Dual Lens Mega-pixel IP Network Camera User Manual Model：IC717HD Revision: 030409 Date: 2013/03/14 For firmware version v030409
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 6 2. HARDWARE DESCRIPTION AND QUICK INSTALLATION/USAGE ............................... 8 4. 5. 2.1. MAJOR HARDWARE COMPONENTS. .................................................................................. 8 2.2. QUICK INSTALLATION AND USAGE ..........................................................................
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera APPENDIX C. PERFORMANCE INFORMATION ...................................................................... 54 APPENDIX D. TROUBLE SHOOTING ....................................................................................... 56 APPENDIX F. SNAPSHOT PICTURE ON ANY BROWSER .....................................................
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera List of Figures and Tables Figure 2-1: Major components in the front panel Figure 2-2: Major components in the back panel Figure 2-3: IP CAM connection diagram. Figure 2-4: Connect Ethernet cable to a switch/router.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 3-28: Safe mode information page Figure 3-29: Stick the reset button to set to the factory default Figure 5-1: The IP camera body Figure 5-2: Power Adaptor Figure 5-3: Quick installation guide Figure 5-4: Ethernet cable Figure 5-5: Installation CD Figure 5-6: ID/Password Card Table A-1: List of tested Wireless AP/router devices Table A-2: List of tested Wired NAT/router devices 5
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 1. Introduction The IP Camera is designed for all day video surveillance on your iPhone/iPad and Android mobiles/pads. The setup is truly 1-2-3 : 1. Connect the camera to the network 2. Download the app mCamView into your iPhone/iPad or Android 3.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera residences. The IP Camera is a perfect replacement of the alarm system and baby monitor in your house and shop. . The differences It’s very easy to see the video of the IP Camera, you only need to key in the ID/Password of the IP CAM any where in the world, you do not need to remember the IP address or domain name or DDNS name or port number.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 2. Hardware description and quick installation/usage The IP CAM is designed to be very easy to install and use. First, let’s see the major components of the IP CAM products. 2.1. Major hardware components. The major components on the front panel of the IP CAM products are the followings : 1. Lens – the lens is inside the camera body and the focus of the lens is fixed, you do not need to spend time to adjust the focus, the effective focus range is from 30cm to infinity.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 2-1: Major components in the front panel The major components on the back panel and bottom of the IP CAM products are the followings: 1. Bracket screw jack – this is the position to screw in the bracket of the IP CAM. With the bracket, you can put the IP CAM on the desk, on the wall or on the ceiling. (Bracket not provided) 2. Power jack – this is the place to plug in the power adaptor. The power needed for this IP CAM is 12V/1.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 2.2. Quick installation and usage There are only three things that you need to do to see the video from the IP CAM. 1. Connect the IP CAM to the home/office network. 2. Install the CamView/app software on the notebook/PC/mobiles. 3. Key in the ID/password of the IP CAM(from the ID/Password card) on the CamView, and then you can see the video.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 2-3: IP CAM connection diagram. Figure 2-4: Connect Ethernet cable to a switch/router. Second, Install the CamView/mCamView software on the notebook/PC/mobiles Please insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive in your notebook or personal computer (must be running Microsoft Windows OS). Execute the program CamViewInstaller-xxx.exe on the disk.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 2-5: The installation CD disk Third, Use CamView program to see the video Figure 2-5 is the running window of the CamView program. If the computer and IP CAM is connected to the same network, the IP CAM ID will be displayed in the “Auto Search” list. You can double click the “Auto Search” to search all the connected IP CAMs any time. The only thing left right now for seeing the video is to double click the IP CAM ID item in the “Auto Search” list.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Notice 2: 1. For the iPhone usage, please download “mcamview” from App Store 2. For the iPad usage, please download “mcamviewHD” from App Store 3. For the Android mobile phone/pad usage, please download “mcamview” from Android Market. Seeing the video in a remote location After the IP CAM is installed and you can see the video from the CamView software in the local network, it’s very easy to see the video in a remote location.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 2-8: Pop-up play-video password window 14
