1.4 Physical Description ..........................2 1.5 INSTEON Application Access ......................4 1.5.1 Adding the HD Camera to the INSTEON Hub - Android ............4 1.5.2 Adding the HD Camera to the INSTEON hub - iOS ..............9 2 Access the IP Camera ..........................14 2.1 Access the Camera in LAN .......................
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4.4 Video ..............................58 4.4.1 Video Settings .......................... 58 4.4.2 On Screen Display ........................59 4.4.3 Privacy Zone ..........................59 4.4.4 Snapshot Settings ........................61 4.4.5 IR LED Schedule ........................61 4.5 Alarm ..............................62 4.6 Record ..............................65 4.6.1 Storage Location ........................65 4.6.2 Alarm Recording ........................
1 Overview Indoor HD Wireless IP Camera with P2P is an integrated wireless IP Camera with a color CMOS sensor enabling viewing in High Definition resolution. It combines a high quality digital video camera, with a powerful web server, to bring clear video to your desktop and mobile devices from anywhere on your local network or over the Internet.
Embedded free DDNS(dynamic domain name service) Service Support for Third Party Domain Name Service Supports two-way audio using select browsers and apps Multi-level users management with password protection Motion detection alert via email or upload image to FTP server ...
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Rear Panel(FC2401P/FC2503PZ) 9.Antenna 1.LAN 3.Network light 2.Power 7.Audio Output 4.Power 8.Audio Input light 5.WPS 6. SD Card Slot Figure 1.2 1.LAN: 10/100 Mbps RJ-45 port for wired connection 2.Power: DC 5V/2A Power supply 3.Network Light: The LED will blink slowly in wired connection, blink two times faster in wireless connection, blink four times faster when WPS 4.Power Light: If the power supply works fine, the light will turn on 5.WPS: Push the WPS button on the camera and wireless router in 1 minutes, the camera will connect the...
2. Reset Button: Push and hold for more than 5 seconds to set the camera to factory default. 1.5 INSTEON Application Access 1.5.1 Adding the HD Camera to the INSTEON Hub - Android From any screen in the app, tap the Rooms Icon at the bootom, then select All devices, then tap the + iten in...
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Select the Camera from the list of available devices.
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Select Skip Video for automatic setup. Confirm that your phone, INSTEON Hub, and Wi-Fi Camera are all on the same network and select OK...
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Put in the Cameras username and password. By Default this will be admin for the username, and the password will be blank. It is advisable to change these at this time. Select your option, for this example we will be adding it in on a protected Wi-Fi network. The app will then ask you for the Wi-Fi network’s password.
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The app will pull up an image of your camera and ask that you now disconnect the camera from the router to test the Wi-Fi.
Once it has rebooted the camera, you can now rename the device and move on to adding additional units into the hub. 1.5.2 Adding the HD Camera to the INSTEON hub - iOS From any screen in the app, swipe to the right and select ‘Add Devices’...
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Select the Camera from the list of available devices.
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Select Skip Video for automatic setup. Confirm that your phone, INSTEON Hub, and Wi-Fi Camera are all on the same network and select OK.
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Agree to the terms associated with the HD Camera and its Data usage Put in the Camera’s username and password. By Default this will be admin for the username, and the password will be blank. It is advisable to change these at this time, then select your option, for this example we will be adding it in on a protected Wi-Fi network.
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The app will pull up an image of your camera and ask that you now disconnect the camera from the router to test the Wi-Fi. Once it has rebooted the camera, you can now rename the device and move on to adding additional units into the Hub.
2 Access the IP Camera This chapter explains how to access the camera through browser and RTSP player. 2.1 Access the Camera in LAN This camera supports HTTP and HTTPS protocols, you can access the camera by two ways. (1) http:// LAN IP + HTTP Port NO. The default HTTP port no is 88.
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Open Internet Explorer if it is not already opened. Click on Tools, then click Internet Options. Next, click the Security tab, then click the Trusted sites button. Figure 2.3 For Firefox, you can add the trusted as the following way:...
