IP Wireless / Wired Camera REMOTE PAN/TILT ROTATE User Manual
More Security, More Convenience CONTENTS 1 WELCOME .........................................................................................................................................................3 1.1 FEATURES .......................................................................................................................................................3 1.2 PACKING LIST ..........................................................................................................................
More Security, More Convenience 1 WELCOME This is an integrated wireless IP Camera solution. It combines a high quality digital Video Camera with network connectivity and a powerful web server to bring clear to your Desktop from anywhere on your local network or over the Internet. The basic function of it is transmitting remote video on IP network. The high quality video image can be transmitted with 30fps speed on the LAN/WAN by using MJPEG hardware compression technology.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 1.1 1Sensitive Hole: For light sensitive 2 Infrared LED: 10 LEDs 3 LENS: CMOS sensor with fixed focus lens. (Default is 6mm, 3.6mm optional) 4 Network Indicator LED: If there is network activity, the LED will blink 5 Microphone: Build-in microphone 6 Speaker: Build-in speaker 7 Wireless Antenna: WI-FI Antenna 1.3.2 Rear Panel Figure 1.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 1.3 Original Apexis IPCAM have some stickers at the bottom, such as MAC address sticker, QC sticker etc. If your camera does not have these stickers, it may be a clone one, clone Apexis IPCAM could not use the original firmware and obtain our good after sale service. RESET BUTTON: Press and hold the RESET BUTTON for 15 Seconds, then the IPCAM will be reset back to the factory default Parameter. (Please keep the power on when do RESET) 1.
More Security, More Convenience Figure1.4 1.6 Software Installation Attention: In order to make the installation correctly, we suggest that turn off your Firewall and Antivirus before install the ActiveX, Don’t worry, it is safe. Software installation is the key to the successful use of this product. Install the follow software: 1. IP Camera Tool: Open the CD, dbclick “IPCamSetup.exe”, only click next, you will complete the software installation.(figure1.6,1.7,1.8) 2. ActiveX: Double click “Appinstall.
More Security, More Convenience Figure1.6 Figure1.7 Figure1.8 After this done, the icon “IP Camera Tool” will be displayed on desktop automatically. CAUTION: Before installing and using the product, please read the following precautions carefully and make sure they are fully understood. Use only the power adaptor attached with the product. Use unauthorized power adapter may cause damage to your IP Camera.
More Security, More Convenience 2. SOFTWARE OPERATION 2.1 IP Camera Tool When the Device has been mounted properly, you can double click the Icon “IP Camera Tool” and a dialog box as Figure 1.9 will pop up. Figure1.9 Note: The software searches IP Servers automatically over LAN. There are 3 cases: 1. No IP Cameras found within LAN. After about 1 minute search, the Result Field will show “not found IP Server” and the program shut automatically. 2. IP Cameras have been installed within LAN.
More Security, More Convenience Figure2.0 2.1.1 .1Basic Properties There are some device information in the Basic Properties, such as Device ID, System Firmware Version, Web UI Version.(figure 2.1) The Device ID just is the camera’s MAC ID, which should be the same as showed on the sticker at the bottom of camera. Every camera has its unique MAC ID. So if there are many IP address showed in the list, check the MAC ID, you can ensure which camera is it.
More Security, More Convenience Figure2.2 Obtain IP from DHCP server: If clicked, the device will obtain IP from DHCP server. In other words, the camera will have a dynamic IP. (Make sure the Router which the camera connects has DHCP function and DHCP is enabled). (Figure 2.2) Figure 2.3 IP address: Fill in the IP address assigned and make sure it is in the same subnet as the Gateway, and the subnet should be the same as your computer or router. (I.e.
More Security, More Convenience 2.4) Figure 2.4 Please download the firmware package under the correct type of your camera before upgrade. Follow the upgrade document in the package carefully to upgrade. Please look readme firstly before you do upgrade. CAUTION: Please don’t upgrade the firmware freely. Sometimes, your camera may be damaged if wrong operation during upgrade. If your camera works well with the current firmware, we recommend you’d better not upgrade it.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 2.5 Figure 2.6 The default user name is admin, no password Input the correct user name and password, the Sign In interface will pop-up. There are three models to login (figure 2.7). Figure 2.7 (1) Active Mode (For IE Browser): available in IE6.0 or above explorer (2) “Server Push Mode”: available in Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome browser.
