NC-213 Series User Manual 02-2012 / v1.
‐ CONTENTS ‐ Chapter I Introduction ................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Highlights of your new Network IP Camera................................................................. 1 1.2 Safety Instructions ....................................................................................................... 2 1.3 Packaging Contents ......................................................................................................
‐9‐2 Media ......................................................................................................................... 47 3‐9‐3 Event Server ............................................................................................................... 48 3‐10 Recording to SD Card ...................................................................................................... 51 3‐11 Log ....................................................................................................
Chapter I Introduction 1.1 Highlights of your new Network IP Camera Congratulates on purchasing this high‐resolution 3Mega pixels network IP Camera! This IP Camera provides 3Mega pixels high‐resolution video quality, with the advanced megapixel lens, you can view images remotely in more detail than conventional close‐circuit cameras. Other highlights of this network IP Camera include: z High‐quality megapixel level lens set.
1.2 Safety Instructions Please follow the safety instructions listed below when you’re using this Network IP Camera, or you would harm this camera and / or yourself! Also, the warranty will become void if you disobey these safety instructions. z This Network IP Camera is sophisticated electronic device; do not drop it from high places. z Do not place this IP Camera at hot / humid places, and avoid direct sunlight. z This IP Camera is not a toy; keep it out from the reach of children.
1.3 Packaging Contents Please check the contents of your new Network IP Camera when you unpack the package. If any item is missing, please contact your dealer of purchase for help. Item No. 1 2 3 4 5 Description Network camera Power adapter CD (with utility software, user manual & multi‐language QIG) Quick installation guide Accessory kit Quantity 1 1 1 1 1 1.
Item 1. Lens mounting hole 2. Iris control port 3. Mounting hole Description Lens C‐mount or CS‐mount hole Connects to lens set’s iris control cable Connects to tripod or pan‐tilt camera cradle to secure the IP camera *There’s another mounting hole located at the opposite side of IP camera’s body.
[Back] Item 1. MIC IN 2. AUDIO OUT 3. SD 4. RESET 5. ETHERNET 6. DI/DO (Digital Input / Digital Output) 7. DC12V 8. VIDEO OUT 9. DC lens drive Description Connects to external microphone to input audio signal to IP camera. Use 3.5mm audio cable. Connects to external audio amplifier to output voice. Use 3.5mm audio cable. Inserts SD card for video recording. Maximum 32GB of SD‐HD card supported.
[DI/DO PIN Assignment] Item D+ D‐ GND DO DI1 DI2 AC24V‐ AC24V+ Description RS485 signal positive (+) RS485 signal negative (‐) Signal ground Digital Output #1 Digital Input #1 Digital Input #2 AC 24V power input negative (‐) AC 24V power input positive (+) To insert or release a wire, press the button of the PIN you wish to insert or release. 1.5 Installation of the Network IP Camera 1 Carefully remove the protective cap(s) from the lens and the network camera.
2 Connect the lens to the network camera by twisting the lens set clockwise slowly and carefully until it is secured. Please be careful not to touch the lens or the sensor during the process. 3 If you have an auto iris lens, connect the lens’ iris control cable to the network camera’s iris control port. Note: Do not connect the iris control cable before connecting the lens to the camera.
4 Secure the network camera to a tripod, camera housing, or pan and tilt cradle via the tripod socket(s) on the camera. 5 Connect the network camera to a router/switch in the network via the Ethernet port. Note: The NC‐213E (PoE model) supports the IEEE 802.3af PoE standard and can be powered via the Ethernet cable when connected to a PoE switch. 6 Plug the power adapter to a power outlet, and then connect it to the power connector on the network camera.
7 You should then see the left LED on the Ethernet port light up. If not, please try the above steps again, or contact your dealer for help.
Chapter II Using Network IP Camera by Web Interface 2.1 Locate the IP address of Network IP Camera You can use your new Network IP Camera by its web user interface via web browser. Currently the viewing system requirement for Network IP camera is: ■ OS: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 ■ Browser: Mozilla Firefox, IE7 (and above for full functionality), Chrome, Safari or above ■ Cell phone: 3GPP player ■ Quick Time 6.
2. After the installation is complete, double‐click the “EdiView_Finder” icon to execute the application.
3. Press ‘Discover’ button to search for all IP Cameras on your local network (make sure all IP Cameras are powered on and connect to local network first). When you find any IP Camera, you can double click on it or click ‘Link’ button to connect to it by your web browser. If you need to change a certain IP Camera’s IP address, you can also click on the IP Camera you wish to change IP address, then click ‘Change IP’ button to change select IP Camera’s IP address setting.
