Edimax Technology PT-31W User Manual

PT-31E/PT-31W

User Manual

11-2012 / v1.1

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I: PRODUCT INFORMATION ............................................................................................................... 4

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

1-2 Getting Familiar with Your New Network Camera .............................................................................. 4

1-3 Camera Installation .............................................................................................................................. 7

Chapter II Using Network IP Camera by Web Interface ........................................................................... 11

2.1 Locate the IP address of Network IP Camera .................................................................................... 11

2.2 Connect to IP Camera’s Web User Interface and Install ActiveX Plugin ............................................ 13

2.3 Viewing Live Video ............................................................................................................................. 15

2.4 Client Settings .................................................................................................................................... 18

Chapter III Advanced Configuration................................................................................................................. 20

3-1 System ................................................................................................................................................ 20

3-2 Security .............................................................................................................................................. 22

3-3 Network ............................................................................................................................................. 24

3-3-1 “General” Setup Page ............................................................................................................. 24

3-3-2 “Advanced” Setup Page .......................................................................................................... 26

3-3-3 Wireless .................................................................................................................................. 28

3-5 Video .................................................................................................................................................. 35

3-5-1 Image Setting .......................................................................................................................... 35

3-5-2 Video Setting .......................................................................................................................... 36

3-5-3 Overlay Setting ....................................................................................................................... 38

3-6 Audio .................................................................................................................................................. 39

3-7 Motion ............................................................................................................................................... 40

3-8 PTZ Control (RS-485) .......................................................................................................................... 41

3-9 Event .................................................................................................................................................. 43

3-9-1 Settings ................................................................................................................................... 44

3-9-2 Media ...................................................................................................................................... 46

3-9-3 Event Server ............................................................................................................................ 47

3-10 Recording to SD Card ....................................................................................................................... 50

3-11 SDHC ................................................................................................................................................ 51

3-12 Log .................................................................................................................................................... 53

3-13 Device Info ....................................................................................................................................... 54

3-14 Maintenance .................................................................................................................................... 55

3-15 Language .......................................................................................................................................... 56

CHAPTER IV: EDIVIEW 64-CHANNEL VIEWER .................................................................................................. 57

4-1 EdiView Installation ........................................................................................................................... 57

4-2 EdiView Interface ............................................................................................................................... 64

4-3 Configuration ..................................................................................................................................... 72

4-3-1 Device ..................................................................................................................................... 73

4-3-2 Recording ................................................................................................................................ 77

4-3-3 System .................................................................................................................................... 80

4-3-4 Schedule ................................................................................................................................. 84

4-3-5 Event ....................................................................................................................................... 86

4-3-6 Security ................................................................................................................................... 88

4-4 Video Playback ................................................................................................................................... 91

4-4-1 Advanced Search .................................................................................................................... 93

4-4-2 Event Search ........................................................................................................................... 96

4-4-3 Video Playback ...................................................................................................................... 100

Chapter V Troubleshooting .................................................................................................................... 103

Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement ..................................................................... 104

CHAPTER I: PRODUCT INFORMATION

Item

Description

1 - Light sensor

Detects light level of the place where this IP camera install.

2 - IR LEDs

Emits infrared light to provide light source in dark places

1-1 Package Contents

Before you start using this product, please check if there is anything missing in the package, and contact your dealer to claim the missing item(s):

 1 x Network camera

 1 x Power adapter

 1 x Ethernet cable

 1 x Mounting kit

 1 x CD with utility software and user manual

 1 x Quick installation guide

 1 x Detachable antenna (PT-31W only)

1-2 Getting Familiar with Your New Network Camera

3 - Focus ring

If the image looks fuzzy, try to turn this focus ring clockwise or counter-clockwise to adjust focus until the image looks clear

4 - Microphone

Receives voice

5 - LED indicators

There are 2 LED lights inside to indicate the operation of this IP camera:

Left: Network activity LED

On: Ethernet cable connected Off: Ethernet cable disconnected Flash: Transferring data

Right: Power LED

On: IP camera is switched on Off: IP camera is switched off

Please note: These LEDs can be switched off regardless the

operation status of IP camera in IP camera’s configuration

menu. This will be helpful if you don’t want other people to know the operation status of this IP camera.

Item

Description

1 - Audio out

Connects to external audio amplifier to output voice. Use

3.5mm audio cable.

2 - DC12V

Connect to DC power adapter output

1 2 3 4 5

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3 - 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 for more than 5 seconds to clear all settings of IP camera, include administrator password.

4 - DI/DO connectors

For external sensor and alarm.

WARNING: DO NOT CONNECT POWERED CABLE!

5 - ETHERNET

Connect to your local area network by Ethernet cable.

6 – SD card slot

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

Item

Description

1 - Audio out

Connects to external audio amplifier to output voice. Use

3.5mm audio cable.

2 - DC12V

Connect to DC power adapter output

3 - WPS/ RESET

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 for more than 5 seconds to clear all settings of IP camera, include administrator password. WPS: When you want to connect Wi-Fi AP easy. Please both press and hold this button and AP’s WPS button more than 1

PT-31W

second. IP camera will connect AP and set value during 5 ~10 seconds.

4 - DI/DO connectors

Digital input / output dry contacts. Connects to external peripherals by wire. See next page for pin definitions. WARNING: DO NOT CONNECT POWERED CABLE!

5 – ETHERNET

Connect to your local area network by Ethernet cable.

6 - SD card slot

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

7 – Connector for detachable antenna

Connect the detachable antenna when wireless connection is required. Item

Description

GND

Signal ground

Digital Output #1

DI1

Digital Input #1

DI2

Digital Input #2

Step 1: Screw mounting plate A on the wall via the 4 holes indicated by the arrows.

DI/DO PIN ASSIGNMENT

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

1-3 Camera Installation

Please follow the proceeding instructions to set up your new network camera. If you wish to place this network camera on a table, please skip step 1 to 6.

Step 2: Insert mounting plate B into the slot at the bottom of the network camera.

Step 3: Screw mounting plate B to the network camera via the 2 holes indicated by the arrows.

Step 4: Mount the network camera on to the wall.

Step 5: Screw mounting plate A and B together via the hole indicated by the arrow.

Step 6: When mounted on the wall, the cables can pass through mounting plate A as in the picture.

Step 7: Connect an Ethernet cable to the network camera via the Ethernet port.

Note: PT-31E (PoE model) supports the IEEE 802.3af PoE standard. It can be powered via the Ethernet cable when connected to a PoE switch.

Step 8: Insert the DI/DO signal cable(s) into the DI/DO port. If you do not have DI/DO accessories, you can skip this step.