More Security, More Convenience 2.3 For IE Browser Choose Active Mode (For IE Browser), and sign in. Figure 2.8 The first time login the camera, maybe get ActiveX prompt as the picture above, please click the prompt and choose Run Add-on, refresh and login the camera again, then will see live video, details as below: Figure2.9 Figure 3.
More Security, More Convenience Note: If there is still no live video after run ActiveX, and a red cross showed in the center of the screen, or even just a black screen, please try to enable the ActiveX options of IE security settings. Please do the follow steps: 1. Close the firewall of your computer. 2.
More Security, More Convenience number to try. Don’t use port 80, use other port such as 128, 1008 etc. Figure 3.2 NOTE: Make sure that the firewall or anti-virus software doesn’t block the software or ActiveX. If you couldn’t see live video, please close your firewall or anti-virus software, and try again. 2.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 3.4 2.6 ActiveX Mode (For IE Browser) Login the camera in ActiveX mode, the main User Interface as below: NOTE: There are 3 levels of users, Visitor, Operator, Administrator, if you login with different users, the use authority is different. (See 3.11 User Settings) 2.7 For Visitor When login as Visitor, you can enter the IP Camera for visitor.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 3.5 Channels: Our IE software supports 9 channels totally. Click can get different windows. : Click this one, you can view the main channel of the camera you login. : Click this one; you can view 4 Channels of cameras which connected, from CH1 to CH4. : Click this one; you can view 9 Channels of cameras which connected, from CH1 to CH9. NOTE: If you want to view 4/9 channels, you should set the Multi-Device firstly (See 3.
More Security, More Convenience OSD Settings: Figure 3.6 OSD: Means “On-Screen Display”, click “Audio video” > “OSD”, set display date and time on the video. Disabled: Click this one, means clear the OSD. Color: Can set the OSD text color as black, yellow, red, white, blue etc. Add time stamp on record: Click this, there will be time OSD on record video files. Figure 3.7 Rate and Resolution: Rate: Set video frame here, from “full-speed to 1fp/5s”. (Figure 3.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 3.8 Figure 3.9 TOP Menu: Figure 4.0 : Click it to get live video. When you want to back to live video from other menus, just click it. Only under live video, you can do the operation on the right side, such as play, stop, snapshot etc. : Click it to get into play mode, when you click stop icon, the video will be stopped, then click play icon, it will show the video again. : Click it to stop the live video. You can click play icon if you want to see live again.
More Security, More Convenience 2.8 For Operator When login as Operator, you can enter the IP Camera for Operator. For operator, it not only supports all the functions which for Visitor, and also supports these functions as below: Figure 4.1 Audio Video Settings Figure 4.2 Audio buffer: Click this icon, it will show five numbers, which means 1/2/3/4/5 seconds’ buffer of audio. Reversal: Click this icon to see the reversal image. Click again, will back to normal.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 4.3 Mode: This is work mode optional, 50HZ/60HZ for the users who use 50HZ/60HZ frequency, outdoor for the users who want to use this camera to monitor toward outdoor environment NOTE: This camera normally should be used in a indoor environment Bright: Set the parameters to adjust the image quality of video. Click to adjust the value Contrast: Set the parameters to adjust the image quality of video.
More Security, More Convenience Preset Settings Figure 4.5 : Set Preset Position. It supports 15 preset positions. Firstly, control the camera rotate to the special position you need to set, click Set Preset Position button , it will pop-up a dialog frame(Figure 4.5), choose the any number (1-15) you want to set it be, then it done. NOTE: Set different positions with a same number, camera will record the last position setting only. : Call Preset Position. It supports 15 preset positions.
