THE BIKAL CANDY BAR CAMERA Model: CBC101w User Manual Revision: 1.06 Date: 28/10/2008 . BiKal IP CCTV, Securicorp Components Ltd, 25 Eccleston Square, London, SW1V 1NS IP Cam(w): wired & wireless interface). IP Cam/w: means the wired odel. Tel: 44 (0) 870 760 7336 | Fax: 44 (0) 20 7233 9333 | Mail: uk@bikal.co.uk | Web: www.bikal.co.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Table of Contents LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES..................................................................................... ...4 1. INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................ ..6 2. HARDWARE DESCRIPTION AND QUICK INSTALLATION/USAGE ........................... ..7 2.1. MAJOR HARDWARE COMPONENTS. .. ..................................................... ...7 2.2. QUICK INSTALLATION AND USAGE .....
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera APPENDIX F. THIRD PARTY AND EMBEDDED WEB PAGE INTEGRATION ... ............... ...
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera List of Figures and Tables Figure 2-1: Major components in the front panel Figure 2-2: Major components in the back panel Figure 2-3: IP CAM connection diagram. Figure 2-4: Connect Ethernet cable to a switch/router.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Figure 5-6: Ethernet cable Figure 5-7: Installation CD Figure 5-8: ID/Password Card Table A-1: List of tested Wireless AP/router devices Table A-2: List of tested Wired NAT/router devices 5
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 1. Introduction The IP Cam/w is designed with the “user-friendly” idea deep in mind. The user can install the IP Cam/w easily on his/her home network and then access the IP Camera anywhere in the world through the accompanied video management software CamView program without setting some complicated DNS name or changing the router’s settings. It’s just a plug & play action.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 2. Hardware description and quick installation/usage The IP CAM is designed to be very easy to install and use. First, let’s see the major components of the IP CAM products. 2.1. Major hardware components. The major components on the front panel of the IP CAM products are the built-in microphone, lens and LEDs : 1. Microphone - for receiving the audio/voice. Effective distance is about 5 meters. 2.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3. Ethernet jack - this is the place to plug in the RJ45 Ethernet cable. When the Ethernet link is ok, the Ethernet indication LED on the front side will be blue light. 4. Reset button - this is the button to reset the IP CAM to default factory settings. You need to use a small stick like pencil or tooth stick to press the reset button for more than 3 seconds to enable the reset function.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Figure 2-3: IP CAM connection diagram. Figure 2-4: Connect Ethernet cable to a switch/router. Second, Install the CamView software on the notebook/PC Please insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive in your notebook or personal computer (must be running Microsoft Windows OS). Execute the program CamViewInstaller-xxx.exe on the disk. The program will pop-up some windows about the installation options, please press the “next” button to proceed with the installation.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Figure 2-5: The installation CD disk Third, Use CamView program to see the video Figure 2-5 is the running window of the CamView program. If the computer and IP CAM is connected to the same network, the IP CAM ID will be displayed in the “Auto Search” list. You can double click the “Auto Search” to search all the connected IP CAMs any time. The only thing left right now for seeing the video is to double click the IP CAM ID item in the “Auto Search” list.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera you need to do is add a camera item in the “CameraList” folder of the CamView software, key in the IP CAM ID and Password(from the ID/Password card). And then double click this camera item. You will then see the Camera video immediately. No further NAT/router setting modifications are needed.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 2.3. Wireless connection (for IP Cam(w)) The IP Cam(w) can also be connected to the home/office network through the 802.11 b/g wireless connection. There are only three things that you need to do to have the wireless connection: 1. Set the WiFi security settings on the web configuration page. 2. Test if the WiFi settings are correct. 3. Unplug the Ethernet cable. First, set the WiFi security settings on the web configuration page.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Figure 2-9: Unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the WiFi function 13
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3. Web configurations You can login into the web configuration page by directly key-in the IP address of the IP CAM or right-click the searched IP CAM in the “Auto Search” list of the CamView software and click the “Web Configure” to open the login window of the IP CAM. Figure 3-1: Open the web configuration page from CamView software The default login account is “admin”, leave the Password field empty.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.1. Information The first page of the web configuration of the IP Cam/w is the information page. You can see the model name/firmware version, IP CAM ID, registration status, network type and current video settings( bandwidth, resolution) in this page. The IP CAM can be viewed remotely by the CamView software only when the IP CAM is registered. If this IP CAM is not registered, please check the Ethernet wiring of your network environment.