Step 9: Connect the power adapter to the network camera, then plug the power adapter into

a wall socket. The camera’s LED lights

should light up after a few seconds, and the camera will test its pan and tilt motor within 1 minute. Please do not obstruct the network camera while it is testing its pan and tilt motor.

Step 10: If it needs to set up wireless connection, please attach the wireless antenna to the IP camera and configure through wired connection. (PT-31W only)

Chapter II Using Network IP Camera by Web Interface

Note: For best viewing experience we recommend that you use Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 7, 8, or 9 .

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. Currently the viewing system requirement for Network IP camera is:

■ OS: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7

■ Browser: IE7, 8, 9

■ Cell phone: 3GPP player

By default, the network camera automatically obtains an IP address from the DHCP server

on your local network. Check your DHCP server’s IP address lease table to find the network camera’s IP address, or use the EdiView Finder utility included in the CD.

1. Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive. When the wizard appears, click “Setup Utility” to

install the “EdiView Finder” software.

Please note:

If you have several network connections, such as “Wireless Function”, please

disable the “Wireless Functions” or/and other network connections that is

not connected to IP camera, or IPFinder may fail to search IP camera!

Note: The contents of the CD-ROM can also be downloaded from the Edimax website: http://www.edimax.com/en/index.php

2. After the installation is complete, double-click the “EdiView_Finder” icon to execute the

application.

3. Press ‘Discover’ button to search for all IP Cameras on your local network (make sure all

IP Cameras are powered on and connect to local network first). When you find any IP Camera, you can double click on it or 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

you wish to change IP address, then click ‘Change IP’ button to change select IP Camera’s IP address setting.

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

2.2 Connect to IP Camera’s Web User Interface and Install ActiveX Plugin

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 address bar. The use login screen will appear when you get connected:

IP Camera’s administrator username is ‘admin’ (lower case) and password is ‘1234’ 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 plugin before you can see the video from IP Camera.

For IE 8 and earlier version:

Right click the indication bar and click: ‘‘Install This Add-on for All Users on This Computer…’ to install ActiveX plugin.

For IE 9:

Click ‘Install’ 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’

Click ‘Allow access’, or IP Camera will not be able to function properly. When you’re installing Internet Explorer plugin, you may also be prompted that if you want

to allow changes to be made to your computer:

Click ‘Yes’ to allow changes.

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

NOTE:

If this is the first time you use this IP Camera, you can refer to

chapter 2.4 for instructions on Setup Wizard, which will guide

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

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, then you can see live video from IP camera:

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

page.

Stream

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

Language

Open 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 or camera video and save image file on your computer. When you click this button, a new window will appear:

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

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 changed your mind and don’t want to save image file, click ‘Cancel’.

‘Start Video Record’

button

Click this button to record video and save video file on your

computer. You’ll be prompted to indicate the folder on your

computer to save video file.

‘Enable Digital Zoom’ button

This function will enlarge video view digitally from 1X to 10X, so you can see objects in video in detail.

Please note: that digital zoom uses computer algorithm to enlarge the video and some details may lost. If you need to focus on detail of specific objects in video view, please use optical zoom ring on lens set of IP camera.

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.

Please note: you need a microphone connected to your computer,

and computer’s mixer setting must enable microphone recording,

or nothing will be outputted by IP camera.

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.

The following screen will appear:

Here are the descriptions 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 named will be ‘CLIPxxxx’, where xxxx is a 4-digit serial number.

Add date and time suffix to file name

Check this box to add data 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.

Chapter III 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.

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

3-1 System

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

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.

Daylight Saving

If the area you live uses daylight saving, check this box; otherwise do not check this box to keep time correct.

Keep the current date and time

Select this option and date / time setting will not be changed when

you click ‘Apply’ in the page. You can check ‘Camera Date and Time’ item in this page to know IP camera’s current date and time setting.

Synchronize with computer time

Select this item and IP camera will use your computer’s time as its

time.

Synchronize with NTP Server

Select this item and IP camera will keep its date and time setting synchronized with specified time server (NTP server). Please input

NTP server’s IP address or host name in ‘NTP Server Address’ field, and select time update interval from ‘Update Interval’ dropdown

menu.

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

Please note that if this IP camera can’t access Internet, you must

have a time server on local area network, or set the time manually.

Set Manually

Set IP camera’s date and time manually. Please set current date and time by ‘Date’ and ‘Time’ dropdown menu.

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

3-2 Security

In this menu, you can configure IP camera’s login account. There are three kinds of account:

- Administrator (Can view IP camera’s video and make changes of camera setting)

- User (Can view IP camera’s video and see settings, but can’t make any change)

- Guest (Can view IP camera’s video only)

There can be multiple users, but only one administrator is allowed, and you can’t change administrator’s user name (it will always be ‘administrator’).

Item

Description

Password / Retype Password

(Administrator)

Input administrator’s new password in both ‘Password’ and ‘Retype Password’ field, and click ‘Modify’ button to change administrator’s

password.

Please note: Don’t forget administrator’s password! Or you’ll need

to reset IP camera’s all settings to get administrator’s password recovered.

Account List

Here lists all users existed in IP camera. If you want to remove one user, click it in the list, and then click ‘Remove’ button.

If no user is existed, ‘New Account’ message will be shown here.

User Name

Input new user’s username here. User name must be greater than 1

character and less than 32 characters.

Password / Retype Password

Input this user’s password in both ‘Password’ and ‘Retype Password’ field.

Authority

To define this user’s access privilege, select ‘User’ or ‘Guest’ in

dropdown menu.

When you finish inputting new user’s information, click ‘New’

button to create a new user.

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

3-3 Network

Item

Description

LAN

Select this option to assign an IP address to LAN port (or obtain an address from DHCP server automatically).

You can configure the network camera’s general and advanced network settings here.

3-3-1 “General” Setup Page

Set up IP address for this IP camera. This IP camera supports both IPv4 and IPv6 IP address.

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

Available options are:

DHCP IPv4: Obtain an IPv4 IP address from DHCP server on LAN automatically.

DHCP IPv4 / IPv6: Obtain both IPv4 and IPv6 address from DHCP server on LAN automatically.

Static IPv4 / IPv6: Assign an IPv4 / IPv6 address to IP camera

manually. If you don’t have a DHCP server on your local area

network, you must use this option to specify an IP address.

IP Address(IPv4): Input IPv4 IP address* IP Address(IPv6): Input IPv6 IP address*

Prefix Length: Input IPv6 IP address’ prefix length (0-128) Subnet Mask: Input subnet mask

Gateway: Input gateway address Primary DNS: Input DNS server’s IP address Secondary DNS: Input backup DNS server’s IP address, you

can leave this field blank.

