IP Wireless / Wired Camera WATERPROOF User Manual Silver Purple CONTENTS
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 1 WELCOME ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 FEATURES ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3 1.2 PACKING LIST ........................................................
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 1 WELCOME This is an integrated wireless IP Camera solution. It combines a high quality digital Video Camera with network connectivity and a powerful web server to bring clear to your Desktop from anywhere on your local network or over the Internet. The basic function of it is transmitting remote video on IP network.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 1.3 Product Views 1.3.1 Front View Figure 1.1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Sensitive Hole: For light sensitive Infrared LED: For night Vision. LENS: CMOS sensor with fixed focus lens. (Default is 12mm) Antenna: WI-FI Antenna Shell: For protection and waterproof 1.3.2 Rear Panel Figure 1.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 1.3.3 Bottom View Figure 1.3 Original Apexis IPCAM have some stickers at the bottom/back, such as MAC address sticker, QC sticker etc. If your camera does not have these stickers, it may be a clone one, clone Apexis IPCAM could not use the original firmware and obtain our good after sale service. 1.4 PC System Requirements System configuration requirements :( Example for viewing four IPCAM) CPU: 2.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Figure1.4 1.6 Software Installation ATTENTION: In order to make the installation correctly, we suggest that turn off your Firewall and Antivirus before install the ActiveX, Don’t worry, it is safe. Software installation is the key to the successful use of this product. Install the follow software: 1. IP Camera Tool: Open the CD, dbclick “IPCamSetup.exe”, only click next, you will complete the software installation.(figure1.6/ 1.7/ 1.8) 2.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Figure1.7 Figure1.8 After this done, the icon “IP Camera Tool” will be displayed on desktop automatically. CAUTION: Before installing and using the product, please read the following precautions carefully and make sure they are fully understood. Use only the power adaptor attached with the product. Use unauthorized power adapter may cause damage to your IP Camera. IP Camera terminal could be installed in an outdoor environment.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 2. SOFTWARE OPERATION 2.1 IP Camera Tool When the Device has been mounted properly, you can double click the Icon “IP Camera Tool” and a dialog box as Figure 1.9 will pop up. Figure1.9 NOTE: The software searches IP Servers automatically over LAN. There are 3 cases: 1. No IP Cameras found within LAN. After about 1 minute search, the Result Field will show “not found IP Server” and the program shut automatically. 2.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Figure2.0 2.1.1 .1 Basic Properties There are some device information in the Basic Properties, such as Device ID, System Firmware Version, Web UI Version.（Figure 2.1） The Device ID just is the camera’s MAC ID, which should be the same as showed on the sticker at the bottom of camera. Every camera has its unique MAC ID. So if there are many IP address showed in the list, check the MAC ID, you can ensure which camera is it.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Figure2.2 Obtain IP from DHCP server: If clicked, the device will obtain IP from DHCP server. In other words, the camera will have a dynamic IP. (Make sure the Router which the camera connects has DHCP function and DHCP is enabled). (Figure 2.2) Figure 2.3 IP address: Fill in the IP address assigned and make sure it is in the same subnet as the Gateway, and the subnet should be the same as your computer or router. (I.e.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 2.4） Figure 2.4 Please download the firmware package under the correct type of your camera before upgrade. Follow the upgrade document in the package carefully to upgrade. Please look readme firstly before you do upgrade. CAUTION: Please don’t upgrade the firmware freely. Sometimes, your camera may be damaged if wrong operation during upgrade. If your camera works well with the current firmware, we recommend you’d better not upgrade it.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Figure 2.5 Figure 2.6 The default user name is admin, no password Input the correct user name and password, the Sign In interface will pop-up. There are three models to login (figure 2.7). Figure 2.7 (1) Active Mode (For IE Browser): available in IE6.0 or above explorer (2) “Server Push Mode”: available in Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome browser. (3) “Sign in mobile phone”: available in Mobile phone Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 2.3 For IE Browser Choose Active Mode (For IE Browser), and sign in. Figure 2.8 The first time login the camera, maybe get ActiveX prompt as the picture above, please click the prompt and choose Run Add-on, refresh and login the camera again, then will see live video, details as below: Figure2.9 Figure 3.0 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Note: If there is still no live video after run ActiveX, and a red cross showed in the center of the screen, or even just a black screen, please try to enable the ActiveX options of IE security settings. Please do the follow steps: 1. Close the firewall of your computer. 2.