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Table of Contents Chapter I: Familiar with your Internet Network Camera ................................... 4 1.1 Package Contents ........................................................................................ 4 1.2 Basic Introduction ......................................................................................... 5 1.3 Product Highlights ........................................................................................ 6 1.4 Key Components ..........................................
3-3 Configure Network Camera surveillance software ................................ 78 3-3-1 Configure cameras ......................................................................... 78 3-3-2 General Settings ............................................................................. 85 3-4 Change Display Layout ............................................................................. 90 3-5 Full-screen mode ........................................................................................
Chapter I: Familiar with your Internet Network Camera 1.1 Package Contents Thank you for purchasing this Network Camera! Before you start to use this Network Camera, please check the package contents. If anything is missing, please contact the dealer of purchase and return the package to claim for missing contents.
1.2 Basic Introduction Thank you for purchasing this Network camera! This Network camera is an ideal product for all kinds of video surveillance purposes, like home/office safety, kid/pet monitoring, and remote video acquire etc. Edimax IC-3110 series is tailor made to stream live video over your network. You can view the Network camera's video from anywhere on your local computers or via the Internet.
1.3 Product Highlights No pre-loaded software required - all you need is a browser like Internet Explorer 6 (and above, with plugin installed). With supplied video surveillance software, you can connect up to 16 video cameras and view images captured by every camera at the same time. Supports 3 video resolutions: MJPG and H.264 SXGA(1280 x 1024), VGA (640 x 480), and QVGA (320 x 240); MPEG4 XGA (1024 x 768), VGA (640 x 480), and QVGA (320 x 240).
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Top View Wired model USB Port SD Card Slot POE model Wireless model Antenna SD Card Slot: Accepts SD / SD-HC memory card for image / video storage USB Port: Connects to certain wireless module.
Bottom View Ethernet Connector Microphone Reset to Default /WPS Power Connector Audio Connector WPS: click the button on IP Cam and click it on the AP you want to connect wireless connection.(works on wired model with USB wifi dongle plugged or wireless model) Reset to Default Button: Press and hold for more than 10 seconds to reset the camera settings to factory default value.
Back View Tripod Connector: Connects to any standard tripod / camera wall holder. MAC Address Label: Shows the MAC address of this Network Camera. Useful when you can’t locate the camera on the network.
1.5 Descriptions for LED Indicators LED Name Status Description Power/Cloud Off Camera is not powered (camera off) On Camera is correctly powered (camera on) Flash The power LED will flash and light up when the camera is powered on and ready for access to Cloud. Off LAN port not in use On LAN port in use Flash Transferring data via LAN port Off Wireless LAN not in use On Wireless LAN in use Flash at low speed Waiting for WPS connection from AP and flash speed is once a second.
1.6 Camera Installation Please follow the following instructions to set your Network Camera up. 1. Unpack the product package and check if anything’s missing. 2. Connect the Ethernet cable to your local area network, and connect the other end to the LAN jack of this Network Camera. NOTE: You can skip this step if you plan to use wireless LAN only. 3. Plug the power adapter to wall socket, and connect the power connector to the power jack located at the bottom of the Network Camera. 4.
1.7 Locate the IP Address of this Network Camera Default IP address of this Network Camera is 192.168.2.3. If you wish to assign another IP address to this Network Camera, you have to log onto the web configuration interface of the camera first. If the left three fields of the IP address of your computer is not 192.168.2, you’ll have to change the IP address of your computer first: 1.
2. Double-click ‘Network Connections’ icon. 3. Right-click ‘Local Area Connection’, and click ‘Properties’.
4. Select ‘Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)’, then click ‘Properties’.
5. In ‘IP address’ field, please fill in any IP address begins with ‘192.168.2’, and ends with a value greater than 2 and less than 254 (You can use the example in the picture ‘192.168.2.339’). In Subnet mask field, please fill ‘255.255.255.0’. Please keep all other fields empty, and click ‘OK’. If you changed the IP address of this Network Camera and you forget it, there’re 2 methods to recover it: a.
1.8 Using the Camera Admin Software to Locate the Camera If you can’t connect to the camera by the instructions given in last chapter, you can use camera admin software to search the camera which is connected to your local area network. The admin software is also capable to locate multiple cameras on your local area network. Please insert the user manual CD-ROM supplied in the product package, and the CD will automatically running the installation, if not please double-click ‘EdiView Finder utility_v1.0.
1. Double-click Ediview finder installer, and click ‘Run’ when you’re prompted: 2. Ediview finder will list all Ediamx network cameras found on local network, with their IP address and MAC address: You can click icon to find network cameras on local network again, or Icon to configure it (see next step). select an network camera and click To preview the image of network camera, please click the icon indicated by white arrow, and provide username / password, and a snapshot will be displayed.
