of
purpose easily.
Model Displays the model of selected camera, this field can not be
changed.
IP* Input the IP address of camera.
Username* Input the user name of camera.
Web Port* Input the web port of the camera. By default it’s ‘80’.
Password Input the password of camera. Default value is ‘1234’. You
should change the password if you changed the password of
selected camera.
Video Format** Select the video encoding format of this camera (MJPEG or
MPEG4).
Reset Clear all fields in ‘Camera Configuration’ section.
OK Save settings in this tab.
Cancel Discard all settings in this tab.
*: It’s recommended to use ‘Select’ button to fill the content of this field.
**: Only available for cameras support this function.
After you’ve set all channels you wish to set, click ‘OK’ to save settings,
and if everything’s correct, you’ll see the camera’s image in IP camera
surveillance software’s main menu:
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3.2.1.1.2 Schedule Recording
In this tab, you can setup scheduled video recording, so you can record
the video captured by all cameras you have by a pre-defined schedule.
Here are the descriptions of all setting items:
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Item Description
Channel Select the channel number you wish to set.
One Time
Schedules
You can specify the one-time schedule for selected camera;
this schedule will be executed once only.
New
(One Time
Schedules)
Click this button and a new window will appear:
Please specify the time duration of this one-time schedule
(the date and time of ‘From’ and ‘To’), then click ‘OK’ to
save settings.
Please note you must set a schedule that will be happened in
the future, you can not set a schedule in the past.
Edit You can modify a scheduled recording item. Select a schedule
in ‘One Time Schedules’ list, and click ‘Edit’ button to edit
the start and end time of this schedule.
Delete Delete a selected schedule item.
New
(Weekly
Schedules)
Click this button and a new window will appear:
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You can define recording schedule that will be executed at the
specified time of certain weekday(s) in a week. Please check
all weekdays that applies, and set the start time in ‘From’
field. You can set the duration of video recording in ‘Period’
field (format is HH:MM:SS), and the end time will be
calculated automatically and displayed in ‘To’ field. You can
also click ‘All T ime Record’ button to define a recording
schedule that will be executed every weekday, from
12:00:00AM to 11:59:59PM.
Click ‘OK’ to save changes.
Edit You can modify a scheduled recording item. Select a schedule
in ‘One Time Schedules’ list, and click ‘Edit’ button to edit
the start and end time of this schedule.
Delete Delete a selected schedule item.
OK Save settings in this tab.
Cancel Discard all settings in this tab.
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3.2.1.1.3 Audio
For cameras that support audio, you can use this tab to decide if you wish
to hear the audio captured by selected and configured camera.
Here are the descriptions of all setting items:
Item Description
Channel Select the channel number you wish to set.
Mute Audio Check this box and the IP camera surveillance software will
not play the audio captured by this camera.
Record Video Only Check this box and the IP camera surveillance software will
not record the audio captured by this camera.
OK Save settings in this tab.
Cancel Discard all settings in this tab.
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3.2.1.1.4 Motion Record
With this function activated, only motions captured by the camera will be
recorded, so you don’t have to waste hard disk storage space on images
you don’t need to pay attention to.
To activate motion detection by this utility you have to enable motion
detection function for the camera from WEB UI, check chapter 2.6 for the
setting.
WARNING: For applications that security is highly concerned, it’s not
recommended to use this function since some tiny changes you may need to
know may not be able to trigger the camera and the camera will not start
recording.
Here are the descriptions of all setting items:
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Item Description
Channel Select the channel number you wish to set.
Enable Enable motion record function.
Disable Disable motion record function.
Recording Time Select the time duration that camera will record when a
motion has been detected from dropdown menu in seconds.
Invoke alarm
when motion is
triggered
Send an alarm when a motion has been detected by the
camera.
Send mail when
motion is
triggered
Send an email to a pre-defined address when a motion has
been detected by the camera.
OK Save settings in this tab.
Cancel Discard all settings in this tab.
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3.2.1.2 General Settings
You can set system-wide settings of this IP camera surveillance software
in this menu.
3.2.1.2.1 ‘General’ tab
All general settings like file storage directory and recording spaces can be
set here.
ere are the descriptions of all setting items: H
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Item Description
Data Directory Set the directory (folder) you wish to store the recorded video
and captured image. You can click ‘Browse’ button to pick a
directory in your hard disk.