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Figure 3.2 NOTE: Make sure that the firewall or anti-virus software doesn’t block the software or ActiveX. If you couldn’t see live video, please close your firewall or anti-virus software, and try again. 2.4 For Safari, Firefox, Google Browser Choose Server Push Mode (For Safari, Firefox, Google Browser), and sign in Server Push Mode doesn’t support ActiveX, so some functions are not available, such as Play, Stop, Record, etc.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 2.5 For Mobile Phone Choose Sign in mobile phone, and sign in. Mobile phone doesn’t support ActiveX, only some basic functions can be available in this mode. It supports Iphone, Smart phone, 3G phone etc. Normally, if the mobile phone supports network video, then it can work with our IP Camera. Figure 3.4 2.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Figure 3.5 Channels: Our IE software supports 9 channels totally. Click can get different windows. : Click this one, you can view the main channel of the camera you login. : Click this one; you can view 4 Channels of cameras which connected, from CH1 to CH4. : Click this one; you can view 9 Channels of cameras which connected, from CH1 to CH9. NOTE: If you want to view 4/9 channels, you should set the Multi-Device firstly (See 3.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Figure 3.6 OSD Settings: Î Î Figure 3.7 OSD: Means “On-Screen Display”, click “Video” > “OSD”, set display date and time on the video. Disabled: Click this one, means clear the OSD. Color: Can set the OSD text color as black, yellow, red, white, blue etc. Add time stamp on record: Click this, there will be time OSD on record video files. Figure 3.8 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Rate and Resolution: Rate: Set video frame here, from “full-speed to 1fp/5s”. (Figure 3.9) Resolution: Set the resolution to be 160*120/ VGA(640*480)/ QVGA (320*240). (Figure 4.0) NOTE: When doing recording, Rate and Resolution parameter settings is very helpful for getting small size record files, the lower parameter to get the smaller file. Figure 3.9 Figure 4.0 TOP Menu: Figure 4.1 : Click it to get live video.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 2.8 For Operator When login as Operator, you can enter the IP Camera for Operator. For operator, it not only supports all the functions which for Visitor, and also supports these functions as below: Figure 4.2 Video Settings Î Figure 4.3 Reversal: Click this icon to see the reversal image. Click again, will back to normal. Mirror: Click this icon to see the mirror image. Click again, will back to normal.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Mode, Bright, Contrast Settings Î Figure 4.4 Mode: This is work mode optional, 50HZ/60HZ for the users who use 50HZ/60HZ frequency, outdoor for the users who want to use this camera to monitor toward outdoor environment NOTE: This camera normally should be used in a indoor environment Bright: Set the parameters to adjust the image quality of video. Click Contrast: Set the parameters to adjust the image quality of video.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 3 Settings as Administrator When login as Administrator, you can enter the IP Camera for Administrator. Administrator supports all the settings and operations of the camera; you can set and control it freely There are some special functions only for administrator as below: Figure 4.5 3.1 Multi-Device Settings Î Figure 4.6 Multi-Device Settings This camera can support max. 9 channels device at the same time. 3.1.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Click The 2nd Device and click the item in the Device List in Lan, it will fill the Alias, Host, Http Port automatically, then input the correct user name and password, click Add. Set more devices in the same way, after all done, please click Submit. Figure 4.7 Click Live Video and then select to see four channels, or click to see nine channels. Figure 4.8 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Figure 4.9 3.1.2 Set Multi-Device for WAN If you want to view cameras from internet, you have to add these devices by DDNS domain name. Make sure all these cameras you want to add have been set DDNS successfully. (View 3.7 DDNS Service Settings) And also these cameras work well with DDNS. Login the first camera by DDNS domain name and port, this camera will be as the host camera. Figure 5.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc NOTE: The Alias is optional; you can set the alias as per your wish. The Host must be the camera’s DDNS domain name, and without “http://”, it’s not the Lan IP address. If you have several cameras, you can use the same DDNS domain name, just set different port number for each different camera. Figure 5.1 Note: Add the other camera in the same way, Click submit to add all of them. Figure 5.2 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Click Live Video and then select to see four channels, or to see nine channels. In this case, you can see all the cameras from a remote position by internet, for example, if you are on the business trip, you can use the first camera’s (Host camera) DDNS to view all the devices via internet Figure 5.3 3.1.3 Upgrade Device Firmware If you want to upgrade the camera, please upgrade Device Firmware first, then upgrade Web UI.