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4. This message will tell you if your network camera is connected to Internet (connected to the cloud), and the connection type (wired or wireless). When you see this message, click ‘Next’ to continue. If you don’t want to change network camera’s name and password, you can click ‘X’ on the upper-right corner of window to close ediview finder utility . 5. You can input these information to configure network camera. Camera Name: Input network camera’s name used to identify this network camera.
After the camera finder utility is launched, all cameras found on your local area network will be displayed. To preview the image of network camera, please click the icon indicated by white arrow, and provide username / password, and a snapshot will be displayed This function is only available when this icon is displayed as blue color. All camera-related information will be displayed here. If you wish to connect to certain camera by web browser, double-click the camera listed here.
Search camera: Click this button to search all cameras on local area network again. Configure camera: Click this button to configure camera’s network and security setting.
Input the password (default: 1234) and click OK to configure the camera’s network and security setting: In ‘Lan Setting’ page, you can configure camera’s network settings. Select ‘DHCP’ to set the camera to obtain an IP address from DHCP server on local area network automatically, and select ‘Manual IP’ to input the IP address information manually. Click ‘OK’ to save settings.
1.9 Logging in the Management Interface Make sure the network camera is correctly powered (Power LED is on), and then launch Internet Explorer and type the IP address of the network camera in address bar of Internet Explorer. You should be prompted to input the user name and password: Default user name is ‘admin’ and password is ‘1234’. Click ‘OK’ to continue after user name and password has entered. If you’re rejected, maybe the password has been modified previously.
If this is the first time you log onto web management interface, you’ll be prompted to install ActiveX Plugin: When you see this message, please click ‘OK’, and click ‘Download the latest ActiveX’ link to download plugin so you can use this camera: Click ‘Run’ to download plugin: 25
Click ‘Run’ to install plugin: Please click ‘Next’ button to start installation (click ‘Next’ or ‘Install’ when you’re prompted, until installation is complete).
Click ‘Finish’ to complete plugin installation. Now you can go back to web browser, and you should be able to see the image captured by camera (You may need to press F5 or CTRL-R to reload web page).
Note: If you see one of these messages (or both): OR Your computer may not have the display capability that this Network Camera requires, or you don’t have Microsoft DirectX® installed. Please download Microsoft DirectX® from Microsoft’s website (http://www.microsoft.com), and try again. In some cases, your computer is able to display the image from Network Camera correctly, but you’ll still see these messages. If this happens, just ignore them.
Chapter II: Using Web Management Interface 2.1 Camera Settings The first menu after you logged onto web management interface is ‘Camera’, and this is the only menu you can see the real-time image from camera. You can always back to this menu by clicking ‘Camera’ on the top of web management interface.
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Video Type Specifies video encoding type. Available options are ‘MPEG4’, ‘MJPEG’, and ‘H.264’. Different encoding type requires different bandwidth, and provides different video quality. Frequency If the place where this Network Camera points to has a (or more) fluorescent light(s), the image may look flashing.
can change the directory by clicking the text input box located at the right of ‘Snapshot’ button: and you’ll be prompted to select a new directory. Recording Press this button to record the displaying image as a video file in AVI format, and you can play the video file back by Windows Media Player. To stop recording, press ‘Stop Recording’ button (the same button). You can also change the directory used to save video file.
mode (uses all available space to display the image captured by this camera). *Please note: If you’re not using Microsoft Internet Explorer as web browser, some functionalities may not work properly.
2.2 Video You can change video-related settings of this Network Camera in ‘Video’ menu. You can access this menu by clicking ‘Video’ on the top of web management interface. There are 5 types of video settings for this Network Camera. To set the option of a certain video setting, put mouse cursor on it and its options will appear.
2.1.1 MJPEG You can adjust video settings when you select ‘MJPEG’ as video type in ‘Camera’ menu. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Video Resolution Changes the resolution of video. Available options are 1280 x 1024, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240. Higher resolution provides better video quality and more detail, but requires more network bandwidth. Video Quality Changes video quality. There are 5 levels of video quality from ‘Lowest’ to ‘Highest’.
2.1.2 MPEG4 You can adjust video settings when you select ‘MPEG4’ as video type in ‘Camera’ menu. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Video Resolution Changes the resolution of video. Available options are 1024 x 768, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240. Higher resolution provides better video quality and more detail, but requires more network bandwidth. Video Quality Changes video quality. There are 5 levels of video quality from ‘Lowest’ to ‘Highest’.
2.1.3 H.264 You can adjust video settings when you select ‘H.264’ as video type in ‘Camera’ menu. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Video Resolution Changes the resolution of video. Available options are 1280 x 1024, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240. Higher resolution provides better video quality and more detail, but requires more network bandwidth. Video Quality Changes video quality. There are 5 levels of video quality from ‘Lowest’ to ‘Highest’.
2.1.4 OSD If you need to display information about this camera, like camera’s name or current date / time, you can use OSD (On-Screen Display) menu: The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description On-Screen Display Select ‘Enable’ to enable on-screen display function (information about this camera will be displayed on camera’s display image), and select ‘Disable’ to disable it.