More Security, More Convenience 3 Settings as Administrator When login as Administrator, you can enter the IP Camera for Administrator. Administrator supports all the settings and operations of the camera; you can set and control it freely There are some special functions only for administrator as below: Figure 4.6 3.1 Multi-Device Settings Multi-Device Settings This camera can support max. 9 channels device at the same time. 3.1.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 4.7 Click Live Video and then select to see four channels, or click Figure 4.8 24 to see nine channels.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 4.9 3.1.2 Set Multi-Device for WAN If you want to view cameras from internet, you have to add these devices by DDNS domain name. Make sure all these cameras you want to add have been set DDNS successfully. (View 3.7 DDNS Service Settings) And also these cameras work well with DDNS. Login the first camera by DDNS domain name and port, this camera will be as the host camera. Figure 5.0 Click Multi-Device, select Multi-Device Settings.
More Security, More Convenience NOTE: The Alias is optional; you can set the alias as per your wish. The Host must be the camera’s DDNS domain name, and without “http://”, it’s not the Lan IP address. If you have several cameras, you can use the same DDNS domain name, just set different port number for each different camera. Figure 5.1 Note: Add the other camera in the same way, Click submit to add all of them. Figure 5.2 Click Live Video and then select to see four channels, or to see nine channels.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 5.3 3.1.3 Upgrade Device Firmware If you want to upgrade the camera, please upgrade Device Firmware first, then upgrade Web UI. Click Browse and choose correct bin file, then click Submit to do upgrading. NOTE: Before doing upgrade via Browser, please make sure the IP Camera Tool of your computer could find the camera’s IP. Attention: Please must keep the power on during upgrading, and the better use wired mode.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 5.5 3.1.5 Reboot Device Click Reboot the device, will pop-up a prompt, select OK, then the device will reboot Figure 5.6 3.2 Network Settings Click Network, will pop-up the prompt as below: 3.3 Basic Network Settings Here you can fix the camera’s IP address; means set the static IP address of camera manually. You can also do the same settings from IP Camera Tool. (Figure 2.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 5.7 If you don’t know Subnet Mask, Gateway, DNS Server. Please check the Local Area Connection Status of your computer; it contains all these information, steps as below: 1. Control PanelNetwork ConnectionsLocal Area Connections Support Details 2. Find the local connection icon from taskbar, left click it, choose Support Details Figure 5.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 5.9 If you don’t know the DNS Server, you can set it the same as Gateway. If the router supports DHCP function, you can choose “Obtain IP from DHCP Server” to get dynamic IP. Figure 6.0 Http Port: In most cases, you can leave this value as however, if your Internet Service Provider blocks this port, you may change it to another port number such as 85. 3.4 Wireless Lan Settings Figure 6.1 1. Make sure the router is wireless router. 2.
More Security, More Convenience 3. Make sure whether there is encryption of the WLAN of router, if there is encryption, keep the key. 4. Login the camera, click “Network”>”Wireless Lan Settings”>”Scan”, please scan 2 times, then you will find the WLAN from the list, choose the one you use. (Figure 6.1) 5. If there is no encryption, just click “Submit”. (Figure 6.4) 6. If there is encryption, please input the share key, then click “Submit”. (Figure 6.5) 7.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 6.5 3.5 ADSL Settings When connected to the Internet through ADSL directly, you can enter the ADSL username And password obtained from ISP. Figure 6.7 3.6 UPnP Settings Click UPnP Settings to choose Using UPnP to Map Port: Figure 6.8 Select it and click Submit, then the camera will support UPnP port forwarding automatically. It’s helpful for using DDNS, if your router support UPnP, then you no need do port forwarding in router.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 6.9 NOTE: Here UPnP only for port forwarding now. It has much relation with security settings of your router, make sure the UPnP function of router is ON. Attention: If your router doesn’t support UPnP function, it may show error information. So we recommend you do port forwarding manually in your router. (Details see Figure 7.4-7.9) 3.7 DDNS Service Settings Figure 7.0 There are 2 options: Manufacturer’s DDNS: This domain is provided by manufacturer.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 7.3 You have to register an account firstly, keep the user, password, host, then input it. NOTE: Only one DDNS can be chosen, for example, if you use manufacturer’s DDNS, the 3rd one won’t work, if use the 3rd DDNS, the manufacturer’s one won’t work. Change the camera’s port. The default port of camera is “80”, please change “80” to any other one you like, such as “81”, “100”, “8091” etc. Click “OK”, the camera will reboot, wait about 30 seconds. Figure 7.