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 3.1.4 Restore Factory Settings Click Restore Factory Settings, will pop-up a prompt, select OK, all the parameter will be returned to factory settings, and the device will reboot. Figure 5.5 3.1.5 Reboot Device Click Reboot the device, will pop-up a prompt, select OK, then the device will reboot Figure 5.6 3.2 Network Settings Click Network, will pop-up the prompt as below: Figure 5.7 3.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Î Figure 5.8 If you don’t know Subnet Mask, Gateway, DNS Server. Please check the Local Area Connection Status of your computer; it contains all these information, steps as below: 1. Control PanelÎNetwork ConnectionsÎLocal Area ConnectionsÎ Support Î Details 2. Find the local connection icon from taskbar, left click it, choose Support Î Details Figure 5.9 Figure 6.0 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc If you don’t know the DNS Server, you can set it the same as Gateway. If the router supports DHCP function, you can choose “Obtain IP from DHCP Server” to get dynamic IP. Figure 6.1 Http Port: In most cases, you can leave this value as however, if your Internet Service Provider blocks this port, you may change it to another port number such as 85. 3.4 Wireless Lan Settings Î Figure 6.2 1. Make sure the router is wireless router. 2.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Figure 6.4 Figure 6.5 Figure 6.6 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 3.5 ADSL Settings When connected to the Internet through ADSL directly, you can enter the ADSL username And password obtained from ISP. Î Figure 6.7 3.6 UPnP Settings Click UPnP Settings to choose Using UPnP to Map Port: Î Figure 6.8 Select it and click Submit, then the camera will support UPnP port forwarding automatically. It’s helpful for using DDNS, if your router support UPnP, then you no need do port forwarding in router.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc There are 2 options: Manufacturer’s DDNS: This domain is provided by manufacturer. Third Party DDNS: This domain is provided by the 3rd party, such as Dyndns, Oray, 3322 etc. Figure 7.1 Third Party DDNS If you use third party DDNS, please choose the server you use, such as “3322.org” or “dyndns.org” as below: Figure 7.2 Figure 7.3 You have to register an account firstly, keep the user, password, host, then input it.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Change the camera’s port. The default port of camera is “80”, please change “80” to any other one you like, such as “81”, “100”, “8091” etc. Click “OK”, the camera will reboot, wait about 30 seconds. Figure 7.4 Make sure the “Subnet Mask”, “Gateway”, “DNS Server” is the same as your router. Set Port Forwarding in the router. This is the most important step.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc BELKIN: 1. Login the router. 2. Choose “Firewall”, select “Virtual Servers” 3. Input the port (except 80) and IP address, then click save. NOTE: The port and IP address should be the same as Camera. Figure 7.6 DLINK: 1. Login the router. 2. Choose “Advanced”, select “Virtual Servers” 3. Input the port, IP address, Protocol, then click save.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Step: “Login”>”System”>”Device Info”: Figure 7.8 Figure 7.9 3.8 System Settings Î Figure 8.0 3.8.1 Device Info You can find the information about Device ID, Firmware Version, Embedded Web UI Version, Alias, Alarm Status, DDNS Status, UPnP Status and MSN status.. Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Figure 8.1 3.9 Alias Settings Default device name is anonymous. You set any new name for your camera here, then click Submit. Figure 8.2 3.10 Date &Time Settings Set the date and time for your camera. Choose the Clock Time zone of your country. You can choose Sync with NTP Server (Figure 8.3) or Sync with PC Time (Figure 8.4). Figure 8.3 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Figure 8.4 3.11 Users Settings Eight accounts are acceptable for this system. Here you can set the user names and password as Administrator, Operator or Visitor, the permission for them as below: z Visitor: In this mode, you can only view. (Details 2.7) z Operator: You can control the direction of IP Camera and set some parameter. (Details 2.8) z Administrator: You can setup the advanced configurations of the IP Camera. (Details3.1-3.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 3.12 Backup & Restore Figure 8.7 （1）Backup: Backup IP Camera all the Parameter, if you want to save all the current settings that you have set already, you can click Submit, then all the parameters you set will store as a parameters bin file. （2）Restore: Restore IP Camera all the Parameter, if you want to change the camera’s settings to a certain status which has a backup, click Browse to load the bin file, then Submit it. Log Figure 8.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc NOTE: Set the port forwarding sucessfully before setting MSN (Refer to port forwarding in DDNS settings). Then get to the MSN settings page, fill in the correct user name and password, add the MSN buddy, max. upto 10 friends, after submit, the user will be shown in your MSN friend list. Click System—Device Info to check the MSN status.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 3.14 Mail Service Settings Set Mail Service Settings to enable the camera send email alert when motion detection triggered. Figure 9.0 Sender: Make sure the sender mailbox server provider support SMTP, and the mailbox should not enable SSL or TSL encryption too. Receiver: Here you can set four receivers. For receiver, there is no SMTP limitation. SMTP Server: The sender’s SMTP Server.