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IC-3015Wn User Manual 10-2011 / v1.0 .
1 Copyright Copyright © Edimax Technology Co., Ltd. all rights reserve d. No part of this publication may be re.
2 Contents Copyright ............................................................................................................................... ............................................ 1 Contents ..............
3 6.2 “Advanced” Settings ............................................................................................................................... .............. 51 Chapter VII: System Stat us ...
4 Chapter I: Introduction 1.1 Highlights of your new Network IP Camera Congratulates on purchasing this tiny network IP .
5 z IP Camera will become hot after long time of use. Refrain from touch IP Camera with hand, or cover this IP camera with paper or cloth.
6 Familiar with your new Network IP Camera [Front] Item Description 1 ‐ Lens IP Camera ’ s l ens. P l ease k eep t h e l ens c l ean an d d o not touch b y fin g er.
7 [Back] Item Description 1 ‐ Tripod connector T hi s mount i ng h o l e i s compat ibl e w .
8 1.4 Installing the Network Camera Please follow the following instructions to setup your new IP camera. 1. Secure the IP Camera to the tripod or camera stand by mounting hole.
9 If everything’s ok, you should see the POWE R LED light up (and Ethernet LED, if Ethernet cable is inserted).
10 Chapter II: Accessing the Camera’s Web Interface 2.1 Network Setup This IP camera’s default IP address is 192.168.2.3, and you must use a computer that uses 192.
11 3. If you didn’t see ‘Network and Internet’ in control panel, please look for ‘Network and Sharing Center’ icon and double ‐ click it. 4.
12 7. Click ‘Use the following IP address’, and then input ‘192.168.2.1’ in ‘IP address’ and ‘255.255.255.0’ in Subnet mask’, just like shown on the left.
13 2.2 Connecting to the Camera’s Web User Interface and Installing the ActiveX Plugin (IE only) For first ‐ time in.
14 This message prompts you that you need to install ActiveX plugin before you can see the video from IP Camera.
15 Click ‘Run’ to begin installation. You may see UAC (User Account Control) message after you click ‘Run’ button: Click ‘Yes’ to continue.
16 Click ‘Finish’ to close the window. Now, go back to web browser window and login again, you should be .
17 2.3 Live Video Monitoring To view the live video from IP camera, please log onto IP camera’s web interface as .
18 The descriptions of these items are listed below: Item Description Snapshot Take a snapshot (save a picture) of current live view.
19 When you’re enlarging image (i.e. Zoom Factor > 100%), a green rectangular will appear in the image area: Drag the green rectangular to move the position of enlarged area in image.
20 Chapter III: Setting Up the Network Camer a To setup the IP camera, please log onto IP camera’s web interface .
21 3.1 Basic Network Settings In this menu, you can setup Ethernet network settings. (NOT Wireless Network!) .
22 Item Description Network Type Select the type of Ethernet connection: Static IP, DHCP, and PPPoE. Please select one from dropdown menu, if you’re not sure, please consult your network administrator or ISP.
23 have to add a colon and port number after IP camera’s IP address. For example, if the camera’s IP address is 192.168.2.3 and HTTP port number is 82, you have to input ‘http://192.
24 3.2 Wireless You can establish wireless connections to other network devices such as network AP.
25 The descriptions of these items are listed below: Item Description Wireless Connection You can enable or disable wireless functionality here.
26 kinds of wireless network. If you select B, G, or N only, then IP camera will be able to communicate with wireless network of same operating mode only.
27 None: no encryption WEP: use WEP encryption WPA ‐ PSK: Use WPA with PSK encryp tion. WPA2 ‐ PSK: Use WPA2 with PSK encryption.
28 This setting must be identical with the setting of the network you wish to connect. You can also setup encryp.
29 3.3 Dynamic DNS If your Internet service provider didn’t issue you a fixed IP address, you can use this.
30 functionality, orselect ‘Disable’ to disable DDNS functionality. Provider Select Dynamic DNS service provider you’re using from dropdown menu. Host Name Input the hostname you registered with DDNS service provider.
31 3.4 Date & Time You can setup IP camera’s system date and time here. Maintaining a correct system time is very essential when you need to replay recorded video.
32 NTP: Use NTP (Network Time Protocol) to setup date and time automatically via network.
33 3.5 Users Besides default system operator account ‘administrator’, you can add additional operator account or use.
34 The descriptions of these items are listed below: Item Description User List Lists all existing operators / users here. To modify an operator / user’s setting, click his / her name here first.
