Digisol DG-SC7100P-10 User Manual

DG-SC7100P-10

Day/Night SPEED DOME POE IP Camera with

IR CUT FILTER and 10x OPTICAL ZOOM

User Manual

V1.0

2012-06-22

As our products undergo continuous development the specifications are subject to change without prior notice

DG-SC7100P-10 User Manual

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2011 by this company. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of this company

This company makes no representations or warranties, either expressed or implied, with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any warranties, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Any software described in this manual is sold or licensed "as is". Should the programs prove defective following their purchase, the buyer (and not this company, its distributor, or its dealer) assumes the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair, and any incidental or consequential damages resulting from any defect in the software. Further, this company reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the contents thereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes.

Trademarks:

DIGISOL™ is a trademark of Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of the respective manufacturers.

Safety

This equipment is designed with the utmost care for the safety of those who install and use it. However, special attention must be paid to the dangers of electric shock and static electricity when working with electrical equipment. All guidelines of this and of the computer manufacturer must therefore be allowed at all times to ensure the safe use of the equipment.

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Federal Communication Commission

Interference Statement

FCC Part 15

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 limitations are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

• Connect the equipment into a different outlet from that to which the receiver is

connected.

• Consult your local distributors or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

• Shielded interface cables must be used in order to comply with emission limits

Changes or modifications to the equipment, which are not approved by the party responsible for compliance could affect the user's authority to operate the equipment.

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FCC Caution


This equipment must be installed and operated in accordance with provided instructions and a minimum 20 cm spacing must be provided between computer mounted antenna and person’s body (excluding extremities of hands, wrist and feet) during wireless modes of operation.

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the authority to operate equipment.

Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Radiation

Exposure Statement

This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure set forth for an uncontrolled

environment. In order to avoid the possibility of exceeding the FCC radio frequency exposure limits, human proximity to the antenna shall not be less than 20cm (8 inches) during normal operation.

The antenna(s) used for this transmitter must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter.

The equipment version marketed in US is restricted to usage of the channels 1-11 only.

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INDEX

1. Product Information ............................................................................................................... 8

1-1 Product Introduction .................................................................................................... 8

1-1 Safety Instructions ....................................................................................................... 9

1-2 System Requirements .............................................................................................. 10

1-3 Package Contents ..................................................................................................... 11

1-4 Get Familiar with your new Network Dome Camera ........................................... 12

1-5 Installation of the Network IP Camera .................................................................... 14

1-6 Ceiling-mount / Wall-mount Installation ................................................................. 19

2. Using Network Dome Camera by Web Interface ........................................................... 23

2-1 Locate the IP address of Network IP Camera ....................................................... 23

2-2 Connect to dome camera’s Web User Interface ................................................... 25

2-3 Viewing Live Video ..................................................................................................... 30

2-4 Client Settings ............................................................................................................ 34

3. Advanced Configuration ..................................................................................................... 36

3-1 System ......................................................................................................................... 38

3-2 Security ........................................................................................................................ 40

3-3 Network ....................................................................................................................... 42

3 ‐ 3 ‐ 1 General setup page ................................................................................................... 42

3 ‐ 3 ‐ 2 Advanced setup page ................................................................................................ 45

3-4 IP Filter ........................................................................................................................ 47

3-5 Video ............................................................................................................................ 49

3 ‐ 5 ‐ 1 Image Setting ............................................................................................................ 50

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3 ‐ 5 ‐ 2 Video Setting............................................................................................................. 51

3 ‐ 5 ‐ 3 Overlay Setting .......................................................................................................... 54

3-6 Audio ............................................................................................................................ 56

3-7 Motion .......................................................................................................................... 57

3-8 PTZ Control ................................................................................................................. 59

3-9 Event ............................................................................................................................ 61

3 ‐ 9 ‐ 1 Settings...................................................................................................................... 62

3 ‐ 9 ‐ 2 Media ........................................................................................................................ 64

3 ‐ 9 ‐ 3 Event Server .............................................................................................................. 65

3-10 Recording to SD Card ............................................................................................. 70

3-11 Log ............................................................................................................................. 71

3-12 Device Info ................................................................................................................ 72

3-13 Maintenance ............................................................................................................. 73

3-14 Language .................................................................................................................. 74

4. Using SKYROS iView software ......................................................................................... 75

4-1 Installing SKYROS iView Software ......................................................................... 75

5 Getting familiar with SKYROS iView Software ................................................................. 83

5-1 Configure SKYROS iView ........................................................................................ 89

5 ‐ 1 ‐ 1 Device........................................................................................................................ 90

5 ‐ 1 ‐ 2 Recording .................................................................................................................. 93

5 ‐ 1 ‐ 3 System ....................................................................................................................... 96

5 ‐ 1 ‐ 4 Schedule.................................................................................................................... 99

5 ‐ 1 ‐ 5 Event........................................................................................................................ 102

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5 ‐ 1 ‐ 6 Security ................................................................................................................... 104

5-2 Video Playback ......................................................................................................... 106

5 ‐ 2 ‐ 1 Start Video Playback ............................................................................................... 106

5 ‐ 2 ‐ 2 Advanced Search ..................................................................................................... 108

5 ‐ 2 ‐ 3 Event Search............................................................................................................ 112

5 ‐ 2 ‐ 4 Video Playback........................................................................................................ 116

6. Appendix ............................................................................................................................ 119

6-1 Specification ............................................................................................................. 119

6-2 Troubleshooting ........................................................................................................ 120

6-3 Glossary .................................................................................................................... 121

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1. Product Information

1-1 Product Introduction

DG-SC7100P-10 is a Speed Dome IP camera with 10x Optical Zoom. The speed dome camera is designed in such a way making it an ideal solution for drop-ceiling mounting for indoor applications. With its 360 degree continuous Pan and 180 degree Tilt, the camera can monitor a larger area. The 10x optical zoom gives a detailed view of the area under surveillance. With the latest H.264 compression standard, users can stream high quality video at low bandwidth and storage capacity requirements. The IR cut filter offers a true image quality during day/night operations. This IP camera has one

Digital input for receiving triggers from external device for notifying about an activity in the area covered by the camera. It can also send a Digital output to an external device, if the IP camera detects an activity.

DG-SC7100P-10 supports PoE, which helps in easy installation by eliminating the need

of a dedicated power source for the camera.

Other features of this Network IP Camera include:



360

°

Pan-tilt control, there is no dead spot that this dome camera can’t see.



Powerful 10x optical zoom.



Video output port - supports video output to other video devices or DVR. Video

output supports both NTSC / PAL video standard.



DI/DO (Digital input / Digital output) interface, you can connect to external

devices for remote control and automation.



Audio in-out interface provides audio communication capability.



No pre-installed software is required to view video and do the configuration, all

you need is network connection and a web browser.



3GPP Mobile Surveillance Supported.



ONVIF Compliant.



Supports IEEE802.3af power over Ethernet standard.

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1-1 Safety Instructions


In order to keep the safety of users and your properties, please follow the safety instructions as mentioned below. The warranty will become void if you disobey these safety instructions.

1.

This Network Dome Camera is a sophisticated electronic device; DO NOT drop it from a height.

2.

DO NOT place this dome camera at hot / humid places, and avoid direct sunlight.

3.

Accessories of this IP Camera like power supply are dangerous to small children.

KEEP THIS IP CAMERA OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN.

4.

If you want to use this dome camera at places that may be spilled by water or dirt, a secure and water-proof camera housing is required.

5.

DO NOT pull any cord that is connected to this dome camera by force.

6.

This camera will get heated up after being used for a long time. Refrain from touching the dome camera with hand, or cover this dome camera with paper or cloth.

7.

Never connect powered cable to the dome camera’s DI/ DO contacts.

8.

