TL-SC4171G Wireless Pan/Tilt Surveillance Camera Rev: 1.0.
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FCC STATEMENT This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to pro-vide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not in-stalled and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
CONTENTS Package Contents.........................................................................................................................1 Chapter 1 Safety Instruction.....................................................................................................2 Chapter 2 Minimum System Requirement & Product Feature...............................................3 2.1 2.2 System Requirement...................................................................................................
7.2.1 General ................................................................................................................31 7.2.2 MPEG-4 ...............................................................................................................33 7.2.3 MJPEG.................................................................................................................35 7.3 Network .....................................................................................................................
Package Contents The following items should be found in your package: ¾ TL-SC4171G Wireless Pan/Tilt Surveillance Camera ¾ Power Adapter ¾ Camera Mount Kit & Pads ¾ Ethernet Cable ¾ Quick Installation Guide ¾ Resource CD, including: z This User Guide z Application Guide z Other helpful information ) Note: Make sure that the package contains the above items. If any of the listed items are damaged or missing, please contact your distributor.
Chapter 1 ¾ Safety Instruction Before you use this product This product has been designed with safety in mind. However, the electrical products can cause fires which may lead to serious body injury if not used properly. To avoid such accidents, be sure to heed the following. ¾ Legal Caution Video and audio surveillance can be forbidden by laws that vary from country to country. Check the laws in your local region before using this product for surveillance purposes.
Chapter 2 Minimum System Requirement & Product Feature 2.1 System Requirement We strongly recommend your computers follow our minimum requirements in order to use this IP-Camera normally. If computer level is lower than this, it might cause some problems.
Shutter Time 1/7.5 ~ 1/120 sec. Image snapshot Yes Video Recording Yes Full Screen Viewing Yes Digital Zoom 10x digital Two-way (full/half duplex) with built-in microphone Audio Audio compression: G.711 PCM, 8kHz, 64kbit/s Instant Messenger Support MSN Live View Mobile Phone Live View Through 2.
2.3 .3 Physical Overview 2.3.1 Front view Focus Adjustment Ring Built-in Microphone Power LED Ethernet LED Focus Adjustment Ring: Adjust the focus to get a clear image. Built-in Microphone: Built-in microphone for two-way audio. Power LED: Power LED will light up after completing the boot process. Ethernet LED: Ethernet LED will light up after successfully connecting to the Ethernet.
2.3.2 Rear view Audio Out Antenna Connector Network Connector Power Connector General I/O Terminal Block Reset Button Audio In Power Connector: For connection of 12V DC input. Reset Button: To reset the IP camera, please carry out the following steps. z Make sure the camera is powered on for at least 30 seconds to complete its normal startup. z Keep the camera powered on, then press and hold the Reset button for more than 10 seconds.
Chapter 3 Using IP Camera via Web Browser 3.1 Obtain the IP Address 1. Insert the provided CD into your CD-ROM driver. The Setup Wizard will automatically pop up on your computer’s screen as shown in the figure below. 2. Choose the Intelligent IP Installer, and then the next screen appears. Click on Intelligent IP Installer to begin the installation. 3.
4. The following screen will then display. Click the Search button to search Network Cameras in the network; it displays Network Cameras information including IP Address. 3.2 Windows Web Browser 1. Click Link to IE button or launch your web browser, and enter the IP address (obtain from the figure above) of the IP camera in the Location / Address field of your browser.
) Note: 2. 1) For the first time login with IE, you will need to enable “Download signed ActiveX controls”. Please go to ToolėInternet Options…ėSecurityėCustom Level… and find Download signed ActiveX controls to prompt it. For detailed information, please refer to the Quick Installation Guide. 2) If you only want to view the video without setting page, enter “http:///index2.htm” as your web URL. For example, you can enter “http://192.168.1.100/index2.
3.3 Mac Web Browser 1. Click the Safari icon, and enter the IP address of the IP camera in the Location / Address field of your browser. ) Note: If you only want to view the video without setting page, enter “http:///index2.htm” as your web URL.
