User Manual Revision: 020308 Date: 2010/06/21 For firmware version v020308 IP Cam(w) for wireless model IP Camera : for both wired and wireless model
EasyGuard IP200 Table of Contents 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.
EasyGuard IP200 Figure 3-25: Stick the reset button to set to the factory default Figure 5-1: IP Camera body Figure 5-2: Power Adaptor Figure 5-3: Bracket Figure 5-4: Antenna Figure 5-5: Quick installation guide 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
EasyGuard IP200 1. Introduction The IP Camera is designed with the “user-friendly” idea deep in mind. The user can install the IP Camera 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. With 3GPP/ISMA support, users can see the video of the IP camera on any 3G mobile phone anywhere, anytime.
EasyGuard IP200 the IP address or domain name or DDNS name or port number. And you do not need to modify the settings(like port mapping, fixed IP, DDNS, virtual server) of the NAT/router devices, it’s just a plug & play usage.
EasyGuard IP200 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.
EasyGuard IP200 2. Power jack – this is the place to plug in the power adaptor. The power needed for this IP CAM is 5V/1.0A, please make sure you are using the correct power adaptor. 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.
EasyGuard IP200 CAM use DHCP function and very often there is a DHCP server on most of the Home/office network, the IP CAM should be connected to the Internet immediately. The Internet status LED is constant red light to indicate this good connection status. If the LED is blinking, please refer to section 3.3~3.5 to try other network settings. Figure 2-3: IP CAM connection diagram. Figure 2-4: Connect Ethernet cable to a switch/router.
EasyGuard IP200 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. After the installation is complete, there will be a CamView icon on the desktop of your computer screen, please execute this icon. The CamView program will run immediately.
EasyGuard IP200 Notice : 1. You can modify this play-video password by entering into the web configuration pages. Please refer to section 3.6 for more information. 2. You can also add the IP CAM into the CameraList in the CamView software to have more convenient video display, please refer to the user manual of the CamView software for more functions.
EasyGuard IP200 Figure 2-8: Pop-up play-video password window
EasyGuard IP200 2.3. Wireless connection (for IP Cam(w)) The IP CAM 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.
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EasyGuard IP200 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.
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EasyGuard IP200 3.1. Information The first page of the web configuration of the IP CAM 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.
EasyGuard IP200 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.
EasyGuard IP200 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.
EasyGuard IP200 Figure 3-6: Network settings page for fixed IP address
EasyGuard IP200 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.
EasyGuard IP200 All the fields in this page must be filled correctly with the same settings the wireless router or AP using. 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. You can click the “WiFi scan” button to scan for all the available access points nearby.
EasyGuard IP200 Figure 3-9: WiFi testing page
EasyGuard IP200 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.
EasyGuard IP200 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.
EasyGuard IP200 some strip lines on the video display when the IP camera is taking indoor video. In this situation, change the setting to “Indoor video” will solve the problem. Please also be noticed that in “Indoor video” setting, the video display of outdoor view is very vague. For indoor usage, if there is strong sun light into the room, please select the “Indoor+sun light” choice. 13. Enable/disable audio microphone – you can enable or disable the audio microphone on the IP CAM.
EasyGuard IP200 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.
EasyGuard IP200 3.7. Night mode control The IP Cam is able to work both in day time and night time. There are some IR LEDs that can let the IP camera see the objects in the night time. This night mode control page is to control when the time the IR LEDs will be on. There are three ways to control the night mode( IR LEDs ) : 1. Automatic day and night mode switch : the IP cam will automatically turn on the IR LEDs when the night time is arrived or the environment is becoming dark.
EasyGuard IP200 3.8. Email/FTP Alarm The IP CAM provides the Email/ftp function, you can enable schedule the Email/ftp 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. Email/FTP trigger – choose between “motion”, “schedule” and “disable” A.
EasyGuard IP200 test” to check if all the settings are correct. 8. Send FTP message – if this item is enabled, the IP CAM will send out a jpeg picture file to the specified ftp account. 9. FTP server – this is the FTP server address to receive the jpeg file. 10. FTP username/password – this is the username/password to login into the FTP server, so, this triggered jpeg file will be allowed to reach this FTP server. 11. Remote folder – the jpeg file will be put under this folder of the FTP server.