If the dome camera falls into water when powered, DO NOT attempt to retrieve it back yourself. Find a qualified electrical technician for help.

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1-2 System Requirements



Windows XP, Vista or Win 7 operating system (both 32 or 64 bits version)



2GB of system memory



1GB of Display card memory



20GB of available hard disk space on system drive

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1-3 Package Contents


Before you start using this IP camera, please check if there’s anything missing in the package, and contact your dealer of purchase to claim for missing items:

1. DG-SC7100P-10 Speed Dome POE IP Camera (1 No.)

2. Switching Power Adapter (12V DC, 2A)

3. Installation Guide CD (includes User Manual, QIG, Utility & Firmware)

4. Ceiling Mounting bracket A (1 No.)

5. Ceiling Mounting bracket B (1 No.)

6. Ceiling Mounting bracket C (1 No.)

7. I/O signal cable (1 No.)

8. Screws package (1 No.)

Mounting bracket A Mounting bracket B Mounting bracket C

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1-4 Get Familiar with your new Network Dome Camera

Rear View:

Sr. No. Item

1 Ethernet

Description

Connect to your local area network by Ethernet cable.

Left LED: Power Indicator

2 I/O

Right LED: LAN connectivity

Digital input / output dry contacts. Connects to external peripherals by wire. See next page for pin definitions.

WARNING: DO NOT CONNECT POWERED

CABLE.

Connect to other video peripherals by RCA cable.

4 Audio Connect to audio peripherals by 3.5” audio cable.

5 DC 12V Connects to 12VDC power adapter output.

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DI/DO

PIN

ASSIGNMENT

Item

1. Relay

2. Relay

3. DI

4. GND

Description

Digital Output ground

Digital Output1

Digital Input 1

Signal ground

5. RS-485+ RS-485 signal positive(+)

6. RS-485- RS-485 signal negative(-)

SD card slot

Note: The SD card slot is available in the IP camera. Open the top portion of the camera as shown in the figure above. The slot as highlighted in the figure will be visible.

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1-5 Installation of the Network IP Camera

Please follow the below mentioned instructions to setup your new dome camera. To mount the IP camera on the wall or ceiling, please refer to next section.

Please note: You may wish to fix the camera to the ceiling or wall before you connect

these cables.

1.

Insert Ethernet cable to ‘Ethernet’ port located at the back of dome camera. The

other end of Ethernet cable should connect to your local area network.

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2.

Connect IO signal cable to IO port located at the back of dome camera.

You can skip this step if you don’t have external I/O devices to connect.

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3.

Use a RCA cable (not supplied in accessory kit) to connect ‘Video Out’ port, and connect the other end of RCA cable to peripherals which support video input, like

DVR, VTR, or television.

You can skip this step if you don’t need to connect other video peripherals.

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4.

Connect audio cable to “Audio in-out” port located at the back of dome camera, and connect the other end of audio cable to audio peripherals like amplifier or

microphone.

You can skip this step if you don’t want to use audio peripherals.

5.

Insert the AC adapter to the power outlet on the wall.

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6.

Insert the other end of AC adapter to “DC 12V” located at the back of dome camera.

If everything is correct, you should see the LED light next to the Ethernet port lit up. If

not, please recheck installation procedures listed above again. If you still cannot get dome camera work, please contact your dealer of purchase for help.

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1-6 Ceiling-mount / Wall-mount Installation

1.

Use 3 screws (supplied with the package) to securely fix ceiling mounting bracket A

on the wall or ceiling.

NOTE:

1) Please refrain from mounting the camera on a thin wooden wall / ceiling to

avoid IP dome camera from falling down.

2) When mounting on concrete wall / ceiling, please use supplied plastic plugs

to fasten screws in the wall / ceiling, never use screws alone.

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If you want to fix the IP dome camera to ceiling / wall plate, kindly perform the below mentioned steps:-

a.

Take ceiling mounting bracket B and draw a circle by pen or pencil along the inner

circle of mounting bracket B, then use appropriate tool to cut a hole on the wall /

ceiling plate.

b.

Fasten mounting bracket A on the wall / ceiling. c. Put mounting bracket B behind the wall / ceiling plate.

WALL

PLATE

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d.

Fasten IP dome camera on the wall / ceiling with mounting bracket A, turn IP dome

camera clockwise slowly and carefully. e. Pass the IP dome camera through wall/ ceiling plate and mounting bracket B, then

pass mounting bracket C through IP dome camera.

f. Fasten mounting bracket B and C by supplied screw.

Screws

Screws

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g.

Take IP dome camera and fasten it to the ceiling mounting bracket A by turning IP

dome camera clockwise slowly and carefully.

h. Connect Ethernet and other cables.

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2. Using Network Dome 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.

You must know the IP address of Dome Camera before you can connect to it. The

Dome Camera will use DHCP server on your local network to obtain an IP address automatically by default. So, you can check your DHCP server’s IP address lease table to find the IP address of Dome Camera.

You can also use the utility named ‘ IP Finder.exe

’ to find the IP address of Dome

Camera, which is located on the CD-ROM.

Press ‘ Discover ’ button to search for all dome cameras on your local network (make sure all dome cameras are powered on and are connected to the local network first).

When you find any dome camera, you can click on it and click ‘ Link ’ button to connect to it to your web browser.

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If you need to change a certain dome camera’s IP address, you can also click on the dome camera whose IP address you wish to change, then click ‘ Change IP’ button to change select dome camera’s IP address setting.

If you no longer need to use this utility, click ‘ Exit ’ button to close it.

Note:

If you have several network connections, such as “Wireless Function” , disable the “Wireless Functions” or other network connections that are not connected to the IP camera, as IP finder may fail to search the IP camera.

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2-2 Connect to dome camera’s Web User Interface

When you know the IP address of dome camera, you can connect to it by Internet

Explorer web browser by entering its IP address in the address bar. The user login

screen will appear when you get connected:

Dome camera’s administrator username and password are both ‘admin’ (lower case) by default. Click ‘OK’ button or press ‘ENTER’ key on your keyboard when you finish entering username and password.

When you connect to dome camera for the first time, you’ll see the following message:

This message prompts you that you need to install ActiveX plug-in before you can see the video from dome camera.

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For IE 8 version:


Right click the indication bar and click: ‘‘Run Add-on” for All Users on This Computer

to install ActiveX plugin.

For IE9 version:

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Click ‘ Allow ’ 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 as shown below.

Click ‘ Allow access ’, or dome camera will not be able to function properly.

When you’re installing Internet Explorer plugin, you may also be prompted if you want to allow changes to be made to your computer:

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Click on ‘ Continue’ . It will display the screen shown below:

Once you click on Run Active X Control, the following screen appears:

Click on ‘ Run ’ to install the Active X.

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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 dome 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.

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2-3 Viewing Live Video

After ActiveX control is installed, you can view dome camera’s video by web browser.

Just connect to dome camera by web browser and login, than you can see live video from dome camera:

There are various controls on the web page, here is the description of every control item:

Item

‘Home’ tab

Stream

Digital Output

(ON/ OFF)

Description

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 are in some other tab.

Select video stream type: H.264 or MJPEG. MPEG4 option is visible, when you navigate to Video-> video settings and enable the ‘MPEG4’ option. H.264 requires less network bandwidth and this will help when network connection is slow.

Switch digital output interface on or off.

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Pan-Tilt Control


This 8-direction (up / down / left / right, and upperleft/right, lower-left/right) button lets you control dome camera’s pan-tilt movement.

Advanced Control Tab Click this tab and a new control tab will unfold:

Zoom control: Click + / - button to zoom in / zoom out and adjust zoom speed by clicking + / - button next to

‘Speed’.

