MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Model : IP Cam/IP Cam(w) User Manual Revision: 020308 Date: 2010/06/21 For firmware version v020308 IP Cam : for wired model IP Cam(w) for wireless model IP Cam/w : for both wired and wireless model
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Table of Contents LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES......................................................................................................4 1. INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................6 2. HARDWARE DESCRIPTION AND QUICK INSTALLATION/USAGE ................................8 3. 4. 5. 2.1. MAJOR HARDWARE COMPONENTS. ........................................................
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera APPENDIX E. 3GPP/ISMA OPERATION........................................................................................50 APPENDIX F. THIRD PARTY AND EMBEDDED WEB PAGE INTEGRATION ........................
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera List of Figures and Tables Figure 2-1: Major components in the front panel Figure 2-2: Major components in the back panel Figure 2-3: IP Camera connection diagram. Figure 2-4: Connect Ethernet cable to a switch/router.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 5-4: Antenna Figure 5-5: Quick installation guide Figure 5-6: Ethernet cable Figure 5-7: Installation CD Figure 5-8: ID/Password Card Table A-1: List of tested Wireless AP/router devices Table A-2: List of tested Wired NAT/router devices 5
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 1. Introduction The IP Camera is designed with the “user-friendly” idea deep in mind. The user can install the IP Camera easily on his/her home network and then access the IP Camera anywhere in the world through the accompanied video management software - CamView program without setting some complicated DNS name or changing the router’s settings. It’s just a plug & play action.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera So, the differences are the followings: ♦ Public IP address needed ? No ♦ Dynamic DNS needed ? No ♦ Port mapping in router? No ♦ Virtual server in router ? No ♦ UPnP support in router ? No ♦ What’s needed ? ID and Password 7
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 2. Hardware description and quick installation/usage The IP Camera is designed to be very easy to install and use. First, let’s see the major components of the IP Camera products. 2.1. Major hardware components. The major components on the front panel of the IP Camera products are the built-in microphone, lens and LEDs : 1. Microphone – for receiving the audio/voice. Effective distance is about 5 meters. 2.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Ethernet link is ok, the Ethernet indication LED on the front side will be blue light. 4. Reset button – this is the button to reset the IP Camera to default factory settings. You need to use a small stick like pencil or tooth stick to press the reset button for more than 3 seconds to enable the reset function. Usually when you forgot the administrator account, you will probably need to do this reset action to reset to the default factory settings. Please refer to section 3.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 2-3: IP Camera connection diagram. Figure 2-4: Connect Ethernet cable to a switch/router. Second, Install the CamView software on the notebook/PC Please insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive in your notebook or personal computer (must be running Microsoft Windows OS). Execute the program CamViewInstaller-xxx.exe on the disk.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 2-5: The installation CD disk Third, Use CamView program to see the video Figure 2-5 is the running window of the CamView program. If the computer and IP Camera is connected to the same network, the IP CAM ID will be displayed in the “Auto Search” list. You can double click the “Auto Search” to search all the connected IP Camera any time. The only thing left right now for seeing the video is to double click the IP CAM ID item in the “Auto Search” list.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Seeing the video in a remote location After the IP Camera is installed and you can see the video from the CamView software in the local network, it’s very easy to see the video in a remote location. All you need to do is add a camera item in the “CameraList” folder of the CamView software, key in the IP CAM ID and Password(from the ID/Password card). And then double click this camera item. You will then see the Camera video immediately.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 2.3 Wireless connection (for Cam(w)) The IP Camera can also be connected to the home/office network through the 802.11 b/g wireless connection. There are only three things that you need to do to have the wireless connection: 1. Set the WiFi security settings on the web configuration page. 2. Test if the WiFi settings are correct. 3. Unplug the Ethernet cable. First, set the WiFi security settings on the web configuration page.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 2-9: Unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the WiFi function 14
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3. Web configurations You can login into the web configuration page by directly key-in the IP address of the IP Camera or right-click the searched IP Camera in the “Auto Search” list of the CamView software and click the “Web Configure” to open the login window of the IP Camera. Figure 3-1: Open the web configuration page from CamView software The default login account is “admin”, leave the Password field empty.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.1. Information The first page of the web configuration of the IP Camera is the information page. You can see the model name/firmware version, IP CAM ID, registration status, network type and current video settings( bandwidth, resolution) in this page. The IP Camera can be viewed remotely by the CamView software only when the IP Camera is registered. If this IP Camera is not registered, please check the Ethernet wiring of your network environment.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.2. Video Display This display page allows you to view the video display of the IP camera. For the first time use of this display on a computer, an activeX component will be automatically downloaded into the browser. This could take some time, depends on the internet speed. The component is downloaded from a public domain, so that the computer must be connected to the Internet. If you want to modify the video display screen size, please refer to section 3.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.3. Network The Network page allows you to modify the network settings of the wired Ethernet. The default settings use DHCP to obtain an IP address automatically. In most of the home and office network environment, there is a DHCP server running. In this situation, by using this default settings, the IP Camera can work immediately in most of the time. If the Ethernet cable is unplugged, the IP Camera will lose connection.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 3-6: Network settings page for fixed IP address 19
