Digitus DN-16046 User guide

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DIGITUS

Plug&View

IP cameras

User Guide

1 Introduction:

The Plug&View IP camera series by DIGITUS® offers P2P cloud services in order to avoid the

complicated network configuration for the camera installation. Everything you need is "Plug&View"

and a few installation steps.

2 Supplied with:

- 1 X IP camera

- 1 X AC adapter

- 1 X Ethernet cable

- 1 X Installation CD

- 1 X Mounting accessories

- * DN-16038/DN-16039/DN-16040/DN-16043/DN-16044 also include a built in 2GB memory for

storage.

3 Installation procedure:

3.1 Connect

Please follow the instructions of the Quick Start Guide to connect your Plug&View camera and to

start using it from your user account. Then log in to your user account in http://plug-view.com. After a

successful login you will see an overview of the images of your registered cameras.

4 Description of the toolbar

The toolbar can be found to the right side above the image of each IP camera. Here

you can quickly see the operational readiness and make various settings.

4.1 LED display symbols

 Green light
When the green light is ON, your IP camera is online und sending. The video image is

successfully displayed on the screen.

 Yellow light
When the yellow light is ON, the IP camera is online, but not yet sending. No video image is

displayed on the screen.

 Red light
When the red light is ON, the IP camera is offline and nothing is displayed on the screen.

4.2 Full Screen

The 'Full Screen' button opens a new screen for better viewing of the video image, which is then

displayed across the entire screen.

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4.3 Live image and PTZ

The button "Live View" will display the live-stream or images from the selected IP camera in real-

time. If you have multiple Plug&View cameras installed, you can switch between the different

cameras using the display on the left-hand side of the screen. Use the arrow buttons and to

select other IP cameras from the list.

In the event of connection problems, e.g. because of a slow Internet connection, you can click on

to reload the live-stream or real-time images. By clicking on , on the right side at the bottom of the

screen, one can access the configuration controls for the selected camera.

If the selected IP camera supports PTZ functions, the PTZ control panel, with which you can control

the camera, can be selected. Otherwise the field will be grayed out to indicate that it has no function.

Each motion adjustment requires a click.

4.4 Playback

The "Playback" function is only supported when an SDcard for media recording has been inserted

into the IP camera. By using the blue tags on the time axis, all recorded events can be retrieved. All

recorded events have been stored and tagged with a blue mark on the time axis. You can select to

view them for different time periods, by clicking on the left side of the time axis, on hour (hour), day

(day) or week (week).

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When hovering over a blue tag with the mouse, the color changes to orange and the details of the

recorded clips are displayed. Select a specific clip to check this.

During playback of the selected media clip, you can stop or pause it, or switch to the next clip, using

the media control buttons. You can also drag the marker of the video search control to the

desired position in the playback.

Settings

The settings button opens up a special web user interface for the configuration of the IP camera.

Please log in with "admin" as the username and

password.

Muting

With the button, you can switch the sound of the camera on or off.

Refreshing

With the refresh button you can refresh or reload the video image on you IP camera.

Deleting

With the delete button , you can delete specific IP camera medium from the overview page.

Screenshot

With the photo button you can take a still shot of the current video image and save it directly to

your PC.

Click on the top right of the screen to exit the full-screen mode or click on the bottom right side

to return to the matrix display page.

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In the camera matrix, click on "Settings" in order to see the list of cameras.

In this list you can see the details of your camera(s) and by clicking on change the name of the

camera, with you can remove a specific camera from your account and with the hook button

underneath "Device Matrix" select if she should be displayed with a live image in the overview.

By clicking on the "Plus" symbol on the left, above the list, an additional
camera can be registered to your account.

Google Drive Backup

To the right your Google Drive Account for the cloud-backup is set up. You must have a

microSD memory card installed in your camera in order to be able to use Google backup.

Please click on the button "Google authentication" and then accept the request in the following

window to use "Google Drive" as cloud storage, by clicking on "OK".

You will be redirected to the Google Drive registration page. Please enter your Google Mail address

and password, if you already have an account.

After entering your Google account information, please accept the access rights to allow for the video-

backup from the camera to the Google Drive. The window will then close automatically.

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Through the storage function of Google Cloud, a copy of your video files from the microSD-card is

loaded onto Google Drive. This means, that the videos, triggered by movement or timer, can be

played from the cloud storage, online, using your browser. Please log in to your Google Drive and

select the recorded video (RTV) files in the directory "SAT_Recordings" to watch the videos online.

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