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Tools ---- Options ---- Advanced --- View Certificates --- Servers Figure 2.4 Click View Certificates, and go to Servers option . Figure 2.5 Go to Add Exception panel.
Enter the camera’s url , here take https://192.168.8.129:443 for example . Click this button to add it . Figure 2.6 2.2 Access the Camera in WAN 2.2.1 Static IP Addresses Users who have static IP addresses do not need to set DDNS service settings for remote access. When you have finished connecting the camera using the LAN IP address and port forwarding, you can access the camera directly from the Internet using the WAN IP address and port number.
Figure 2.3 Access your IP Camera from the Internet You can access the IP Camera from the Internet (remote access). Enter the WAN IP address and port number in your standard browser. For example, you would enter http:// 183.37.28.254:85 NOTES: Make sure port forwarding is successful.
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Step 1: Open the IP Camera Tool, select the camera you would like to change the port of, right click on the IP address, and click on ”Network Configuration”, this brings up the network configuration box. Select which camera you’d like to change the port for, and right click Figure 2.4...
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Figure 2.6 What is Port forwarding? If you have never done port forwarding before, you can open and view the following link to understand the basic concept. Port forwarding allows for outside connections to access a specific device on your network from anywhere in the world.
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First method : Use the embedded DDNS to access the camera via the Internet Each camera has an embedded unique DDNS domain name, the format of this domain name is xxxxxx.myipcamera.org. On the bottom of the camera, you can see the domain name sticker with this information on it.
NOTE: If you have set Third Party DDNS successfully ,the Domain Name will be invalid. The Third Party DDNS and the Domain Name cannot work at the same time, the last time you configured will take effect. 2.3 Using the VLC player This camera supports RTSP streaming, here you can view the camera using VLC player.
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Figure 2.9 Figure 2.10 Sometimes you may need to enter the user name and password again. Click OK and you can see the real-time preview.
Figure 2.11 Figure 2.12 If you cannot play the video in the VLC player, please check the port mapping. You can read Quick Installation Guide about How to configure port forwarding. NOTE: If you modify the camera’s username or password, you had better reboot the camera, or else the new username and password cannot take effect when you enter the authentication in the VLC.
3 Surveillance Software GUI Please refer to the Quick Installation Guide if you install the camera at first time. After finishing quick installation, you can take time to learn the operation of the software. 3.1 Login Window Figure 3.1 Please check the login window above, it was divided to 5 sections from no. 1 to 4. Section1 Enter the User name and password The default administrator username is admin with a blank password.
3.2 Modify the Username and Password When you log in for the first time, it will require that you modify the username and password automatically. Figure 3.2 Enter the New Username, New password and Confirm the password. Click Modify button, you will see the login page again. 3.3 Setup Wizard After logging in for the first time, you will be directed to the“Setup Wizard”automatically.
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Figure 3.3 System Time: Select the time zone you need to set the date, time,format, etc. Figure 3.4 Wireless networks: Click Scan, find the SSID of your wireless router, select and enter the password. Figure 3.5 IP: Set the IP address of the camera. You could choose to obtain an IP automatically (DHCP) or set the IP address manually according to your needs.
Figure 3.6 NOTE: It takes about 1 minute to connect the camera to your router. 3.4 Surveillance Window Figure 3.3 Section1 LiveVideo / Settings/Playback buttons : Path to surveillance window. Click this button and back to the surveillance window : Path to Administrator Control Panel, Click it, and it will lead to Administrator Control Panel and...
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do advanced settings. : Click this button and back to the Playback panel to view the stored audio files stored in the SD Card. Section2 Multi-Device Window The firmware inside the camera supports up to maximum of 9 cameras being monitoring at the same time. You can add other cameras in multi-device setting.
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fluid video streaming, please select resolution VGA. 3) Maximum frame rate When the video format is 50Hz, the maximum frame rate is 25 fps. When the video format is 60Hz, the maximum frame rate is 30 fps. You should lower frame rate when the bandwidth is limited. Normally, when the frame rate above 15, you can achieve fluid video.