2. Enter the default User name “admin” and password “admin” in the dialog box as shown below. ) Note: The default user name “admin” and the password are set at the factory for the administrator.
3. The monitor image will be displayed in your browser. In the far left side of main configuration are Setting, Client Setting, Image Setup and PT/PTZ control. For more details, you can check Section 6.2, Section 6.3, Section 6.4 and Section 6.5.
Chapter 4 Using IP Camera via Mobile Phone 4.1 Mobile Phone Viewing To use IP cameras via mobile phones, please make sure your RTSP is set to “On” (Default is “On”). To change the settings of IP cameras, Please check “Settings Basic Camera General.” 4.1.1 3G Mobile Phone Streaming Viewing For 3G mobile phone viewing, type “rtsp://:/video.3gp ” into your 3G Streaming Link. is the Public IP address of your IP camera (to obtain the IP Address, please refer to Section 3.
3. Type name and password. Default value is admin / admin. Then click Login In. 4. The TP-LINK User Interface and live image will show up in the middle of screen. ) Note: It will show continuous snapshots, not a real time video streaming. Therefore, the recording feature is disabled.
Chapter 5 MSN Messenger (Supports up to Windows Live Messenger version 8089) Please follow the steps below to set up the Messenger function. 1. Application of a new MSN account: You can download MSN software freely and create a new MSN account (e.g. camera at home@msn.com) to use Microsoft Live Messenger. 2. Login Account and Password: Go to Setting Basic Network Messenger, set the Messenger to “On”. Then, enter the new account (camera at home@msn.com) and password to login. Note: This account (e.g.
5. Log in Working Account: Use your working account to login in the Messenger software. And add the camera’s MSN account (camera at home@msn.com) as a contact. 6. Check its status. Normally it should be online.
7. The Camera at home will show up with its Public IP and Private IP after sending a message of “Ping” in the lower key (if the option of IP Notification is “On”). 8. Click the camera icon and select View a contact’s webcam to view the video.
9. The IP Camera will accept your invitation; the live video will show up in the right screen after few seconds.
10. Click Action button and choose Start Control Panel to use control panel. 11. The dialog box will show up with “This application is not part if Window Live Message…” Tick the box of “Don’t show me this again” and click OK.
12. The IP Camera will accept your invitation to start Control Panel. 13. You can click Camera icon to snapshot then the picture will send to you immediately.
14. You can click paint palette icon showing up with tool bar to set up image. Then, you can use the tool bar to optimize video Brightness , Contrast After the adjustment of all setting, you can still click original setting. , Saturation and Hue to make the setting back to the Image Setup 21 .
Chapter 6 Configuration of Main Menu In the far left side of main configuration are Setting, Client Setting, Image Setup and PT/PTZ control. Please see the content behind for more details. In the right hand side of the below picture, you can see the Live View screen of web user interface. There are some functions, such as Snapshot, Zoom and Audio and Video Play. Fullscreen Snapshot Zoom in/out Video Play buttons Audio buttons 6.1 Live View 6.1.
6.1.2 Zoom in / out the image via the monitor window z Click z Pull the showed on the above window. z You can use the left click of your mouse to move the to display the digital zoom in window. to adjust the digital zoom range and it will be to any where on the window. 6.1.
Speakers turned off mean you can broadcast to connected IP camera(s) via Ethernet using your microphone Microphone turned on the the Microphone turned off Volume control bar 6.2 Setting This function is only for the Administrator. Click SETTING to get into the Basic and Advanced Setting menu. The former includes for sub-folders, such as System, Camera, Network, and Security.
Click Client Setting to control Mode, View Size, Protocol, and Video Buffer. 6.3.1 Mode Click the pull-down box to choose between MPEG-4 MJPEG, and JPEG video compression mode. MJPEG streaming is unavailable if RTSP mode is “On.” (Please check Setting Basic Camera General.) 6.3.2 View Size Select the desired display image size to 640X480 or 320X240. 6.3.3 Protocol Select the transferring protocol from TCP, UDP, HTTP and Multicast. 6.3.4 Video Buffer Turn the Video Buffer function On/Off.