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.4. WiFi security (For Cam(w)) You can use the wireless to connect the IP Camera to the network. If your network environment has a 802.11 b/g router or AP running, you can check the “Enable WiFi function” button to use the wireless. Figure 3-7: WiFi security disabled page In order to use the wireless network, you need to fill the following fields: 1. SSID – this is the ID of the wireless router or AP of your wireless network environment, must be set correctly. 2.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera wireless router or AP using. Figure 3-8: WiFi security enabled page You can also click the “WiFi test” button to check if the IP Camera can connect to the wireless network for these settings. You will need to unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the wireless connection after the “WiFi test” is successful. You can click the “WiFi scan” button to scan for all the available access points nearby.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 3-9: WiFi testing page 22
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.5. Advanced Network In some special situation, your network environment only provides PPPoE connection(ADSL service), there is no NAT/router available. You will then need to set the PPPoE settings in the “Advanced Network” page. Only the PPPoE username and password are needed to let PPPoE work. After the “Save&Apply” button is pressed, the PPPoE function will work immediately.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.6. Video Settings The IP Camera is designed to provide high quality video for viewing from CamView software. In this page, you cam modify some settings related to the video viewing: 1. Password(play video) – this is the password needed for viewing the video from the CamView software. Together with the IP CAM ID, you can view the video of this IP Camera anywhere in the world through the Internet. 2.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera some strip lines on the video display when the IP camera is taking indoor video. In this situation, change the setting to “Indoor video” will solve the problem. Please also be noticed that in “Indoor video” setting, the video display of outdoor view is very vague. For indoor usage, if there is strong sun light into the room, please select the “Indoor+sun light” choice. 13. Enable/disable audio microphone – you can enable or disable the audio microphone on the IP Camera.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.7. 3GPP/RTSP settings The IP Camera is able to be viewed from a 3G mobile phone, for detailed settings on the 3G mobile phone, please refer to Appendix E. Users can disable the 3G mobile access ability in this page. After the 3GPP/RTSP feature is disabled, no 3G mobile phone is allowed to access the video of the IP camera.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.8. Email/ftp alarm The IP Camera provides the Email/ftp function, you can enable or schedule the Email/ftp ability in this page, the IP Camera product will then send out an email with a jpeg picture attached in the email and/or send out the jpeg picture file to a ftp server. The related settings are explained below: 1. Email/FTP trigger – choose between “motion”, “schedule” and “disable” A.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 8. Send FTP message – if this item is enabled, the IP Camera will send out a jpeg picture file to the specified ftp account. 9. FTP server – this is the FTP server address to receive the jpeg file. 10. FTP username/password – this is the username/password to login into the FTP server, so, this triggered jpeg file will be allowed to reach this FTP server. 11. Remote folder – the jpeg file will be put under this folder of the FTP server.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.9. NAS settings The IP Camera provides the recording of the video files into a standard NAS ( Network Access Storage ) device. The IP camera connects to the NAS device using the standard LMX_NS/CIFS/SSN protocols that are the same as the Microsoft Windows network neighborhood protocols. This makes the IP camera easily record the video files to all the standard NAS devices in the market.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera files on the NAS devices. In the Microsoft Windows environment, you can access to the NAS device by keying the URL address \\”NAS name”\”shared folder name” or \\”NAS IP address”\”shared folder name” in the windows Internet Explorer, and then key in the “NAS access account” and “NAS access password” to the prompted login window. The video files are recorded under the subfolder IPCamRecordFiles/Recording/ID-ID, where ID is the ID of this IP camera.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.10. Scheduling The IP Camera provides the scheduling function for the motion detection triggered email/ftp sending and/or the NAS recording with the individual parameters set in the . “Email/ftp alarm” settings and the “NAS settings” page. Totally 12 schedule list items are allowed. There is no conflict check for the scheduling, it means that the scheduling time could be overlapped, and the IP camera will do all the scheduled events during the overlapped time period.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 3-15: Schedule management page 32
