Leuze electronic LCAM 408i User Manual

LCAM 408i

Industrial Ethernet Camera

User Manual

Revision 1.2

Revision

Changes

Date | Name

1.0

First Edition

20.05.2016 | esh

1.1

Addition RTSP-Protocol, Live stream in Browser

04.01.2018 | esh

1.2.

RSTP limits

30.01.2018

DISCLAIMER
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Federal communications commission statement

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

operation.

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device,

pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable
protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates,
uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with

manufacturer’s instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.

However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If
this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be
determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try correct the

interference by one or more of the following measures:
Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.
Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor to the graphics card is required to assure

compliance with FCC regulations. Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly

approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate

this equipment.

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Canadian department of communications statement

This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for radio noise emissions from digital

apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Department of

Communications.
This class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003.

SAFETY INFORMATION
Electrical safety

To prevent electrical shock hazard, disconnect the power cable from the electrical outlet before

reloading the system.
When adding or removing devices to or from the system, ensure that the power cables for the devices

are unplugged before the signal cables are connected. If possible, disconnect all power

cables from the existing system before you add device.
Before connecting or removing signals cables from motherboard, ensure that all power cables are

unplugged.
Make sure that your power supply is set to the correct voltage in your area. If you are not sure about

the voltage of the electrical outlet you are using, contact your local power company.
If the power supply is broken, do not try to fix it by yourself. Contact a qualified service technician or

your retailer.

Operation safety

Before installing the motherboard and adding devices on it, carefully read the manuals that came with

the package.
Before using the product, make sure all cables are correctly connected and the power cables are not

damaged. If you detect any damage, contact your dealer immediately.
To avoid short circuits, keep paper clips, screws, and staples away from connectors, slots sockets and

circuitry.
Avoid dust, humidity, and temperature extremes. Do not place the product in any area where it may

become wet.
Place the product on a stable surface.
If you encounter technical problems with the product, contact a qualified service technician or your

retailer.

RECYCLING

Please recycle packaging environmentally friendly:

Packaging materials are recyclable. Please do not dispose packaging into domestic

waste butrecycle it.

Please recycle old or redundant devices environmentally friendly:

Old devices contain valuable recyclable materials that should be reutilized. Therefore please

dispose old devices at collection points which are suitable.

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CONTENTS
1 Hardware 5

1.1 M12 connectors 5

1.2 Pin definition Ethernet connector 5

1.3 Pin definition Power connector 6

1.4 Switching off 6

1.5 Optics 6

1.6 Mounting the camera 6

1.6.1 With screws 6

1.6.2 At a Rod (14-20mm) with the BT 56-1 or BT 300-1 7

1.6.3 With a mounting angle 7

2 First Steps 8

2.1 What’s needed 8

2.2 What to do 8

3 Web Interface 8

3.1 Changing Camera IPs 8

3.2 Default network settings 9

3.3 Default login data 9
Web interface 9
SSH 9

3.4 Camera Settings 10

3.5 Still image 10

3.6 Streaming 11

3.6.1 Stream data structure 11

4 Menus 13

4.1 Administration 13

4.1.1 Factory reset 13

4.1.2 Password selection 13

4.1.3 Password setting 14

4.1.4 Reboot 14

4.1.5 Update 15

4.2 Image settings 15

4.2.1 Automatic Exposure 15

4.2.2 Manual Exposure 17

4.3 Network 19

4.3.1 Services – SSH and FTP 19

4.4 Menu general appearance 20

4.5 About Menu 20

5 Appendix 21

Data sheet key data 21

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1 Hardware

M12 X-Coded female

Pin

Signal Name

1

D1+

2

D1-

3

D2+

4

D2-

5

D4+

6

D4-

7

D3-

8

D3+

This manual covers the industrial LCAM 408i with MJPEG streaming capabilities and its software. The
LCAM 408i has outer dimensions of approx. 75 mm (L), 55 mm (W), 113 mm (H).

1.1 M12 connectors

The M12 connectors on the bottom side are used for Ethernet connection (named with SERVICE) and
the other for Power Supply (named with PWR). It is an X-coded M12 with 8 pins (female) and a A­Coded M12 with 4 Pins. Be sure to use only matching cables.

1.2 Pin definition Ethernet connector

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1.3 Pin definition Power connector

M12 A-Coded male

Pin

Signal Name

Description

1

+VIN

Supply Voltage,
positive terminal

2 not connected

3

-VIN

Supply Voltage,
negative terminal

4 not connected

The camera needs 3,6 W for operation. The device can be powered in the range from 18 to 30 Volt
DC.

1.4 Switching off

The unit may be switched off anytime, since an overlay file system is used to store persistent data.

1.5 Optics

The lens (M12) is mounted behind a protective front glass (no optical requirements) that cannot be
changed be the user.