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 2.3. Wireless connection (if router/AP has WPS button) The IP Cam(w) can be connected to the home/office network through the 802.11 n wireless connection. If the router or AP has WPS button, then there are only three simple steps that you need to do to have the wireless connection: 1. Unplug the Ethernet cable from the camera. 2. Click the WPS button on the router. And then click the WPS button on the camera within one minute. 3.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Third, unplug the Ethernet cable If the WiFi test is successful, you can then enable the WiFi connection by unplugging the Ethernet cable from the IP CAM. The IP CAM will detect the Ethernet cable unplugged condition and start the WiFi connection. After the WiFi is connected, the IP CAM will connect to the Internet immediately. Notice : 1.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera To enable the push notification, go to the settings page of the specific camera, choose “alarm notification”, key in the login account( default is “admin”, no password ), and enable the alarm condition( PIR, motion detection or sound detection) you want. That’s all. The mobile device will receive push notification immediately when the alarm is triggered. If the SD card is inserted, the camera will start SD card recording when the alarm condition is detected.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3. Web configurations You can login into the web configuration page by directly key-in the IP address of the IP CAM or right-click the searched IP CAM in the “Auto Search” list of the CamView software and click the “Web Configure” to open the login window of the IP CAM. Figure 3-1: Open the web configuration page from CamView software The default login account is “admin”, leave the Password field empty.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.1. Information The first page of the web configuration of the IP CAM is the information page. You can see the model name/firmware version, IP CAM ID, registration status, network type and current video settings( bandwidth, resolution) in this page. The IP CAM can be viewed remotely by the CamView software only when the IP CAM is registered. If this IP CAM is not registered, please check the Ethernet wiring of your network environment.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.2. Video Display This display page allows you to view the video display of the IP camera. For the first time use of this display on a computer, an activeX component will be automatically downloaded into the browser. This could take some time, depends on the internet speed. The component is downloaded from a public domain, so that the computer must be connected to the Internet. If you want to modify the video display screen size, please refer to section 3.6 for more details.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.3. Network The Network page allows you to modify the network settings of the wired Ethernet. The default settings use DHCP to obtain an IP address automatically. In most of the home and office network environment, there is a DHCP server running. In this situation, by using this default settings, the IP CAM can work immediately in most of the time. If the Ethernet cable is unplugged, the IP CAM will lose connection.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 3-6: Network settings page for fixed IP address 22
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.4. WiFi security You can use the wireless to connect the IP CAM to the network. If your network environment has a 802.11 n router or AP running, you can check the “Enable WiFi function” button to use the wireless. Figure 3-7: WiFi security disabled page In order to use the wireless network, you need to fill the following fields: 1. SSID – this is the ID of the wireless router or AP of your wireless network environment, must be set correctly. 2.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 3-8: WiFi security enabled page You can click the “WiFi test” button to check if the IP CAM can connect to the wireless network for these settings. You will need to unplug the Ethernet cable to enable the wireless connection after the “WiFi test” is successful. You can click the “WiFi scan” button to scan for all the available access points nearby.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.5. Advanced Network In some special situation, your network environment only provides PPPoE connection(ADSL service), there is no NAT/router available. You will then need to set the PPPoE settings in the “Advanced Network” page. Only the PPPoE username and password are needed to let PPPoE work. After the “Save&Apply” button is pressed, the PPPoE function will work immediately.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.6. Video Settings The IP CAM is designed to provide high quality video for viewing from CamView software. In this page, you cam modify some settings related to the video viewing: 1. Password(play video) – this is the password needed for viewing the video from the CamView software. Together with the IP CAM ID, you can view the video of this IP CAM anywhere in the world through the Internet. 2. Internet speed – this is the Internet bandwidth of your network environment.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera this situation, change the setting to “Indoor video” will solve the problem. Please also be noticed that in “Indoor video” setting, the video display of outdoor view is very vague. For indoor usage, if there is strong sun light into the room, please select the “Indoor+sun light” choice. 13. Enable/disable audio microphone – you can enable or disable the audio microphone on the IP CAM. If disable, there will be no voice on the CamView video viewing. 14.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.7. Mobile Video settings The IP CAM is able to be viewed from a 3G mobile phone, please download “mcamview”/”mcamviewHD” software from App Store for iPhone/iPad and “mcamview” from Android Market for Android Mobiles and pads.. The video frame rate, resolution and bandwidth for 3G mobile access could be set independently from the video settings for CamView(PC) access. The maximum allowed resolution is 1024x768 and maximum allowed bandwidth is 2M bps.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.8. Night mode control The IP Cam is able to work both in day time and night time. There is an IR LED that can let the IP camera see the objects in the night time. This night mode control page is to control when the time the IR LED will be on. There are three ways to control the night mode( IR LED ) : 1. Automatic day and night mode switch : the IP cam will automatically turn on the IR LED when the night time is arrived or the environment is becoming dark.