Veo Pan and Tilt User Manual
Network Camera User’s Guide
Pan and Tilt
Network Camera
User’s Guide
Software Version 2.1.7
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PT IP Cam / IR IP Cam / Video Server Series
© 2004~2005.
Owner's Record
The model and serial numbers are located at the bottom. Record these numbers in the spaces provided
below. Refer to these numbers whenever you call upon your dealer regarding this product.
Model No. ______________ Serial No. ____________________
To prevent fire or shock hazard, do not expose the unit to rain or
moisture.
For AC Adaptor to avoid electrical shock, do not open the cabinet. Refer
servicing to qualified personnel only.
For customers in the U.S.A.
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a 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 the instructions, may cause harmful
interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interfer ence will not occur
in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radi o or television
reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try
to correct the interference by one or more of the followin g measur es :
– Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
– Increase the separation be tween the equipment and receiver.
– Connect the equipment into 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.
You are cautioned that any changes or modifications not expressly approved in this manual could vo id
your authority to operate this equipment.
The shielded interface cable recommended in this manual must be used with t h is equipment in
order to comply with the limits for a digital device pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules.
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Declaration of Conformity
This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two
conditions:
(1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and
(2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause
undesired operation.
NOTICE TO USERS
© 2004~2005. All rights reserved. This manual or the software described herein, in whole or in part,
may not be reproduced, translated or reduced to any machine readable form without prior written
approval.
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SOFTWARE OR OTHER INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN OR THE US E THEREOF.
We reserves the right to make any modification to this manual or the information contained herein at
any time without notice. The software described herein may also be govern ed by the terms of a
separate user license agreement.
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Table of Contents
Overview ............................................................................................................................. 6
Package Contents................................................................................................................ 8
Connections....................................................................................................................... 11
Hardware Installation....................................................................................................... 13
Logging in to Homepage................................................................................................... 15
Before Operation.......................................................................................................15
Access the Network Camera from the Internet Explorer for the first time............... 19
Logging in as an ordinary User.................................................................................21
Logging in as an Administrator.................................................................................21
Operating the Network Camera........................................................................................ 22
Control Panel ............................................................................................................23
Advanced Function Area......................... ... ...............................................................25
Basic Setting .....................................................................................................25
System .......................................................................................... 26
Camera.......................................................................................... 28
Network........................................................................................ 31
User...............................................................................................37
IP Filter......................................................................................... 38
FTP Client......................... ............................................................41
SMTP............................................................................................ 43
Image Memory ............................................................................. 45
Alarm 1..................................................... .................................. ..47
Alarm 2..................................................... .................................. ..48
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Schedule .......................................................................................49
Motion Detection........................................................... ............... 50
Time Setting ................................................................................. 51
Popup............................................................................................ 53
Firmware upgrade:........................................................................ 54
Factory Default.............................................................................57
Reboot........................................................................................... 58
Trigger............................................................................................................... 59
Capture.............................................................................................................. 60
RightMouseButton of ActiveX Control.............................................................................. 61
View Menu................................................................................................................ 62
“Image Recording…-> Save as JPEG” .................................................................... 68
“Save Current Picture As …” ................................................................. .................. 74
Appendix A: Restore Factory Default Settings .................................................................76
Appendix B: Alarm I/O Connector ...................................................................................77
Appendix C: Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions ......................................... 80
Appendix C: Troubleshooting & Frequently Asked Questions ......................................... 80
Appendix D: PING IP Address ......................................................................................... 85
Appendix E: Bandwidth Estimation.................................................................................. 86
Appendix F: Specifications ...............................................................................................87
Appendix G: Time Zone Table........................................................................................... 89
Appendix H: DDNS Application.......................................................................................91
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Overview
This user’s guide explains how to operate the Network Camera from a computer.
Basically, the user’s guide is written to be read on the computer display. However, users
might consider printing it out to access easily and read it before you operate the Netw ork
Camera.
Introduction
This Network Camera is an inexpensive fully scalable surv eillance technology. Because
the Network Cameras can be plugged in to your existing computer network infrastructure,
you will potentially save thousands of dollars on unnecessary cabling.
The Network Camera is accessible via the LAN or Internet connection. Connect your
Network Camera directly to a computer network or DSL modem, and with a standard
Web browser you get instant, on demand video streams. Within minutes you can set up
the Network Camera to capture a video sequence to a PC. Live video image can be
uploaded to a website for the world to see or made available only to selec t users on the
network.