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 3) Server Error 4) Incorrect user or password 5) The sender is denied by the server. Maybe the server need to authenticate the user, please check it and try again 6) The receiver is denied by the server. Maybe because of the anti-spam privacy of the server 7) The message is denied by the server.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc between the current image and the next image. NOTE: Here upload image now means it can upload images freely, no need alarm triggered. Click Submit after these settings. Then click Test. You will see the following picture. Figure 9.4 If it prompts error information as follows. 1) Can not connect to the server. Please check FTP Server is correct or not. 2) Network Error. Please try later. 3) Server Error. 4) Incorrect user or password.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Figure 9.6 After enable motion detect armed, if there is motion triggered, the Alarm Status will turn to Motion Detect Alarm. (Figure 9.7) Figure 9.7 3.16.2 Motion Detect Sensibility You can choose level 1-10; level 10 means the most sensitive, 1 means the least of all. Figure 9.8 Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 3.16.3 Alarm Input Armed / IO Linkage on Alarm If you want to connect external alarm devices, when it’s an alarm input device, choose Alarm Input Armed to enable it, when it’s an output device, choose IO Linkage on Alarm to enable it. Figure 9.9 There are two options for Trigger Level. (Figure 10.0) High: When the external alarm device is close, then the alarm triggered.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Enable Upload Image on Alarm to set upload images to FTP once alarmed. Upload Interval: Set the upload interval (Seconds). NOTE: The total alarm time is 60 seconds. Figure 10.2 Scheduler Here you can set the camera alarm during the time you set. Choose Scheduler and set the date & time range. (Figure 10.3) From Monday to Sunday, and every day divide into 24 hours, each hour divide into 4 quarters.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 6. If you set Upload Image on Alarm, it will upload images to the FTP Server you set already once alarmed. (Figure 10.2) NOTE: Each alarm only last for approx one minute, all these above functions for motion detection triggered only. REC Automatically and Save to PC When you enable motion detect and open the camera monitoring page on the PC. If there is an alarm triggered, REC will start automatically for several seconds and save to the PC.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc Figure 10.9 3.19 Server Push Mode (For Safari, FireFox, Google Browser) Choose Server Push Mode, login the camera, you will see the main user interface as below: Figure 11.0 NOTE: Server Push Mode does not support ActiveX. Play, Stop, Record, Multi-device settings, Path settings functions are controlled by ActiveX, so if you use Safari, Firefox, Google chrome browser, it is impossible to find these options.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 3.20 Sign in mobile phone If you are using a mobile phone, choose Sign in mobile phone, login the camera, you will see the main user interface as below: Figure 11.1 NOTE: Mobile phone Mode doesn’t support ActiveX. In mobile phone mode, it only supports some easy functions, such as Resolution, Mode, Bright, Contrast, Snapshot, Reversal, Mirror functions Shenzhen Apexis Electronic Co.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 4. APPENDIX 4.1 Frequently Asked Questions Note: Any questions you would meet, please check Network connections firstly. Check the working status revealed by the indicators on the network server, hub, exchange and network card. If abnormal, check the network connections. 4.1.1 I have forgotten the administrator username and/or password. To reset the administrator username and password, press and hold down the RESET BUTTON for 15 seconds.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 4.1.6 UPnP always failed UPnP only contains port forwarding in our recent software. Sometimes, it may be failed to do port forwarding automatically because of firewall or anti-virus software. It also has much relation with router’s security settings. So we recommend you do port forwarding manually. You can view your camera in internet successfully after you do port forwarding manually in your router. 4.1.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 4.1.13 No pictures Problems with ActiveX Controller If use IE browser to connect the camera for the 1st time, maybe there is no image displayed, and there will be a clue to install the ActiveX. You can do some settings to enable the ActiveX. (Details: For IE Browser) 4.1.14 Problems with network bandwidth The image frame rate is subjected to the following factors: 1. Network bandwidth 2.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 5. Specifications Model APM-J602-WS-IR Image Sensor Sensor 1/4” Color CMOS Sensor Resolution 640 x 480 Pixels (300k Pixels) IR Lens f: 12mm, F 2.0 (6mm lens optional) Viewing Angle 25 Degree (6mm lens is 60 Degree) Minimum Illumination 0.5Lux @ F2.
More Security, More Convenience www.apexis.com.cn / www.apexis.cc 6. OBTAINING TECHNICAL SUPPORT While we hope your experience with the IP CAMERA network camera is enjoyable and easy to use, you may experience some issues or have some questions that this User’s Guide has not answered. Please contact your reseller and ask for help firstly, if they could not resolve your issue, please contact our company. This user manual is based on the latest version of our camera. System Firmware: 17.25.2.30 Web UI: 20.