EasyGuard IP200 3.9. NAS settings The IP Camera provides the recording of the video files into a standard NAS ( Network Access Storage ) device. The IP camera connects to the NAS device using the standard LMX_NS/CIFS/SSN protocols that are the same as the Microsoft Windows network neighborhood protocols. This makes the IP camera easily record the video files to all the standard NAS devices in the market.
EasyGuard IP200 9. Access NAS files – on the Microsoft Windows platform, click this to access the files on the NAS devices. In the Microsoft Windows environment, you can access to the NAS device by keying the URL address \\”NAS name”\”shared folder name” or \\”NAS IP address”\”shared folder name” in the windows Internet Explorer, and then key in the “NAS access account” and “NAS access password” to the prompted login window.
EasyGuard IP200 3.10. Scheduling The IP Camera provides the scheduling function for the motion detection triggered email/ftp sending and/or the NAS recording with the individual parameters set in the . “Email/ftp alarm” settings and the “NAS settings” page. Totally 12 schedule list items are allowed. There is no conflict check for the scheduling, it means that the scheduling time could be overlapped, and the IP camera will do all the scheduled events during the overlapped time period.
EasyGuard IP200 Figure 3-16: Schedule management page
EasyGuard IP200 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.
EasyGuard IP200 3.11. 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. For some TimeZone areas, the “Daylight Saving Time” could be enabled or disabled.
EasyGuard IP200 3.12. 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 3.16 and login with the “admin” account. Please be noticed that this account is different from the video play password in the “Video settings” page.
EasyGuard IP200 3.13. 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.
EasyGuard IP200 3.14. Reboot You can restart the IP CAM manually on this page. All the connected video viewing users will be disconnected.
EasyGuard IP200 3.15. 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.
EasyGuard IP200 3.16. 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 4 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.
EasyGuard IP200 4. Features and specifications 4.1. Features Ø Easily access the camera from anywhere in the world via the ID/password Ø No complicated NAT/router settings needed. Ø Free video management software - CamView program accompanied for easy access and multi-camera management. Ø 3GPP/ISMA support. Ø Dual video streaming with separate frame rate/resolution/bandwidth settings for PC and mobile. Ø IR led control – support automatic, manual and scheduled modes.
EasyGuard IP200 4.2. Specifications Models IP Camera Power DC 5V, 1A Processors RISC CPU, hardware video processing and compression. Network interface Ethernet 10BaseT/100BaseTX, Auto-MDIX, RJ-45 Wireless interface 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 Image sensor Antenna gain: 1.
EasyGuard IP200 Frame rate : 1~5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 fps Audio Security Installation, management and maintenance Built-in microphone for audio monitoring Audio compression: MPEG2 audio, AMR-NB for 3GPP/ISMA Web management username/password protection Video display ID/password protection WiFi WEP and WPA security mode Installation tool on CD and Web-based configuration Automatic configuration backup and restore Video management software-CamView for video access and multi-camera management Minimum Web br
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EasyGuard IP200 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.
EasyGuard IP200 1. When audio is disabled. For video resolution of 160x120 pixels Frame rate\bandwidth 64k ~ 512k 1M ~ 1.5M 5fps ~ 30 fps 20 4 For video resolution of 320x240 pixels Frame rate\bandwidth 64k ~ 256k 512k 5fps ~ 30 fps 20 18 For video resolution of 640x480 pixels Frame rate\bandwidth 512k 768k 5fps ~ 30 fps 8 6 768k 9 1M ~ 1.5M 4 1M ~ 1.5M 4 2. When audio is enabled.
EasyGuard IP200 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. But when you want to see the video remotely through the Internet, you need to know the Internet speed (bandwidth) connected to your home network.
EasyGuard IP200 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.
EasyGuard IP200 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. You can adjust the bandwidth requirement of the IP Cam either from the CamView software or login into the web configuration page of the IP Cam to do the modification. 9.
EasyGuard IP200 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 IC202w 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.
EasyGuard IP200 Appendix F. Third party and embedded web page integration For third party and embedded web page integration, IP Camera 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 Camera will automatically use TCP or UDP media stream depends on the connection request.
