EnGenius Technologies EDS1130 Users manual
Chapter 6
Camera Connecting to
EnGenius Gateway/
Router
Smart Recording is an intelligent camera management technology that allows EnGenius users to manage cameras collectively
with ease. EnGenius bundles cameras with IoT gateway and Intelligent Router series that provides a single entrance for integrated
management. Traditionally, if you have multiple cameras installed you will need to go through the tedious congurations on each of
the camera. The benets of Smart Recording are as follows:
Easy and Integrated Access
manage each camera
individually
Integrated Storage
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Easy Remote Access over Internet
Traditionally, you cannot get access to your Camera over the Internet without some manual conguration known as Port Forwarding
because your camera is installed under a local network. Smart Recording technology takes care all the complicated setup and leave
you with ease of control. That is, you will be able to access any of the cameras in your home by providing their DDNS names on
EnViewer mobile app or web browser if you are using PC/Laptop.
manual
conguration
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Enable Gateway/Router Storage Function
The best thing about Smart Recording is that you can make use of the EnGenius Network Storage function. You should attach an
external USB storage device (portable hard-disk or USB ash drive) to your gateway/router. Enter the Username and Password of your
gateway/router and click Login.
If you have not yet enable Network Storage Samba Server on your gateway/router, choose USB Port
Samba is already enabled. Then, Enable Samba Service and click on Apply to activate the function.
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On your gateway’s/router’s Main Menu, Click EnViewer → IP Camera under Cloud Services to access the connected cameras.
Depending on the rmware version of the device, the page may be found on System → IP Camera under Device Management.
Note: Only EnGenius Cameras can be managed collectively by EnGenius Gateway/Router. For other vendor’s cameras, you still have
to congure them one by one manually.
You should be see all your cameras listed on the IP Camera Client Table. If not, click Refresh button to scan the network again.
Please be noted that only EnGenius Cameras will be listed on the table.
Connect: You can get access to the selected camera’s
User Interface Management page.
Add Prole: Add the selected camera to a prole
(please refer to next section for more detail on
Prole)
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Camera Prole
A Prole is an entry that represents the added camera. You must add the camera to a prole so that the gateway/router has
the privilege to congure your camera and link them together.
Add Prole
This example shows 4 connecting cameras on the gateway/router. We have chosen to add two cameras (Lobby and Entrance)
for demonstration purpose.
Click on Add Prole button to add the chosen camera.
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IP Camera Name: Lobby (use meaningful name for better identication)
Schedule Recording: Enable/Disable this type of recording
Motion Recording: Enable/Disable this type of recording
Folder Name: The name of the folder where the media les of this camera will be stored on the gateway/router storage.
Storage Size: put 0 if storage is unlimited.
Overwrite: Enable/Disable over-writing the old les when there’s no space for storing the new les
Click Apply when the prole settings is done.
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The added cameras will be listed as shown below.
You can Edit or Delete prole by selecting the prole and click on the buttons below.
Edit: Select the camera prole and then click Edit button to make the changes.
Delete Selected: Select the camera prole and then click Delete Selected button to delete the prole.
Delete All: Click Delete All to delete all the proles.
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Fine Tune Camera Conguration set by the Gateway/Router
This section provides extra information on what actually happened to your camera’s setting after you added it to the Prole on
the gateway/router.
It is helpful for you to go through the automatically congured camera settings and make proper changes when necessary.
Click on Connect button to open the chosen camera’s login page.
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Camera Storage Setting
Then go to Event Server → Network Storage section.
As you can see shown below, the camera storage is automatically congured for you. These settings enables your camera to store
media les on the external storage attached to your gateway/router. Each camera will be given different Path so that you can search
for the associated les easily.
In the previous example, we have named the camera prole as Entrance; therefore, the Path given to this camera is /sda1/IP_
Camera/Entrace. Please do not change the settings because it only works if the setting matches the connected gateway/router.
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Camera Event/Alarm Setting
The gateway/router congured the camera with default Event Action Type: Record. You can make necessary changes if necessary. For
instance, you may want to change Record to Snapshot if static pictures are preferable in your application.
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Camera Motion Detection Setting
In the previous section, the Entrance prole is congured with Motion Detection enabled. Therefore, the gateway/router
congured the camera with a full screen motion detection window. You may adjust the motion detection window if necessary.
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Access the Media les on the Gateway/Router
Using web browser
Please refer to EnGenius Gateway/Router user’s manual for more detail on the EnShare Storage feature.
You can click on to access the storage.
Choose Admin and click Start to access.
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Choose the storage device to access the le.
In the previous example, the Entrance camera prole denes the path /sda1/IP_Camera/Entrance/
The media les will be stored as shown below.
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Click the target le to check the video download or
right click to download the le from network storage.
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Using Windows File Explorer
Once enabled Samba on the EnGenius gateway/router, you should nd the device under Network in your File Explorer as shown.
Double click on ENGENIUS to get access to the storage space.
Upon security prompt, enter the gateway’s/router’s
username and password to continue.
You can access the media les located under \\ENGENIUS\sda1\IP_Camera\Entrance
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Chapter 7
Camera Connecting
to Other Router
Normally, you do not need to make any changes to your router setting to be able to use the camera. However, in case if you
experience issues in connecting the camera, you should probably check for the following settings. UPnP, UPnP Traversal and Firewall.
UPnP and UPnP Traversal:
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) allows the other device to detect the presence of the camera so that communication become
possible. Please ensure that your router supports UPnP Traversal and has it enabled. Most of the modern wireless router today
supports this feature. You should enable UPnP if you wish your camera to be recognized by the home router. If you can’t nd the
related settings, they are most likely enabled by default. UPnP Traversal makes camera remote access over the Internet possible using
camera DDNS name.
Firewall:
By default, the rewall function of the router is not congured to lter out specic trafc. However, in case if you have trouble
accessing the camera view, it’s likely that the trafc has been blocked by the rewall on your router. You may want to double check
whether you have blocked the service ports. Check the camera setting System → Service Port. Make sure you do not block the
following ports: 80, 50000, 554, 50045, 9091 and 50075.
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Chapter 8
EnViewer APP
EnViewer is an APP that runs on the mobile devices such as mobile phones or tablets. This application enables you to view
and control the camera and provides basic control on the camera at real time. You will be required to have a mobile device to go
through the features in this chapter.
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Install EnViewer
Download the EnViewer APP by scanning the QR code shown on the management page using your mobile phone. Both Android and
iOS version are supported, please scan the corresponding QR code to download and install the APP.
Also, you can search “EnViewer by EnGenius” in App Store (for iPhone and iPad) or Google Play (for Android-based phone and tablets)
for download.
Note:
You need to have your camera installed and congured in your home work to be able to use EnViewer.
You need to have your mobile device connected to the same gateway/router that your camera is connected with through Wi-Fi.
Start the EnViewer. You will be guided to
Wizard for the rst time using this APP.
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Welcome for using EnViewer.
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EnViewer Wizard
The Wizard will take you through the initial settings quickly. Press Next to proceed.
There are two ways to add new camera to EnViewer: QR Code and AUTO SEARCH.
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