Client Settings

Configuration

Language

Focus control: Click + / - button to manually adjust focus near / far and adjust focus speed by clicking + / - button next to ‘Focus’. To adjust focus automatically, click button.

Iris control: Click + / - button to manually control the amount of light falling on the sensor. To adjust iris automatically, click button.

To close advanced control tab, click

when advanced control tab is open.

Open ‘Client Setting’ menu

Open ‘Configuration’ menu

Open language menu, you can switch web interface to other language.

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Available languages: English, Simplified Chinese,

Traditional Chinese.

Original size / Fit Switches live image view between original size (full size: screen D1) and fit screen (smaller size).

If you want to see video in detail, switch to original size.

/

If your computer monitor’s resolution is not enough and you want to see full image view, switch to fit screen and

‘Connect’ button image size will adjust automatically.

Start live video view.

‘Disconnect’ button

‘Snapshot’ button

Stop live video view.

Take a snapshot and save image file on your computer.

When you click this button, a new window will appear:

‘Start Video Record’ button

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. If you don’t want to save image file, click ‘Cancel’.

Click this button to record video and save video file on your computer. The recorded file by default will be saved at C:\Program Files\Recording. To change the path for saving video files go to Client settings-> Storage option-

>folder and change the path there.

‘Enable Digital Zoom’ This function will enlarge video view digitally from 1X to button 10X, so you can see objects in video in detail.

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Enable / Disable mute button

/

Note: Digital zoom uses computer algorithm to enlarge the video and some details may be lost.

When mute is enabled ( ), you will not hear the voice from Dome camera; if you want to hear voice from Dome camera, click this button to disable mute ( )

You can drag the slide bar ( ) ) beside the enable/disable mute button to adjust audio playback volume.

You’ll see this message from your Dome Camera speaker settings when it is not enabled:

Start / Stop talk

Button

/

Start or stop playing your voice through IP camera’s audio output. When talk is stopped, people at IP camera will not hear you.

Note: You need a microphone connected to your computer, and computer’s mixer setting must enable microphone recording, or there will be no output from the Dome camera.

You’ll see this message from your Dome Camera microphone settings when it is not enabled:

You’ll be prompted to enable it before use. Click ‘OK’ to setup microphone.

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2-4 Client Settings


In ‘Client Settings’ menu, you configure basic Dome camera settings like data transfer protocol and data storage folder.

To access ‘Client Settings’ menu, click ‘Client Settings’ button on the left of the web

page as shown below.

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The following screen will appear:


Here is the description of every setup item:

Item

RTSP

HTTP

Description

Select this option to use RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) to transfer video data.

Select this option to use HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol) to transfer video data.

Folder

If you don’t know which one you should use, select ‘RTSP’.

Select a folder on your computer to save recorded video. Click

‘Browse’ button and you’ll be prompted to select a folder.

Prefix When saving video files, the characters you typed in ‘Prefix’ field will be used as leading characters of video file’s name. For example, the default setting of ‘Prefix’ is ‘CLIP’, and video file’s name will be ‘CLIP.avi’.

Add date and Check this box to add date and time to the ending part of video time suffix to file name file’s filename, so you can see the date and time the video file is created directly from its filename.

When you finish with above settings, click ‘Apply’ button to save changes.

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3. 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 of the webpage.

The ‘Configuration’ submenu will appear, please pick a setup item you wish to configure.

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3-1 System


In this menu, you can configure basic dome camera settings like hostname and time.


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.

Indicator LED The LED lights located at the back of IP camera is switched on by default. But, if you don’t want other people to know the status of this IP camera (so they will know this IP camera is operating etc.), you can select ‘Off’ and LED lights will be switched off.

Timezone

Daylight

Saving

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 correct time.

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Keep the current date and time

Synchronize with computer time

Synchronize with NTP

Server


Select this option and date / time setting will not be changed when you click ‘Apply’ in the page.

You can check ‘Camera Date and Time’ item in this page to know IP camera’s current date and time setting.

Select this item and IP camera will use your computer’s time as its time.

Select this item and IP camera will keep its date and time setting synchronized with specified time server (NTP server). Please input NTP server’s IP address or host name in ‘NTP Server

Address’ field, and select time update interval from ‘Update

Interval’ dropdown menu.

Please note that if this IP camera can’t access Internet, you must have a time server on local area network, or set the time manually.

Set Manually Set IP camera’s date and time manually. Please set current date and time by ‘Date’ and ‘Time’ dropdown menu.


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3-2 Security


In this menu, you can configure IP camera’s login account. There are three kinds of accounts:

- Administrator (Can view IP camera’s video and make changes of camera setting)

- User (Can view IP camera’s video and see settings, but can’t make any change)

- 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’).

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Item

Password/ Retype

Password

(Administrator)

Description

Input administrator’s new password in both ‘Password’ and

‘Retype Password’ field, and click ‘Modify’ button to change administrator’s password.

Note: Don’t forget administrator’s password! Or you’ll

Account List

User Name

Password/ Retype

Password

Authority need to reset all IP cameras settings to recover administrator’s password.

It lists all users existing in IP camera. If you want to remove one user, click it in the list, and then click ‘Remove’ button.

If no user is existing, ‘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.

To define this user’s access privilege, select ‘User’ or ‘Guest’ in dropdown menu.

When you finish inputting new user’s information, click ‘New’ button to create a new user.

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3-3 Network


You can configure the network camera’s general and advanced network settings here.

3-3-1 General setup page

Setup IP address for this IP camera. This IP camera supports both IPv4 and IPv6 IP

address

.

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Item

LAN

Description

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. If you don’t have a DHCP server on your local area network, you must use this option to specify an IP address.

IP Address(IPv4): Input IPv4 IP address

IP address (IPv6): Input IPv6 IP address

Prefix Length: Input IPv6 IP address prefix length (0-128)

Subnet Mask: Input subnet mask

Gateway: Input gateway address

Primary DNS: Input DNS server’s IP address

PPPoE

Secondary DNS: Input backup DNS server’s IP address, you

can leave this field blank

.

Enable UPnP Discovery: Check this box to enable other devices on the network to discover the presence of this IP camera by

UPnP. It’s recommended to enable this function.

Enable UPnP Port Mapping: When UPnP is enabled, check this box to enable UPnP’s port mapping.

Select this option to use PPPoE to connect to network. You have to input PPPoE username and password assigned by network

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HTTP Port 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.

For example, IP camera’s IP address is 192.168.2.3, and if you changed HTTP port number to 82, please input

‘http://192.168.2.3:82’ in web browser’s address bar to access IP

camera’s web configuration interface.

RTSP Port Input RTSP port number. When this port number changes, you must change corresponding settings in external network devices

(NVR or CMS software) so they can receive this IP camera’s video.

RTP Data Port Input RTP data port number here.


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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 if you don’t make any

changes to this page.

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Item

Multicast

Description

Enable video multicast:

Bonjour

QoS

DDNS

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 RTCP video port: Input port number for RTCP video here.

Multicast audio port: Input port number for audio here.

Multicast RTCP audio port: Input port number for RTCP audio here.

Multicast TTL: Input TTL value for multicast here.

If you’re using Mac OS and you have Bonjour installed, you can use it to discover this IP camera.

Enable QoS to improve the data transfer priority of this IP camera (Your local area network must support QoS).

You can select Video / Audio’s QoS DSCP value (0 to 63), or both video and audio.

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.

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User name: Input user name used to login dynamic IP service provider.

Password: Input the password used to login dynamic IP service

HTTPS provider.

Check ‘Enable HTTPS’ box to enable HTTPS channel to encrypt transferred data. You can also define HTTPS port number in

‘HTTPS Port’ field if you don’t want to use default value ‘443’.

When you finish, click ‘Apply’ to save changes.

3-4 IP Filter

When this dome 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 dome camera and avoid attacks from hackers.