2.1.5 Night Vision This camera equips with 10 IR LEDs to enhance video quality in the night. You can enable or disable IR LEDs by ‘Night Vision’ menu: The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Alaways** turn off IR led Do not use IR LEDs, even it’s very dark. Alaways** turn on IR led Turn IR LEDs on, even it’s very bright. Auto mode Let camera decide to switch LED lights on or off automatically: LEDs will light up when it’s too dark.
2.2 Network Settings All network-related settings can be found in this menu, and you have to specify TCP/IP parameters in this menu if you want to change IP address, use PPPoE, Dynamic DNS, and activate UPnP function. You can access this menu by clicking ‘LAN’ on the top of web management interface. After you selected ‘Network’, network setting menu will appear.
2.2.1 LAN You can define IP address and select the port number you wish to use here.
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Network Type This camera can obtain the IP address from DHCP server automatically (if you have one), or set a fixed IP address. Select ‘DHCP’ to obtain IP address automatically or ‘Static IP Address’ to assign this Network Camera with a fixed IP address. When ‘DHCP’ is selected, IP address parameters below will be grayed out. IP Address Specify the IP address for this Network Camera here.
most of ISPs and will give you a nice network performance. Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect.
2.2.2 WLAN The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Wireless Connection Select ‘Enable’ to activate wireless network function of this Network Camera, select ‘Disable’ to disable it. Network Type Select the network type of wireless connection.
to it without wireless access point). You can set to ‘Adhoc’ when you don’t have any wireless access point, but your computer has wireless network card. Set to ‘Infrastructure’ when you have wireless access point, and you have computers with wired network connection. Available Networks Here shows all wireless access points found by this Network Camera.
SSID Input the SSID of the wireless access point you wish to connect. It should be less than 32 alphanumerical characters. When you select a wireless access point above, it’s SSID will be filled in this field automatically. However, if the SSID is not displayed (the wireless access point you selected choose to hide it’s SSID), you have to know it’s SSID and input it here, or you will not be able to connect it. Channel Select the radio channel you wish to use here.
2.2.3 Dynamic DNS If your ISP does not give you a fixed Internet IP address (i.e. the Internet address you’re using when you access the Internet is not always the same – ask your ISP for detailed information), you can use this function to help you locate the IP address of this Network Camera when you’re away from home or office. Before you can use this function, you’ll need to apply for an account at dyndns.org/ no-ip.com (http://www.dyndns.org/ or http://www.no-ip.com ).
2.2.4 UPnP When UPnP function is activated, all UPnP-compatible computers / network devices will be able to discover this Network Camera automatically (only those in the same local network). This function is useful and you don’t have to remember the IP address of this Network Camera.
Click the message to open ‘My Network Places’, and you’ll see the Network Camera: You can double-click the icon to launch Internet Explorer and log onto Network Camera’s web management interface directly.
2.2.5 LoginFree This camera provides a method to let unauthorized users to view the image captured by this camera, which is called as ‘LoginFree’. When you wish to let everyone to view the image captured by this camera, or integrate the image with your own web application, you can use this function: Input the filename here, and click ‘Apply’ to save settings, then other users can access the image by this filename with .jpg extension with the camera’s IP address as prefix.
2.2.6 RTSP If you want to watch video captured by this Network Camera by your own RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) media player, you can use this function to setup RTSP parameters, so your RTSP-compatible player will be able to receive video data. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description RTSP Port Input the port number of RTSP here. Default setting is 554. MPEG4 RTSP Path Input the path of MPEG4 RTSP video file.
2.3 Motion Detection When you wish to use this camera to monitor the activities, motion detection function will be very useful. Camera will detect the motion in captured image, and take a snapshot when motion is detected. So you can use this camera to keep the safety of the belongings you have. To use motion detection, click the following link from the top of menu: After you selected ‘Motion Detection’, a sub-menu will appear.
2.3.1 Motion Detection You can use this menu to setup basic motion detection settings: The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Enable Motion Detection Motion Detection Interval Select ‘Enable’ to enable motion detection, and select ‘Disable’ to disable this function. Select the time interval between two motions from dropdown menu. When a motion is detected, camera will not detect any motion again within the time interval you specified here.
Recording Time Select the duration you wish this camera to record image when a motion is detected from dropdown menu. Available options are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (seconds). Sending File Select the file type that will be saved when a motion is Type detected. Select ‘JPEG’ and a still picture in JPEG format will be saved; and select ‘AVI’ to save a motion video clip.
2.3.2 Motion Region You can define the motion detection region within the image that camera captures, so this camera will ignore motions which are not covered by the motion region setting, and reduce the chances of false alarm. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Region 1 – 3 Check the box to enable motion detection region 1 to 3. You can check multiple boxes to enable multiple motion detection regions.
