Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera Table of Contents LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES ...................... 4 INTRODUCTION .......................... 6 HARDWARE DESCRIPTION AND QUICK INSTALLATION/USAGE ........ 8 2.1. MAJOR HARDWARE COMPONENTS................8 2.2. QUICK INSTALLATION AND USAGE ................10 2.3. WIRELESS CONNECTION (IF ROUTER/AP HAS WPS BUTTON) ....... 15 2.4.
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera APPENDIX C. PERFORMANCE INFORMATION ................. 54 APPENDIX D. TROUBLE SHOOTING .................... 55 APPENDIX F. SNAPSHOT PICTURE ON ANY BROWSER ............58...
Figure 2-9: Pop-up Play-Video Password Window Figure 2-10: Unplug The Ethernet Cable to Enable The WiFi Function Figure 3-1: Open The Web Configuration Page from YesCam View Software Figure 3-2: IP CAM Web Configuration Login Page Figure 3-3: IP CAM Information Page...
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 3-27: System Reboot Settings Page Figure 3-28: System Reboot Under-Going Page Figure 3-29: Stick on 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: Warranty Card Figure 5-5: Installation CD Figure 5-6: ID/Password Card...
Outdoor 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 mYesCam View into your iPhone/iPad or Android 3.
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera The IP camera is ideal for securing small businesses, home offices and residences. The IP Camera is a perfect replacement of the alarm system and traditional analog CCTV camera 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.
Outdoor 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.
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera The major components on the back panel and bottom of the IP CAM products are the followings: 1. Power and Ethernet jack – use the accompanied splitter cable to connect to power adapter and Ethernet network. You could also extend the cable by using the accompanied RJ45 coupler as shown in Fig.2-3.
1. Connect the IP CAM to the home/office network. 2. Install the YesCam View/app software on the notebook/PC/mobiles. 3. Key in the ID/password of the IP CAM(from the ID/Password card) on the YesCam View, and then you can see the video.
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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 YesCam ViewInstaller-xxx.exe on the disk. The program will pop-up some windows about the installation options, please press the “next” button to proceed with the installation.
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Notice 1: 1. You can modify this play-video password by entering into the web configuration pages. Please refer to section 3.6 for more information. 2. You can also add the IP CAM into the CameraList in the YesCam View software to...
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All you need to do is add a camera item in the “CameraList” folder of the YesCam View software, key in the IP CAM ID and Password(from the ID/Password card). And then double click this camera item.
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 2-9: Pop-up play-video password window...
IP CAM is WEP(64 bits and 128 bits) and WPA-PSK(TKIP and AES). In most of the home/office WiFi environment, this is quite enough. The easiest way to set the WiFi settings on the IP CAM is through YesCam View software. Right-click the searched IP CAM in the “Auto Search” list and click the “Web Configure”...
Notice : 1. Please remember that the WiFi connection will use a different IP address, you will need to do the “Auto Search” function in the YesCam View again to find the IP CAM again after the WiFi is connected.
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera Please download the “mYesCam View” app from Android Market for Android devices 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( motion detection or sound detection) you want.
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 YesCam View software and click the “Web Configure” to open the login window of the IP CAM.
The IP CAM can be viewed remotely by the YesCam View software only when the IP CAM is registered. If this IP CAM is not registered, please check the Ethernet wiring of your network environment.
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.2. 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.
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 3-6: Network settings page for fixed IP address...
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.3. 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: SSID –...
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera WPA2-PSK is also supported. But WPA Enterprise or WPA2 Enterprise is not supported. All the fields in this page must be filled correctly with the same settings the wireless router or AP using. Figure 3-8: WiFi security enabled page You can click the “WiFi test”...
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 3-9: WiFi testing page...
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.4. 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.
1. Password(play video) – this is the password needed for viewing the video from the YesCam View software. Together with the IP CAM ID, you can view the video of this IP CAM anywhere in the world through the Internet.
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“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 YesCam View video viewing. 14. Enable/disable time display on video – if enabled, the date/time of the system will be displayed on the left-upper corner of the video.
“mYesCam View” 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 YesCam View(PC) access. The maximum allowed resolution is 1280x800 and maximum allowed bandwidth is 2M bps.
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.7. 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.
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.8. 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.
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 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”. Figure 3-14: Email/FTP Alarm page For the email message to work, a SMTP server is required. Click the “advanced” button will display the SMTP server settings page.
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 3-15: SMTP server settings page...
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.9. 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.
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera keying the URL address \\”NAS name”\”shared folder name” or \\”NAS 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.
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.10. Cloud Storage Settings The IP camera provides the recording of the video files into the Dropbox as the cloud storage. You can use your Dropbox account to do the recording and remotely playback the recorded video files on your mobile devices or computers. 1.
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 3-18: Cloud Storage logged in page...
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.11. 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 : The resolution and frame rate of the recorded video is the same as that set for the video settings.
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 3-20: SD-Card information page...
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.12. Scheduling The IP camera provides the scheduling function for the motion detection triggered email/ftp sending and/or the NAS/cloud recording with the individual parameters set in the . “Email/ftp alarm” settings and the “NAS settings” page. Totally 12 schedule list items are allowed.
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 3-21: Schedule management page...
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.13. 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.
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.14. 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.
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.15. 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”...
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.16. 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.
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Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera Figure 3-26: Firmware upgrade status page...
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.17. Reboot You can restart the IP CAM manually on this page. All the connected video viewing users will be disconnected. Figure 3-27: System reboot settings page Figure 3-28: System reboot under-going page...
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 3.18. 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”...
Software adjustable 1 to 3 high power IR LED numbers Connect up to 20 users simultaneously Bundle with free video management software YesCam View Push notification on iPhone/iPad and Android for motion and sound detection Email/ftp alarm message for motion and sound detection...
Outdoor Mega-pixel IP Camera 4.2. Specifications Outdoor Mega-pixel Models DC 20V, 0.6A Power Processors RISC CPU, hardware video processing and compression. Network Ethernet 10BaseT/100BaseTX, Auto-MDIX, RJ-45 interface Wireless IEEE 802.11n 90 - 150 Mbps IEEE 802.11g 6 - 54 Mbps interface IEEE 802.11b 1 - 11 Mbps Transmit power:...
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Web management username/password protection Video display ID/password protection WiFi WEP and WPA/WPA2 security mode Installation, Plug & play by ID/password. Video management software-YesCam View for video access and management multi-camera management maintenance Firmware upgrades via FTP Built-in web server for standard web browser access...
The followings are the list of tested NAT/router devices that can work with the IP CAM and YesCam View 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...
Outdoor 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.
(2). Check if the microphone on the IP Cam is enabled. Please login into the web configuration page of the IP Cam or open the “video settings” from YesCam View, select the “video” settings, click the “Enable audio microphone” choice.
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IP Cam to do the modification. 9. Does the IP Cam provide the recording function? A: You can do the recording of the video/audio of the IP Cam from the YesCam View. Another software CamPlay is needed to play the recorded vide/audio files.
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Outdoor 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.
Outdoor 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.