2.2 Connect to IP Camera’s Web User Interface and Install ActiveX Plugin When you know the IP address of IP Camera, you can connect to it by Internet Explorer web browser by entering its IP address in address bar. The use login screen will appear when you get connected: IP Camera’s administrator username is ‘admin’ (lower case) and password is ‘1234’ by default. Click ‘OK’ button or press ‘ENTER’ key on your keyboard when you finish entering username and password.
For IE 9: Click ‘Install’ button located at the bottom of IE to install ActiveX plugin. If you’re prompted that: ‘Windows Firewall has blocked some features of this program’ Click ‘Allow access’, or IP Camera will not be able to function properly.
Click ‘Yes’ to allow changes. After ActiveX plugin is installed, you should be able to see the video stream from camera. NOTE: If this is the first time you use this IP Camera, you can refer to chapter 2.4 for instructions on Setup Wizard, which will guide you to complete the software setup of your new IP Camera. 2.3 Viewing Live Video After ActiveX control is installed, you can view IP camera’s video by web browser.
There are various controls on web page, here are descriptions of every control item: Item Description ‘Home’ button This button is visible in all setup pages of IP camera, and you can go back to live video view by clicking this button when you’re in other page. Stream Select video stream type: H.264 or MJPEG. H.264 required less network bandwidth and this will help when network connection is slow. Digital Output Switch digital output interface on or off.
‘Connect’ button resolution is not enough and you want to see full image view, switch to fit screen and image size will adjust automatically. Start live video view. ‘Disconnect’ button Stop live video view. ‘Snapshot’ button Take a snapshot or camera video and save image file on your computer. When you click this button, a new window will appear: Click ‘Save’ button when you see the image you wish to save, and you’ll be prompted to indicate the folder on your computer to save image file.
Enable / Disable mute button / Start / Stop talk Button may lost. If you need to focus on detail of specific objects in video view, please use optical zoom ring on lens set of IP camera. When mute is enabled ( ), you will not hear the voice from IP camera; If you want to hear voice from IP camera, click this button to disable mute ( ). You can drag the slide bar ( ) beside enable/disable mute button to adjust audio playback volume. Start or stop playing your voice through IP camera’s audio output.
2.4 Client Settings In ‘Client Settings’ menu, you configure basic IP camera settings like data transfer protocol and data storage folder. To access ‘Client Settings’ menu, click ‘Client Settings’ button on the left.
Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description RTSP Select this option to use RTSP (Real‐Time Streaming Protocol) to transfer video data. HTTP Select this option to use HTTP (Hyper‐Text Transfer Protocol) to transfer video data. If you don’t know which one you should use, select ‘RTSP’. Folder Prefix Add date and time suffix to file name Select a folder on your computer to save recorded video. Click ‘Browse’ button and you’ll be prompted to select a folder.
Chapter III Advanced Configuration If you wish to configure IP camera’s settings, you can access IP camera’s ‘Configuration’ menu, which provides various kinds of system setting. To access configuration menu, click ‘Configuration’ button on the left. The ‘Configuration’ submenu will appear, please pick a setup item you wish to configure.
3‐1 System In this menu, you can configure basic IP camera settings like hostname and time. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Host Name Input the IP camera’s hostname here, it can be any meaningful words or characters that will help you to identify this IP camera. You can use IP camera’s installation location as host name, and this will help you to identify IP camera when you have many IP cameras installed.
Timezone Daylight Saving Keep the current date and time Synchronize with computer time Synchronize with NTP Server Set Manually Select the time zone of residence from dropdown menu to keep correct date and time. If the area you live uses daylight saving, check this box; otherwise do not check this box to keep time correct. Select this option and date / time setting will not be changed when you click ‘Apply’ in the page.
‐ Guest (Can view IP camera’s video only) There can be multiple users, but only one administrator is allowed, and you can’t change administrator’s user name (it will always be ‘administrator’). Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Password / Retype Input administrator’s new password in both Password ‘Password’ and ‘Retype Password’ field, and (Administrator) click ‘Modify’ button to change administrator’s password.
Account List User Name Password / Retype Password Authority Here lists all users existed in IP camera. If you want to remove one user, click it in the list, and then click ‘Remove’ button. If no user is existed, ‘New Account’ message will be shown here. Input new user’s username here. User name must be greater than 1 character and less than 32 characters. Input this user’s password in both ‘Password’ and ‘Retype Password’ field.
3‐3 Network You can configure the network camera’s general and advanced network settings here. 3‐3‐1 “General” Setup Page Set up IP address for this IP camera. This IP camera supports both IPv4 and IPv6 IP address.
Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description LAN Select this option to assign an IP address to LAN port (or obtain an address from DHCP server automatically). Available options are: DHCP IPv4: Obtain an IPv4 IP address from DHCP server on LAN automatically. DHCP IPv4 / IPv6: Obtain both IPv4 and IPv6 address from DHCP server on LAN automatically. Static IPv4 / IPv6: Assign an IPv4 / IPv6 address to IP camera manually.
PPPoE HTTP Port Select this option to use PPPoE to connect to network. You have to input PPPoE username and password assigned by network operator to get connected. Input IP camera’s web connection port number here. When this port number is changed, you need to change web browser’s port number you used to connect to IP camera. RTSP Port For example, IP camera’s IP address is 192.168.2.3, and if you changed HTTP port number to 82, please input ‘http://192.168.2.
3‐3‐2 “Advanced” Setup Page You can setup advanced network settings in this page. This page is intended for advanced settings only, and this IP camera will work fine even you don’t make any changes to this page.
Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Multicast Enable video multicast: Multicast Group Address: Input multicast group address here, must be an address between 232.0.0.0 to 232.255.255.255. Multicast video port: Input port number for video multicast here. Multicast RCTP video port: Input port number for RCTP video here. Multicast audio port: Input port number for audio here. Multicast RCTP audio port: Input port number for RCTP audio here.
DDNS Enable DDNS support if your ISP assigns dynamic IP address to you. You must register a dynamic IP service first. Currently this IP camera supports Dyndns and TZO dynamic IP service. Provider: Select dynamic IP service provider. Host Name: Input the host name you obtained from dynamic IP service provider. User name: Input user name used to login dynamic IP service provider. HTTPS Password: Input the password used to login dynamic IP service provider.
3‐4 IP Filter When this IP camera is directly connected to Internet and not protected by firewall, this function acts like a mini built‐in firewall to protect the safety of this IP camera and avoid attacks from hackers.
Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable Filter Check this box to enable IP address filter, uncheck this Box to disable this function. Accepted IP list Here lists all IP address that can build connections to this IP camera. If you want to remove a set of IP address from the list, click on the IP address and click ‘Remove’ button. IP Address Input the starting and ending IP address of IP (Accepted IP list) address you wish to accept connections here.
3‐5 Video You can adjust the image of the IP camera in this menu. There are 3 sub‐menus in this menu: Image Setting, Video Setting, and Overlay, which can be accessed by tabs on the top: 3‐5‐1 Image Setting You can adjust the image parameters in this page.
Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Brightness / Control the image parameters. Click ‘ ‐ ' to decrease Contrast / value, or click ‘ + ‘ to increase value. You can also input Saturation / the value in the field directly. Sharpness Default Set all above values to default value ‘128’. Mirror Check ‘Vertical’ or ‘Horizontal’ box to flip the image vertically or horizontally, this will help to correct the orientation of image when IP camera is hanged bottom‐up by camera holder.
3‐5‐2 Video Setting You can adjust the video transfer parameters in this page.
Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description H.264 Select the compression of main stream: H.264 / MPEG4. /MPEG4 Video Select video resolution. Resolution ‐ H.
3‐5‐3 Overlay Setting You can adjust the video overlay parameters in this page. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable Time Check this box to enable overlaying time stamp on Stamp video. Remove the Check this box to remove time stamp’s background color background color. You may find this will help the of the text readability of time stamp text in some cases.
of the text (Text) Enable Image Overlay readability of text in some cases. Check this box to overlay a specific image on video, so you can show certain text / picture on the video and help people to identify this IP camera. Click ‘Browse’ button to pick a picture on your computer, then click ‘Update’ button to use the picture. Please note that there are certain restrictions: ‐ Select .bmp / .jpg / .jpeg image files only. ‐ Image’s resolution should be less than 160 x 128, and can be divided by 4.
Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable Check this box to enable microphone. If you don’t Microphone want to hear voice from IP camera, you can uncheck this box to disable it. Audio Type The format is fixed as G.711 (Microphone) Microphone If the voice received by microphone is too loud or Gain silent, you can use this function to improve voice volume, so you can hear voice from IP camera more clearly.
Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable Motion Check this box to enable motion detection. Detection Enable Check this box to enable this motion detection (Window 1 to window. You can select window 1 to 3 to enable up Window 3) to 3 motion detection windows. When a motion detection window is enabled, a rectangular will appear on camera’s view, with its title on the top. ‐ To move / resize a motion detection window: ‐ Move: Use the mouse to drag the title text.
