Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................5 2. HARDWARE DESCRIPTION AND QUICK INSTALLATION/USAGE ...............................7 3. 4. 5. 2.1. M AJOR HARDWARE COMPONENTS. .....................................................................................7 2.2. QUICK INSTALLATION AND USAGE ..............................................
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera List of Figures and Tables Figure 2-1: Major components in the front panel Figure 2-2: Major components in the back panel Figure 2-3: IP CAM connection diagram. Figure 2-4: Connect Ethernet cable to a switch/router.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera Figure 5-3: Bracket Figure 5-4: Antenna Figure 5-5: Quick installation guide Figure 5-6: Ethernet cable Figure 5-7: Installation CD Figure 5-8: ID/Password Card Table A-1: List of tested Wireless AP/router devices Table A-2: List of tested Wired NAT/router devices 4
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 1. Introduction The Day & Night IP Network Camera is designed with ease-of-use firmly in mind. The camera can be easily added to a local area network, where it can be accessed within the LAN or anywhere with internet and/or phone access using the included CamView software. There is no need for complicated DNS names, firewall settings, or anything else. Just plug it in and it works.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera The differences It is easy to monitor the video produced by the IP Camera from anywhere in the world using the included CamView software. You do not need to remember or configure complicated network settings, such as the IP address or domain name, DDNS name, port mapping, firewall, etc. of the NAT/router devices. All you need is to have the Camera ID and Password, plus the CamView software installed on a PC or mobile device.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 2. Hardware Description and Quick Installation/Usage The IP CAM is designed to be very easy to install and use. First, let's look at the major components of the IP CAM. 2.1. Major Hardware Components The major components on the front panel of the IP CAM products are the built-in microphone, lens, IR LEDs, and status LEDs: 1. Microphone – for receiving audio/voice. Effective distance is about 16 feet (5 meters). 2.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera ceiling. 2. Power jack – this DC connector is where the external power adapter attaches to the IP CAM. The IP CAM requires a power level of 5 VDC/1.0A. Do not use any power source other than the supplied power adapter or an exact equivalent. 3. Ethernet jack – this standard RJ-45 jack is for making a wired Ethernet connection.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera network switch or router, as shown in Figure 2-4. By default the IP CAM is configured to use the DHCP function and most home/office networks include a DHCP server. Therefore the IP CAM should connect to the internet immediately. The Internet status LED will be constant red when the IP CAM is properly connected to the Internet. If the LED is blinking, please refer to section 3.3-3.5 to try other network settings. Figure 2-3: IP CAM connection diagram.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera computer running Microsoft Windows OS. Run the CamViewInstaller-xxx.exe installation program on the disk. The program will pop-up some windows asking about various installation options. Click the "next” button to proceed with the installation. After installation is complete, there will be a CamView icon on the desktop of your computer, double-click this icon to run the CamView software.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera Notes: 1. You can modify the password using the web configuration pages. Please refer to section 3.14 for more information. 2. You can also add the IP CAM into the CameraList in the CamView software for a more convenient video display. Please refer to the user manual of the CamView software for more information.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera Viewing video in a remote location After the IP CAM has been installed and you can see the video from the CamView software in the local network, it is very easy to see the video from a remote location. All you need to do is add a camera item in the "CameraList” folder of the CamView software, then key in the IP CAM ID and Password (from the ID/Password card). Double-click the camera item to immediately begin viewing video from the IP CAM.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera cable unplugged condition and start the WiFi connection. After the WiFi is connected, the IP CAM will connect to the Internet immediately. Notes: 1. Remember that the WiFi connection will use a different IP address, therefore you will need to do the "Auto Search” function in the CamView software again to find the IP CAM after the WiFi has connected. 2.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3. Web Configuration You can login to the web configuration page by typing the IP address of the IP CAM into a web browser. Alternatively, you can right-click the searched IP CAM in the "Auto Search” list of the CamView software and select the "Web Configure” option to open the login window of the IP CAM. Figure 3-1: Open the web configuration page from CamView software The default login User name is "admin”. Leave the Password field empty.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.1. Information The first page in the web configuration menu of the IP CAM is the information page. You can see the model name/firmware version, IP CAM ID, registration status, network type, and current video settings (bandwidth and resolution) on this page (see Figure 3-3). The IP CAM can be viewed remotely by the CamView software only when the IP CAM is registered.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.2. Video Display This display page allows you to view the video display of the IP camera, as shown in Figure 3-4. For the first time use of this display on a computer, an Active-X component will be automatically downloaded into the browser. This could take some time, depending on the internet speed. The component is downloaded from a public domain, so the computer must be connected to the Internet.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.3. Network The Network page allows you to modify the network settings of the wired Ethernet connection. The default settings use DHCP to obtain an IP address automatically. In most home and office network environments, there is a DHCP server running. In this situation, by using these default settings, the IP CAM can work immediately. If the Ethernet cable is unplugged, the IP CAM will lose connection.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera Figure 3-6: Network settings page for fixed IP address 18
