CONFIGURATION. IP Camera IP Camera

V. Configuration

Click video page.

to get into the administration page. Click to go back to the live

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System

i 、 System Information a. Server Information: Set up the camera name, select language, and set up the camera time.

1. Server Name ： This is the Camera name. This name will show on the IP Installer.

2. Select language ： There are English, Traditional Chinese, and

Simplified Chinese to select. When change, it will show the following dialogue box for the confirmation of changing language. b. OSD Setting: Select a position where date & time stamp / text showing on screen.

Moreover, click Text Edit can entry to adjust the OSD contents which is including Size and Alpha of text. Finally, click Upgrade button to reserve the setting. c. Server time setting ： Select options to set up time - “NTP”,

“Synchronize with PC’s time”, “Manual”, “The date and time remain the same”.

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ii 、 User Management

IP CAMERA supports three different users, administrator, general user, and anonymous user. a. Anonymous User Login ：

Yes ： Allow anonymous login

No ： Need user name & password to access this IP camera b. Add user ：

Type the user name and password, then click “Add/Set”. c. Click “edit” or “delete” to modify the user.

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iii 、 System update ： a. To update the firmware online, click “Browse…” to select the firmware. Then click “Upgrade” to proceed. b. Reboot system ： re-start the IP camera c. Factory default ： delete all the settings in this IP camera. d. Setting Management ： User may download the current setting to PC, or upgrade from previous saved setting.

1. Setting download:

Right-click the mouse button on Setting Download  Select

“Save AS…” to save current IP CAM setting in PC  Select saving directory  Save

2. Upgrade from previous setting

Browse  search previous setting  open  upgrade 

Setting update confirm  click index.html

. to return to main page

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B.Network

i 、 IP Setting

IP Camera supports DHCP and static IP. a. DHCP ： Using DHCP, IP Camera will get all the network parameters automatically. b. Static IP ： Please type in IP address, subnet mask, gateway, and

DNS manually. c. Port Assignment: user may need to assign different port to avoid conflict when setting up IP assignment.

1. Web Page Port: setup web page connecting port and video transmitting port (Default: 80)

2. RTSP Port: setup port for RTSP transmitting (Default: 554)

3. RTP Start and End Port: in RTSP mode, you may use TCP and

UDP for connecting. TCP connection uses RTSP Port (554).

UDP connection uses RTP Start and End Port.

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d. UPnP

This IP camera supports UPnP, If this service is enabled on your computer, the camera will automatically be detected and a new icon will be added to

“My Network Places.”

Note: UPnP must be enabled on your computer.

Please follow the procedure to activate UPnP

1. open the Control Panel from the Start Menu

2. select Add/Remove Programs

3. Select Add/Remove Windows Components and open

Networking Services section

4. Click Details and select UPnP to setup the service

5. The IP device icon will be added to “MY Network Places”

6. User may double click the IP device icon to access IE browser ii 、 PPPoE ：

Select “Enabled” to use PPPoE.

Key-in Username and password for the ADSL connection.

Send mail after dialed ： When connect to the internet, it will send a mail to a specific mail account. For the mail setting, please refer to “Mail and

FTP” settings. iii 、 DDNS ：

It supports DDNS (Dynamic DNS) service. a. DynDNS ：

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1. Enable this service

2. Key-in the DynDNS server name, user name, and password.

3. Set up the IP Schedule update refreshing rate.

4. Click “Apply”

5. If setting up IP schedule update too frequently, the IP may be blocked. In general, schedule update every day (1440 minutes) is recommended.

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b. Camddns service ：

1. Please enable this service

2. Key-in user name.

3. IP Schedule update is default at 5 minutes

4. Click “Apply”. c. DDNS Status

1. Updating ： Information update

2. Idle ： Stop service

3. DDNS registration successful, can now log by http://<username>.ddns.camddns.com

： Register successfully.

4. Update Failed, the name is already registered ： The user name has already been used. Please change it.

5. Update Failed, please check your internet connection ： Network connection failed.

6. Update Failed, please check the account information you provide ： The server, user name, and password may be wrong.

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iv 、 Mail & FTP

To send out the video via mail of ftp, please set up the configuration first. v 、 Wireless Setting (Wireless Network Optional)

Supports 802.11 b/g wireless connection.

Notice ： Wireless network and Ethernet network use the same IP, the user has to unplug Ethernet cable, if Ethernet cable is not unplug, wireless setting can not be executed.

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a. Status of Wireless Networks ； scan all wireless services.

b. Wireless Setting ：

1. Mode ： There are Infrastructure and Ad-hoc. Infrastructure is for connecting with the router.

Ad-hoc is for connecting with PC.

There is “Channel” to select only when user uses Ad-hoc mode. e.g. If one PC’s channel is 1, the other’s channel has to 1, too.

2. SSID ： Based on AP setting.

3. Channel ： This is only be used when the user selects Ad-hoc mode in order to avoid conflict.

4. Security ： It supports “None”, “WEP”, “WPA-PSK” security encryption based on the setting of the Router.

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5. WEP ：

 Authentication ： There are Open System and Shared Keys, it is based on different encryptions. This has to be the same as the Router’s setting.

 Encryption ： There are 64 bits and 128 bits. This is based on Key Type based on the Router’s setting.

 Key Type ： There are HEX and ASCII. When selecting HEX, the user only can input 0~9 characters and use A, B, C, D,

E, and F.

 When selecting ASCII, the user can input any character.

(Case sensitive)

 Key 1~4 ： Based on Key Type to input characters.