* You can leave this field blank, if you only wish to use IPv4 or IPv6 IP address.

Enable UPnP Discovery: Check this b ox to enable other devices on network to discover the presence of this IP camera by UPnP. It’s recommended to enable this function.

Enable UPnP Port Mapping: When UPnP is enabled, check this box to enable UPnP’s port mapping.

PPPoE

Select this option to use PPPoE to connect to network. You have to input PPPoE username and password assigned by network operator to get connected.

HTTP Port

Input IP camera’s web connection port number here. When this port number is changed, you need to change web browser’s port

number you used to connect to IP camera.

For example, IP camera’s IP address is 192.168.2.3, and if you changed HTTP port number to 82, please input ‘http://192.168.2.3:82’ in web browser’s address bar to access IP

camera’s web configuration interface.

RTSP Port

Input RTSP port number. When this port number changes, you must change corresponding settings in external network devices (NVR or CMS software) so they can receive this IP camera’s video.

RTP Data Port

Input RTP data port number here.

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

3-3-2 “Advanced” Setup Page

You can setup advanced network settings in this page. This page is intended for advanced

settings only, and this IP camera will work fine even you don’t make any changes to this

page.

Item

Description

Multicast

Enable video multicast:

Multicast Group Address: Input multicast group address here, must be an address between 232.0.0.0 to

232.255.255.255.

Multicast video port: Input port number for video multicast here.

Multicast RCTP video port: Input port number for RCTP video here.

Multicast audio port: Input port number for audio here.

Multicast RCTP audio port: Input port number for RCTP audio here.

Multicast TTL: Input TTL value for multicast here.

Bonjour

If you’re using MacOS and you have Bonjour installed, you can use

it to discover this IP camera.

QoS

Enable QoS to improve the data transfer priority of this IP camera (Your local area network must support QoS).

You can select Video / Audio’s QoS DSCP value (0 to 63), or both video and audio.

DDNS

Enable DDNS support if your ISP assigns dynamic IP address to

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

you. You must register a dynamic IP service first. Currently this IP camera supports Dyndns, TZO and No-ip dynamic IP service..

Provider: Select dynamic IP service provider.

Host Name: Input the host name you obtained from dynamic IP service provider.

User name: Input user name used to login dynamic IP service provider.

Password: Input the password used to login dynamic IP service provider. *The user name and password should be under 16 characters.

HTTPS

Check ‘Enable HTTPS’ box to enable HTTPS channel to encrypt

transferred data. You can also define HTTPS port number in

‘HTTPS Port’ field if you don’t want to use default value ‘443’.

When you finish, click ‘Apply’ to save changes.

3-3-3 Wireless

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 expected 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 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‟.

Authentication

It includes None, Open System, Shared Key 64bits and 128bits, WPA-PSK, WPAS-PSK. Select one of them then the relative items below will transfer gray scale to black scale. Configure the setting consistent with the setting on the wireless router/AP that this IP camera will join the wireless network. Apply the settings then check the wireless networking.

Pin Code

Here displays the WPS pin code used to connect to WPS-enabled wireless access points. You have to input this number into the WPS enabled access point to establish WPS

connection.

Configure via Push Button

Click this button and this camera will enter PBC-style WPS

connection state for 120 seconds. Please push „Start PBC‟

button on the wireless access point you wish to connect within 120 seconds to establish WPS connection (The remaining time will be displayed on the button). If connection can not be

established after 120 seconds, you‟ll be prompted by a message box, and you can press „Start PBC‟ button to try

again.

Configure via PinCode

If you have wireless access point’s WPS PIN code, you can input it here and press „Start PIN‟ button to start to establish

PIN-style WPS connection.

Wireless Setting Wi-Fi Connection using WPS

Method 1: USE WPS BUTTON Step 1: Power on the wireless AP and the wireless network camera. Wait for 1 minute for

both devices to be up and running. Step 2: Press the WPS button of the wireless AP. The WPS LED will be blinking (LED status base on different brand device).

Step 3: Press the WPS button of the wireless network camera and waiting for 30 seconds. Step 4: When the network LED of the camera is blinking, WPS is successfully done. Step 5: If you have more than 1 camera, repeat step 2~4.

Method 2: USE PINCODE SETTING

IP Camera Page

AP Setting Page

Step 1: Power on the wireless AP and the wireless network camera. Wait for 1 minute for

both devices to be up and running.

Step 2: Open web browser and logo in wireless server. Go to wireless/WPS setting page. Step 3: Open web browser and logo in wireless network camera. Go to network/Wireless

setting page. And find Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) item.

Step 4: Please find the pin Code on both setting page and key in it in each “Configure via Pin Code”. Then push “Start PIN” button on page. .

Step 5: Waiting for 30 seconds. When the network LED of the camera is blinking, WPS is successfully done. Step 6: If you have more than 1 camera, repeat step 2~5.

3-4 IP Filter

Item

Description

Enable Filter

Check this box to enable IP address filter, uncheck this Box to disable this function.

Accepted IP list

Here lists all IP address that can build connections to this IP camera. If you want to remove a set of IP address from the list, click on the IP address and click ‘Remove’ button.

IP Address (Accepted IP list)

Input the starting and ending IP address of IP address you wish to accept connections here. IP camera will only accept connections established from these IP address. If you want to specify one IP address only, input the same IP address in both field. Click ‘New’ button to add IP address into accepted IP list.

Deny IP list

Here lists all IP address that cannot build connections to this IP

When this IP camera is directly connected to Internet and not protected by firewall, this function acts like a mini built-in firewall to protect the safety of this IP camera and avoid attacks from hackers.

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

camera. If you want to remove a set of IP address from the list, click on the IP address and click ‘Remove’ button.

IP Address (Accepted IP list)

Input the starting and ending IP address of IP address you wish to deny connections here. IP camera will deny connections established from these IP address. If you want to specify one IP address only, input the same IP address in both field. Click ‘New’ button to add IP address into deny IP list.

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

3-5 Video

Item

Description

Brightness / Contrast / Saturation /

Control the image parameters. Click ‘ - ' to decrease value, or click ‘ + ‘ to increase value. You can also input the value in the field

directly.

You can adjust the image of the IP camera in this menu. There are 3 sub-menus in this menu: Image Setting, Video Setting, and Overlay, which can be accessed by tabs on the top:

3-5-1 Image Setting

You can adjust the image parameters in this page.

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

Shaprness

Default

Set all above values to default value ‘128’.

Mirror

Check ‘Vertical’ or ‘Horizontal’ box to flip the image vertically or

horizontally, this will help to correct the orientation of image when IP camera is hanged bottom-up by camera holder.