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.9. Email/ftp alarm The IP Camera provides the Email/ftp function, you can enable or schedule the Email/ftp ability in this page, the IP Camera will then send out an email with a jpeg picture attached in the email and/or send out the jpeg picture file to a ftp server. The related settings are explained below: 1. Email/FTP trigger – choose between “motion”, “D/I”, “schedule” and “disable” A.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 7. FTP server – this is the FTP server address to receive the jpeg file. 8. FTP username/password – this is the username/password to login into the FTP server, so, this triggered jpeg file will be allowed to reach this FTP server. 9. Remote folder – the jpeg file will be put under this folder of the FTP server. When this modification is “Save&Apply”ed, it works immediately, but all the connected video viewing users will be disconnected. The default setting is “Disable”.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 3-14: SMTP server settings page 32
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.10. Speaker Alarm settings The IP Camera provides speaker alarm function, a PIR or video motion detection could trigger the speaker alarm. The duration of the alarm could also be set. The related settings are explained below: 1. Speaker alarm trigger– select the trigger mode of the speaker alarm A. Motion trigger – if this is selected, the speaker alarm signal will be active when video motion is detected. The detection sensitivity is set In the “motion detection” page.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.11. NAS settings The IP Camera provides the recording of the video files into a standard NAS ( Network Access Storage ) device. The IP camera connects to the NAS device using the standard LMX_NS/CIFS/SSN protocols that are the same as the Microsoft Windows network neighborhood protocols. This makes the IP camera easily record the video files to all the standard NAS devices in the market.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera keying the URL address \\”NAS name”\”shared folder name” or \\”NAS IP address”\”shared folder name” in the windows Internet Explorer, and then key in the “NAS access account” and “NAS access password” to the prompted login window. The video files are recorded under the subfolder IPCamRecordFiles/Recording/ID-ID, where ID is the ID of this IP camera. All the recorded files are with the name of hhmmss.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.12. SD-Card settings The IP camera provides the recording of the video files into a standard Micro SD-Card. Since this recording is directly to the SD-Card, there is no network packets loss problem when recording to remote device through internet. Notice : when the IP camera is doing SD-Card recording, this is counted as one video user. Please refer to appendix B about allowed maximum video users. 1.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 3-18: SD-Card information page 37
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.13. Infrared thermometer There is an infrared thermometer on the camera, it will display the environment temperature on the video display screen on the computer or mobiles. You could also set a range for the thermometer to trigger the schedule event. When the environment temperature is out of the range, the scheduled event of email/ftp, speaker alarm, NAS recording or SD card recording will start according to the schedules set on section 3.14.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.14. Scheduling The IP camera provides the scheduling function for the motion detection triggered email/ftp sending and/or the NAS recording with the individual parameters set in the . “Email/ftp alarm” settings and the “NAS settings” page. Totally 12 schedule list items are allowed. There is no conflict check for the scheduling, it means that the scheduling time could be overlapped, and the IP camera will do all the scheduled events during the overlapped time period.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 6. For the scheduling period, can choose between “Every week”, “Every day” or “Fixed time” : A. For “Every week”, can choose week days of the week and set the time duration of each day. B. For “Every day”, can set the time duration of every day for the scheduling. C. For “Fixed time”, can set the starting date/time and the end date/time of the scheduling period.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.15. Led Display Control The IP CAM provides the Led Display Control function, you can enable or disable the led display/indication on the front panel of the IP cam device. The related settings are explained below: 1. Normal led display – select this to enable the status led and ethernet led display. 2. Turn off led display always – select this to disable the status led and ethernet led display. 3.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.16. Date/Time The IP CAM can synchronize the date/time with the universally available time server( for example stdtime.gov.tw) through NTP protocol. The date/time will then be corrected with the time server anytime when the Internet is connected. Users can choose the different TimeZone of their areas to display the correct time. For some TimeZone areas, the “Daylight Saving Time” could be enabled or disabled.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.17. Admin In this page, you can modify the web login account. With this account, you can login to the IP CAM and do any modifications. The default account is “admin” without password. If the login account is forgotten, you can reset the IP CAM to the factory default settings by following the steps in section 3.19 and login with the “admin” account. Please be noticed that this account is different from the video play password in the “Video settings” page.