Sensitivity Move the slide bar to change the motion detection sensitivity setting: Drag the slide to the right to increase sensitivity (camera will detect minor changes in the image), and drag the slide to the left to decrease sensitivity (camera will only detect major changes in the image). Refresh In case the objects of the image captured by the camera moved, click this button to reload the image captured by camera, so you can decide the motion detection region more precisely.
2.3.3 Email You can define the destination address of E-mail sending and mail server parameters here. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Recipient E-Mail Address Input the email recipient’s Email address here. E-Mail Subject Specify the title of sending email, so you can identify the mail sent from this camera from others quickly. SMTP Server Input the IP address or host name of the SMTP server (the server that delivers the Email for you) here.
server requires you to do so, please select ‘Enable’, or select ‘Disable’ to disable it. If you don’t know, please refer to the SMTP server you’re using in your Email software (like Outlook, Outlook Express etc.), or ask your network administrator or ISP. User Name Please input the user name of SMTP server here, if your SMTP server requires the use of authentication. Password Please input the password of SMTP server here, if your SMTP server requires the use of authentication.
2.3.4 FTP Configuration You can set FTP server’s parameters here. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description FTP Server Input the IP address or host name of the FTP server you wish to use here. FTP Port Input the port number of the FTP server you wish to use here. User Name Input the user name of the FTP server you wish to use here. Password Input the password of the FTP server you wish to use here.
found that non-passive mode is not working, you can try to use passive mode. Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect. After that, you can click ‘Upload a test file’ to send a file to the FTP server you set here, so you can make sure the setting you specified here is correct and working.
2.3.5 SD Card Configuration You can define the filename and destination folder when saving a file in SD card. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Enable Cycle Recording Check this box and this camera will automatically erase oldest image file to make rooms for new image files when SD card is full. If you don’t want to lose old image files, do not check this box.
2.4 System Info You can use this menu to get the operational information of this camera: After you selected ‘System Info.’, a sub-menu will appear. There are 4 sub-menus available here: Detailed descriptions of every setting will be given below.
2.4.1 Camera Information Camera information allows you to set the name and administrator’s password of this camera. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Camera Name Please specify the name of this Network Camera here. This can be used to identify your camera on the network when you have more than one Network Camera in the same network. Default name begins with ‘IC-‘ plus the last 6 characters of the MAC address of this Network Camera.
2.4.2 Date / Time Setting This setting allows you to change the date and time of the real time clock in this Network Camera. You can set the time manually, or use network time protocol (NTP) to set the time automatically. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Set Date/Time manually / NTP Server If you select ‘Set Date/Time manually’, you can set the date and time of this camera manually. Please input the date and time you wish to set here.
Time ‘Yes’; otherwise select ‘No’. Synchronize to PC time Click to input current time of your computer to ‘Set Date / Time manually’ field. Click ‘Apply’ to save settings and make the new settings take effect. If you wish to use the date and time setting of the computer which is connecting to the camera, click ‘Synchronize to PC time’ button. The date and time setting of the computer will be filled to date and time setting in this page. 2.4.
Time Interval You can choose to upload one image to FTP server according to the time interval you wish, or choose to upload image as you wish to FTP server every second. File Control This option allows you to choose to upload each schedule snapshot with different file name composed of date/time, or to choose to upload the schedule snapshot with the same file name you wish. If you choose the latter, the prior-saved schedule snapshot will be overwritten by the latest schedule snapshot.
2.4.4 Utilities This menu allows you to upgrade firmware, clear all settings, reboot the Network Camera, and switch LED lights on/off. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Upgrade Firmware If you downloaded latest firmware file from our website, you can click ’Browse’ button to pick a firmware file located on your computer’s hard drive and you can upload the firmware file to the Network Camera later.
setting of your computer if the IP address of your computer does not begin with ‘192.168.2’, and subnet mask is not ‘255.255.255.0’, or you’ll not be able to connect to this Network Camera again. Reboot Device If you found the Network Camera is responding slowly or behaves strange, you can click this button to try to reboot the Network Camera, this may help.
2.4.6 System Log All activities of this network camera will be logged, and you are allowed to enter ‘System Log’ menu to view these logs. 2.5 Account If you wish to allow other people to view the live image captured by this camera, but don’t want to allow them to modify system settings, you can give them user-level user name and password, so they can only view the image and can not change any system setting. This camera supports up to 16 users.
The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description User List Lists all users currently available. Login Input the login name (user name) of this account. Password Input the password of this user here. Confirm password Input the password of this user here again for confirmation. Authority Select the privilege of this user: Operator (able to change system settings) or Guest (View images only). Add Click this button to add the account.
2.6 SDHC … After you selected ‘System Info.’, a sub-menu will appear.
2.6.1 Status Here shows the remaining card space for you.
2.6.2 Space Alarm When you’re using SD card to store captured image and video clip, you can have this camera to send an E-mail to you when there’s only little remaining space left on SD card. Please note: If you have set E-mail settings in ‘Motion Picture’ function, you can click ‘Copy Mail Config’ button to use the same setting. However, you can use a different setting here.