You can click both ‘Vertical’ and ‘Horizontal’ box at the same time.

Power Line Frequency

Select the frequency of power line of the place you’re using this IP

camera. This will help to reduce the flicker of certain lights in the image.

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

3-5-2 Video Setting

You can adjust the video transfer parameters in this page.

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

Item

Description

H.264 /MPEG4

Select the compression of main stream: H.264 / MPEG4.

Video Resolution

Select video resolution.

- H.264:

2048x1536 (QXGA) / 1920x1080 (1080p) 1280x960 (960p) / 1280x720 (720p) 720x480 (D1) / 640x480 (VGA) 320x240 (QVGA)

- MPEG4:

1920x1080 (1080p) / 1280x960 (960p) 1280x720 (720p) / 720x480 (D1) 640x480 (VGA) / 320x240 (QVGA)

MJPEG:

1280x720 (720p) / 720x480 (D1) 640x480 (VGA) / 320x240 (QVGA)

Please note that some video resolution is not available when video encoder is ‘MPEG4’. When network speed is insufficient, select a lower video resolution will help.

Frame Rate

Select video frame rate. Please note that some frame rate is not available when video encoder is ‘H.264’. When network speed is insufficient, select a lower frame rate will help.

Rate Control

Select video bit rate. You can control bit rate by both ‘Video quality’ and ‘Bitrate’:

- Video quality: There are 5 levels of video quality, select ‘very high’ to

improve video quality but consumes more network bandwidth, and select ‘very low’ will decrease video quality and consumes less network bandwidth.

- Bitrate: Input video’s bit rate directly. It must an integer between 512

and 4000. Higher bit rate provides better video quality, but consumes more network bandwidth.

Note: MJPEG options are only available for portable devices like cell phone.

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

3-5-3 Overlay Setting

Item

Description

Enable Time Stamp

Check this box to enable overlaying time stamp on video.

Remove the background color of the text (for Time Stamp)

Check this box to remove time stamp’s background color. You may

find this will help the readability of time stamp text in some cases.

Enable Text Display

Check this box to display certain text on video, this will help when you need to identify certain IP camera when you have a lot of IP cameras. Please input the text in ‘Text’ field. You can input up to 15 characters.

Remove the background color of the text (Text)

Check this box to remove custom text’s background color. You may

find this will help the readability of text in some cases.

Enable Image Overlay

Check this box to overlay a specific image on video, so you can show certain text / picture on the video and help people to identify this IP camera.

Click ‘Browse’ button to pick a picture on your computer, then click

You can adjust the video overlay parameters in this page.

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

‘Update’ button to use the picture. Please note that there are certain

restrictions:

- Select .bmp / .jpg / .jpeg image files only.

- Image’s resolution should be less than 160 x 128, and can be

divided by 4.

- Do not upload image files that size is greater than 64KB.

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

Item

Description

Enable Microphone

Check this box to enable microphone. If you don’t want to hear voice

from IP camera, you can uncheck this box to disable it.

Audio Type (Microphone)

The format is fixed as G.711

Microphone Gain

If the voice received by microphone is too loud or silent, you can use this function to improve voice volume, so you can hear voice from IP camera more clearly.

- Select -2 or -1 dB to correct the voice that is too loud;

- Select 0 dB and IP camera will do nothing on the voice;

- Select +2 dB to +26 dB to amplify the voice.

3-6 Audio

You can adjust audio input / output parameters here.

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

Enable Speaker (Speaker)

Check this box to enable speaker. If you don’t want people at IP camera

to hear you, you can uncheck this box to disable it.

Audio Type (Speaker)

The format is fixed as G.711

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

Item

Description

Enable Motion Detection

Check this box to enable motion detection.

3-7 Motion

This IP camera is capable to detect object’s motion, so IP camera will only record when there’s motion and save disk storage space.

Motion detection is performed by examine the movement of objects in rectangular motion detection area. You can define up to 3 motion detection areas.

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

Enable (Window 1 to Window 3)

Check this box to enable this motion detection window. You can select window 1 to 3 to enable up to 3 motion detection windows. When a motion detection window is enabled, a rectangular will appear on camera’s view, with its title on the top.

- To move / resize a motion detection window:

- Move: Use the mouse to drag the title text.

- Resize: Use the mouse the drag the four corners (upper-left/right,

lower-left/right) to resize it. If you only want to adjust width or height, drag the four sidebars (top, bottom, left, and right).

Title (Window 1 to Window 3)

Input characters in title field to change motion detection area’s title text so you can identify it.

Please note that you have to click ‘Apply’ button and the text will

change.

Percentage

Select the percentage of pixel change that will trigger motion detection alert. Select a lower percentage and you can detect tiny changes in motion detection area.

Sensitivity

Select the sensitivity level that will trigger motion detection alert. Select a higher sensitivity and you can detect tiny changes in motion detection area.

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

3-8 PTZ Control (RS-485)

If you mount the IP camera on pan-tilt camera cradles that support pan-tilt control via RS-485 connection, you can use this function to control pan-tilt camera cradle so you can control the orientation of IP camera from remote place.

Item

Description

Enable RS-485

Check this box to enable RS-485 functionality.

Use Pelco-D

Select this option and RS-485 interface will output pan-tile control signal in Pelco-D format. This format is widely accepted by most of pan-tilt camera cradles.

You have also input pan-tilt camera cradle’s address code in ‘Address’ field (number must be between 0~255). This code must be identical to pan-tilt camera cradle’s address code.

Use Custom Protocol

When the pan-tilt camera cradle does not support Pelco-D protocol, you can define a protocol’s detail by this function.

Please refer to pan-tilt camera cradle’s user manual to define the protocol.

- Baud Rate: Select data baud rate of RS-485 interface that pan-tilt

camera cradle will accept. When the length of RS-485 connection is

very long (longer than 200M), it’s not recommended to use high

speed connection (greater than 2400bps).

- Data Bits: Select data bits of RS-485 connection.

- Parity: Select parity bit: odd, even, or space.

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

- Stop Bit: Select stop bit: 1 or 2.

- Home/Up/Down/Left/Right: Input the command string used to

move pan-tilt camera cradle to home or up/down/left/right position. You can click ‘Test’ button to send command string for testing.

- Command 1 ~ 5: You can define extra pan-tilt camera cradle

control strings here by giving it a name (Command Name) and

command string (Hexadecimal Message). You can also click ‘Test’

button to send command string for testing.

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

3-9 Event

When there’s an event, you can use this setup page to define what IP camera should do,

like send an Email or trigger digital output to activate external alarm.