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Enable Filter Check this box to enable IP address filter, uncheck this box to disable this function.

Accepted IP list

IP Address

(Accepted IP

Here lists all IP addresses 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.

Input the starting and ending IP address of IP camera you wish to accept connections here. IP camera will only accept connections established from these IP addresses. list)

If you want to specify one IP address only, input the same IP

Deny IP list address in both field.

Click ‘New’ button to add IP address into accepted IP list.

Here lists all IP addresses that cannot build connections to this IP

IP Address

(Deny IP list) camera. If you want to remove a set of IP address from the list, click on the IP address and click ‘Remove’ button.

Input the starting and ending IP address of IP camera you wish to deny connections. IP camera will deny connections established from these IP addresses.

If you want to specify one IP address only, input the same IP address in both fields.

Click ‘New’ button to add IP address into deny IP list.


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3-5 Video


You can adjust the image of the Dome 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:

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3-5-1 Image Setting


You can adjust the image parameters in this page.


Item

Brightness /

Contrast /

Saturation /

Description

Control the image parameters. Click ‘-’ to decrease value, or click ‘+’ to increase value. You can also input the value in the field directly. The maximum value these fields can accept is 255.

Hue

Default

Mirror

Set all above values to default value ‘128’. Hue default value is

“0”.

Check ‘Vertical’ or ‘Horizontal’ box to flip the image vertically

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DG-SC7100P-10 User Manual or horizontally, this will help to correct the orientation of image when Dome camera is hanged bottom-up by camera holder.

You can click both ‘Vertical’ and ‘Horizontal’ box at the same time.


3-5-2 Video Setting

You can adjust the video transfer parameters in this page.

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Item

H.264 /

MPEG4

Video

Resolution

Description

Select the compression of main stream: H.264 / MPEG4

Select video resolution.

- H.264:

720x480 (D1) / 640x480 (VGA)

320x240 (QVGA)

176x144 (QCIF)

- MPEG4:

720x480 (D1)

640x480 (VGA)

320x240 (QVGA)

MJPEG:

720x480 (D1)

640x480 (VGA) / 320x240 (QVGA)

176x144 (QCIF)

NOTE: 176x144 (QCIF) video resolution is not displayed when video encoder is ‘MPEG4’.

When network speed is insufficient, selecting a lower video resolution will help.

Frame Rate When network speed is insufficient, selecting a lower frame rate will help.

Rate Control Select video bit rate. You can modify Rate Control by both

‘Video quality’ and ‘Bitrate’:



Video quality: There are 5 levels of video quality, select ‘very high’ to improve video quality but consumes more network bandwidth, and selecting

‘very low’ will decrease video quality and consumes less network bandwidth.

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

Bitrate: Input video’s bit rate directly. It must be an integer between 512 and 4000. Higher bit rate provides better video quality, but consumes more network bandwidth.


Note:

MJPEG options are only available for portable devices like cell phone.

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3-5-3 Overlay Setting


You can adjust the video overlay parameters in this page.


Item

Enable Time

Stamp

Description

Check this box to enable overlaying time stamp on video.

Remove the background color of the text

(Time Stamp)

Enable Text

Display

Check this box to remove time stamp’s background color which will help the readability of time stamp text in some cases.

Check this box to display certain text on video, this will help when you need to identify certain IP camera when you have a lot of IP cameras.

Please input the text in ‘Text’ field. You can input up to 15

Remove the characters.

Check this box to remove custom text’s background color which will

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background color of the text

(Text)

Enable Image

Overlay

DG-SC7100P-10 User Manual help the 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:

1) Select .bmp / .jpg / .jpeg image files only.

2) Image’s resolution should be less than 160 x 128, and can be divided by 4.

3) Accepts image files only upto 64KB in size.


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3-6 Audio


You can adjust audio input / output parameters here.


Item

Enable

Microphone

Audio Type

(Microphone)

Description

Check this box to enable microphone. If you don’t want to hear voice from IP camera, you can un-check this box to disable it.

The format is fixed as G.711

Microphone

Gain

Enable Speaker

(Speaker)

Audio Type

(Speaker)

If the voice received by microphone is too loud or silent, you can use this function to improve voice volume, so you can hear voice from IP camera more clearly.

- Select 0 dB and IP camera will do nothing to the voice.

- Select +6dB to +18 dB to amplify the voice.

Check this box to enable speaker. If you don’t want people at

Dome camera to hear you, you can uncheck this box to disable it.

The format is fixed as G.711


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3-7 Motion


This Dome camera is capable to detect object’s motion, so dome camera will only record when there’s motion and save disk storage space.

Motion detection is performed by examining the movement of objects in rectangular motion detection area. You can define up to 3 motion detection areas.


Item

Enable Motion

Detection

Enable

(Windows 1 to

Description

Check this box to enable motion detection.

Windows 3)

Check this box to enable this motion detection window. You can select window 1 to 3 to enable up to 3 motion detection windows. When a motion detection window is enabled, a rectangular screen will appear on camera’s view, with its title on the top.

- To move / resize a motion detection window:

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- Move: Use the mouse to drag the title text.

- Resize: Use the mouse to drag the four corners (upperleft/right, lower-left/right) to resize it. If you only want to adjust width or height, drag the four sidebars (top, bottom,

Title

(Windows 1 to left, and right).

Input characters in the 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

Windows 3)

Percentage will change.

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. Select a higher sensitivity and you can detect tiny changes in motion detection area.


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3-8 PTZ Control


If you mount the Dome camera on pan-tilt camera cradles that support pan-tilt control via RS-485 connection, you can use this function to control pan-tilt camera cradle so

you can control the orientation of dome camera from remote place.

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Item

Enable RS-485

Use Pelco-D

Description

Check this box to enable RS-485 functionality.

Select this option and RS-485 interface will output pan-tilt control signal in Pelco-D format. This format is widely accepted by most of pan-tilt camera cradles.

You can also input pan-tilt camera cradle’s address code in

‘Address’ field. This code must be identical to pan-tilt camera

Use Custom

Protocol cradle’s address code.

When the pan-tilt camera cradle does not support Pelco-D protocol, you can define a protocol’s detail by this function.

Please refer to pan-tilt camera cradle’s user manual to define the protocol.

-Baud Rate: Select data baud rate of RS-485 interface that pan-tilt camera cradle will accept. When the length of RS-485 connection is very long (longer than 200M), it’s not recommended to use high speed connection (greater than

2400bps).

- Data Bits: Select data bits of RS-485 connection.

- Parity: Select parity bit: odd, even, or space.

- Stop Bit: Select stop bit: 1 or 2.

-Up/Down/Left/Right: Input the command string used to move pan-tilt camera cradle up/down/left/right position. You can click ‘Test’ button to send command string for testing.

- Command 1 ~ 5: You can define extra pan-tilt camera cradle control strings here by giving it a name (Command Name) and command string (Hexadecimal Message). You can also click

‘Test’ button to send command string for testing.


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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 to designated path.

3. Event Server: Define the details of remote server.

Please refer to following sections for detailed instructions.

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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 event, just click “New” button to add an Event setting.

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To add a new event, click ‘New’ button and the description of every setup item is listed

below:

Item

Enable Setting

Description

Check this box to enable this event.

If you just want to disable this event temporarily, you can uncheck this box to disable the event without deleting it.

Title Input any description text for this event so you can identify it quickly. You can use alphabets, numbers and symbols include:!$-.@^_~ (Note: no spaces allowed).

Motion Detection Check this box and this event will be activated when one of the motion detection windows detects motion.

Digital Input 1 Check this box and this event will be activated when digital input 1 is high or low (select from dropdown list).

Enable Schedule

Time

Check this box and this event will be activated when designated weekday and time is reached.