SMTP Authentication Select ‘Enable’ if the SMTP server you’re using requires authentication, and input the username and password below; If the SMTP server you’re using does not require authentication, select ‘Disable’ here. If you’re not sure, ask your ISP or network administrator. User Name Type the user name of the user who has the mail account. This setting is necessary when the SMTP server which sends e-mails performs authentication. Password Type the password of the user who has the mail account.
2.6.3 File Management You can use this menu to manage the files stored on SD card. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description FirstPage Jump to first page of file list. PrevPage Jump to previous page of file list. NextPage Jump to next page of file list. LastPage Jump to last page of file list. SelectAll Select all files in this page. ClearAll Clear all files in this page. Delete Delete selected files.
Chapter III: Using Surveillance Software 3-1 Installing Network Camera Surveillance Software The Network Camera surveillance software provides various functions like video recording, after this software is installed, you can use your Network Camera to safeguard your property. Please follow the following instructions to install the surveillance software. 1. Double click the setup file located in ‘xxx’ folder in supplied CD-ROM, when the following window appears, click ‘Next’. 2.
3. If you need installation program to create a desktop icon or a quick launch icon for you, click all items you need here, than click ‘Next’ to continue.
4. Here lists all options you chose in previous steps, if everything’s correct, click ‘Install’ to start installing procedure, or click ‘Back’ to go back to previous step to modify installing settings. 5. The installing procedure will take some time, please be patient.
6. When you see this window, it means the software installing procedure is complete. Please click ‘Finish’ to finish the procedure (Network Camera surveillance software will start after you click ‘Finish’ button, if you want to start it later, uncheck ‘Launch IPCam Surveillance Software’ box).
3-2 Using Network Camera surveillance software You can click ‘IPCam Surveillance Software’ icon from desktop, quick launch bar, or start menu to start the Network Camera surveillance software. Before you start: Network Camera surveillance software will only work when your monitor’s resolution is ‘1024 x 768’.
You can put the mouse cursor on a certain component and see its button name, and here’re detailed descriptions of all buttons: Item Description Video displaying area The image of all connected cameras will be displayed here. Language Select a language from this dropdown menu to change display language. Display layout Change camera image display layout (Click a layout icon to change camera display layout). There are 8 kinds of available display layouts.
Playback Playback a recorded video file. Snapshot Take a snapshot of current camera. Message display Displays all system messages like camera is disconnected etc. Close window (stop surveillance) Terminates Network Camera surveillance software. Minimize window Minimizes Network Camera surveillance software window. Video displaying area Displays the image of all cameras by the display layout you selected.
3-3 Configure Network Camera surveillance software 3-3-1 Configure cameras Before you use this Network Camera surveillance software, you must configure the camera(s) you wish to connect.
3-3-1-1 ‘Camera’ tab In this tab you can configure all cameras you wish to connect. Up to 16 cameras can be connected simultaneously: Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Description Channel Select the channel number you wish to set. Camera Search All cameras found on your local network will be displayed in ‘Camera Search’ box.
name of camera so you can remember the camera’s location of purpose easily. Model Displays the model of selected camera, this field can not be changed. IP* Input the IP address of camera. Username* Input the user name of camera. Web Port* Input the web port of the camera. By default it’s ‘80’. Password Input the password of camera. Default value is ‘1234’. You should change the password if you changed the password of selected camera.
3-3-1-2 Schedule Recording In this tab, you can setup scheduled video recording, so you can record the video captured by all cameras you have by a pre-defined schedule. Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Description Channel Select the channel number you wish to set. One Time Schedules You can specify the one-time schedule for selected camera; this schedule will be executed once only.
Please specify the time duration of this one-time schedule (the date and time of ‘From’ and ‘To’), then click ‘OK’ to save settings. Please note you must set a schedule that will be happened in the future, you can not set a schedule in the past. Edit You can modify a scheduled recording item. Select a schedule in ‘One Time Schedules’ list, and click ‘Edit’ button to edit the start and end time of this schedule. Delete Delete a selected schedule item.
Please check all weekdays that applies, and set the start time in ‘From’ field. You can set the duration of video recording in ‘Period’ field (format is HH:MM:SS), and the end time will be calculated automatically and displayed in ‘To’ field. You can also click ‘All Time Record’ button to define a recording schedule that will be executed every weekday, from 12:00:00AM to 11:59:59PM. Click ‘OK’ to save changes. Edit You can modify a scheduled recording item.
3-3-1-3 Audio For cameras that support audio, you can use this tab to decide if you wish to hear the audio captured by selected camera. Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Description Channel Select the channel number you wish to set. Mute Audio Check this box and the Network Camera surveillance software will not play the audio captured by this camera. Record Video Only Check this box and the Network Camera surveillance software will not record the audio captured by this camera.