6.4.5 Default After the adjustment of all setting, you can still click Default to make the setting back to the original setting. 6.5 PT/PTZ Control 6.5.1 Pan / Tilt / Home control buttons If you want the IP camera to move, please click the arrow button of the corresponding direction. When you click button, the camera will return to “home position”—a preset position which can be set by yourself. For more detailed information, please refer to Section 8.2. 6.5.
) Note: Before you start this function, you need to specify Guard tour setting in Setting Advance Patrol. For more detailed information about Patrol functions, please refer to Section 8.3.
Chapter 7 Setting-Basic Click the folder of Basic to display the sub folders including System, Camera, Network, and Security. 7.1 System Click the folder of System to display the sub-folders including Information, Date/Time, and Initialize. 7.1.1 Information The Information page provides the product factory information which includes Product Name, Firmware Version and Web Version.
7.1.2 Date/Time The Date/ Time page displays all options of time setting. ¾ Current date / time: This displays the current date and time of this IP Camera. ¾ PC clock: This displays the date and time of the monitoring PC clock. ¾ Date / Time format: You can click the pull down box to select different time display formats. ¾ Adjust: You can select one of those four adjusting modes for your IP Camera. z Keep current setting: Select this mode to keep the current date and time of this IP Camera.
7.1.3 Initialize ¾ Reboot: Click this button to reboot. A confirmation dialogue will appear and then click “OK” to process. It takes two minutes to reboot this IP Camera. ¾ Factory Default: Click this button to reset this IP Camera to the factory default setting. A confirmation dialogue will appear and then click “OK” to process. Don't turn off this IP Camera until the device reboots. ¾ Backup Setting data: You can save the setting data of this IP Camera into a file.
7.2 Camera Click the folder of Camera to display the sub folders including General, MPEG4 and MJPEG. 7.2.1 General ¾ RTSP: Switch RTSP “On” or “Off.” When the RTSP mode is “On”, MJPEG streaming is unavailable. z RTSP Port: Specify the transmission port number of RTSP streaming. The default value is 554. z Port Range: Specify the transmission port range of RTP streaming video. RTP will select a port randomly from this range.
¾ Image Rotate: Select the screen display “flip”, “mirror”, or “flip + mirror.” ¾ Audio Codec: If this option is selected “On”, the microphone will start sound reception. ¾ Exposure mode: You can choose 50Hz, 60Hz or Auto. If you choose Auto option, the camera will adjust automatically to perform well. ¾ White Balance: You can choose the white balance to Auto, Florescent, Incandescent and Black & White. ¾ IR: You can turn IR light On/Off or Auto.
z Privacy Mask: You can cover a specific area of the video image with the black bar. The black bar can be moved. 7.2.2 MPEG-4 A. Computer View If RTSP is On (please check “Setting Basic Camera General”), the option of Viewer Authentication and Multicast Streaming will appear.
¾ Viewer Authentication: If the viewer authentication is On, the users will be requested to key in username and password when viewing through RTSP. ¾ Multicast Streaming (If it’s on): z Multicast Address: Specify the multicast server address. z Video / Audio Port: Specify the transmission port number of the video data. Specify an even number from 1024 to 65535. z Time-to-Live: Set the maximum TTL that multicast can pass through. Specify the value from 1 to 255.
) Note: If RTSP is off, Mobile View will be disabled. ¾ Viewer Authentication: If the viewer authentication is On, the users will be requested to key-in username and password when viewing through RTSP. ¾ Multicast Streaming (If it’s on): z Multicast Address: Specify the multicast server address. z Video / Audio Port: Specify the transmission port number of the video data. Specify an even number from 1024 to 65535. z Time-To-Live: Set the maximum TTL that multicast can pass through.