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Section4 Pan/Tilt Control(except for FC1403P) 1----- Up control button, 2----- Down control button, 3----- Left control button, 4----- Right control button, 5----- Up-Left control button 6----- Up-Right control button 7----- Down-Left control button 8----- Down-Right control button Click this button and go to center Section5 Cruise / Preset settings(except for FC1403P) Cruise Settings...
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: Start cruise. : Stop cruise. If you want to define or change the cruise trace, please go to Settings Preset Settings panel. How to do cruise? Firstly: Select one track in the track drop-down list Select one of these Secondly: Click Start cruise button, the camera will cruise following the predefined path.
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Section6 IR LED Lights Click Infra led and there are three modes to adjust the infrared led: Auto, Manual and Schedule. Auto: Select it and the camera will adjust the infra led (on or off) automatically. Manual: Select it and you can turn on or turn off the infrared led manually. Schedule: Select it and the IR led light will be off at the schedule period.
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earphone or speakers that connected with PC. 5 ----- Snapshot Click it to make snapshot and it pop-up a window which picture you snapshot, right click in the window and save the picture to anywhere you want. 6 ----- Record Click the icon and the camera start recording, you can see a green dot in the live window.
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Figure 3.7 When you select the Full Screen, then click right mouse, there is a Screen PTZ button. Figure 3.8 Click the Screen PTZ button and put the mouse on the screen to indicate the camera move direction you prefer, press the left mouse, the camera will move to the corresponding direction. Loosen the mouse and stop moving.
4 Advanced Camera Settings Click the button “Settings”, goes to Administrator Control Panel to make advanced camera settings. 4.1 Status Status contains four columns: Device Information, Device Status, Session Status and Log, it will show you various information about your camera. 4.1.1 Device Information Figure 4.1 Camera Model: The camera model no.
4.1.2 Device Status On this page you can see device status such as Alarm status/ Record Status ,DDNS status ,WIFI status and so Figure 4.2 4.1.3 Session Status Session status will display which users are currently viewing the camera, as well as their IP address Figure 4.3 4.1.4 Log The log record shows who and which IP address accessed or logout the camera and when.
Click the page number and go to the corresponding page to see more logs. Fill in one page number, click Go button and go to the corresponding page. Figure 4.4 Reboot the camera and clear the log records. 4.2 Basic Settings This section allows you to configure your camera’s Name, Time, Mail, User account and Multi-Device.
Figure 4.6 Time Zone: Select the time zone for your region from the drop-down menu. Sync with NTP server: Network Time Protocol will synchronize your camera with an Internet time server. Choose the one that is closest to your camera. Sync with PC: Select this option to synchronize the date and time of the Network Camera with your computer.
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Figure 4.7 How to change the password of administrator? Firstly, select the account of administrator, then select “Change password”, enter the old password and the new password, lastly click modify to take effect. Figure 4.8 How to add account ? Select one blank column, then enter the new user name, password and privilege, last click Add to take effect.
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Figure 4.9 Figure 4.10 Delete:Select the account which you want to delete, then click Delete button to take effect. NOTE: The default admin account cannot be deleted, but you can add other administrator users.
4.2.4 Multi-Camera If you want to view multi-surveillance screens on one window, you need to login one camera, and set it as the main device, and do Multi-Device Settings, add other cameras to the first one camera. Before you do multi-cams settings, you need to assign different port such as 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 to the cameras if there is 8 cams installed.
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Figure 4.12 Back to Live Video, and click Four Windows option, you will see four cameras you added. Figure 4.13...
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Figure 4.14 Add cameras in WAN If you want to view all cameras via the internet(remote computer), you will need to add them using DDNS domain name. Firstly, make sure all of the cameras you added can be accessed through the internet. (Read How to configure DDNS settings in chapter 4.3.3) Login to the first camera using a DDNS domain name and port.