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.2. Video Display This display page allows you to view the video display of the IP camera. For the first time use of this display on a computer, an activeX component will be automatically downloaded into the browser. This could take some time, depends on the internet speed. The component is downloaded from a public domain, so that the computer must be connected to the Internet. If you want to modify the video display screen size, please refer to section 3.6 for more details.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.3. Network The Network page allows you to modify the network settings of the wired Ethernet. The default settings use DHCP to obtain an IP address automatically. In most of the home and office network environment, there is a DHCP server running. In this situation, by using this default settings, the IP CAM can work immediately in most of the time. If the Ethernet cable is unplugged, the IP CAM will lose connection.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Figure 3-6: Network settings page for fixed IP address 18
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.4. WiFi security (For IP Cam(w)) You can use the wireless to connect the IP CAM to the network. If your network environment has a 802.11 b/g router or AP running, you can check the “Enable WiFi function” button to use the wireless. Figure 3-7: WiFi security disabled page In order to use the wireless network, you need to fill the following fields: 1. SSID - this is the ID of the wireless router or AP of your wireless network environment, must be set correctly. 2.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Figure 3-8: WiFi security enabled page You can also click the “WiFi test” button to check if the IP CAM can connect to the wireless network for these settings. You will need to unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the wireless connection after the “WiFi test” is successful. After the setting and “Save&Apply”, do not need to restart the IP CAM to let the WiFi work, only need to unplug the Ethernet cable. The default setting is “Disable WiFi Function”.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.5. Advanced Network In some special situation, your network environment only provides PPPoE connection(ADSL service), there is no NAT/router available. You will then need to set the PPPoE settings in the “Advanced Network” page. Only the PPPoE username and password are needed to let PPPoE work. After the “Save&Apply” button is pressed, the PPPoE function will work immediately.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.6. Video Settings The IP CAM is designed to provide high quality video for viewing from CamView software. In this page, you cam modify some settings related to the video viewing: 1. Password(play video) - this is the password needed for viewing the video from the CamView software. Together with the IP CAM ID, you can view the video of this IP CAM anywhere in the world through the Internet. 2. Internet speed - this is the Internet bandwidth of your network environment.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Figure 3-11: Video settings page 23
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.7. 3GPP/RTSP settings The IP CAM is able to be viewed from a 3G mobile phone, for detailed settings on the 3G mobile phone, please refer to Appendix E. Users can disable the 3G mobile access ability in this page. After the 3GPP/RTSP feature is disabled, no 3G mobile phone is allowed to access the video of the IP camera. When this is disabled, the rtsp stream with MPEG2 audio is still working, please refer to Appendix F for more details about rtsp stream with MPEG2 audio.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.8. Motion Detection The IP CAM provides the motion detection function, you can enable the motion detection ability in this page, the IP CAM will then send out an email with a jpeg picture attached in the email and/or send out the jpeg picture file to a ftp server. The related settings are explained below: 1. Detection sensitivity - there are three possible choices in this field. “High” means high sensitivity, i.e.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Figure 3-13: Motion detection enabled page 26
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.9. LED Display Control The IP CAM provides the Led Display Control function, you can enable or disable the led display/indication on the front panel of the IP cam device. The related settings are explained below: 1. Normal led display - select this to enable the status LED and ethernet LED display. 2. Turn off led display always - select this to disable the status LED and ethernet LED display. 3.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.10. Date/Time The IP CAM can synchronize the date/time with the universally available time server( for example stdtime.gov.tw) through NTP protocol. The date/time will then be corrected with the time server anytime when the Internet is connected. Users can choose the different TimeZone of their areas to display the correct time.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.11. Admin In this page, you can modify the web login account. With this account, you can login to the IP CAM and do any modifications. The default account is “admin” without password. If the login account is forgotten, you can reset the IP CAM to the factory default settings by following the steps in section 3.15 and login with the “admin” account. Please be noticed that this account is different from the video play password in the “Video settings” page.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.12. Upgrade If there is some new firmware available from the supplier of this IP CAM, you can upgrade the firmware on this page. Please ask for the correct information about FTP server, username/password account and firmware filename from your supplier, and then do this upgrade. A status message about the percentage done in the upgrade procedure is displayed.