The setup the lens focus is done in the production, and cannot be changed by the user.
The field of view is

1,80 x 1,40 m @ 1 Meter distance

2,50 x 1,90 m @ 1,5 Meter distance

3,40 x 2,60 m @ 2 Meter distance

1.6 Mounting the camera

There are different options to mount the LCAM 408i

1.6.1 With screws

The camera can by mounted to a flat surface with four M4 * 4 screws.
There is no preferred mounting direction.

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1.6.2 At a Rod (14-20mm)

with the BT 56-1 or BT 300-1

1.6.3 With a mounting angle

The camera can mount to the BT 300W and adjust in different directions

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2 First Steps

2.1 What’s needed

Before you start, you will need:

 The LCAM 408i
 Ethernet cable with connectors M12 X-coded – RJ-45, CAT6
 Switch (1000BaseT) or direct PC connected with Gigabit Ethernet interface
 Streaming video viewer Leuze viewer, VLC or equivalent.

2.2 What to do

After unpacking the camera, the following steps for a first use are:

 Connect an M12 – RJ45 Ethernet cable between the LCam and a Ethernetport (PC or switch)
 Connect a Cable for Power supply to the other M12 connector
 Power up the cable, wait for approx. 1 minute for LCam to boot. If you hear a faint noise, do

not worry.

 Detect the Lcam’s address
 Either: Run the program hipca detect.exe' and identify the LCam you want to talk with
 Or: Use default fixed address (see below). You may have to change the PC’s IP to an address

like 192.168.60.101, so it is in the same sub-net

 Open Internet browser on the computer
 In the browser’s address line type in the IP address of the LCAM 408 in the form

“192.168.60.101”

 Watch for the camera’s web server surface to show up, should appear as in “Menu general

appearance”

 Proceed with setting password and video parameters. For that you need a password (see

below for default)

 Start streaming video
 When finished, start the streaming client as shown below.

This document gives an introduction into the use of the LCAM 408i with MJPEG streaming. The
Software API is available on request.

3 Web Interface

3.1 Changing Camera IPs

Under *Network settings* you can choose between static address assignment and DHCP mode.
For static IP, fill out the fields as needed. And press "Save data". To use the new settings, pressing

"Restart network" is needed.

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3.2 Default network settings

DHCP

off IP

192.168.60.101

This is in one of the private IP spaces

IP Mask

255.255.0.0

Gateway

Not needed for test, change for large nets

DNS server

Not needed for test, change for large nets

Order number

xxx

Camera-individual

The default factory settings for network are:

3.3 Default login data

Web interface

User: admin
Password: leuze

SSH

User: root
Password: rootLogin

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3.4 Camera Settings

Exposure

sets the exposure time of the sensor.

Gain

global gain for all color channels

Red gain

gain for all red pixels

Blue gain

gain for all blue pixels

Green gain 1 and 2

gain for green pixels in even and in odd lines, values should be
identical

horizontal and
vertical flip

can be used to correct the image orientation according to
mounting position of the camera. Changes Bayer mode, which is
fixed yet. See below.

Bayer mode

because the flipping will change the starting pixels the Bayer
mode the mode has to be adjusted if flipping is done. In streaming
mode this setting has no effect.

Sleep between
snaps

only used in webcam mode, not in streaming mode

Automatic gain
correction

enables the automatic exposure control

Flicker-free
exposure

if 0 no flicker-free exposure is used. Gain is fixed to a medium
value and exposure is controlled by changing the exposure time
For values > 0 exposure time is limited to multiples of the value.
Exposure values in between are realized by changing the gain.
For 50Hz lighting flicker-free exposure is realized with a value of

820. For 60Hz the value should be set to 683.

Average grey value

The average gray value of the whole image, the exposure control
tries to reach.

Color saturation

color saturation of the result image in percent. 0 is black and
white, 100 neutral. The maximum lies at 200.

Button: “White

balance once”

if pressed the software calculates RGB parameters that set the
current scene to neutral white. This will take several seconds.

Camera settings can only be changed by the web interface. It is possible to change the exposure time,
the gain of the different color channels, image flipping and Bayer mode. Gain values for the color
components can be used for color correction.

3.5 Still image

A JPEG file of the video stream, which is updated once a second can be accessed under the URL
http://Your_IP_here/camera/current.jpg

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3.6 Streaming

To watch the streamed image with the VideoLANClient VLC on a 64-Bit Windows system use the line:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" tcp://IPaddress:5001 --network-caching=0
Fill in the IP address of the camera and adjust the path to vlc.exe as needed.
The typical setting in VLC looks like this:

Be sure to set caching and IP address if not done so on the command line.