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Click Multi-Device Settings. Choose The 2nd Device. Fill in the 2nd camera’s name, DDNS domain name, port number. Enter user name and password and then choose Add. (Figure 4.19) Figure 4.16 1----- The camera model: H264. 2----- The 2nd camera’s name 3----- Fill in the 2nd camera’s DDNS host not LAN IP 4---- Enter the 2nd camera’s user name and password 5---- Click Add button and to take effect...
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Figure 4.17 Return to video window. You will see all of the cameras accessible through the internet. When you are away from home, you can use the first camera’s DDNS domain name and port to view all the cameras via internet. Figure 4.18...
4.3 Network This section will allow you to configure your camera’s IP, PPPoE, DDNS, Wireless Settings, UPnP and Port. 4.3.1 IP Configuration If you want to set a static IP for the camera, please go to IP Configuration page. Keep the camera in the same subnet of your router or computer.
Set the same Subnet Mask and gateway of the camera with your PC. There are two DNS servers, you can set any of them. Same with gateway is also Figure 4.21 If you don’t know the DNS server, you can use the same settings as the Default Gateway. 4.3.2 Wireless Settings Step 1: Choose “Settings”...
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Click the Scan button to search for wireless networks. Click the Page number to see other wireless networks devices if there are more than 10. Figure 4.22 Step 2: Click the SSID (name of your router) in the list, the corresponding information related to your network, such as the name and the encryption, will be filled into the relevant fields automatically.
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The LAN IP address will disappear on the window of IP Camera Tool when the camera is configuring a wireless connection. Wait about 1 minute, the camera should obtain a wireless connection, and the LAN IP of the camera will show again on the window of the IP Camera Tool. The IP address may have changed after the camera receives a wireless connection;...
4.3.3 PPPoE If you are using a PPPoE connection, enable it and enter the User Name and Password for your PPPoE account. Figure 4.24 4.3.4 DDNS Each camera has embedded a unique DDNS domain name when producing, and you can directly use the domain name, you can also use the third party domain name.
Port forwarding within the router Example: The camera’s LAN IP address is http://192.168.8.100:2000 , Media port no. is 9200. Firstly, login the router, goes to the menu of Port Forwarding or Port Trigger (or named Virtue Server on some brands of router). Take Linksys brand router as an example, Login the router, and goes to Applications &...
Figure 4.28 The camera’s software will be configured for port forwarding. There may be issues with your routers security settings, and sometimes may error. We recommend you configure port forwarding manually on your router. 4.3.6 Port This camera supports HTTP Port / HTTPS Port/ ONVIF Port. HTTP Port is used to access the camera remotely. If you want to access the camera and view the video.
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Select which camera you’d like to change the port for, and right click Figure 4.30 Modify the Http Port. Enter the Username and password, click OK. Figure 4.31 Step 2: Enter the username and password of the Administrator (default username is admin with a blank password), and click “OK”...
If the camera cannot be accessed, please make sure the port forwarding is successful. HTTPS port: The default port is 443. You can use the url to access the camera: https:// IP + HTTPS port. 4.3.7 Mail Settings If you want the camera to send emails when motion has been detected, here Mail will need to be configured. Figure 4.33 1----- SMTP Server/ Port /Transport Layer Security Enter SMTP server for sender.
Test result Figure 4.34 If the test success, you can see the Success behind the Test, at the same time the receivers will receive a test mail. If the test fails with one of the following errors after clicking Test, verify that the information you entered is correct and again select Test .
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Figure 4.35 Figure 4.36 FTP server: If your FTP server is located on the LAN. If you have an FTP server which you can access on the internet. Port: Default is port 21. If changed, external FTP client program must change the server connection port accordingly.
4.3.9 P2P Access the IP Camera by Smart Phone (Android or iOS operating system) First of all, you need to open the P2P function of the IP Camera at “Settings-->Network-->P2P”. Figure 4.37 Search and install IPCam Viewer on Google Play for Android devices, search and install IPCam_Viewer on APP Store for iOS devices.
Stream type: There are four types to identify different streams you have set. Resolution: The camera supports multiple types, For example: 960P, 720P, VGA, QVGA. The higher the resolution is, the clearer video will become. But the code flux will become larger too, and it will take up more bandwidth.