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.4. WiFi Security (for IP cam(w) only) You can connect the IP CAM to the network wirelessly, provided you have a wireless router or AP. Simply click the "Enable WiFi function” button to enable the wireless functionality. Figure 3-7: WiFi security disabled page In order to use the wireless network, you need to fill in the following fields: 1. SSID – this is the ID of the wireless router or AP in your wireless network environment. 2.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera All the fields on this page must be filled in correctly with the same settings used by the wireless router or AP. Figure 3-8: WiFi security enabled page You can also click the "WiFi test” button to check if the IP CAM can connect to the wireless network using these settings. After a successful "WiFi test" unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the wireless connection. You can click the "WiFi scan” button to scan for all the available access points nearby.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera Figure 3-9: WiFi testing page 21
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.5. Advanced Network In some special situations your network environment only provides a PPPoE connection (ADSL service), with no NAT/router available. You will then need to set the PPPoE settings on the "Advanced Network” page. Only the PPPoE username and password are needed to let PPPoE work. After the "Save & Apply” button is clicked the PPPoE function will work immediately.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.6. Video Settings The IP CAM is designed to provide high quality video for viewing with the CamView software. On this page, you can modify some of the settings related to video viewing: 1. Password (play video) – this is the password needed for viewing the video from the CamView software. Together with the IP CAM ID, you can view the video of this IP CAM anywhere in the world through the Internet. 2.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera camera is taking indoor video. In this situation, changing the setting to "Indoor video” will solve the problem. If using the camera outdoors with the indoor setting selected, the resulting video is very blurry and vague. For indoor use, if there is strong sun light into the room, please select the "Indoor+sun light” option. 13. Enable/disable audio microphone – you can enable or disable the audio microphone on the IP CAM.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.7. 3GPP/RTSP Settings The IP CAM can be viewed from any mobile device running iOS or the Android operating systems with minimum 3G connectivity (bandwidth directly affects received video quality). For detailed settings on using mobile devices, refer to Appendix E. You can enable or disable the ability of mobile devices to access the IP CAM on this page.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.8. Night Mode Control The IP Cam can function in both daylight and the dark of night. The infrared LEDs on the IP CAM can provide IR illumination for objects up to 10 meters distant. This night mode control page is used to control when the IR LEDs will be on. There are three ways to control the night mode (IR LEDs): 1.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.9. Email/FTP Alarm The IP CAM has a built-in Email/ftp functionality, which can automatically send an email with a jpg image or push a jpg image to an ftp site whenever an alarm is triggered. The related settings are explained below: 1. Email/FTP trigger – choose between "motion”, "schedule”, and "disable” A.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 10. FTP username/password – this is the username/password to login into the FTP server. 11. Remote folder – the jpeg file will be put under this folder on the FTP server. When modifications are complete click the "Save & Apply” button. The changes will immediately take effect, but any connected video viewing users will be disconnected. The default setting is "Disable”.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.10. NAS Settings The IP Camera has the ability to record video files to any standard NAS (Network Access Storage) device. The IP camera connects to the NAS device using the standard LMX_NS/CIFS/SSN protocols, which are the same as the Microsoft Windows network neighborhood protocols. This ability turns a standard NAS into a NVR (Network Video Recorder) device. Note: when the IP camera is performing NAS recording it counts are one video user.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 9. Access NAS files – on the Microsoft Windows platform, click this to button access the files on the NAS devices. In the Microsoft Windows environment, you can access the NAS device by entering the URL address \\”NAS name”\”shared folder name” or \\”NAS IP address”\”shared folder name” into the Windows Internet Explorer address bar, followed by the "NAS access account” and "NAS access password” into the pop-up login window.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.11. Scheduling The IP Camera includes the ability to schedule the activation of motion detection triggered email/ftp alerts and/or NAS recording, using the individual parameters set in the "Email/ftp alarm settings" and the "NAS settings” pages. A total of 12 periods and events can be scheduled. However, there is no automatic event conflict checking, so if scheduled periods overlap, the IP CAM will perform all scheduled functions.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera Figure 3-16: Schedule management page 32