3-3-1-4 Motion Record With this function activated, only motions captured by the camera will be recorded, so you don’t have to waste hard disk storage space on images you don’t need to pay attention to. WARNING: For applications that security is highly concerned, it’s not recommended to use this function since some tiny changes you may need to know may not be able to trigger the camera and the camera will not start recording.
triggered Send mail when motion is triggered Send an email to a pre-defined address when a motion has been detected by the camera. OK Save settings in this tab. Cancel Discard all settings in this tab.
3-3-2 General Settings You can set system-wide settings of this Network Camera surveillance software in this menu. 3-3-2-1 ‘General’ tab All general settings like file storage directory and recording spaces can be set here. Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Description Data Directory Set the directory (folder) you wish to store the recorded video and captured image. You can click ‘Browse’ button to pick a directory in your hard disk.
video. Scan Time Define the time period to pause between every camera switch when you activate ‘Scan’ function. Cycle Recording You can decide the behavior when hard disk space is full: Disable: Do not overwrite recorded video files. Enable: Overwrite recorded video files. OK Save settings in this tab. Cancel Discard all settings in this tab.
3-3-2-2 ‘E-Mail Setting’ tab If you want to use motion detection function and wish to get an email that contains the image captured by the camera, please setup your email related parameters here first. Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Description E-Mail Subject Specify the subject of sending email. Recipient E-Mail Address Here lists all email addresses you set. New Click this button and you’ll be prompted to input the email address. Click ‘OK’ to save changes.
Edit Select an email address from ‘Recipient E-Mail Address’ box, and click ‘Edit’ to edit the email address. Delete Delete selected email address. Sender E-Mail Address Specify the email address of email sender. SMTP Server Specify the IP address or host name of the SMTP server you wish to use.
3-3-2-3 Security If you don’t want other people to access this Network Camera surveillance software, you can set a password to protect it.
Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Description Enable Requires password authentication when this software starts. Disable Password authentication is not required when this software starts. Password Input the password you wish to use here. Confirm Password Input the password you wish to use here again. 3-3-2-4 About This tab shows the version number of the Network Camera surveillance software you’re using.
3-4 Change Display Layout This Network Camera surveillance software provides 8 kinds of display layout: Every layout displays different number of camera and camera arrangement, you can click the icon that presents a specific kind of layout, and the video displaying area will change accordingly. Layout style 1: 1 Camera only Displays the video of 1 camera only. Layout style 2: 4 Cameras Displays the video of up to 4 cameras.
Layout style 3: 6 Cameras Displays the video of up to 6 cameras. Layout style 4: 8 Cameras Displays the video of up to 8 cameras. Layout style 5: 9 Cameras Displays the video of up to 9 cameras. Layout style 6: 10 Cameras Displays the video of up to 10 cameras.
Layout style 7: 13 Displays the video of up to 13 cameras. Cameras Layout style 8: 16 Displays the video of up to 16 cameras.
3-5 Full-screen mode If you want to use all available spaces on your monitor to display surveillance image, you can click ‘Full Screen’ button to switch display mode to full-screen mode. To exit full-screen mode, press ‘ESC’ key.
3-6 Scan If you have more than one camera configured, and you wish to switch the displaying image between cameras, you can click ‘Scan’ button to switch between all configured cameras. NOTE: If a camera is configured but disconnected, it will still be displayed in a scan sequence (you’ll see nothing and you’ll see ‘Disconnected’ text displayed at the upper-left corner of display image).
3-7 Zoom-in / Zoom-out For cameras that support zoom-in / zoom-out function, you can use this function to see more objects that fall in the scope of camera’s view, or enlarge the image size of a certain object to see its detail.
3-8 PTZ For cameras that support pan - tilt function ( but this model doesn’t support PTZ function), you can change the position that camera points to, to see different places that fall in the scope of camera’s view. Please select a camera in video displaying area by clicking on its image, and then click the directions you wish the camera to move to (total 8 directions available). Click ‘Home’ button ( ) to return to camera’s home (default) position.
3-9 Snapshot You can take a snapshot of selected camera and save it to ‘Snapshot’ sub-folder of pre-defined data directory. Click snapshot button once to take a snapshot; you can take as much snapshot as you want before hard disk is full.
3-10 Recording You can start video recording of selected camera manually by clicking ‘Start Recording’ button: When recording starts, you’ll see a message displayed in message displaying box like ‘1/1 10:00:00, Camera 2 Start Manual’, which means camera 1 starts recording manually on 1/1 at 10:00:00. To stop recording, click ‘Start Recording’ button again, and you’ll see a message displayed in message displaying box like ‘1/1 10:00:00, Camera 2 Stop Manual’.
3-11 Video Playback You can playback all recorded video by clicking this button. A new window will appear: You have to search the video file before you can play it. There are two kinds of video search: Time Search (search all videos file that falls in a specific period of time) and Motion Search (search all videos recorded by motion detection function and falls in a specific period of time).