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Figure 4.40 Allow On Screen Display Mask: There are two options: Yes or NO. Select Yes, then click “Set Privacy Zone” and draw a privacy area on the video, the privacy area will be black on the video. The mask area Figure 4.41 Click OK button and return to the page, click Save to take effect.
4.4.4 Snapshot Settings On this page you can set the snapshot pictures’ image quality and the storage path. Figure 4.43 Manual snap Quality: Low, Middle and High. The higher the quality, the picture will be clearer. Alarm Pictures Save To: FTP or SD Card. If you have done FTP and Alarm settings, when alarming, the camera will snap pictures to the FTP automatically.
Figure 4.44 4.5 Alarm IP Camera supports Motion Detection Alarm, when the motion has been detected, it will send emails or upload images to FTP. Figure 4.45 To enable motion detection, follow the steps below: Step 01: Enable Motion detection Step 02: Sensitivity---- Supports five modes: Lowest, Lower, Low, Medium and High.
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5s/6s/7s/8s/9s/10s/11s/12s/13s/14s/15s. Select one interval time. Step 04: Select the alarm indicator When the motion has been detected, the alarm status will turn to Detect alarm. Figure 4.46 There are four alarm indicators: A Camera Sound and PC Sound If the camera has connected with a speaker or other audio output device, if you select Camera Sound or PC Sound, when the motion has been detected, the people around the camera will hear beep alarm sound.
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Click set detect area a window will pop up, then you can draw the detection area. Click OK button after settings. When something moves in the detection area, the camera will alarm. Figure 4.47 Step 06: Alarm Schedule ① Alarm anytime when motion is detected Click the black button up the MON, you will see all time range turn red.
Figure 4.49 ③ Press the left mouse and drag it on the time boxes, you can select the serial area. Figure 4.50 Step 07: Click Save button to take effect. When the motion has been detected during the detection time in the detection area, the camera will alarm and adopt the corresponding alarm indicators.
Figure 4.51 Recording Location: SD card or FTP. When the camera alarmed, it will store the alarm files to the SD card or FTP. Make sure the camera has been inserted the SD card. On this page, you can see the available space of the SD card.
Figure 4.53 4.6.4 Scheduled Recording On this page you can configure the schedule record. When the parameter Recording Location is set SD Card on the Storage Location page, you can configure parameters as shown in follow figure. Figure 4.54 When the parameter Recording Location is set FTP on the Storage Location page, you can configure parameters as shown in follow figure.
Figure 4.55 Click Save button to take effect. 4.6.5 SD Card Management This camera supports SD Cards up to 32G. When you insert the SD card while the camera is on, please reboot the camera. Go to the SettingsDevice StatusDevice Status page, you can see the SD card status. Figure 4.56 The default storage path of alarm record files is SD card, when the available size of SD card is less than 256M, the old record files will be deleted automatically.
4.7 PTZ This page will allow you to change the pan/tilt speed and do cruise tracks settings. 4.7.1 Pan/Tilt Speed There are five Pt speed types: very fast, fast, normal, slow and very slowly. Select the desired PTZ speed type and click save button .
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camera. Cruise Loops:Select Cruise Loops from Cruise Mode drop-down, you can set the Cruise Loops of the camera. Click Save to take effect. Figure 4.59 Manage the Cruise Track There are two default cruise tracks: Vertical and Horizontal. Vertical: The camera will rotate from up to down Horizontal: The camera will rotate form left to right.
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The new added track name . Here you can see the preset point has been added to one track. And 1 Select one preset point. 2 Click Add button. you can set the stay time. Figure 4.60 Thirdly: Click OK button and the cruise track will take effect. You can add other cruise track as the same method.
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The cruise tracks have added to the “track 1” . Figure 4.61 After adding the cruise track, return to the surveillance window, click Cruise, here you can see all cruise tracks you have added. Figure 4.62 There are other buttons between the Preset points and Cruise track, you can use these buttons to adjust the order of preset points or add/delete one preset points in one cruise track, Figure 4.63...