More Security, More Convenience TP-LINK: 1. Login the router. 2. Choose “Forwarding”, select “Virtual Servers” 3. Click the Add New button, pop-up below: Figure 7.5 Fill the service port (except 80), IP address of the camera, then click Save NOTE: The port and IP address should be the same as Camera. BELKIN: 1. Login the router. 2. Choose “Firewall”, select “Virtual Servers” 3. Input the port (except 80) and IP address, then click save. NOTE: The port and IP address should be the same as Camera.
More Security, More Convenience “both”. Figure 7.7 After all these 4 steps done, then you can use the DDNS freely, check the DDNS status from the camera as below, and get the link of DDNS for internet view. Step: “Login”>”System”>”Device Info”: Figure 7.8 Figure 7.9 3.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 8.0 3.8.1 Device Info You can find the information about Device ID, Firmware Version, Embedded Web UI Version, Alias, Alarm Status, DDNS Status and UPnP Status. Figure 8.1 3.9 Alias Settings Default device name is anonymous. You set any new name for your camera here, then click Submit. Figure 8.2 3.10 Date &Time Settings Set the date and time for your camera. Choose the Clock Time zone of your country. You can choose Sync with NTP Server (Figure 8.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 8.3 Figure 8.4 3.11 Users Settings Eight accounts are acceptable for this system. Here you can set the user names and password as Administrator, Operator or Visitor, the permission for them as below: Visitor: In this mode, you can only view. (Details 2.7) Operator: You can control the direction of IP Camera and set some parameter. (Details 2.8) Administrator: You can setup the advanced configurations of the IP Camera. (Details3.1-3.22) Figure 8.
More Security, More Convenience 3.12 PTZ Settings Figure 8.6 1. Go center on boot: The camera rotate to the center automatically when it starts 2. PT speed: Set Pan / Tilt speed 3. Upward patrol speed: Set the speed of cruising upward 4. Downward patrol speed: Set the speed of cruising downward 5. Leftward patrol speed: Set the speed of cruising leftward 6. Rightward patrol speed: Set the speed of cruising rightward NOTE: Value 0 means the fastest, value 10 means the slowest.
More Security, More Convenience (1)Backup: Backup IP Camera all the Parameter, if you want to save all the current settings that you have set already, you can click Submit, then all the parameters you set will store as a parameters bin file. (2)Restore: Restore IP Camera all the Parameter, if you want to change the camera’s settings to a certain status which has a backup, click Browse to load the bin file, then Submit it. Log Figure 8.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 9.1 Sender: Make sure the sender mailbox server provider support SMTP, and the mailbox should not enable SSL or TSL encryption too. Receiver: Here you can set four receivers. For receiver, there is no SMTP limitation. SMTP Server: The sender’s SMTP Server. SMTP Port: The sender’s SMTP Port, usually is 25, some SMTP server have its own port such as 587. Need Authentication: If there is SMTP user & password, please select authentication.
More Security, More Convenience 5) The sender is denied by the server. Maybe the server need to authenticate the user, please check it and try again 6) The receiver is denied by the server. Maybe because of the anti-spam privacy of the server 7) The message is denied by the server.
More Security, More Convenience NOTE: Here upload image now means it can upload images freely, no need alarm triggered. Click Submit after these settings. Then click Test. You will see the following picture. Figure 9.5 If it prompts error information as follows. 1) Can not connect to the server. Please check FTP Server is correct or not. 2) Network Error. Please try later. 3) Server Error. 4) Incorrect user or password. Please check the username and password is correct or not.