Chapter IV: How to Access the Network Camera Remotely with iPhone & Android Phones IC-3110 series features smart phone support for iPhone users and Android phone users to monitor their home using Edimax Network-Cameras. Please check following instruction for installation. The following instruction applies to all Edimax routers Step1: Ensure My-PC is Internet-ready via Router Step 2: Check with your ISP (Internet Service Provider) whether a Public and fixed IP address is assigned to you.
in the I-Phone. To apply for this, refer to the Appendix “How to apply for a free DNS account in the http://www.dyndns.org ” In this guide, we assume you have already got http://my-name.dyndns.org. (yours may vary) and go to Step 3.
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4.1 iPhone App Installation (1) Please download ‘Ediview’ application from Apple’s Appstore (2) You can launch EdiView by clicking ‘EdiView’ icon. You’ll see welcome screen and please wait for few seconds (3) When you launch EdiView, it will attempt to connect to existing configured network cameras.
point if your Edimax network camera is located on your local area network.
(5) You can manage network cameras in ‘Cameras’ list. To add a new network camera, click ‘Add New Camera’. (6) EdiView will search for network camera on your local area network, and list all network cameras found here. To add an network camera manually or add an network camera on Internet, click ‘Add Camera Manually’ button.
(7) In this page, you can input network camera’s parameters manually Camera Type: Switch operating mode between Cloud and IP. In cloud mode you have to input Cloud ID**; In IP mode you have to input IP address or host name of network camera. Camera Name: You can define a name for this network camera to help you to remember the purpose / location of this network camera. IP: Input network camera’s IP address or host name. Port: Input network camera’s port number, generally it’s ’80’.
(8) You can also setup video parameters of this network camera. Brightness: Select video brightness (1 to 5, darkest to brightest). Saturation: Select video saturation (1 to 5, lowest to highest). Sharpness: Select video sharpness (1 to 5, lowest to highest). Video Quality: (Highest to Lowest, select a lower video quality will help when network speed is slow). Tilt Speed: Select camera pan & tilt movement speed.
(9) To delete an existing IP camera, click ‘Edit’ button.
(11) Now you can back to ‘Live’ menu, if you see a snapshot appear, it indicates the network camera is correctly configured.
A white arrow will also appear to indicate the direction of camera movement. Please note: If the button appears on upper-right corner shows ‘Switch’, you can’t move camera. (13) To view events (motions detected by network camera), click ‘Events) button below in network camera’s live view All network cameras will be listed and you can choose one to see its events list. (14) All events of selected network camera will be listed here. You can click an event to see enlarged photo.
(15) Event’s snapshot and event date / time will be displayed. Click the button with network camera’s name (upper-left corner) to go back.
(16) You can use this function to mark your network camera on Google map, so you can locate them and remember their physical location easily. Please note that you need active Internet connection to show map on your iPhone. Click ‘Map’ button at the bottom of your iPhone to access Map menu. (17) Google map will be shown on your iPhone, and it will attempt to locate your current location by GPS and network.
If you’re using your iPhone indoor, your iPhone may fail to locate your location. You can still use your finger to drag the map and find your current location manually. If the network camera you’re about to mark on the map does not locate at your current location, you can also use your finger to drag the map and find the location where your network camera is installed. A red pin indicating the location of network camera will be placed at the center of map.
4.2 Android App installation (1) To install Ediview application, launch ‘Market’.
(3) You should able able to find Ediview utility (If not, please check spelling), and click ‘Download’ to download and install Ediview (4) Android will prompt you to confirm installation, please click ‘Install’ button below to start installation 122
(5) Please be patient while EdiView is being installed. (6) When EdiView utility is successfully installed, you’ll see this message.
(7) You can launch EdiView by clicking ‘EdiView’ icon in ‘All Applications (8) When you launch EdiView, it will search for all Edimax network cameras on your network. Please make sure you’re connected to wireless access point if your Edimax network camera is located on your local area network.
If you want to add a Ediamx network camera on Internet, please click ‘Manually’ button to abort and setup network camera manually (9) In this page, you can input network camera’s parameters manually Name: You can define a name for this network camera to help you to remember the purpose / location of this network camera Cloud / IP Mode Switch: Click this button to switch operating mode between Cloud and IP.
(10) When an network camera has been added successfully, you’ll see it appear in EdiView utility’s camera list Please repeat last step to add more network cameras you wish to connect. To repeat last step, press ‘Menu’ key on your Android device and click ‘Add’ button (11) If the network camera is connected, you’ll see a picture appear.
If there are new events available, click icon To configure network camera’s parameters, click icon (12) When you click an network camera in camera list, you’ll see its live image Like this. You can hold your Android device horizontally to enlarge network camera’s live image view. If the network camera you connected supports Pan & Tilt, you can click button and use your finger to slide on the live image to the direction you wish to move.
(13) To take a snapshot of current live image and save it on your Android device, click button. You’ll see ‘Save Snapshot’ message appear, which indicates a snapshot has been taken.