Features:
z High quality 1/3” CCD sensor
z Composite video output
z Motorized and wide-range pan and tilt operation
z 16 Preset Points
z JPEG video compression
z Built-in internal microphone
z Remote-Control via Inter net Explorer
z Support statistic and dynamic IP address
z DDNS and PPPoE
z CF memory card interface (for CF card enabled version only)
z Multi-channel control software for surveillance application
z On-line firmware upgrade
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Application:
z Remote monitoring
z Surveillance
Minimum System Requirement
z Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later
z VGA Monitor resolution 1024 x 768
z Pentium 4 1.3GHz or above
z Memory Size: 256MB or above
z Windows ME, 2000, XP, or 2003
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Package Contents
User can find the following items in the package:
1. PT Network Camera x 1
2. Power adapter x 1
3. Power cord x 1
4. Decoration ring x 1
5. Screw x 4
6. Terminator for Alarm I/O x 1
7. Installation software and manual CD x 1
8. Quick Start Guide x 1
Item Descriptions
1. This unit is the main element of
the system.
2. Switching Power Adapter
dedicates 12V DC electric power
output to Network Camera.
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3. Power Cord provides connection
between AC Power Adapter and
Power Outlet for electricity.
4. Decorate the mounting parts.
Provide four screw holes to fix
Network Camera.
5. Screws are used to fix Network
Camera.
6. Alarm I/O connector is used to
provide an easy fixing interface for
the wire connection from alarm
devices and sensor devices to
Network Camera.
7. User’s Manual provides
important information and
instructions for operating the
Network Camera.
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8. Quick Start Guide provides
important information and
instructions for installing this device.
If any of the above items are missing, please contact your dealer immediately.
Note: Using a power supply with a different voltage than the one included with the
Network Camera will cause damage and void the warranty for this product.
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Connections
DC Power and Video Output Cable
The DC power input and video output cab le are located on the Ne twork Camera’s back
panel. The input power is 12VDC. Note that supply the power to the Network Camera
with standard power adapter included in package. Otherwise, the improper power
adapter may damage the unit and result in danger.
The Network Camera also provides composite video output. User can use BNC video
cable to connect the Network Camera with a TV monitor or VCR.
LAN Socket
Beside the DC power and video output cable, the LAN socket is an RJ-45 connector for
connections to 10Base-T Ethernet or 100Base-TX Fast E thernet cabling. This Ethernet
port built NWay protocol can detect or nego tiate the transmission speed of the network
automatically. Please use Category 5 “straight through” cable to connect the Network
Camera to a 100Mbps Fast Ethernet network switch or hub.
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Alarm I/O Connector
The Network Camera provides a terminal block with 8 pins of connectors located on the
center of the back panel. There are 3 pins for two alarm inputs and 5 pins are for alarm
output. The I/O connectors are physical interface to sense and/or activate alarm signals
to a variety of external sensors or alarms. Please refer to the Appendix B in this man ual
for more information.
CF Card Socket
The CF card socket is located on the right side of the back panel of the Network Camera.
User can plug a CF memory card into this socket to store the alarm or scheduled images.
This is very useful to keep the evidence of alarms or scheduled images for reference.
Factory Default Reset
This button is hidden in the pinhole above the Alarm I/O connector. Please refer to the
Appendix A in this manual for more information.
Microphone
The Network Camera’s has built-in an internal microphone. This microphone is also
hidden in the pinhole above the Alarm I/O connector.
Status and 10/100M Ethernet LEDs
LED stands for Light-Emitting Diode. The Status and Etherne t LEDs are located on the
right side of the back panel of the Network Camera. The Status LED will turn orange
while system is booting up successfully.
Ethernet LED is used to indicate the status of Network connection. While not any
connection to the Network Camera, the LED will be off and flash orange while some one
access this Network Camera.
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Hardware Installation
1. Fix the Network Camera to Cei li ng
Use 4 screws to fix the Network Camera onto the ceiling as below. You can also
put the Network Camera on the table directly.
2. Plug an Ethernet cable into Network Camera
Connect an Ethernet cable to the LAN socket located on the Network Camera’s back
panel and attach it to the network.
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3. Connect the external power supply to Network Camera
Connect the external power supply to the DC power connector attached on the
extension cable from the Network Camera. Note: Use the power adapter, 12VDC,
included in the package and connect the other end to wall outlet for AC power.
Once you have installed the Network Camera well, the status LED will turn orange. It
means the system is booting up successfully. Furthermore, if you have a proper network
connection, and access to the Network Camera, the 10/100M LAN LED will flash orange
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Logging in to Homepage
Before Operation
Install the IP Address of Network Camera
When you installed your Network camera on your LAN environment, you may execute
IPFINDER.EXE to discover Network camera’s IP address.