More Security, More Convenience triggered. Figure 9.7 After enable motion detect armed, if there is motion triggered, the Alarm Status will turn to Motion Detect Alarm. (Figure 9.7) Figure 9.8 3.18.2 Motion Detect Sensibility You can choose level 1-10; level 10 means the most sensitive, 1 means the least of all. Figure 9.
More Security, More Convenience 3.18.3 Alarm Input Armed / IO Linkage on Alarm If you want to connect external alarm devices, when it’s an alarm input device, choose Alarm Input Armed to enable it, when it’s an output device, choose IO Linkage on Alarm to enable it. Figure 10.0 There are two options for Trigger Level. (Figure 10.1) High: When the external alarm device is close, then the alarm triggered. Low: When the external alarm device is switching off, then the alarm triggered. Figure 10.
More Security, More Convenience I/O PINS: 1 Output 2 Output 3 Alarm input 4 Input (GND) Input pins: The input pins can be used for 1-way external sensor input. For example, you may connect a Person Infrared Sensor (PIP) to it for motion detection. When external sensor triggered, IP CAMERA can be programmed to send an email with picture or control the internal relay output. If you link an external alarm device with Pin3 and Pin4, when select Alarm Input Armed (Figure 10.0), external alarm is enabled.
More Security, More Convenience Enable it, there will be sound once alarmed. Cancel it, there will be no sound once alarmed. Record on Alarm If you want the camera do recording for every alarm, choose Record on Alarm to enable it. If you do not want the camera do recording once alarm triggered, cancel it here. Figure 10.6 Once alarm occurred, there will be some representation: 1. The corresponding status light turns Red and keeps blinking. Figure 10.7 2.
More Security, More Convenience Record Path: Here you can set the manually record path. Click , then start manually record, the record file will be saved to the specified path here set. Alarm Record Path: Here you can set the alarm record path. When the motion triggered, and record enable, it will start alarm record automatically, the record file will be saved to the specified path here set. Figure 11.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 11.2 NOTE: Server Push Mode does not support ActiveX. Play, Stop, Record, Audio, Talk, Multi-device settings, Path settings functions are controlled by ActiveX, so if you use Safari, Firefox, Google chrome browser, it is impossible to find these options. The other functions are the same as ActiveX Mode (For IE Browser) 3.
More Security, More Convenience Figure 11.3 NOTE: Mobile phone Mode doesn’t support ActiveX.
More Security, More Convenience 4. APPENDIX 4.1 Frequently Asked Questions Note: Any questions you would meet, please check Network connections firstly. Check the working status revealed by the indicators on the network server, hub, exchange and network card. If abnormal, check the network connections. 4.1.1 I have forgotten the administrator username and/or password. To reset the administrator username and password, press and hold down the RESET BUTTON for 15 seconds.
More Security, More Convenience please check if the path of the tool port to is correct or not. For example, as it was pointing to C:\Windows\System32\IPCamera.exe. Please fix this by pointing the shortcut to the correct path C:\Windows\SysWOW64\IPCamera.exe. After this you could use the shortcut without any problems. 4.1.8 I can’t change the record path When you use Windows7 or Vista, you may be not able to change the record path for the security settings of computer. 1.
More Security, More Convenience 4.1.16 Why pop-up the prompt” Fail to connect to the device…”? This prompt only appeared in the case of using multiple cameras. When you set multiple cameras, the device status light change to yellow camera connected and works correctly. 4.
More Security, More Convenience 5. Specifications Model APM-J011-WS Image Sensor Sensor 1/4” Color CMOS Sensor Resolution 640 x 480 Pixels (300k Pixels) IR Lens f: 6mm, F 2.8 (3.6mm lens optional) Viewing Angle 60 Degree (3.6mm lens is 90Degree) Minimum Illumination 0.5Lux @ F2.
More Security, More Convenience 6. OBTAINING TECHNICAL SUPPORT While we hope your experience with the IP CAMERA network camera is enjoyable and easy to use, you may experience some issues or have some questions that this User’s Guide has not answered. Please contact your reseller and ask for help firstly, if they could not resolve your issue, please contact our company. This user manual is based on the latest version of our camera. System Firmware: 17.22.2.30 Web UI: 20.8.1.