(14) If you have more than 1 network cameras, you can click button and you can see the image of up to 4 network cameras at the same time; Click on the camera’s image to enlarge it You can also click button to see up to 12 network cameras at the same time. (15) To configure the video display parameters of this network camera, click button, and you can drag the slide bar to configure parameters: Brightness: Configure video brightness Saturation: Configure video saturation.
Click ‘Done’ button when you finish, or click ‘Cancel’ to abort. You’ll see the result after you click Done’. (16) When a new event (movement) has been detected by network camera, you’ll see events. icon appear in network camera list.
(17) All events will be displayed here, with the time which triggered this event. Click on the event to see enlarged picture (18) The image of this event will be displayed with the time triggered this event.
(19) To save a snapshot of this event, click button. You’ll see ‘Saved event image successfully’ message to prompt you that image has been saved successfully. (20) When you’re in camera list, press ‘Menu’ button on your Android device. A menu will appear on the bottom of EdiView utility.
(21) You can use this function to mark your network camera on Google map, so you can locate them and remember their physical location easily. Please note that you need active Internet connection to show map on your Android device.
(22) Google map will be shown on your Android device, and it will attempt to locate your current location by GPS and network If you’re using your Android device indoor, your A may fail to locate your location. You can still use your finger to drag the map and find your current location manually.
(23) When you found the location where network camera is installed, press ‘Menu’ button on your Android device and click ‘Locate’ button and a camera list will be shown. Select the network camera you wish to mark on the map.
4.3 Web browser installation Please make sure your web browser supports JAVA first. If your web browser does not support JAVA, you can install JAVA from website: www.java.com and get JAVA software. (If your web browser does not support JAVA, you’ll see this message when you try to use JAVA browser) (1) If you’re not login Windows as system administrator, please use system administrator to launch Internet Explorer. To do so, right-click Internet Explorer icon and click ‘Run as administrator’.
(2) Input the following web address in your web browser’s address bar: “XXXXXXXXXXXX.myedimax.com”. Where XXXXXXXXXXXX is the 12 characters of your Edimax network camera’s MAC address. If you don’t know the MAC address of your Edimax IP camera, you can log onto network camera’s web configuration menu and click “System” -> “System Information” ->“Status”->”LAN” to see its MAC address.
(5) You should be able to see the image of network camera now. You can click function buttons below. Enlarge / reduce image size Click + or – button to enlarge or reduce image size, this is very useful when you want to see details of certain object in the image.
Configure network camera Click this button to display network camera configuration menu and you can chage the parameters of IP camera. Click ‘Apply’ to save changes or click ‘Cancel’ to discard changes. Pan-tilt control Click this button and a set of arrow will be shown on the image. Click the arrow to move network camera to the direction indicated by the arrow. Click circle located in the center or arrow set to return network camera to ‘Home’ (original) position.
Snapshot Click this button to take a snapshot of current image and save on your computer’s hard drive. You’ll be prompted to select a folder on your computer. Full-screen view Click this button to enlarge image view to full-screen size, all functino buttons will disappear to maximumize display area. Click anywhere in the image to return to normal display mode.
Chapter V: Appendix 5.1 Specifications Max Resolution: 1280 x 1024 pixels Sensor: 1.3Mega pixels 1/4" color CMOS sensor Gain control: Automatic Exposure: Automatic White Balance: Automatic Image (Video Setting) Image compression: MJPEG/MPEG4/H.264 Image Video Digital 24-bit Color Frame rate: 10-15fps@SXGA, XGA, 30fps@QVGA, 20fps@VGA Video resolution: MJPG&H.
5.2 How to apply for a free DNS account at http://www.no-ip.com It’s very likely your IP address (the Internet location) keeps changing every a couple of hours or every day depending on your ISP’s policy. Therefore, as shown in the following figure, you may be assigned with an IP address, “61.61.61.1” hours ago, and now with a new IP address, “72.72.72.1”. This means the router at “My-home” can be found at http://61.61.61.1 over the Internet is no longer available after a few hours.
And follow the steps: Now, you could locate your home network camera using http://your-name.no-ip.
5.3 Troubleshooting If the network camera is not working properly, before you contact the dealer of purchase for help, please check the troubleshooting list here, this may help you to solve the problem by yourself and therefore saves your valuable time. Scenario Possible Solution I can not connect to network camera a. Please confirm the IP address setting of the computer you’re using. If they’re not in the same subnet, they will not be able to communicate with each other. b.
c. If you’re connecting this camera from Internet, it could be caused by a slow Internet connection, and it’s not a problem caused by camera. However, when the network connection is slow, you should use lower frame rate / resolution. d. Adjust the antenna if you’re using wireless connection. The antenna should be perpendicular to the ground to get best reception, and the distance between network camera and computer / wireless access point should not be too far. e.
camera is located, switch it on and see if image looks better. I set the network camera to send image by Email or FTP, but nothing is received a. If the image is send by Email, please make sure it’s not blocked by any anti-spam mechanism. b. Please make sure you have enough permission for FTP uploading (You can try this by clicking ‘Upload a test file’ button). c.
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