You also have to check weekday box, and select time from dropdown list. If you select ‘Always’ as time, this event will be activated throughout the day.

Enable FTP Check this box and dome camera will save file on FTP server

(refer to ‘FTP Server’ setting in ‘Event Server’ tab) when this event is activated.

Enable EMAIL Check this box and dome camera will send an Email to designated recipient address (refer to ‘SMTP Server’ setting in

‘Event Server’ tab) when this event is activated.

Enable Samba

(Net Storage)

Check this box and dome camera will save file on samba server (refer to ‘Samba Server’ setting in ‘Event Server’ tab) when this event is activated.

Enable SD CARD Check this box and dome camera will save file on SD card when this event is activated. A working SD card must be inserted into dome camera in advance.

Trigger digital output for xx second(s).

Check this box and dome camera will trigger digital out to

‘high’ state for xx seconds when this event is activated, where

‘xx’ seconds must be defined by the dropdown list.

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3-9-2 Media


You can define what kind of media file should be saved to designated path.


Item

One Snapshot

H.264 Video

Description

Save a picture file when event is triggered.

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’.

For example, if you set ‘Pre Event’ to ‘5’ and ‘Post Event’ to

5’, and an event is triggered at 14:10:30, then the video file will be 10 seconds long, starting from 14:10:25 to 14:10:35.

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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 servers also support samba

server function.

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Item

Enable FTP

Server

Description

Check this box to enable FTP server upload.

SMTP Server

- FTP Server: Input FTP server’s IP address or hostname.

- Port: Input FTP server’s port number. In most cases it should be default value ‘21’.

- 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 dome camera to communicate with FTP server in passive mode (Some FTP

Server may only work when you check this box, while others don’t).

- Test FTP: Click this button to test FTP server settings above immediately.

Check this box to enable Email alert.

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- SMTP Server: Input SMTP server’s IP address or hostname.

- Port: Input SMTP server’s port number. In most cases it should be default value ‘25’.

- Sender Email Address: Input the sender’s email address that will appear in the Email send by dome camera. This will help you to identify the Email sent by this dome camera, and may help when you have anti-spam software installed (you can set this Email address to ‘White List’ in your anti-spam software)

- Receiver #1 Email Address: Input primary recipient’s Email address. This field is required.

- Receiver #2 Email Address: Input backup recipient’s Email address. This field is optional.

- Subject: Input Email title that will appear in the Email sent by dome camera. This will help you to identify the Email sent by this dome camera.

- Authentication: Check this box when authentication is required by the Email server you’re using. You also need to

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Samba Server input Email server’s username and password in corresponding field.

- Requires SSL Encryption: If your Email server required SSL encryption, check this box. Please note that some Email server uses different port number than standard port 25 when SSL encryption is used.

- STARTTLS: If your Email server requires STARTTLS encryption, check this box. Please note that some Email server uses different port number than standard port 25 when

STARTTLS encryption is used.

Test SMTP: Click this button to test SMTP server settings above immediately.

Check this box to enable Samba server file upload.

- Samba Server Address: Input Samba server’s IP address or hostname.

- Path: Input the path where you want to save file on Samba server, like ‘upload/record’. If you want to save file on this user’s home directory, you can leave this field blank.

- User Name: Input Samba server’s username.

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- Password: Input Samba server’s password.

- Test SMB: Click this button to test Samba server settings above immediately.

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3-10 Recording to SD Card

When a SD card is inserted into dome 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. Unlike motion detection, this function will record video at specified time period

on selected weekday(s).


Item

Enable External storage Recording

Description

Check this box to record video on SD card.

Maximum Size of

Each File

Input the maximum size of every video file from 1MB to

50MB. Dome camera will start a new video file when a recording video file reaches the size limit stated here.

Recording Schedule Define the recording schedule. You can check Sun to Sat boxes to represent a weekday, and specify time period in

‘From’ and ‘To’ field. Select ‘Always’ to record 24 hours in selected weekday(s).

When you finish with above settings, click ‘Apply’ button to save changes. It will create a folder called Backup on SD card in which the recorded video files get stored.

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3-11 Log


You can check the usage log of dome 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.

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3-12 Device Info


You can check the information and network settings of this dome camera. These information are very useful when you need to repair or fix the problem of this dome camera.

An example of device info page looks like this:

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3-13 Maintenance


You can do some maintenance job about this dome camera here.


Item

Reboot

Reset

Backup

Backup to SD card device

Description

Click this button to reboot the dome camera. This function is useful when you find that the dome camera is not working properly.

Clear all settings of dome camera and reset to factory default setting.

Backup dome camera’s setting and save it on your computer.

Backup dome camera’s setting and save it on SD card. A SD card must be inserted into SD card slot when you click this button, or you’ll receive an error message. computer. Click ‘Browse’ button to select a file on your computer

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Restore from

SD card device

Upgrade first, then click ‘Restore’ button.

Restore dome camera’s configuration which is previously-saved on

SD card.

Upgrade dome camera’s firmware. Click ‘Browse’ button to select a firmware image file on your computer first, then click ‘Upgrade’ button.

3-14 Language

You can change the display language of web interface.

Click ‘Language’ button and select one language. More languages may be available in the latest firmware file.

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4. Using SKYROS iView software

4-1 Installing SKYROS iView Software

The SKYROS iView software provides various functions like video recording. After this software is installed, you can use your IP camera to safeguard your property. Please follow the below mentioned instructions to install the SKYROS iView software.

1. Please insert the Installation Guide CD supplied in the product package.

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2. Double click on ‘Setup.exe’ to install the ‘ SKYROS iView ’ software. The wizard as

shown below will appear.

3. The screen as shown below will appear. Click ‘ Next ’ to continue.

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4. Now, click on ‘ Install ’ as shown below.

5. Please wait while installation is being performed. This may take few minutes, please

be patient.

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6. Second part of installation will start automatically.

7.

A new setup window will appear, please click ‘ Next ’ button to continue.

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8.

Now, click on ‘ Next ’ as shown below.

9.

The screen shown below will appear. Click on ‘ Install ’ as shown below.

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10.

Installation will take few minutes, please be patient.

11.

Click ‘ Finish ’ when you see this message.

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12.

MSDE (Microsoft SQL Database Engine) installation procedure will start at the same time. Please wait until it completes.

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13.

Following screen will appear. Click on ‘ Finish ’.

A new icon will appear on your computer’s desktop, you can double click on it to start

SKYROS iView

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5 Getting familiar with SKYROS iView Software

To start SKYROS iView, double click SKYROS iView icon on your computer’s desktop:

Or click ‘Start’ button of Windows, and select ‘All Programs’ -> ‘SKYROS iView-

>Launch SKYROS iView’

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SKYROS iView login screen will appear as shown below.

Default user ID is ‘admin’ and default password is none (leave it blank), click ‘OK’.

The main window of SKYROS iView will appear:

EXIT

Date/Time,

Remaining

disk

space

Camera

View

Camera

Index

Selection

Function

Keys

Split screen

mode

selector

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The description of every item is listed below:

Item

Split-screen mode selector

Description

SKYROS iView supports from 1 to 64 cameras split views.

The video from IP camera will display in split screen display cells, and you can view up to 64 IP cameras at the same time.

Click the button to select the number of IP cameras you wish to view on display.

If the number of IP cameras is less than the number of split

Full screen

Camera Scan screens, unused display cell will be displayed blank to indicate it’s not been connected to any IP camera.

Click this button to display video from IP cameras in full screen mode. All control buttons will be hidden, only IP camera’s video will be displayed. To leave full screen mode, press ‘Esc’ key on your keyboard.

When you click this button, SKYROS iView will scan the camera for the video display, and switch to next camera’s video after few seconds, and so on.