IPCam Finder program (IPFINDER.EXE) is used to scan the Installed Network Camera,
setting the Network Camera Name, IP address settings and so on.
Using your mouse to select any one of the Network Cameras within your LAN
environment, you can find out its IP address and other IP parameters as follows:
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1. Edit the Name of this Network Camera. Note that use “_” or “-“ to replace
“space” character to separate the name string. For example, “PT_IP” or
“PT -I P” will be right. However “PT IP” will not work here.
2. Might be needed to update the IP address of this Network Camera.
( Power recycling might be necessary)
3. Might be needed to update the Gateway Address. ( Power recycling might
be necessary)
4. Might be needed to update the Network Mask (255.255.255.0). ( Power
recycling might be necessary)
5. Might be needed to modify the port number 1 of HTTP access. ( Power
recycling might be necessary)
6. Might be needed to modify the port number 2 of HTTP access. ( Power
recycling might be necessary)
7. ‘Submit’ it.
Click “submit”, the IP information of this Network Camera will be updated after
seconds
Install the Network Camera with an ADSL Router
If the Network Camera was installed on the LAN with an A DSL router, then the Network
Camera can get a dynamic IP address from the DHCP server. However, if the Network
Camera wants to be access from the WAN, its IP address needs to be s etup as fixed IP,
also the Virtual Server function of ADSL router needs to be setup as follows:
1. Setup the Network Camera as Fixed IP, such as 192.168.0.49.
2. Enter the administrator page of ADSL router. (Use zonet ASDL router as an
example).
3. Enter the Virtual Server Page.
a. Setup the mapping of HTTP Port (80) to 192.168.0.49.
b. Restart the ADSL router.
Then the Network Camera can be access from WAN by the ADSL WAN IP Address.
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First time uses the Network Camera
The Network Camera web page communicates with the Network Camera using an
ActiveX control. The ActiveX control must be do wnloaded from the N etwork C amera and
installed on your PC. Your Internet Explorer security settings must allow for the web
page to work correctly. To use the Network Camera, user must setup his IE browser as
follows:
From your IE browse Î ”Tools” Î ”Internet Options…” Î ”Security” ΔCustom
Level…”, please setup your “Settings” as follow.
Set the first 3 items
• Download the signed ActiveX controls
• Download the unsigned ActiveX controls
• Initialize and script the ActiveX controls not masked as safe
To Prompt
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By now, you have finished your entire PC configuration for Network Camera.
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Access the Network Camera from the
Internet Explorer for the first time
1. Start the web browser on the computer and type the IP address of the Network
Camera you want to monitor as below:
The Login Window of the Network Camera is displayed:
2. Type in your login name and password under “USERNAME” and “PASSWORD”
textbox.
For the first time use (default value), input the
User Name: admin
Password:
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That’s, type in “admin” on the “USERNAME” as a default name and leave PASSWORD
textbox blank. Click “OK” button to start the main menu.
Now, you login to the Network Camera as a full-authorized administrator. You can
enter “Setting” to change the password and setup “Administrator” or “User” authority.
Please refer to “Setting” Î “User” and “IP Filter”.
3. The IE Web Page will display the “Security Warning” window, select “Yes” to install
and run the ActiveX control into your PC.
4. Display the image. After the ActiveX control was installed and ran, the first image will
be displayed.
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Logging in as an ordinary User
For ordinary user usage, “Setting”, “Trigger”, and “Capture” will be not av ailable. On the
right side of the screen, there are lots of controls and function buttons. If “Remote
camera control” is turned off by the administrator, then those control and function
buttons will not be available as well.
For the rest of this user guide, it is assumed that the “Remote camera control” will be
turned on for normal operation.
Logging in as an Administrator
If you log in the Network Ca mera as the Administrator, you can perform all the settings
provided within the software. The Administrator may be logged in at any time, regardless
of the number of the users being accessed.
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Operating the Network Camera
Start-up screen will be as follow no matter an ordinary users or an administrator.
Viewing Area: Images from the Network Camera
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Control Panel
Control Panel Area: Network Camera Manipulation and image quality control
Item Button Meaning
1 Camera
direction
2 Camera
speed
3 Preset /
Recall mode
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Control camera up/down/left/right and home position
Adjust camera speed up / down
Preset: Set up camera to fixed locations before operation
Recall: Drive camera position to preset location
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During preset mode, click the number and a dialogue box for
the inquiry of location name input will appear.