35 welcomes everyone to view the video. If you only want to allow registered user to login, select ‘Disable’. Click ‘Apply’ button to save changes you made.
36 Select ‘Enable’ to enable this function, or select ‘Disable’ to prevent users on local area network to discover this IP camera.
37 Tips: Bonjour function must be enabled in safari browser first. .
38 Chapter IV: Video Configurat ion In video configuration setup page, you can change the resolution and frame rate, so you can decide the video quality by the bandwidth you have.
39 Please note: When the environment is dark, this IP camera will automatically adjust frame rate to a lower setting to provide better video quality by us ing a longer exposure time.
40 Item Description Brightness / Contrast / Saturation / Sharpness / Hue Change video’s appearance. If you think you don’t like the video as it appears, you can change these parameters.
41 Chapter V: Event Configuration This IP camera is capable to detect motions. You can use this function to use .
42 Send snapshot to E ‐ Mail Select ‘Enable’ to send a snapshot picture to designated email recipient; select ‘Disable’ to disable this function.
43 The descriptions of these items are listed below: Item Description Region 1 / Region 2 / Region 3 Check the box to enable this motion detection area.
44 of motion detection rectangle, and drag the mouse. Move motion detection area: Put the mouse within the motion detection area, and drag the mouse.
45 When you select this setup page, you’ll see the following setup page: The descriptions of these items .
46 Please don’t change this value until instructed by FTP server’s administrator. Path Input the path (folder) you wish to save snapshot file on FTP server.
47 When you select this setup page, you’ll see the following setup page: The descriptions of these items .
48 SMTP Server Input the host name or IP address of SMTP server. SMTP server is usually provided by your ISP. SMTP Port Input the SMTP port number here.
49 Click ‘Apply’ button to save changes you made. You can also click ‘Send a test E ‐ mail’ button to send .
50 Chapter VI: System Configuration You can configure the basic system settings in this setup page, or backup / restore system configurations.
51 ‘off’ here, so other people can’t identify if the IP camera is working by them.
52 configuration as a file and save it on your computer’s hard drive. Restore Config Click ‘Browse’ button to select .
53 Chapter VII: System Status You can view the status of this IP camera, which is helpful when you need to do detailed configuration, or debug.
54 A system information summary page will appear like this: .
55 7.2 System Log The IP camera’s usage and actions will be displayed here. The system log will appear.
56 Remote Log Server Input the IP address or host name of log server you wish to use.
57 Chapter VIII: Advanced Operations In this chapter, you’ll learn how to apply a free DYNDNS account to use with .
58 4. Fill all fields appear in this menu, and click ‘Create Account’ button to create a new account. You’ll be prompted if the account you selected is not available.
59 6. Check your e ‐ mail box and you should be able to get confirmation e ‐ mail. Click the link to connect to dyndns.org website and complete registration procedure.
60 7. When you see ‘Account Confirmed’ webpage, indicates your dyndns.org account has been confirmed and activated. Now you can click ‘Create a dynamic DNS host within our Free domains’ link to continue.
61 9. In this page: Input the hostname of your choice in ‘Hostname’ field, Select a domain name in dropdown menu.
62 11. Click ‘Next’ to continue. 12. Click ‘Activate Services’ to continue. 13. When you see this message, indicates your free dyndns.org hostname mapping service has been activated.
63 Chapter IX: Windows Surveillance Utility Besides using web browser to operate this IP camera, you can also use wi.
64 2. You can specify the destination folder of software installation, you can just use the default folder, and click ‘Next’ to continue. 3.
65 4. Here lists all options you chose in previous steps, if everything’s correct, click ‘Install’ to start installing procedure, or click ‘Back’ to go back to previous step to modify installing settings.
66 software will start after you click ‘Finish’ button, if you want to start it later, uncheck ‘Launch IPCam Surveillance Software’ box). 1.
67 8. When on e (or more) IP camera(s) is found: you can click button to connect to IP camera by web browser, or click button to configure its setting.
68 You can configure IP camera’s IP address setting in this page. You can either use ‘DHCP’ (IP camera wil.
69 9.2 Install Video Viewer 1. Double ‐ click Setup_Viewer_xxx file to start installation. 2.
70 4. Please check if everything’s correct here. If you want to change any setting, click ‘Back’ to go back to previous page, or click ‘Install’ to start installation.
71 6. Installation is complete when you see this message. You can click ‘Finish’ to finish installation procedur.