Title (Window 1 to Window 3) Input characters in title field to change motion detection area’s title text so you can identify it. Please note that you have to click ‘Apply’ button and the text will change. Percentage Select the percentage of pixel change that will trigger motion detection alert. Select a lower percentage and you can detect tiny changes in motion detection area. Sensitivity Select the sensitivity level that will trigger motion detection alert.
Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable RS‐485 Check this box to enable RS‐485 functionality. Use Pelco‐D Select this option and RS‐485 interface will output pan‐tile control signal in Pelco‐D format. This format is widely accepted by most of pan‐tilt camera cradles. You have also input pan‐tilt camera cradle’s address code in ‘Address’ field (number must be between 0~255). This code must be identical to pan‐tilt camera cradle’s address code.
3‐9 Event When there’s an event, you can use this setup page to define what IP camera should do, like send an Email or trigger digital output to activate external alarm. There are three setup pages: 1. Setting: Define a new event and manage events. 2. Media: Define what kind of media file should be saved on designate media. 3. Event Server: Define the details of remote server. Please refer to following chapters for detailed instructions.
3‐9‐1 Settings This page lists all existing events. You can click ‘Modify’ button to edit an existing event, or ‘Remove’ to delete an existing event. To create a new even, just click “New” button to add an Event setting.
To add a new event, click ‘New’ button and the descriptions of every setup item is listed below: Item Description Enable Setting Check this box to enable this event. If you just want to disable this event temporarily, you can uncheck this box to keep this event and disabling while not deleting it. Title Input any description text for this event so you can identify it quickly. You can use alphabets, numbers, and symbols include: !$‐.@^_~ (no spaces allowed).
3‐9‐2 Media You can define what kind of media file should be saved on designated media. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description One Snapshot Save a picture file when event is triggered. H.264 Video Save a H.264 video clip. You can also select the recording length before and / or after the time when event is triggered in ‘Pre Event’ and ‘Post’ Event’.
3‐9‐3 Event Server You can define the details of remote media server: FTP (File), SMTP (Email), and Samba (File). A Samba server can be any computer running windows operating system with network neighbor function enabled. Many stand‐alone network file server also support samba server function. Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description FTP Server Check this box to enable FTP server upload. ‐ FTP Server: Input FTP server’s IP address or hostname. ‐ Port: Input FTP server’s port number.
SMTP Server ‐ User Name: Input FTP server’s username. ‐ Password: Input FTP server’s password. ‐ File Path Name: Input the path where you want to save file on FTP server, like ‘upload/record’. If you want to save file on this FTP user’s home directory, you can leave this field blank. ‐ Enable Passive Mode: Check this box to force IP camera to communicate with FTP server in passive mode (Some FTP Server may only work when you check this box, while others don’t).
Samba Server ‐ Subject: Input Email title that will appear in the Email send by IP camera. This will help you to identify the Email sent by this IP camera. ‐ Authentication: Check this box when authentication is required by the Email server you’re using. You also need to input Email server’s username and password in corresponding field. ‐ Requires SSL Encryption: If your Email server required SSL encryption, check this box.
3‐10 Recording to SD Card When a SD card is inserted into IP camera, you can save video files on it. Note: 1. Be sure that the SD Card format should be FAT32. The NTFS format cannot be supported by this camera. 2. Unlink motion detection, this function will record video at specified time period on selected weekday(s). Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Enable External Check this box to record video on SD card.
3‐11 Log You can check the usage log of IP camera here. In this page, you can click: 1. First page / Final page: Jump to first / final page of log. 2. Previous / Next: Jump to previous or next page of log. 3. Remove: Clear log. You’ll be prompted for confirmation. 3‐12 Device Info You can check the information and network settings of this IP camera. These information are very useful when you need to repair or fix the problem of this IP camera.
3‐13 Maintenance You can do some maintenance job about this IP camera here.
Here are the descriptions of every setup item: Item Description Reboot Click this button to reboot the IP camera. This function is useful when you find IP camera is not working properly. Reset Clear all settings of IP camera and reset to factory default setting. Backup Backup IP camera’s setting and save it on your computer. Backup to SD Backup IP camera’s setting and save it on SD card. A card device SD card must be inserted into SD card slot when you click this button, or you’ll receive an error message.
Chapter IV Troubleshooting Please don’t panic when you found this IP Camera is not working properly. Before you send this IP Camera back to us, you can do some simple checks to save your time: Problem description Can’t connect to IP Camera No IP Camera found No image Possible solution(s) 1) Please check the IP address of IP Camera again. 2) Please make sure the network cable is correctly connected to your local area network. 3) Please make sure power cable is correctly connected to IP Camera.
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