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.13. Reboot You can restart the IP CAM manually on this page. All the connected video viewing users will be disconnected.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.14. Safe Mode If by some abnormal operation, for example, powered off during the critical point of the upgrade procedure, the IP CAM will enter into the safe mode. In this mode, you will see the following “Safe mode” page when login into this IP CAM. Please do the upgrade operation immediately to recover the system. On this safe mode, the IP CAM can not display the video on the CamView software, but you can still find this IP CAM on the “Auto search” list.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 3.15. Set to factory default For some reason, for example you forgot the web login password, you may want to set the IP CAM to the factory default settings. The only thing you need to do is using a stick to press the “reset” button on the back of the IP CAM body for more than 3 seconds and release it, do this when the IP CAM is powered on. The IP CAM will reset to the factory default settings and restart automatically.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 4. Features and specifications 4.1. Features Easily access the camera from anywhere in the world via the ID/password No complicated NAT/router settings needed. Free video management software - CamView program accompanied for easy access and multi-camera management. 3GPP/ISMA support. Built-in Web server for managing via standard web browser. Supports enhanced MPEG-4 compression Supports resolution of up to 640x480 pixels, 30 frames per second.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 4.2. Specifications Models IP Cam/w Power DC 5V, 1A Processors RISC CPU, hardware video processing and compression. Network interface Wireless interface Ethernet 10BaseT/100BaseTX, Auto-MDIX, RJ-45 IEEE 802.11g 6 - 54 Mbps IEEE 802.11b 1 - 11 Mbps Transmit power: 14.5dBm typically @ 802.11g 17.5dBm typically @ 802.11b Receiver sensitivity: 54Mbps: Typical -73dBm @ 10% PER 11Mbps: Typical -86dBm @ 10% PER Modes: Infrastructure and ad-hoc Antenna gain: 1.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Web management username/password protection Security Video display ID/password protection WiFi WEP and WPA security mode Installation tool on CD and Web-based configuration Installation, management and Automatic configuration backup and restore Video management software-CamView for video access and maintenance multi-camera management Firmware upgrades via FTP Minimum Web Built-in web server for standard web browser access browsing and Pentium 4 CPU 1.
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Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Appendix A. List of Tested NAT/router Devices The followings are the list of tested NAT/router devices that can work with the IP CAM and CamView software when viewing in a remote location. You do not need to do any modification on the default settings of the NAT/routers. In some office environment, if some strict firewall function is enabled, it’s possible that you can not view the IP CAM video through the firewall router.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Appendix B. Maximum Allowed Video Users The maximum allowed video users for a single IP Cam/w at the same time is dependent on the video settings including “Internet speed” and resolution. The followings are the summary of the maximum allowed video users: 1. When audio is disabled. For video resolution of 160x120 pixels Frame rate\bandwidth 64k ~ 512k 1M ~ 1.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Appendix C. Performance Information 1. Video Performance Information The video quality is dependent on the video parameter settings and the network quality. If you want to have a better video quality, you will usually set higher resolution and higher frame rate. This is fine when you are viewing the video locally in the same network.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Appendix D. Trouble shooting 1. What’s going on when the red led light on the IP camera is flashing? A: When the IP Cam is connected to the Internet and working correctly, the red led light will be on constantly. If the red led light is flashing, it’s probably because there is some network connecting problem. Please check the network connection again and follow the instructions on the user manual to set it up again. 2.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera 8. I can see the video in a remote place, but the video quality is not good and sometimes the video will disconnect and then the video will reconnect again by itself. A: It’s probably because the internet bandwidth (internet speed) is not big enough. Please try to apply for a better internet connection from your Internet Service Provider or decrease the bandwidth settings of the IP Cam.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Appendix E. 3GPP/ISMA operation 3GPP/ISMA is using RTSP protocol for 3G mobile phone to display the video stream from some network devices, including IP camera. The IP Cam/w support the RTSP protocol and video/audio codec needed by 3GPP/ISMA. Users only need to access the address rtsp://ip_cam_address/CAM_ID.password on the 3G mobile phone to access the video of the IP camera. No other extra configuration is needed on the IP camera.
Fixed Wireless/Wired IP Camera Appendix F. Third party and embedded web page integration For third party and embedded web page integration, IP Cam/w support the standard RTSP protocol and video/audio codecs needed by most generally used video play software, including Apple QuickTime and VideoLAN. The supported media protocols including TCP and UDP. IP Cam/w will automatically use TCP or UDP media stream depends on the connection request.