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.12. LED Display Control The IP CAM provides an LED Display Control function, with which you can enable or disable the LED indicators on the front panel of the IP CAM. The related settings are explained below: 1. Normal LED display – select this option to enable the Status and Ethernet LED displays. 2. Turn off LED display always – select this option to disable the Status and Ethernet LED displays at all times. 3.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.13. Date/Time The IP CAM can synchronize its internal clock with the universally available time server (for example stdtime.gov.tw) through NTP protocol. The date/time will then always be accurate as long as the IP CAM is connected to the Internet. You can choose your local TimeZone so that the time will display correctly. For some TimeZone areas, the "Daylight Saving Time” option can be enabled or disabled.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.14. Admin The Admin page controls access to the IP CAM through the web interface. Here you can modify the account username and password, which are required to access the web interface. If you forget your login information, you can reset the IP CAM to the factory default values, but will lose all your other settings. Refer to section 3.18 for instructions on performing a reset to factory defaults.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.15. Upgrade In the event that a newer firmware update is available for this IP CAM, use this page to load and apply the update. You can upgrade either from an FTP address or using a file downloaded to a local drive. If updating from an FTP server, you will need to know the server address, account username/password, and the filename of the firmware upgrade. During an FTP update the system will display update progress.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera Figure 3-21: Firmware upgrade status page 37
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.16. Reboot You can manually restart the IP CAM from this page. All connected video viewing users will be disconnected.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.17. Safe Mode If a critical error occurs, such as damaging the firmware by interrupting the update process, the IP CAM will reboot into "Safe Mode". In this mode you will see the "Safe mode” page (Figure 3-24) when you login to this IP CAM. If the IP CAM enters Safe Mode, you should perform a firmware update operation immediately to recover the system.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 3.18. Set To Factory Default If you forget your password or want to erase all information from the IP CAM, you can reset all the settings back to where they were when the IP CAM left the factory. To do this, simply press and hold the reset button on the back of the IP CAM for at least 4 seconds, then release it. This should be done while the IP CAM is powered on. The IP CAM's settings will be reset to factory defaults and it will automatically reboot.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 4. Features and Specifications 4.1.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 4.2. Specifications Models IP Camera Power DC 5V, 1A Processors RISC CPU, hardware video processing and compression. Network interface Ethernet 10BaseT/100BaseTX, Auto-MDIX, RJ-45 Wireless interface IEEE 802.11g 6 - 54 Mbps IEEE 802.11b 1 - 11 Mbps Transmit power: 14.5dBm typically @ 802.11g 17.5dBm typically @ 802.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera bps Frame rate: 1~5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 fps 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 a
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 5.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera Appendix A. List of Tested NAT/Router Devices The following tables list the tested NAT/router devices that are known to work with the IP CAM and the CamView software, when viewing in a remote location. You do not need to do any modifications to the default settings of these NAT/routers. In some office environments, if some a strict firewall function is enabled, it is possible that you cannot view the IP CAM video through the firewall router.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera Appendix B. Maximum Allowed Video Users The maximum number of allowed simultaneous video users for a single IP Camera is dependent on the video settings, including the "Internet speed” and video resolution. The following tables are a summary of the maximum allowed video users with the various options enabled or disabled: Note: when the IP camera is performing NAS recording, it is counted as one video user. 1. When audio is disabled.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 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 want to set a higher resolution and a higher frame rate.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera Appendix D. Troubleshooting 1. What does the flashing red LED on the front of the IP camera indicate? 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 is probably due to some network connecting problem. Please check the network connection settings and make any necessary changes. 2.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera 7. What should I do if I cannot hear the audio from the IP Cam? A: There is a microphone inside the IP Cam. If you can see the video from the accompanied CamView software, but cannot hear the audio, check the following: (1). Check that the speakers on your computer are powered on and have a sufficient volume level by playing some other audio file. (2). Check if the microphone on the IP Cam is enabled.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera Appendix E. 3GPP/ISMA Operation 3GPP/ISMA operation uses the RTSP protocol for 3G mobile devices to display the video stream from some network devices, including the IP camera. The IC202w supports the RTSP protocol and the video/audio codecs needed by 3GPP/ISMA. You only need to access the address rtsp://ip_cam_address/CAM_ID.password on the 3G mobile device to access the video of the IP camera. No additional configuration is required on the IP camera.
Plug & Play Wireless Day and Night NetworkCamera Appendix F. Third Party and Embedded Web Page Integration For third party and embedded web page integration, the IP Camera supports the standard RTSP protocol and video/audio codecs needed by most popular video playback software, including Apple QuickTime and VideoLAN. The supported media protocols include TCP and UDP. The IP Camera will automatically use TCP or UDP media streaming, depending on the connection request.