Add: Select one preset points and add it to the selected cruise track. Delete: Select one preset points you have added to one cruise track, click delete. Move up/ down: Select one cruise track, adjust the order of preset points in one cruise track. Attention: TO prevent overheating of the motor, a long patrol time is not advised.
Figure 4.65 Enable firewall, If you select Only allow access from these IP addresses and fill in 8 IP addresses at most, only those clients whose IP addresses listed in the Only allow access from these IP addresses can access the Network Camera.
Figure 4.66 4.9.2 System Upgrade Your current firmware version will be displayed on your screen. You may go to the Device Status Device Information Page to check for the latest firmware versions available. Click Browse, choose the correct bin file and then click System upgrade. Don’t shut down the power during upgrade.
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Figure 4.68 Enter the User name and password Figure 4.69 CAUTION: If your camera works well with the current firmware, we recommend not upgrading. Please don’t upgrade the firmware unnecessarily. Your camera may be damaged if misconfigured during an upgrade. NOTE: 1) Before upgrading the firmware, please remove the SD card and reboot the camera, don’t upgrade the firmware in WAN through the web UI, or else the upgrade process may fail.
default factory settings before using the camera. 4.9.3 Patch Installation Click "Browse" to select the correct patch file, and then click "Install Patch" to install the patch. Do not turn off the power during it installing. After installing is complete, you will receive a system prompt. 4.9.4 Factory Reset Select Factory Reset and all parameters will return to factory settings if selected.
5 Playback On this page you can view the record files stored in the SD card. Section 1 Define the Record files time and Type : The storage path of record files : Here supports three types: current day, current month and All records. Another way, select the time on the time&date manually.
All records. : Click this button to search all files that satisfy the conditions you selected. Section 2 Search record files On this panel you can see all record files satisfy the conditions you set. Section 3 Play/Stop/Audio/Full screen buttons Please select one record file before use these buttons.
Continue to finish the installation, and then it will be successful. Please check if the plug-in was successfully installed or not. Restart Safari to enable the plug-in. 6.1.2 How to download and install the ActiveX for Firefox users For the first time login the camera, it may prompt you to download plugin.
Click here to download the plugin Figure 6.1 Drag the download file to Firefox web page and it will prompt you to Install it. Click Install Now Figure 6.2 Reboot the Firefox after the plugin installation is successfully completely, then relogin the camera again, you can see the surveillance window NOTE: If you could not view living video after running the ActiveX, only a red cross in the center of the...
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Figure 6.3 Download the plugin and drag it to the Extensions page of Google Chrome. Go to Extensions page Figure 6.4 Click Add button to install the Plugins.
Click Add button to install the plugin Figure 6.5 Reboot the browser and relogin the camera, you will see the surveillance window. 6.1.4 I have forgotten the administrator password To reset the administrator username and password, press and hold down the RESET BUTTON for 5 seconds. Upon releasing the reset button, wait for 20 seconds, the camera will reboot and the username and password will return to the factory default administrator username and password.
subnet mask, IP address and gateways. When you set IP address please make sure they are in the same subnet. Otherwise you can't access camera. 6.1.7 No Pictures Problems The video streaming is transmitted by the ActiveX controller. If ActiveX controller isn’t installed correctly you will see no video image.
NOTE: Make sure that your firewall or anti-virus software does not block the camera or ActiveX. If you could not see video, please shut down firewall or anti-virus software to try again. 6.1.8 Can’t access IP camera in internet There are some reasons: 1、ActiveX controller is not installed correctly 2、The port which camera used is blocked by Firewall or Anti-virus software.
Motion Detection Alarm via E-Mail, upload alarm snapshot to FTP Privacy Zone Set privacy zone manually User Accounts Three levels user role Other Features Firewall Supports IP Filtering Storage Micro SD card and local storage Reset Reset button is available Power Supply DC 5V/2.0A Power...
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This is a Class B product. In a domestic environment, this product may cause radio interference, in which case the user may be required to take adequate measures.
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