Free Recording
Space
Displays remaining storage space.
Max V ideo File
Size
Defines the maximum file size of every video file. When the
size of file exceeds this value, IP camera surveillance
software will open another file to record the video.
Scan Time Define the time period to pause between every camera switch
when you activate ‘Scan’ function.
Cycle Recording You can decide the behavior when hard disk space is full:
Disable: Do not overwrite recorded video files.
Enable: Overwrite recorded video files.
OK Save settings in this tab.
Cancel Discard all settings in this tab.
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3.2.1.2.2 ‘E-Mail Setting’ tab
If you want to use motion detection function and wish to get an email that
contains the image captured by the camera, please setup your email
related parameters here first.
Here are the descriptions of all setting items:
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Item Description
E-Mail Subject Specify the subject of sending email.
Recipient E-Mail
Address
Here lists all email addresses you set.
New Click this button and you’ll be prompted to input the email
address. Click ‘OK’ to save changes.
Edit Select an email address from ‘Recipient E-Mail Address’
box, and click ‘Edit’ to edit the email address.
Delete Delete selected email address.
Sender E-Mail
Address
Specify the email address of email sender.
SMTP Server Specify the IP address or host name of the SMTP server you
wish to use. For most of ISPs they will only allow its
subscriber to use their SMTP server, if you don’t know which
SMTP server you should use, please refer to the setting of
your email software or ask your ISP / network administrator.
SMTP port Specify the port number of the SMTP server you wish to use
here. By default (and the setting of most of SMTP servers)
it’s ‘25’.
SMTP Auth Select ‘Enable’ if your SMTP server requires authentication,
select ‘Disable’ if it’s not required. If you don’t know if your
SMTP server requires authentication, please refer to the
setting of your email software or ask your ISP / network
administrator.
SMTP Account Input the SMTP account (username) of your SMTP server
here. In most cases, it’s the same with your POP3 username
(the one you used to receive email). Please refer to the setting
of your email software or ask your ISP / network
administrator if you’re not sure about this.
SMTP Password Input the SMTP password of your SMTP server here. In most
cases, it’s the same with your POP3 password (the one you
used to receive email). Please refer to the setting of your
email software or ask your ISP / network administrator if
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you’re not sure about this.
OK Save settings in this tab.
Cancel Discard all settings in this tab.
3.2.1.2.3 Security
If you don’t want other people to access this IP camera surveillance
software, you can set a password to protect it.
You’ll need to input the password every time you wish to use this IP
camera surveillance software:
To set password, please use ‘Security’ tab in ‘General Options’ menu:
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Here are the descriptions of all setting items:
Item Description
Enable Requires password authentication when this software starts.
Disable Password authentication is not required when this software
starts.
Password Input the password you wish to use here.
Confirm
Password
Input the password you wish to use here again.
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3.2.1.2.4 About
This tab shows the version number of the IP camera surveillance software
you’re using.
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3.2.2 Change Display Layout
This IP camera surveillance software provides 8 kinds of display layout:
Every layout displays different number of camera and camera
arrangement, you can click the icon that presents a specific kind of layout,
and the video displaying area will change accordingly.
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Layout style 1:
1 Camera only
Displays the video of 1 camera only.
01
Layout style 2:
4 Cameras
Displays the video of up to 4 cameras.
01
02
03
04
Layout style 3:
6 Cameras
Displays the video of up to 6 cameras.
02
01
03
04 05 06
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Layout style 4:
8 Cameras
Displays the video of up to 8 cameras.
02
03
01
04
05 06 07 08
Layout style 5:
9 Cameras
Displays the video of up to 16 cameras.
01 02
03
04 05 06
07 08 09
Layout style
6: 10 Cameras
Displays the video of up to 10 cameras.
01
02
03
04 05 06
07
08 09 10
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Layout style 7:
13 Cameras
Displays the video of up to 13 cameras.
02 03 01
04 05
06 07 08 09
10 11 12 13
Layout style 8:
16 Cameras
Displays the video of up to 16 cameras.
01 02 03 04
05 06 07 08
09 10 11 12
13 14 15 16
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