There are three setup pages:

1. Setting: Define a new event and manage events.

2. Media: Define what kind of media file should be saved on designate media.

3. Event Server: Define the details of remote server.

Please refer to following chapters for detailed instructions.

3-9-1 Settings

This page lists all existing events. You can click ‘Modify’ button to edit an existing event, or ‘Remove’ to delete an existing event.

To create a new even, just click “New” button to add an Event setting.

To add a new event, click ‘New’ button and the descriptions of every setup item is listed below:

Item

Description

Enable Setting

Check this box to enable this event. If you just want to disable this event temporarily, you can uncheck this box to keep this event and disabling while not deleting it.

Title

Input any description text for this event so you can identify it quickly. You can use alphabets, numbers, and symbols include: !$-.@^_~ (no spaces allowed).

Motion Detection

Check this box and this event will be activated when one of motion detection window detects motion.

Digital Input 1 ~ 2

Check this box and this event will be activated when digital input 1 or 2’s

input signal is high or low (select from dropdown list).

Enable Schedule Time

Check this box and this event will be activated when designated weekday and time is reached. You also have to check weekday box, and select time from dropdown

list. If you select ‘Always’ as time, this event will be activated during all

the day.

Enable FTP

Check this box and IP camera will save file on FTP server (refer to ‘FTP Server’ setting in ‘Event Server’ tab) when this event is activated.

Enable EMAIL

Check this box and IP camera will send an Email to designated recipient

address (refer to ‘SMTP Server’ setting in ‘Event Server’ tab) when this

event is activated.

Enable Samba (Net Storage)

Check this box and IP camera will save file on samba server (refer to ‘Samba Server’ setting in ‘Event Server’ tab) when this event is activated.

Enable SD CARD

Check this box and IP camera will save file on SD card when this event is activated. A working SD card must be inserted into IP camera in advance.

Trigger digital output for xx second(s).

Check this box and IP camera will trigger digital out to ‘high’ state for xx

seconds when this event is activated, where ‘xx’ seconds must be defined by the dropdown list.

3-9-2 Media

Item

Description

One Snapshot

Save a picture file when event is triggered.

H.264 Video

Save a H.264 video clip. You can also select the recording length before and / or after the time when event is triggered in ‘Pre Event’ and ‘Post’ Event’. For example, if you set ‘Pre Event’ to ‘2’ and ‘Post Event’ to 3’, and an event is triggered at 14:10:30, then the video file will be 5 seconds long, starting from 14:10:28 to 14:10:33.

Tips: You may want to know what happened before event is triggered in many cases, especially when object is outside of motion detection window. Note: If the “Pre Event” set to “0” second, the “Post Event” cannot set to “0” second.

You can define what kind of media file should be saved on designated media.

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

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

3-9-3 Event Server

Item

Description

FTP Server

Check this box to enable FTP server upload.

- FTP Server: Input FTP server’s IP address or hostname.

- Port: Input FTP server’s port number. In most cases it should

be default value ‘21’.

- User Name: Input FTP server’s username.

- Password: Input FTP server’s password.

- File Path Name: Input the path where you want to save file

You can define the details of remote media server: FTP (File), SMTP (Email), and Samba (File).

A Samba server can be any computer running windows operating system with network neighbor function enabled. Many stand-alone network file server also support samba server function.

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

on FTP server, like ‘upload/record’. If you want to save file on this FTP user’s home directory, you can leave this field

blank.

- Enable Passive Mode: Check this box to force IP camera to

communicate with FTP server in passive mode (Some FTP Server may only work when you check this box, while others don’t).

- Test FTP: Click this button to test FTP server settings above

immediately.

SMTP Server

Check this box to enable Email send.

- SMTP Server: Input SMTP server’s IP address or hostname.

- Port: Input SMTP server’s port number. In most cases it

should be default value ‘25’.

- Sender Email Address: Input the sender’s email address that

will appear in the Email send by IP camera. This will help you to identify the Email sent by this IP camera, and may help when you have anti-spam software installed (you can set this Email address to ‘White List’ in your anti-spam software)

- Receiver #1 Email Address: Input primary recipient’s Email

address. This field is required.

- Receiver #2 Email Address: Input backup recipient’s Email

address. This field is optional.

- Subject: Input Email title that will appear in the Email send

by IP camera. This will help you to identify the Email sent by this IP camera.

- Authentication: Check this box when authentication is

required by the Email server you’re using. You also need to

input Email server’s username and password in corresponding field.

- Requires SSL Encryption: If your Email server required SSL

encryption, check this box. Please note that some Email server uses different port number than standard port 25 when SSL encryption is used.

- STARTTLS: If your Email server required STARTTLS

encryption, check this box. Please note that some Email server uses different port number than standard port 25 when STARTTLS encryption is used.

- Test SMTP: Click this button to test SMTP server settings

above immediately.

Samba Server

Check this box to enable Samba server file upload.

- Samba Server Address: Input Samba server’s IP address or

hostname.

- Path: Input the path where you want to save file on Samba

server, like ‘upload/record’. If you want to save file on this user’s home directory, you can leave this field blank.

- User Name: Input Samba server’s username.

- Password: Input Samba server’s password.

* Username and password can NOT leave blank.*

- Test SMB: Click this button to test Samba server settings

above immediately.

Tips: Some samba server does not have username and password check, you can just input samba server address and path to access the file storage space.

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

3-10 Recording to SD Card

Note:

1. Be sure that the SD Card format should be FAT32. The NTFS

format cannot be supported by this camera.

2. Unlink motion detection, this function will record video at

specified time period on selected weekday(s).

Item

Description

Enable External storage Recording

Check this box to record video on SD card.

Maximum Size of Each File

Input the maximum size of every video file from 1MB to 50MB. IP camera will start a new video file when a recording video file reaches the size limit stated here.

Recording Schedule

Define the recording schedule. You can check Sun to Sat boxes to represent a weekday, and specify time period in ‘From’ and ‘To’ field.

Select ‘Always’ to record 24 hours in selected

weekday(s).

When a SD card is inserted into IP camera, you can save video files on it.

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

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

3-11 SDHC

The IP camera module has an optional SD card slot PCBA board. The standard module does not include this board. The UI shows the capacity is 0 MB when the module without SD card slot and memory card.

f you need the

function please check the option when you place the order of the IP camera module. Once the module equipped SD card slot and SD card is inserted, the UI will show the capacity of the SD card like the image hereunder.

There are two UI pages to show the record on the SD card. They are mapping to the setting of “Recording to SD card” and “Event” accordingly. Click “All file” to list all files. You also can define the range and click “Search” to sort the files needed. It shows likes the images in the next page.

Set the time range then click “Search” then shows the records like below.