3.6.1 Stream data structure

To access the video data in your own software, open a socket to port 5001 of the camera and scan
the incoming data for the separator string ---jworudfg83h23lsow2z04. The following line contains the
content type and the next the length of the image data.

The typical structure of the stream data is:

---jworudfg83h23lsow2z04
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 200976
|
|
jpeg
data
here
|
|

---jworudfg83h23lsow2z04
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 200437
|
|

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3.6.2 RTSP-Protocol (Softwareversion 45d1eab)

The LCAM supports the livestream on the RTSP-Protocol.
You can use the with e.g. Siemens Comfort-Panel

rtsp://192.168.60.101:554/jpeg

(It shows the Default IP-Adrdess of the LCAM)

Important: The RTSP-Protocol allow maximum Pixels up to 2000. Therefore we recommend to use

as maximum the picture resolution of 1920x1080 pixel (FullHD)

3.6.3 Live stream in the browser (Softwareversion 45d1eab)

The LCAM supports the livestream in the browser.
You can use the with e.g. Mozilla Firefox

http://192.168.60.101/camera/live_image.lp

(It shows the Default IP-Adrdess of the LCAM)

Remark:The Camera-resolution can be choose from 640x480 to 2592x1944 pixel

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4 Menus

The LCAM 408i has an internal web server that has the following menus.

4.1 Administration

4.1.1 Factory reset

4.1.2 Password selection

Here one of the two possible passwords can be selected to be changed or set.

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4.1.3 Password setting

Here passwords are changed and set.

4.1.4 Reboot

System reboot is done without further data and should be finished after a minute.

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4.1.5 Update

The update process needs a path to a firmware file.

4.2 Image settings

4.2.1 Automatic Exposure

Here, image sizes and frame rates can be selected. Image size is limited by sensor parameters,
however, smaller images can be selected.

The LCam supports two independent streams with the same content on different ports, one full-size
and one scaled-down.

When the image size is set to values smaller than half the linear sensor pixel number (see data sheet
below) binning is enabled, first ½, later ¼. Binning is very useful in low-light situations, since the
effective pixel size is increased by 4 resp. 16.

Be sure to set the frame rate if slow refresh is observed.

Note: by clicking on Open image… at the bottom a live image is displayed, so adjustments can be

judged.

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Bayer mode

because the flipping will change the starting pixels the Bayer
mode the mode has to be adjusted if flipping is done. In streaming
mode this setting has no effect

Sleep between
snaps

only used in webcam mode, not in streaming mode

Automatic gain
correction

enables the automatic exposure control

Flicker-free
exposure

if 0 no flicker-free exposure is used. Gain is fixed to a medium
value and exposure is controlled by changing the exposure time
For values > 0 exposure time is limited to multiples of the value.
Exposure values in between are realized by changing the gain.
For 50Hz lighting flicker-free exposure is realized with a value of

820. For 60Hz the value should be set to 683

Average grey value

The average gray value of the whole image, the exposure control
tries to reach

Color saturation

color saturation of the result image in percent. 0 is black and
white, 100 neutral. The maximum lies at 200

Button: "White
balance once"

if pressed the software calculates RGB parameters that set the
current scene to neutral white. This will take several seconds

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4.2.2 Manual Exposure

In manual exposure mode, gain and exposure parameters can be set.

At the moment camera settings can only be changed by the web interface. It is possible to change the
exposure time, the gain of the different color channels, image flipping and Bayer mode. Gain values
for the color components can be used for color correction.

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Exposure

sets the exposure time of the sensor

Gain

global gain for all color channels

Red gain

gain for all red pixels

Blue gain

gain for all blue pixels

Green gain 1 and 2

gain for green pixels in even and in odd lines, values should be
identical

horizontal and
vertical flip

can be used to correct the image orientation according to
mounting position of the camera. Changes Bayer mode, which is
fixed yet. See below.

Bayer mode

because the flipping will change the starting pixels the Bayer
mode the mode has to be adjusted if flipping is done. In streaming
mode this setting has no effect.

Sleep between
snaps

only used in webcam mode, not in streaming mode

Automatic gain
correction

enables the automatic exposure control

Button: “White

balance once”

if pressed the software calculates RGB parameters that set the
current scene to neutral white. This will take several seconds.

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4.3 Network

Here you can choose between static address assignment and DHCP mode.

For static IP, fill out the fields as needed. And press "Save data". To use the new settings, pressing
"Restart network" is needed. For DHCP mode, no addresses are needed, they are obtained from the
DHCP server.

4.3.1 Services – SSH and FTP

Here SSH and FTP can be selected.

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4.4 Menu general appearance

This image shows the general menu structure.

4.5 About Menu

The “About” screen shows data needed for service enquiries or for searching a camera in the network.

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5 Appendix

Data sheet key data

Below you find the key data for the sensor.

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