6. WPA-PSK ：

 Encryption ： There are TKIP and AES.

 Pre-Shared Key ： Allow any characters .

(Case sensitive)

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C.A/V Setting

i 、 Image Setting

For the security purpose, there are three areas can be setup for privacy mask. Click Area button first and pull a area on the above image. Finally, click Save button to reserve the setting.

Adjust “Brightness”, “Contrast”, “Sharpness” to get clear video.

Adjust “Brightness”, “Contrast”, “Saturation” , “Exposure”, “Sharpness” to get clear video. Moreover, IP CAMERA supports “AGC”, “Night Mode” and “Video Orientation”.

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ii 、 Video Setting

User may select 2 streaming output simultaneously:

Streaming 1 Setting: Basic mode and Advanced mode

Streaming 2 Setting: Basic mode, Advanced mode, and 3GPP mode

(Max Video Frame Rate for both streaming combined is 30 FPS) a. Streaming 1 Basic Mode ：

1. Resolution ：

There are 6 resolutions can be chosen.

1280x1024, 1280x960, 800x592, 640x480, 320x240, 176x144

2. Quality ：

There are 5 levels to adjust:

Best/ High/ Standard/ Medium/ Low

The higher the quality is, the bigger the file size is. Also not good for internet transmitting

3. Video Frame Rate ： The video refreshing rate per second.

4. Video Format ： H.264 or JPEG

5. RTSP Path: RTSP output name

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b. Streaming 1 Advanced Mode ：

1. Resolution ：

There are 6 resolutions can be chosen.

1280x1024, 1280x960, 800x592, 640x480, 320x240, 176x144

2. Bitrate Control Mode

There are CBR ﹝ Constant Bit Rate ﹞ and VBR ﹝ Variable Bit

Rate ﹞ to use.

CBR ： 32Kbps~8Mbps (the higher the CBR is, the better the video quality is)

VBR ： 1(Low)~10(High) – Compression rate, the higher the compression rate, the lower the picture quality is; vise versa.

The balance between VBR and network bandwidth will affect picture quality. Please carefully select the VBR rate to avoid picture breaking up or lagging.

3. Video Frame Rate

The video refreshing rate per second.

NTSC: Max 30 frames/second PAL: Max 25 frames/second

4. GOP Size

It means "Group of Pictures". The higher the GOP is, the better the quality is.

5. Video Format ： H.264 or JPEG

6. RTSP Path: RTSP output connecting route

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c. Streaming 2 Basic Mode ：

1. Resolution ：

There are 6 resolutions can be chosen.

1280x1024, 1280x960, 800x592, 640x480, 320x240, 176x144

2. Quality ：

There are 5 levels to adjust:

Best/ High/ Standard/ Medium/ Low

The higher the quality is, the bigger the file size is. Also not good for internet transmitting

3. Video Frame Rate ： The video refreshing rate per second.

4. Video Format ： H.264 or JPEG

5. RTSP Path: RTSP output connecting route d. Streaming 2 Advanced Mode ：

1. Resolution ：

There are 6 resolutions can be chosen.

1280x1024, 1280x960, 800x592, 640x480, 320x240, 176x144

2. Quality ：

There are 5 levels to adjust:

Best/ High/ Standard/ Medium/ Low

The higher the quality is, the bigger the file size is. Also not

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good for internet transmitting

3. Video Frame Rate ： The video refreshing rate per second.

4. Video Format ： H.264 or JPEG

5. RTSP Path: RTSP output connecting route e. 3GPP Streaming mode:

3GPP mode suggested setting: 176x144 resolution, 5FPS, MPEG4 format

1. Enable or Disable 3GPP Streaming

2. 3GPP: 3GPP output name

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iii 、 Audio ：

IP CAMERA supports 2-way audio. User can send audio from IP

Camera Built-in mic to remote PC; User can also send audio from remote PC to IP Camera’s external speaker. a. Audio from IP camera built-in mic to local PC: select “Enable” to start this function. b. Audio from local PC to IP Camera: Check “chatting” in the browsing page.

The Audio will not be smooth when enable SD card recording function simultaneously.

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D.Event List

IP CAMERA provides multiple event settings. i 、 Event Setting a. Motion Detection ：

IP CAMERA allows 3 areas motion detection. When motion is triggered, it can send the video to some specific mail addresses, transmit the video to remote ftp server, trigger the relay, and save video to local SD card. To set up the motion area, click “Area

Setting”. Using mouse to drag and draw the area. The same operation for area 2 and 3. b. Record File Setting: IP CAMERA allows 3 different types of recording file to change its record size.

When motion/alarm is triggered, there are 3 different types of record mode.

1. AVI File (With Record File Setting )

2. Multi-JPEG (With Record File Setting), only with JPEG

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compression format.

3. Single JPEG (Single File with Interval Setting) c. Record Time Setting ：

Pre Alarm and Post Alarm setups for video start and end time when motion detected, I/O, or other devices got triggered.

Note: Pre/Post Alarm record time is base on record time setting and IP Cam built-in Ram memory. Limited by IP Cam built-in Ram Memory, When information is too much or video quality set too high, it will cause recording frame drop or decrease on post alarm recording time. ii 、 Schedule a. Schedule: After complete the schedule setup, the camera data will be recorded according to the schedule setup. b. Snapshot: After enable the snapshot function, user can select the storage position of snapshot file, the interval time of snapshot and the reserved file name of snapshot.

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iii 、 Log List

Sort by System Logs, Motion Detection Logs and I/O Logs. In addition,

System Logs and I/O Logs won’t lose data due to power failure.

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