3-12 Log

You can check the usage log of IP camera here.

In this page, you can click:

1. First page / Final page: Jump to first / final page of log.

2. Previous / Next: Jump to previous or next page of log.

3. Remove: Clear log. You’ll be prompted for confirmation.

3-13 Device Info

You can check the information and network settings of this IP camera. These information are very useful when you need to repair or fix the problem of this IP camera.

An example of device info page look like this:

3-14 Maintenance

Item

Description

Reboot

Click this button to reboot the IP camera. This function is useful when you find IP camera is not working properly.

Reset

Clear all settings of IP camera and reset to factory default setting.

Backup

Backup IP camera’s setting and save it on your

computer.

Backup to Micro SD card device

Backup IP camera’s setting and save it on Micro SD card. A Micro SD card must be inserted into Micro

SD card slot when you click this button, or you’ll

receive an error message.

Restore

Restore a previously-saved configuration file saved

on your computer. Click ‘Browse’ button to select a

file on your computer first, then click ‘Restore’ button.

Restore from SD card device

Restore IP camera’s configuration which is

previously-saved on SD card.

You can do some maintenance job about this IP camera here.

Here are the descriptions of every setup item:

Upgrade

Upgrade IP camera’s firmware. Click ‘Browse’ button

to select a firmware image file on your computer first, then click ‘Upgrade’ button.

3-15 Language

You can change the display language of web interface.

Click ‘Language’ button and select one language. More languages may available in latest

firmware file.

CHAPTER IV: EDIVIEW 64-CHANNEL VIEWER

4-1 EdiView Installation

Please follow the following instructions to setup EdiView on Windows Vista / 7 operating system.

Please note: You must login as system administrator when you’re installing EdiView .

1. Locate EdiView setup file, and double-click on it to start EdiView software installation.

2. You’ll see a User Account Control security warning message appear, click ‘Yes’ to

continue.

3. Click ‘Next’ to continue.

4. Click ‘Install’ to begin installation.

5. ase wait while installation is being performed. This may take few minutes to done,

please be patient.

6. The second part of installation will start automatically.

7. A new setup window will appear, please click ‘Next’ button to continue.

8. You can select a folder on your computer to install EdiView by clicking ‘Change’ button,

or simply click ‘Next’ button directly to accept default folder.

9. Click ‘Install’ to continue.

10. Installation will take few minutes, please be patient.

11. Click ‘Finish’ when you see this message. EdiView is ready to use now.

12. MSDE (Microsoft SQL Database Engine) installation procedure will start at the same time.

Please wait until it completes.

13. You’ll be prompted that this program has compatibility issues, click ‘Run program’ to

continue.

14. MSDE installation requires computer reboot to complete, click ‘Finish’ to reboot the

computer.

15. A new icon will appear on your computer’s desktop, you can double click on it to start

EdiView.

4-2 EdiView Interface

To start EdiView , double-click EdiView icon on your computer’s desktop:

Or click ‘Start’ button of Windows, and select ‘All Programs’ -> ‘EdiView’

You’ll see a User Account Control security warning message appear, click ‘Yes’ to continue.

EdiView login window will appear.

Default user ID is ‘admin’ and default password is ‘1234’, click ‘OK’ when ready.

The main window of EdiView will appear:

Split-screen mode selector

Function Keys

Date/Time,

Remaining disk

space

Snapshot

camera

selection

Exit

Camera

View

The descriptions of every item are listed as follow:

Item

Description

Split-screen mode selector

EdiView supports from 1 to 64 cameras split views. The video from IP camera will display in split-screen display cells, and you can view up to 64 IP cameras at the same time. Click the button to select the number of IP cameras you wish to view on display.

If the number of IP camera is less than the number of split screen, unused display cell will be displayed as

grey color to indicate it’s not being connected to any

IP camera.

Full-screen

Click this button to display video from IP cameras in full-screen mode. All control buttons will be hidden, only IP camera’s video will be displayed.

To leave full-screen mode, press ‘Esc’ key on your keyboard.

Camera Scan

When you click this button, EdiView will display the video from one camera only at the same time, and

switch to next camera’s video after few seconds, and

so on.

Snapshot

Take a snapshot of selected IP camera and save the picture on your computer.

When you click this button, the picture of IP camera

selected in ‘snapshot camera selection’ dropdown

menu will be saved.

EMAP

Display the EMAP (Electronic map) image on camera view area, which indicates the position and orientation in physical environment of every IP camera.

To set a picture as EMAP’s background picture:

Right-click on the EMAP display area, and you’ll be prompted to select a picture on your computer:

Select the file, and click ‘Open’ button to use the picture as background picture. To add a camera, right-click on the background picture and select ‘Add Camera…’

A new window will appear:

Select the camera you wish to add from ‘Camera’ dropdown list, and check the box ‘Image Lost’ and / or

‘Motion Detected’ if you want to get a warning

message when image lost of motion is detected, then select the direction of camera icon, this will help you to remember the orientation of camera on the EMAP.

After you click ‘OK’ button, a camera icon will appear

on EMAP with its camera number indicated:

You can add more cameras to EMAP by repeating procedures listed above.

Configuration

Enter EdiView configuration page. See next chapter for detailed instructions.

Playback

Playback recorded video. A new video playback window will appear. See chapter III for detailed instructions.

Recording

Start / stop video recording.

When recording video, this button will appear as red.

Schedule

Enable schedule recording. You must define schedule in advance before you can enable schedule recording.

Snapshot camera selection

Here lists all IP cameras you have, select one camera from dropdown list for snapshot.

Date / Time, Remaining Disk Space

Displays current date, time, and remaining disk storage space.

Exit

Click this button to leave EdiView

All camera’s video will displayed in ‘Camera View’ area:

(This example picture shows a 4-split camera view with only 2 IP cameras configured)

To select an IP camera, click its video and it will be highlighted; some IP cameras support additional control, and a control panel will appear at the bottom-right area of EdiView :

The description of these items is listed as follow:

Item

Description

Pan / Tilt control

Click the direction arrow to control camera’s pan / tilt.

Pan / Tilt speed

Drag the slide bar to adjust the pan / tilt speed when you click pan / tilt control arrow.

Zoom

Optical zoom control. Click + or - to control zoom level.

Exposure

Exposure control. Click + or - to control exposure level.

Cruise control

Click ‘Go’ button to start camera cruise and click ‘Stop’

button to stop cruise.

4-3 Configuration

Before you can use EdiView, you must configure at least 1 IP cameras.