Snapshot

EMAP

Take a snapshot of selected IP camera and save the picture on your computer. When you click this button, the picture of IP camera selected in ‘camera index selection’ dropdown menu will be saved.

Display the EMAP (Electronic map) image on camera view area, which indicates the position and orientation in physical environment of every IP camera. To set a picture as EMAP’s background picture: Right click on the EMAP display area, and you’ll be prompted to select a picture on your computer:

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Select the file, and click ‘Open’ button to use the picture as background picture. To add a camera, right click on the background picture and select ‘Add Camera…’

A new window will appear:

Select the camera you wish to add from ‘Camera’ dropdown list, and check the box ‘Image Lost’ and / or ‘Motion

Detected’, then select the direction of camera icon, this will help you to remember the orientation of camera on the EMAP.

After you click ‘OK’ button, a camera icon will appear on

EMAP with its camera number indicated:

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Configuration

You can add more cameras to EMAP by repeating procedures listed above.

Enter SKYROS iView configuration page. See next section for detailed instructions.

Playback

Recording

Playback recorded video. A new video playback window will appear. See section 5-2 for detailed instructions.

Start / stop video recording.

When recording video, this button will appear as red.

Schedule

Camera Index Selection

Enable schedule recording. You must define schedule in advance before you can enable schedule recording.

Here lists all IP cameras you have, select one camera from dropdown list for snapshot.

Date / Time,

Remaining Disk Space

Logout, Minimise, Exit, ver. 1.0.3

Displays current date, time, and remaining disk storage space.

Click this button to exit, minimize or log out from SKYROS iView. You can also view the software version number here.

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All camera’s video will be displayed in ‘Camera View’ area:

(This example picture shows a camera view with only 1 IP camera configured)

To select an IP camera, click its video and it will be highlighted; some IP cameras support additional control, and a control panel will appear at the bottom right area of

SKYROS iView.

The description of the items is listed below:

Item

Pan / Tilt control

Description

Click the direction arrow to control camera’s pan / tilt.

Pan / Tilt speed

Preset Control

Drag the slide bar to adjust the pan / tilt speed when you click pan / tilt control arrow.

Click ‘Go’ to move the camera to the preset point and click

‘set’ to define the highlighted preset point.

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Zoom


Optical zoom control. Click + or - to control zoom level. This function is only available for supported cameras.

Auto Focus

Cruise control

Click + or – to adjust the focus.

This function is only available for supported cameras.

Click ‘Go’ button to start camera cruise and click ‘Stop’ button to stop cruise. This function is only available for supported cameras.

5-1 Configure SKYROS iView

Before you can use SKYROS iView, you must configure at least 1 IP camera.

To enter configuration menu, click ‘Configuration’ button main menu:

in SKYROS iView

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The configuration menu will appear. There are 6 sub menus in the configuration menu:



Device (Add or remove IP camera / video server)



Recording (Configure video recording)



System (Configure system wide settings)



Schedule (Configure schedule recording)



Event (Configure event recording)



Security (Configure SKYROS iView user list)

Detailed description of every sub menu will be given in the following sections.

5-1-1 Device

You should configure at least one IP camera / video server before you can use

SKYROS iView, and you can manage all IP camera / video server here.

To add a new IP camera, click ‘ Add ’ button:

IP camera setup window will appear on the right:

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If your IP camera is located on local area network, click ‘ Search ’ button. Wait for few seconds or few minutes until the search is complete, and all IP cameras found on your

local area network will be listed:

In this example, an IP camera has been found at IP address 192.168.226.189.

Add the password of the respective IP camera and click on ‘Detect Device’ to verify the

settings before you click ‘Add to list’ button. You can repeat above procedures to add

all IP cameras you wish to connect

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When an IP camera is found, you can also select it in the list and:



View Image: View the live image from selected IP camera.



Detail: Connect to selected IP camera’s web configuration menu.

Check ‘ Enable Camera ’ to enable this camera in SKYROS iView. If the IP camera you wish to add is not located on local area network, you have to input the details of IP camera manually:

Input the network settings of IP camera, including IP address, HTTP port number, user name / password.

After you found an IP camera add it manually, click ‘Add to list’ button and the IP

camera will be listed in SKYROS iView as shown below:

Every IP camera has a check box, indicating if it is enabled. If a camera is not enabled, it will not be displayed in SKYROS iView’s video view.

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You can also manage IP camera list by the following function:



Enable All: Enable all IP cameras in the list.



Disable All: Disable all IP cameras in the list.



Remove: Remove selected IP camera.

When you select an IP camera in the list, you can also click ‘ Update to list ’ button to update its information, like IP address and user name / password.

5-1-2 Recording

You can specify the video recording behavior for all IP cameras: recording all the time, motion detection, or not recording at all.

Please note that if you don’t have any IP camera added in the camera list, you will not be able to enter this setup menu.

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The description of every item is listed as follows :

Item

Select Camera

Record Mode

Description

Please select an IP camera from the list to setup its recording behavior. SKYROS iView will attempt to connect to selected IP camera, if it’s not connectable, you will receive an error message later.

You can decide the recording behavior for this IP camera:



Monitor only, not record: SKYROS iView will not record video of this IP camera.



Round The Clock: SKYROS iView will record video of this IP camera all the time.



Motion Detection: SKYROS iView will only record

Motion Detection

Setting video when motion is detected.



Apply to All Cameras: Click this button to apply current record control settings to all IP cameras on the list.

Sets motion detection area and sensitivity. Please select an IP camera from the list, and its video will appear with a grid pattern:

Use the mouse to click blocks on the grid pattern to assign the areas you wish SKYROS iView to detect / ignore motion.

SKYROS iView will detect motion for areas which are NOT covered by blocks only.

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To add or erase blocks:

To add blocks, click + button; to erase blocks, click - button.

Click ‘ Reset ’ button to reset motion detection blocks to default setting. You can also change the color of block if the color is similar to the IP camera’s video and its difficult for you to identify the blocks by clicking the color brick between + and - button:

Drag red, green, and blue slide bar to set color, and click ‘ Set ’ button to save changes, click ‘ Default ’ button to reset settings, and click ‘ Cancel ’ to leave this menu without saving changes.

You also have to setup sensitivity:

Drag the slide bar to setup sensitivity level from 1 to 10. Larger number indicates more sensitivity. To apply this motion detection settings to all IP cameras, click ‘ Apply to All

Cameras ’ button.

When you finish setting, click ‘ OK ’ button to save changes you made, or click

‘ Cancel ’ button to discard all settings you made.

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5-1-3 System


You can configure system-wide configuration in this sub menu.

The description of every setup item is listed below:

Item

Host Name

Camera Caption

Data Storage Setting

Description

The host name by default is ‘SKYROS iView’.

Add a text caption on camera view or not:



No: Do not display caption on camera view



Camera ID: Display Camera’s ID



Camera ID + Camera Name: Display both

camera’s ID and camera’s name.

Setup hard disk data storage:



Enable Recycle: Check this box and the latest recording video will overwrite oldest recorded video

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Start up Condition

DG-SC7100P-10 User Manual file automatically. If you didn’t check this box,

SKYROS iView will stop recording when data storage space is full.



Alarm Space: When data storage space is less than the

size you specified here, you’ll receive an alarm

message to notify that you should do something to

prevent running out of storage space.



Locations: Lists all data storage space configured.

You can add / modify spaces below.



Browse: Select a drive or folder on your computer for recording data storage. You can also create a new folder when you’re prompted to select a drive or folder on your computer.



Safe Space: Specify the lower limit of storage space you specified. When remaining storage space is less than the size you specified here, SKYROS iView will stop recording.



Add/Modify: You can click this button to add the drive / folder you specified above to storage space list, or select an existing storage space in the list to change its parameters then click this button to update

its parameter.