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.11. Led Display Control The IP Camera provides the Led Display Control function, you can enable or disable the led display/indication on the front panel of the IP cam device. The related settings are explained below: 1. Normal led display – select this to enable the status led and ethernet led display. 2. Turn off led display always – select this to disable the status led and ethernet led display. 3.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.12. Date/Time The IP Camera can synchronize the date/time with the universally available time server( for example stdtime.gov.tw) through NTP protocol. The date/time will then be corrected with the time server anytime when the Internet is connected. Users can choose the different TimeZone of their areas to display the correct time. For some TimeZone areas, the “Daylight Saving Time” could be enabled or disabled.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.13. Admin In this page, you can modify the web login account. With this account, you can login to the IP Camera and do any modifications. The default account is “admin” without password. If the login account is forgotten, you can reset the IP Camera to the factory default settings by following the steps in section 3.15 and login with the “admin” account. Please be noticed that this account is different from the video play password in the “Video settings” page.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.14. Upgrade If there is some new firmware available from the supplier of this IP Camera, you can upgrade the firmware on this page. Please ask for the correct information about FTP server, username/password account and firmware filename from your supplier, and then do this upgrade. A status message about the percentage done in the upgrade procedure is displayed.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Figure 3-20: Firmware upgrade status page 37
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.15. Reboot You can restart the IP Camera manually on this page. All the connected video viewing users will be disconnected.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.16. Safe Mode If by some abnormal operation, for example, powered off during the critical point of the upgrade procedure, the IP Camera will enter into the safe mode. In this mode, you will see the following “Safe mode” page when login into this IP Camera. Please do the upgrade operation immediately to recover the system. On this safe mode, the IP Camera can not display the video on the CamView software, but you can still find this IP Camera on the “Auto search” list.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 3.17. Set to factory default For some reason, for example you forgot the web login password, you may want to set the IP Camera to the factory default settings. The only thing you need to do is using a stick to press the “reset” button on the back of the IP Camera body for more than 4 seconds and release it, do this when the IP Camera is powered on. The IP Camera will reset to the factory default settings and restart automatically.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 4. Features and specifications 4.1. Features ¾ Easily access the camera from anywhere in the world via the ID/password ¾ No complicated NAT/router settings needed. ¾ Free video management software - CamView program accompanied for easy access and multi-camera management. ¾ 3GPP/ISMA support for 3G mobile access. ¾ Dual video streaming with separate frame rate/resolution/bandwidth settings for PC and mobile.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera 4.2. Specifications Models IP Camera Power DC 5V, 1A Processors RISC CPU, hardware video processing and compression. Network interface Ethernet 10BaseT/100BaseTX, Auto-MDIX, RJ-45 Wireless interface IEEE 802.11g 6 - 54 Mbps (for Cam(w) only) IEEE 802.11b 1 - 11 Mbps Transmit power: 14.5dBm typically @ 802.11g 17.5dBm typically @ 802.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Audio Built-in microphone for audio monitoring Audio compression: MPEG2 audio, AMR-NB for 3GPP/ISMA Security Web management username/password protection Video display ID/password protection WiFi WEP and WPA security mode Installation, Installation tool on CD and Web-based configuration management and Automatic configuration backup and restore maintenance Video management software-CamView for video access and multi-camera management Firmware upgrades via FTP Minimum
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MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Appendix A. List of Tested NAT/router Devices The followings are the list of tested NAT/router devices that can work with the IP Camera and CamView software when viewing in a remote location. You do not need to do any modification on the default settings of the NAT/routers. In some office environment, if some strict firewall function is enabled, it’s possible that you can not view the IP Camera video through the firewall router.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Appendix B. Maximum Allowed Video Users The maximum allowed video users for a single IP Camera at the same time is dependent on the video settings including “Internet speed” and resolution. The followings are the summary of the maximum allowed video users: Notice : when the IP camera is doing NAS recording, this is counted as one video user. ; 1. When audio is disabled. For video resolution of 160x120 pixels Frame rate\bandwidth 64k ~ 512k 1M ~ 1.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Appendix C. Performance Information 1. Video Performance Information The video quality is dependent on the video parameter settings and the network quality. If you want to have a better video quality, you will usually set higher resolution and higher frame rate. This is fine when you are viewing the video locally in the same network.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Appendix D. Trouble shooting 1. What’s going on when the red led light on the IP camera is flashing? A: When the IP Cam is connected to the Internet and working correctly, the red led light will be on constantly. If the red led light is flashing, it’s probably because there is some network connecting problem. Please check the network connection again and follow the instructions on the user manual to set it up again. 2.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera A: It’s probably because the internet bandwidth (internet speed) is not big enough. Please try to apply for a better internet connection from your Internet Service Provider or decrease the bandwidth settings of the IP Cam. You can adjust the bandwidth requirement of the IP Cam either from the CamView software or login into the web configuration page of the IP Cam to do the modification. 9.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Appendix E. 3GPP/ISMA operation 3GPP/ISMA is using RTSP protocol for 3G mobile phone to display the video stream from some network devices, including IP camera. The IP Camera support the RTSP protocol and video/audio codec needed by 3GPP/ISMA. Users only need to access the address rtsp://ip_cam_address/CAM_ID.password on the 3G mobile phone to access the video of the IP camera. No other extra configuration is needed on the IP camera.
MPEG-4 wired/wireless IP Camera Appendix F. Third party and embedded web page integration For third party and embedded web page integration, IP Camera support the standard RTSP protocol and video/audio codecs needed by most generally used video play software, including Apple QuickTime and VideoLAN. The supported media protocols including TCP and UDP. IP Camera will automatically use TCP or UDP media stream depends on the connection request.