To enter configuration menu, click ‘Configuration’ button in EdiView’ main menu:

The configuration menu will appear. There are 6 sub menus in the configuration menu:

Device (Add or remove IP camera / video server) Recording (Configure video recording) System (Configure system-wide settings) Schedule (Configure schedule recording) Event (Configure event recording) Security (Configure EdiView user list)

Detailed descriptions of every sub menu will be given in following chapters.

4-3-1 Device

You should configure at least one IP camera / video server before you can use EdiView , and you can manage all IP camera / video server here.

To add a new IP camera, click ‘Add’ button:

IP camera setup window will appear on the right:

If your IP camera is located on local area network, click ‘Search’ button. Wait for few

seconds or few minutes until the search is complete, and all IP cameras found on your local area network will be listed:

In this example, an IP camera has been found at IP address 192.168.2.3. If this is the IP camera you wish to add, click ‘Add to list’ button. You can repeat above procedures to add all IP cameras you wish to connect.

When an IP camera is found, you can also select it in the list and:

View Image: View the live image from selected IP camera.

Detail: Connect to selected IP camera’s web configuration menu.

You can also select the video stream type you wish to use:

Check ‘Enable Camera’ to enable this camera is EdiView.

If the IP camera you wish to add is not located on local area network, you have to input the details of IP camera manually:

1. Input the network settings of IP camera, including IP address, HTTP port number, user

name / password.

2. Click button (located at the right of ‘Model’ item), and select the brand and model of

the IP camera you wish to add. You can also click ‘Detect Device’ to detect the brand of

model of IP camera if you know its IP address.

After you found an IP camera of add it manually, click ‘Add to list’ button and the IP camera will be listed in EdiView and ready to use:

Every IP camera has a check box, indicating if it is enabled. If a camera is not enabled, it will not be displayed in EdiView’s video view.

You can also manage IP camera list by the following function:

Enable All: Enable all IP cameras in the list.

Disable All: Disable all IP cameras in the list.

Remove: Remove selected IP camera.

When you selected an IP camera in the list, you can also click ‘Update to list’ button to update its information, like IP address and user name / password.

4-3-2 Recording

You can specify the video recording behavior for all IP cameras: recording all the time, motion detection, or not recording at all.

Please note that if you don’t have any IP camera added in the camera list, you’ll not be able to enter this setup menu.

Item

Description

Select Camera

All IP camera’s Please select an IP camera from the list

to setup its recording behavior. EdiView will attempt

to connect to selected IP camera, if it’s not connectable, you’ll receive an error message later.

Record Mode

You can decide the recording behavior for this IP camera:

Monitor only, not record: EdiView will not record video of this IP camera.

Round-The-Clock: EdiView will record video of this IP camera all the time.

Motion Detection: EdiView will only record video when motion is detected.

Apply to All Cameras: Click this button to apply current record control settings to all IP cameras on the list.

Motion Detection Setting

Sets motion detection area and sensitivity. Please select an IP camera from the list, and its video will appear with a grid pattern:

The descriptions of every item are listed as follow:

Use the mouse to click blocks on the grid pattern to assign the areas you wishes EdiView to detect / ignore motion. EdiView will detect motion for areas which are NOT covered by blocks only.

To add or erase blocks:

To add blocks, click + button; to erase blocks, click-

button. Click ‘Reset’ button to reset motion detection

blocks to default setting. You can also change the color

of block if its color is similar to the IP camera’s video

and makes you hard to identify the blocks by click the color brick between + and - button:

Drag red, green, and blue slide bar to set color, and

click ‘Set’ button to save changes, click ‘Default’ button to reset settings, and click ‘Cancel’ to leave this menu

without saving changes.

You also have to setup sensitivity:

Drag the slide bar to setup sensitivity level from 1 to

10. Larger number indicates more sensitivity.

To apply this motion detection settings to all IP cameras, click ‘Apply to All Cameras’ button.

Item

Description

Host Name

Input the host name of this computer. This will help you to identify this computer which is running EdiView on network.

Camera Caption

Add a text caption on camera view or not:

When you finish setting, click ‘OK’ button to save changes you made, or click ‘Cancel’ button to discard all settings you made.

4-3-3 System

You can configure system-wide configurations in this sub menu.

The descriptions of every setup items are listed as follow:

No: Do not display caption on camera view

Camera ID: Display Camera’s ID number

Camera ID + Camera Name: Display both camera’s ID and camera’s name.

Data Storage Setting

Setup hard disk data storage:

Enable Recycle: Check this box and the latest recording video will overwrite oldest recorded video file automatically. If you didn’t check this box, EdiView will stop recording when data storage space is full.

Alarm Space: When data storage space is less

than the size you specified here, you’ll receive

an alarm message to notify you should do something to prevent from running out of storage space.

Locations: Lists all data storage space configured. You can all / modify spaces below.

Browse: Select a drive or folder on your computer for recording data storage. You can

also create a new folder when you’re prompted

to select a drive or folder on your computer.

Safe Space: Specify the lower limit of storage space you specified. When remaining storage space is less than the size you specified here, EdiView will stop recording**.

Add/Modify: You can click this button to add the drive / folder you specified above to storage space list, or select an existing storage space in the list to change its parameters then click this button to update its parameter.

Remove: Select a pre-defined storage space and click this button to remove it from the list.

Alarm Space

When data storage space is less than the size

you specified here, you’ll receive an alarm

message to notify you should do something to prevent from running out of storage space.

Start-up Condition

Select the behavior of EdiView when computer starts up. You can select multiple options you want to use:

Auto run, when Windows start: Check this box and EdiView will run automatically when computer starts.

Start program in minimum: Start EdiView as minimized window.

Auto record: Start video recording automatically when EdiView starts.

If you want to start recording automatically, remember to use ‘Auto Login’ function.

Auto Login

Input the user ID and password to login EdiView automatically. This function is useful when you want to start recording automatically when computer starts.

User ID: Input user ID used to login EdiView, must have adequate privileges to perform the action you wish to execute.

Password: Input user’s password.

Full screen view when auto login: Switch to full screen display mode when auto login.

Alarm Transmitted e-Mail

Send an E-mail notification with picture when alarm is triggered (motion is detected):

SMTP Server: Input the IP address or host name of SMTP server (mail server) you wish to use.

Sender: Input the sender’s E-mail address in sent email. This will help you to identify the E-mail sent by EdiView. For some SMTP servers, you must set a sender E-mail address of the

same domain name.

Receiver: Input the E-mail receiver’s address here.

CC: input additional E-mail receiver’s address here.

Subject: Input the subject of sent E-mail. This will also help you to identify the E-mail sent by EdiView .

Number of attachments: Input the number of snapshot attachments that will sent with E-mail, so you can see the image of camera by E-mail (1 to 10 attachments only).