4 Preset /
Recall camera
locations
Preset or Recall camera 1~16 location(s)
Ex. If you press 5, then the camera will move to preset location
5.
5 Camera tour
on / off
Turn on or off the camera tour. Camera tour is compris ed by
series of preset locations.
6 Auto pan on /
off
Turn on or off the auto pan of camera. While auto pan is on, the
camera will swing the camera from leftmost to rightmost tour
and then from rightmost to leftmost cyclically.
7 Video
resolution
Adjust Video resolution
Network Camera provides 4 resolutions:
640x480, 352x288, 320x240, 176x144
For NTSC camera: 320x240 is suitable
For PAL camera: 352x288 and 176x144 are suitable
However, all resolution are available for NTSC and PAL camera
8 Video
Adjust video brightness of camera
brightness
adjustment
9 Frame rate
adjustment
Adjust video frame rate via scrolling the listed numbers: 1, 5,
10, 15, 20, 25, 30
10 Audio On/Off Turn on/off audio output function. Note: This function is not
available in Network Camera.
11 Video quality
adjustment
Adjust video quality.
Clarity: Video is better but frame rate may be slower
Fluency: Video is not as good as Clarity but frame rate may be
higher
Default: System default value
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Advanced Function Area
Advanced function area: only available for administrator. It has contained three
categories.
Setting System Configuration
Trigger Send out current message or setup activities
Capture Capture current screen and save to HDD or other media
Setting menu consists of the Basic menu and the Application menu. The Basic menu is
used for basic settings of the Network Camera, and the Application menu is used for
setting various applications according to individ ual. Click on each menu name to display
its setting page.
Basic Setting
For the setting, you will see there are divided into two categories – Basic Setting and
Application.
Basic Setting
Symbol Item Action
System Define Frame Rate, Turn on/off “Remote camera control”, and
view system log file.
Camera Adjust camera parameters and set camera tour
Network Configure Network setting such as DHCP On/Off, DDNS and
PPPoE
User Setup user name, password and login privilege
IP Filter Setup legal IP address of user login (This function should be
used with function “User” respectively)
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System: Define Frame Rate and Turn on/off “Remote camera control”
System ID:
It’s a unique number for each Network Camera for identification.
Camera Name:
You can enter the name of this unit here. It’s very useful to identify the specific device
from multiple units. Note that use “_” or “-“ to replace “space” character to separate the
name string. For example, “PT_IP” or “PT-IP” will be ok and “PT IP” will not work here.
Default frame rate:
You can set up frame rate here or via right-side control panel.
For example, set the frame rate to 5 FPS, then the image will be updated for 5 frames
per second, the time interval can be checked by the time displayed on the image.
Remote camera control:
Turn on “Remote camera control”: users will be able to use righ t-side control panel vice
versa.
Log:
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User can check the log information of the Network Camera, including the Main Info,
Appended Info, Operator IP, Operator MAC, and Time.
Select the “View” button to check the log file.
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Camera: Adjust Camera parameters
Camera PT:
User can control the direction of Pan and Tilt as wish.
Reverse Pan: Check this option to reverse pan direction.
Reverse Tilt: Check this option to reverse tilt direction.
Image Size:
Network Camera provides 4 resolutions:
• 176x144
• 320x240
• 352x288
• 640x480
Image Quality:
The Network Camera provide 3 quality setting,
Clarity: Video is better but frame rate may be slower
Fluency: Video is not as good as Clarity but frame rate may be higher
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Default: System default value.
Note: The value on the list box display the current setting of the current image, when
you make a new selection, the value on the list box will be changed until you save the
new setting.
Image, Mirror, Focus Mode, White Balance Mode, Exposure Mode:
These functions are available for PTZ Network Camera and Video Server only. It’s not
functional for this model.
Saturation, Sharpness, Contrast, Hue:
To control the camera parameters, key in these values respectively.
Audio:
PCM and ADPCM could be selected as compression method of audio. Normally,
ADPCM could generate smaller size of audio data rate.
Camera Tour:
Tour Name: The group name of the sequence of camera tour
Dwelling Time: The time period between every tour point.
Sequence: 16 points can be assigned. The tour point will also show the location name if
you had entered the location name while preset the camera.
Enable: Which sequence group should be activated.
To use the camera tour function, user must preset some camera positions first. The
maximum number of preset points is16.
In the Camera Tour page, choose the one tour name from A to E. Fill the dw elling time
and tour sequence by preset points, and then save thes e setting. Yo u can repeat above
procedure to set more camera tours.
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