Remove: Select a pre-defined storage space and click this button to remove it from the list.

Select the behavior of SKYROS iView when computer starts up. You can select multiple options you want to use:



Auto run, when Windows start: Check this box and

SKYROS iView will run automatically when computer starts.



Start program in minimum: Start SKYROS iView as minimized window.



Auto record: Start video recording automatically when SKYROS iView starts.

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Auto Login

Alarm Transmitted email


Input the user ID and password to login SKYROS iView automatically. This function is useful when you want to start recording automatically when computer starts.



User ID: Input user ID used to login SKYROS iView, must have adequate privileges to perform the action you wish to execute.



Password: Input user’s password.



Full screen view when auto login: Switch to full screen display mode when auto login.

Send an Email notification with picture when alarm is triggered (motion is detected):



SMTP Server: Input the IP address or host name of

SMTP server (mail server) you wish to use.



Sender: Input the sender’s email address in sent email. This will help you to identify the email sent by SKYROS iView. For some SMTP servers, you must set a sender email address of the same domain name.



Receiver: Input the email receiver’s address here.



CC: input additional email receiver’s address here.



Subject: Input the subject of sent email. This will also help you to identify the email sent by SKYROS iView .



Number of attachments: Input the number of snapshot attachments that will be sent through email, so you can see the image of camera by email (1 to 10 attachments only). Email alerts Interval: Input the time interval between two emails. A new email will not be sent within the interval you specified here even if a new event is detected.

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User: Input the user name for SMTP authentication.

Input only when it’s required by your SMTP server, you can leave it blank if it’s not required.

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Password: Input the password used by SMTP

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DG-SC7100P-10 User Manual authentication.

Camera Scan Interval Input the time interval to wait between camera scan.

Connection Retry Decides the behavior when SKYROS iView lost communication with IP camera:

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Retry: Retry for the time you specified here.

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Always retry: Retry to connect to IP camera until successfully connected.

When you finish with the settings, click ‘OK’ button to save changes you made or click

‘Cancel’ button to discard all settings you made.

5-1-4 Schedule

You can configure recording schedule in this sub-menu. When you enter this sub-menu for first time, click ‘ Add Job’ button to add a new schedule recording job:

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A new window will appear on the right:

You can configure a new schedule recording job here.



Weekly Schedule Select the time period in a week of this schedule. There are total

48 x 7 blocks in a week schedule, where every block represents half an hour.

You can use mouse to click on the block to add or delete time period. If recording is activated in that time period, the block will appear as light blue.

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Events

Dedicated

Schedule

To add or delete a time period, select ‘ ADD ’ or ‘ DEL ’ first, then click the time period block.

In order to start the schedule recordings click the schedule button on the main screen of the software.

Select the event to trigger recording:

Round-The-Clock: Recording is time activated (according to schedule).

Motion Detection: Recording is motion-activated.

DI Input: Recording is activated by DI (Digital Input) signal located on IP camera. IP camera must have DI port and not every

IP camera is equipped with DI.

If you just want to add a new recording schedule between certain time and this schedule will only happen once but not every week, you can use this function to specify a time period.

Select ‘ Start ’ and ‘ End ’ date / time, and click ‘ Add/Modify’ button to add the time period to the list. You can also select an existing time period and make changes, and click ‘ Add /Modify’ button to save changes.

To remove an existing schedule, select an existing schedule, and then click ‘Remove’ button.

Comment You can input some text to help you to memorize the purpose of this schedule

Cameras/Devices Check all IP cameras that will be activated by this schedule.

Add to list Click this button to add this schedule to the list.

When you finish the settings, click ‘OK’ button to save changes you made, or click

‘Cancel’ button to discard all settings you made.

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5-1-5 Event


SKYROS iView can send you an alarm email message so you can know something happened on the IP camera (motion detected, video lost, or connection lost). A sound can be played to notify the operator at the computer where SKYROS iView is installed, too.

To add a new event, click ‘ Add ’ button, and a new window will appear on the right for you to setup a new event.

To remove an existing event, select an event in the list and click ‘ Remove ’ button.


Item

Select Camera

Alarm Condition

Description

Select the IP camera to define its event detail.

Define the type of event which will trigger an alarm:

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Motion detected: Alarm will be triggered when motion is detected at this IP camera.

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Video lost: Alarm will be triggered when video server’s external camera signal is lost.

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Connection Lost: Alarm will be triggered when network connection to this IP camera is lost.

You can select only one alarm condition here.

Trigger Operation(s) Define the action which will be taken when alarm is triggered:

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Send E-Mail: an email will be sent when alarm is triggered.

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Play Sound: Play a sound on the computer where

SKYROS iView is installed. To add a new sound file, copy the .wav file to the following directory: C:\Program

Files\SKYROS iView\media

Alarm Remark

You can click ‘ Play ’ button to play the sound file you selected.

You can input descriptive text here to help you to remember the purpose of this event.

When you finish setting, click ‘ Add/Modify’ button to add this event to the list.

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5-1-6 Security


You can add or remove users which are allowed to access SKYROS iView.

There are two kinds of users in SKYROS iView: Administrator and user .

Administrator can configure SKYROS iView, while user can only view video of camera, and perform limited system configuration (schedule, record, camera map and video playback).

Administrator’s user ID is always ‘ admin ’ and cannot be changed. You can only change admin’s password in Administrator’s ‘ Password ’ and ‘ Confirm Password’

field.

Please input the same password in both fields for confirmation.

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To add a user, click ‘ Add ’ button, a new window will appear on the right:


Item

User ID

Description

Description

Input the user ID used to login SKYROS iView

Input any descriptive text to help you to memorize the purpose of this user ID.

Input this user’s password in both fields. Password /

Confirm Password

User Privilege Defines the privilege of this user (Check the boxes that you wish to give privilege):

Multi-Camera View Operation: Allows multi-camera view.

Camera Map Operation: Allows to show E-MAP.

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Scheduling: User can start or stop schedule recording.

Recording: User can start or stop video recording.

Camera List

Playback: User can playback saved video.

Select IP cameras you wish to allow this user to view.

When you finished settings, click ‘Add/Modify’ button to add this new user.

You can also select an existing user and change his / her user information, then click

‘ Add / Modify ’ button to save changes for this user.

5-2 Video Playback

5-2-1 Start Video Playback

To view recorded video, you can click ‘ Playback ’ button in SKYROS iView’s main screen:

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A new window will appear:


To play a recorded video, you can use one of following two functions:

Advanced

Event

Search

Search

Please refer to following chapters for detailed instructions of every search mode.

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5-2-2 Advanced Search


You can search for recorded video within specific time period, and get a list of record

modes of all IP cameras.

When you enter this menu, please specify start time and stop time:

DATE

(You can input 0-23 in ‘Hour in a day’ field by keyboard directly).

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HOUR

IN A DAY


When you finish, click ‘ SEARCH ’ button to search for recorded video, and you will

get a similar output like this:

In this picture, a recorded video of ‘ Camera 1 ’ has been found at 12 o’clock. A blue

mark indicates it’s a ‘ Round Clock ’ (manual) recording. Other record types include:

Blue: Manual Recording

Green: Recording is triggered by motion

Red: Recording is triggered by Digital Input

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To view the video, check the box of camera ID, then click ‘ Play ’ button.

And the video will be prepared for playback.

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Recorded Video Clip

For instructions of video playback, please see section 5-2-4 for detailed instructions.

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5-2-3 Event Search


You can search for video for playback by triggering event: round the clock, motion detection, or digital input.

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To search for video, you have to specify:

1) Starting and Ending time for video searching in ‘Start time’ and ‘Stop time’ field.