72 9.2 Using the Network Camera Surveillance Software You can click ‘IPCam Surveillance Software’ icon from desktop, quick launch bar, or start menu to start the IP camera surveillance software.
73 You can put the mouse cursor on a certain component and see its button name, and here’re detailed descriptions .
74 cameras. Recording Start video recording. Configure Software / camera configuration. Playback Playback a recorded video file. Snapshot Take a snapshot of current camera.
75 9.3 Conf igurin g the Network Camera Surveillance Software 9.3.1 Camera Configuration Before you use this IP camera surveillance software, you must configure the camera(s) you wish to connect.
76 9.3.1.1 “Camera” Settings In this tab you can configure all cameras you wish to connect.
77 is the first 6 bytes of camera’s MAC address, you can change the name of camera so you can remember the camera’s location of purpose easily.
78 9.3.1.2 Scheduled Recording In this tab, you can setup scheduled video recording, so you can record the video captured by all cameras you have by a pre ‐ defined schedule.
79 Please specify the time duration of this one ‐ time schedule (the date and time of ‘From’ and ‘To’), then click ‘OK’ to save settings.
80 duration of video recording in ‘Period’ field (format is HH:MM:SS), and the end time will be calculated automatically and displayed in ‘To’ field.
81 9.3.1.3 Audio For cameras that support audio, you can use this tab to decide if you wish to hear the audio captured by selected camera.
82 9.3.1.4 Motion Triggere d Recording With this function activated, only motions captured by the camera will be recorded, .
83 when motion is triggered detected by the camera. Send mail when motion is triggered Send an email to a pre ‐ defined address when a motion has been detected by the camera.
84 9.3.2 Gene ral Settings You can set system ‐ wide settings of this IP camera surveillance software in this menu.
85 Item Description Data Directory Set the directory (folder) you wish to store the recorded video and captured image. You can click ‘Browse’ button to pick a directory in your hard disk.
86 9.3.2.2 Email Setting If you want to use motion detection function and wish to get an email that contains the image captured by the camera, please setup your email related parameters here first.
87 Address New Click this button and you’ll be prompted to input the email address. Click ‘OK’ to save changes.
88 to receive email). Please refer to the setting of your email software or ask your ISP / network administrator if you’re not sure about this.
89 Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Description Enable Requires password authentication when this software starts. Disable Password authentication is not required when this software starts.
90 This tab shows the version number of the IP camera surveillance software you’re using.
91 9.4 Changing the Display Layout This IP camera surveillance software provides 8 kinds of display layout: Ever.
92 Layout style 3: 6 Cameras Displays the video of up to 6 cameras. Layout style 4: 8 Cameras Displays the video of up to 8 cameras.
93 Layout style 7: 13 Cameras Displays the video of up to 13 cameras. Layout style 8: 16 Cameras Displays the video of up to 16 cameras.
94 9.5 Full Screen Mode If you want to use all available spaces on your monitor to display surveillance image, you can click ‘Full Screen’ button to switch display mode to full ‐ screen mode.
95 9.6 Scan If you have more than one camera configured, and you wish to switch the displaying image between cameras, you can click ‘Scan’ button to switch between all configured cameras.
96 9.7 Zoom In/Zoom Out For cameras that support zoom ‐ in / zoom ‐ ou t function, you can use this function to .
97 9.8 PTZ For cameras that support pan ‐ tilt function, you can change the position that camera points to, to see different places that fall in the scope of camera’s view.
98 9.9 Snapshot You can take a snapshot of selected camera and save it to ‘Snapshot’ sub ‐ folder of pre ‐ defined data directory.
99 9.10 Recording You can start video recording of selected camera manually by clicking ‘Start Recording’ button: .
100 9.11 Video Playback You can playback all recorded video by clicking this button. A new window will appear: You have to search the video file before you can play it.
101 Chapter X: Appendix 10.1 Troubleshooting Please don’t panic when you found this IP Camera is not working properly.
102 Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to compl y with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of FCC Rules.
103 Declaration of Conformity We, Edimax Technology Co., Ltd., declare under our sole responsibility, that the equipment described below complies with t he requirements of the European R&TTE directive (2006/95/EC). Equipment : 1.3Mpx Wireless Network Camera Model No.
104 Notice According to GNU General Public License Ver sion 2 This product includes software that is subjec t to the GNU Ge nera l Public License version 2.
105 intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the ab sence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.
106 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the reci pient automatically receives .
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