Email alerts Interval: Input the time interval between two E-mails. A new E-mail will not be sent within the interval you specified here even a new event is detected.

User: Input the user name for SMTP

authentication. Input only when it’s required by your SMTP server, you can leave it blank if it’s

not required.

Password: Input the password used by SMTP authentication.

Camera Scan Interval

Input the time interval to wait between camera scan.

Connection Retry

Decides the behavior when EdiView lost communication with IP camera:

Retry: Retry for the time you specified here.

Always retry: Retry to connect to IP camera until successfully connected.

When you finishes setting, click ‘OK’ button to save changes you made, or click ‘Cancel’

button to discard all settings you made.

4-3-4 Schedule

You can configure recording schedule in this sub-menu.

When you enter this sub-menu for first time, click ‘Add Job’ button to add a new schedule recording job:

A new window will appear on the right:

Item

Description

Weekly Schedule

Select the time period in a week of this schedule. There are total 48 x 7 blocks in a week schedule, where every block represents half an hour.

You can use mouse to click on the block to add or delete time period. If recording is activated in that time period, the block will appear as light blue . If recording is NOT activated in that time period, the block will appear as dark blue .

To add or delete a time period, select ‘ADD’ or

You can configure a new schedule recording job here. The descriptions of every setup items are listed as follow:

‘DEL’ first, then click the time period block.

Events

Select the event to trigger recording:

Round-The-Clock: Recording is time-activated (according to schedule).

Motion Detection: Recording is motion-activated.

DI Input: Recording is activated by DI (Digital Input) signal located on IP camera. IP camera must have DI port and not every IP camera is equipped with DI.

Dedicated Schedule

If you just want to add a new recording schedule between certain time and this schedule will only happen once but not every week, you can use this function to specify a time period.

Select ‘Start’ and ‘End’ date / time, and click ‘Add/Modify’ button to add the time period to

the list. You can also select an existing time

period and make changes, and click ‘Add / Modify’ button to save changes.

To remove an existing schedule, select an

existing schedule, and then click ‘Remove’

button.

Comment

You can input some text to help you to memorize the purpose of this schedule

Cameras/Devices

Check all IP cameras that will be activated by this schedule.

Add to list

Click this button to add this schedule to the list.

When you finishes setting, click ‘OK’ button to save changes you made, or click ‘Cancel’ button to discard all settings you made.

4-3-5 Event

Item

Description

Select Camera

Select the IP camera to define its event detail.

Alarm Condition

Define the type of event which will trigger an alarm:

Motion detected: Alarm will be triggered when motion is detected at this IP camera.

Video lost: Alarm will be triggered when video server’s external camera signal is lost.

Connection Lost: Alarm will be triggered when network connection to this IP camera is lost.

You can select one alarm condition only here. If

EdiView can send you an alarm E-Mail message so you can know something happened on the IP camera (motion detected, video lost, or connection lost). A sound can be played to notify the operator at the computer where EdiView is installed, too.

To add a new event, click ‘Add’ button, and a new window will appear on the right for you

to setup a new event.

To remove an existing event, select an event in the list and click ‘Remove’ button.

The descriptions of every setup items are listed as follow:

you want to specify more than one alarm condition for the same IP camera,

Trigger Operation(s)

Define the action which will be taken when alarm is triggered:

Send E-Mail: an E-mail will be sent when alarm is triggered.

Play Sound: Play a sound on the computer where EdiView is installed. To add a new sound file, copy the .wav file to the following directory:

C:\Program Files\EdiView\media

You can click ‘Play’ button to play the sound file you selected.

Alarm Remark

You can input descriptive text here to help you to remember the purpose of this event.

Alarm Recycle

When you finish setting, click ‘Add/Modify’ button to add this event to the list.

4-3-6 Security

You can add or remove users which is allowed to access to EdiView.

There are two kinds of user in EdiView: Administrator and user. Administrator can configure EdiView, while user can only view video of camera, and perform limited system configuration (schedule, record, and video playback).

Administrator’s user ID is always be ‘admin’ and cannot be changed. You can only change admin’s password in Administrator’s ‘Password’ and ‘Confirm Password’ field.

Please input the same password in both fields for confirmation.

To add a user, click ‘Add’ button, a new window will appear on the right:

The descriptions of every setup items are listed as follow:

Item

Description

User ID

Input the user ID used to login EdiView

Description

Input any descriptive text to help you to memorize the purpose of this user ID.

Password / Confirm Password

Input this user’s password in both fields.

User Privilege

Defines the privilege of this user (Check the boxes that you wish to give privilege):

Multi-Camera View Operation: Allows multi-camera view.

Camera Map Operation: Allows to show E-MAP.

Scheduling: User can start or stop schedule recording.

Recording: User can start or stop video recording.

Playback: User can playback saved video.

Camera List

Select IP cameras you wish to allow this user to view.

When you finishes setting, click ‘Add/Modify’ button to add this new user.

You can also select an existing user and change his / her user information, then click ‘Add / Modify’ button to save changes for this user.

4-4 Video Playback

To view recorded video, you can click ‘Playback’ button in EdiView’s main screen:

Advanced Search Event Search

A new window will appear:

To play a recorded video, you can use one of following two functions:

Please refer to following chapters for detailed instructions of every search mode.

4-4-1 Advanced Search

DATE

Hour in a day

You can search for recorded video within specific time period, and get a list of record modes of all IP cameras.

When you enter this menu, please specify start time and stop time:

(You can input 0 - 23 in ‘Hour in a day’ field by keyboard directly).

When you finish, click ‘SEARCH’ button to search for recorded video, and you’ll get a similar

output like this:

In this picture, a recorded video of ‘Camera 1’ has been found at 12 o’clock. A blue mark indicates it’s a ‘Round Clock’ (manual) recording.

Other record type include:

Blue: Manual Recording Green: Recording is triggered by motion Red: Recording is triggered by Digital Input

To view the video, check the box of camera ID, then click play button.

And the video will be prepared for playback.

4-4-2 Event Search

You can search for video for playback by triggering event: round the clock, motion detection, or digital input.

Click here to

select camera ID

more than 17

To search for video, you have to specify:

1) starting and ending time for video searching in ‘Start time’ and ‘Stop time’ field

2) Recording mode: Round Clock, Motion Detection, and I/O Mode (Digital Input). You can check all boxes you wish to search for.

3) Camera: You can check all cameras you wish to search for video. To select camera ID

more than 16, click right or left button to select camera ID up to 64, or click ‘Select All’ to

select all cameras.

When you finish, click ‘Search’ button to search for recorded video, and a list similar to this

will appear:

You can select the video clip you wish to play, and click ‘Play’ button.

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