DATE

HOUR IN A DAY

2) Recording mode: Round Clock, Motion Detection, and I/O Mode (Digital Input).

You can check all boxes you wish to search for.

3) Camera: You can check all cameras you wish to search for video. To select camera

ID more than 16, click right or left button to select camera ID up to 64, or click

‘Select All’ to select all cameras.

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When you finish, click ‘Search’ button to search for recorded video, and a list similar to this will appear:

RECORDED VIDEO

FILES

You can select the video clip you wish to play, and click ‘ Play ’ button.

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For instructions of video playback, please see section 5-2-4 for detailed instructions.

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5-2-4 Video Playback


When a video is loaded, the video playback screen will look like this:

The description of every item is listed as below:


Close Window Click X mark to close video playback window.

Video Playback

Control Start video playback

Skip to the ending position of video clip

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Speed Control

Skip to next video frame

Pause a playing video, click the same button to resume video

playback

Stop video playback

Skip to previous video frame

Skip to the beginning position of video

Image

Processing

When video is stopped, you can click + or – button to adjust video playback speed: from 1/4 to 4x speed.

You cannot adjust video playback speed when video is playing.

Click this button to take a snapshot picture of current video playback position. A new window will appear:

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Time

You can adjust image brightness / contrast by dragging corresponding slide bar, or click ‘Gray Scale’, ‘Sharpness’, ‘Soften’ to adjust image parameters.

You can click ‘ Save as’ button to save current image (you’ll be prompted for image saving location), or click ‘Print’ to print current image to printer.

To go back to previous menu, click ‘ Cancel ’. Click ‘ Reset ’ to reset image parameters back to default value.

Displays the current time.

displays video zoom in, displays video zoom out.

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6. Appendix


6-1 Specification

Image Sensor: ¼ Sony CCD sensor

Processor: DSP Base (DaVinci TM320DM365)

Lens: f3.8-38mm (F1.8-2.8)

Resolution: (Color/BW): 520TVL/ 570TVL

Min. Illumination: (Color/BW/Slow Shutter mode) 0.7lux/0.02lux/0.005lux

Video Compression: H.264, MPEG-4, MJPEG

Multiple Streaming: Yes

ICR: Yes

POE Support: Yes

Alarm Input/ Output: 1 x D/I, 1 x D/O

Optical & Digital Zoom: 10x

ONVIF: Yes

Image resolution: D1 (720 x 480): 30 fps

VGA (640 x 480): 30 fps

QVGA (320 x 240): 30 fps

QCIF (176 x 144): 30fps

Audio: 2 Way audio support

Operation temperature: -10 degree C~50 degree C

Network Supported Protocols: TCP/IP,IPV6,UDP,ICMP ,DHCP ,NTP ,DNS ,DDNS

,SMTP ,FTP ,HTTP ,HTTPs , Samba,PPPoE ,UPnP, Bonjour, RTP, RTSP, RTCP, IPV4.

Multi-level user access: Yes

Time Management:

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Manual Time Setting

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Time Server & NTP support

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Real Time Clock

Event Management: Events triggered by Motion Detection or GPIO, Image or Video

Upload/ Send over E-mail, FTP, Samba Server.

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6-2 Troubleshooting


Please don’t panic when you found this dome camera is not working properly. Before you send this dome camera back to us, you can do some simple checks to save your time:

Scenario

Can’t connect to dome camera

No dome camera found

No image

Solution

1) Please check the IP address of dome 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 dome camera.

4) Please make sure dome camera is switched on (the

LED lights on dome camera will light up).

1) ‘Auto search’ function only works on dome cameras located on local area network.

1) If the place where dome camera is installed is too dark, try to add some lights when possible.

2) Check if there’s anything covering the lens.

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6-3 Glossary


MJPG: Motion JPEG or M-JPEG is a digital video sequence that is made up of a series of individual JPEG images. (JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group). The quality of the image is guaranteed, regardless of movement because the captured video is a series of separately compressed JPEG images that can be extracted individually. The compression level can be adjusted to control image quality and file size.

MPEG4: is a video and audio compression technology found in many IP network camera models. The MPEG4 compression standard aims to deliver superior image quality while optimizing bandwidth.

H.264: H.264 is the latest compression technology that significantly reduces the file size of high-quality video images. Offers higher video resolution than Motion JPEG or MPEG-4 at the same bit rate and bandwidth, or the same quality video at a lower bit rate.

PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet): Is a network protocol for encapsulating

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) frames inside Ethernet frames.

TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol): TCP is used along with the Internet Protocol (IP) to transmit data as packets between computers over the network.

TCP is a connection-oriented protocol, which means that a connection is established between the two end-points and is maintained until the data has been successfully exchanged between the communicating applications.

DDNS (Dynamic DNS): Used to create a fixed domain name for dynamic internet IP

address. A domain name is a meaningful and easy-to-remember name for an Internet address. Normally used when the ISP has provided you with dynamic internet IP address to access the camera remotely.

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SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol): SMTP is used for sending and receiving e-mail.

SMTP authentication is an extension of SMTP, whereby the client is required to log into the mail server before or during the sending of email. It can be used to allow legitimate users to send email while denying the service to unauthorized users, such as spammers.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol): FTP is an application protocol that uses the TCP/IP protocols, used to exchange files between computers/devices on networks. Network cameras with embedded operating systems use FTP to send camera images to an authorized user’s computer or web site.

UPnP (Universal Plug & Play): A set of computer network protocols that allow the automatic peer-to-peer detection of devices on the network. Allows the discovery of UPnP- enabled devices in a network environment.

RTSP (Real Time Streaming protocol): RTSP is a control protocol for Internet streaming of audio and video. Mostly used for remote viewing of live or stored security camera video over the Internet. RTSP can be considered as a “remote control” for controlling the media stream delivered by a media server. RTSP servers typically use RTP as the protocol for the actual transport of audio/video data.

CMOS Sensor (Complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor): Is an image sensor available in many IP network cameras with less circuitry hence consumes less power, produces higher frame rate & is less costly as compared to CCD sensors.

Pan/Tilt: IP cameras with panning capabilities can move back and forth horizontally in order to monitor wider areas. In many cases a camera's panning functionality can be controlled remotely from network PC using video management software. Tilt refers to an IP camera's ability to be directed up and down in a vertical plane. The camera lens can be aimed at a specific part of a scene, and in many cases the tilt can be controlled remotely.

Frame Rate: The frame rate is used to describe the frequency at which a video stream is updated is measured in frames per second (fps). If you want more accurate video then the

frame rate should be kept high. Lower the frame rate, lesser the image detail.

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Daylight saving time (DST): It is practiced especially in countries such as Australia,

Canada and the United States to save energy because it refers to a time for saving daylight during the summertime so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less.

Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn.

QoS & IP filtering: Quality of service plays an important role while viewing video over the data network, this IP camera supports QoS parameters which can help prioritize the video traffic along with the managed switches/ routers in the network to ensure best delivery of the video when running multiple applications over IP network. The IP camera can either white list or blacklist an IP address. This restricts unauthorized access to the IP camera.

Infrared (IR) cut-off filters: They are used with color CCD or CMOS imagers to produce accurate color images. An IR cut-off filter blocks the transmission of the infrared while passing the visible. This can be done with two optical techniques: absorption or reflection.

Absorptive filters are made with special optical glass that absorbs near infrared radiation.

Reflection type filters are short-pass interference filters that reflect infrared light with high efficiency.

True day/night function: This IP camera has an IR cut filter which offers true image during operation in Day/Night mode. Under day light operations, the IR cut filter filters the

IR Ray from the image and offers a true color image. During night operations the IR cut filter is removed automatically and provides a monochrome image.

This product comes with One Year warranty. For further details about warranty policy

and Product Registration, please visit support section of www.digisol.com

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