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.18. Upgrade If there is some new firmware available from the supplier of this IP CAM, you can upgrade the firmware on this page. Please ask for the correct information about FTP server, username/password account and firmware filename from your supplier, and then do this upgrade. A status message about the percentage done in the upgrade procedure is displayed. Please be noticed that during the upgrade procedure, do not power off the IP CAM.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.19. Reboot You can restart the IP CAM manually on this page. All the connected video viewing users will be disconnected.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.20. Set to factory default For some reason, for example you forgot the web login password, you may want to set the IP CAM to the factory default settings. The only thing you need to do is using a stick to press the “reset” button on the back of the IP CAM body for more than 4 seconds and release it, do this when the IP CAM is powered on. The IP CAM will reset to the factory default settings and restart automatically.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 4. Features and specifications 4.1. Features Ø Plug & play by ID/password, no IP address or DNS settings. Ø H.264 video compression Ø Mega-pixel for up to 1280x800 resolution at 30 fps. Ø Two sensors/lens for day and night separately. Ø PIR body detection, effective distance – 7 meters. Ø Two way audio, internal speaker. Ø Infrared thermometer and temperature alarm control. Ø SD card video recording with 5 seconds of pre-recording.. Ø 802.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera 4.2. Specifications Models Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Power DC 12V, 1A Processors Network interface Wireless interface RISC CPU, hardware video processing and compression. Ethernet 10BaseT/100BaseTX, Auto-MDIX, RJ-45 IEEE 802.11n 90 - 150 Mbps IEEE 802.11g 6 - 54 Mbps IEEE 802.11b 1 - 11 Mbps Transmit power: 14.5dBm typically @ 802.11g 17.5dBm typically @ 802.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Video settings Resolution: (WXGA)1280x800, 1024x768, VGA(640x480), QVGA(320x240) Bandwidth : 64k, 128k, 256k, 512k, 768k, 1M, 1.2M, 1.5M, 2M, 3M bps Frame rate : 1~5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 fps Audio Security Installation, management and maintenance Web browsing Built-in microphone for audio monitoring Built-in 0.5W speaker for alarm and half-duplex two-way audio. Speaker jack for external speaker Audio compression: G.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera conditions Humidity 20 – 80% RH (non-condensing) 50
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Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Appendix A. List of Tested NAT/router Devices The followings are the list of tested NAT/router devices that can work with the IP CAM and CamView software when viewing in a remote location. You do not need to do any modification on the default settings of the NAT/routers. In some office environment, if some strict firewall function is enabled, it’s possible that you can not view the IP CAM video through the firewall router.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Appendix B. Maximum Allowed Video Users The maximum allowed video users for a single camera at the same time is 20.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Appendix C. Performance Information 1. Video Performance Information The video quality is dependent on the video parameter settings and the network quality. If you want to have a better video quality, you will usually set higher resolution and higher frame rate. This is fine when you are viewing the video locally in the same network.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera detection area will trigger the PIR detection. But when the environment temperature is about the same temperature of human body( about 37 degree Celsius ), the PIR detection could fail. The PIR detection distance is about 7 meters. If the detection purpose is on human intruders, the PIR will be the better choice to avoid false alarm.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Appendix D. Trouble shooting 1. What’s going on when the red led light on the IP camera is flashing? A: When the IP Cam is connected to the Internet and working correctly, the red led light will be on constantly. If the red led light is flashing, it’s probably because there is some network connecting problem. Please check the network connection again and follow the instructions on the user manual to set it up again. 2.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera A: It’s probably because the internet bandwidth (internet speed) is not big enough. Please try to apply for a better internet connection from your Internet Service Provider or decrease the bandwidth settings of the IP Cam. You can adjust the bandwidth requirement of the IP Cam either from the CamView software or login into the web configuration page of the IP Cam to do the modification. 9.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Appendix E. Third party and embedded web page integration For third party and embedded web page integration, the IP camera supports the standard RTSP protocol and video/audio codecs needed by most generally used video play software, including Apple QuickTime and VideoLAN. The supported media protocols including TCP and UDP. The IP camera will automatically use TCP or UDP media stream depends on the connection request.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Appendix F. Snapshot picture on any browser If you want to have the live snapshot picture on any browser, use the URL http://ip_address/snapshot.cgi to access the snapshot of the camera. The ip_address is the IP address of the camera. This works for all the browsers on computer or mobile device. The only limitation is that the computer or mobile device needs to be on the same network as the camera or the camera has public IP address.
Dual-lens Mega-pixel IP Camera Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement 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. 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.
