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Before You Use Surveillance devices may be prohibited by law in your country. Though Network Camera is not only a high performance web equipped camera but also a flexible surveillance system, ensure that the operation of such devices are legal before installing this unit for surveillance. It is important to carefully check the contents with the "Package Contents" chapter after opening the package. Fully read and follow the “Installation” chapter to prevent damage caused by
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Table of Contents Before You Use.........................................................................................1 Package Contents .....................................................................................4 Installation ..............................................................................................5 Hardware installation...........................................................................5 Software installation.........................
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Application setup...............................................................................37 Weekly schedule..........................................................................37 Event operation...........................................................................37 Sequential operation ....................................................................38 Camera Control.................................................................................39 UpnP and
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Package Contents PT3112 or PT3122 Camera stand Software CD Power adapter Quick installation guide A/V Cable Warranty card Remote Controller - 4 - www.vivotek.com T: 886-2-22404099 F: 886-2-22404097
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Installation Hardware installation All necessary accessories can be found in the product package except for the Ethernet cable that depends on the user’s environment. The Ethernet cable should meet UTP category 5 that cannot exceed 100 meters. Connect the jack of the power adapter to Network Camera prior to plugging the utility end into the utility power socket. It will reduce accidental electric surge shock. As soon as the power adapter is plugged into the uti
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Software installation In the following content, "user" refers to those who can access Network Camera and "administrator" refers to the supervisor who can configure Network Camera and grant users access. When completing the hardware installation, administrators needs to put the product software CD into the CDROM drive of a PC running with MS Windows. An auto-run program will popup (If the program is not auto-run, please click on the autorun.exe at the root directory of the s
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When the IP installer starts up, a searching box will popup, that is the program is searching Vivotek’s product on the same LAN: After searching the LAN, the main window of IP installer will pop up. The IP address shown in "Current IP Address" field depends on the local network. It may get from the DHCP server. If there is no DHCP server, the camera will try to find a free IP address for itself (this would take longer time, from 15 second to 3 minute, depends on
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Vivotek’s new uPnP function of the camera will always assign an IP address for the itself. Therefore, the administrator can click the “Link to selected device” to invoke I.E. to connect the camera. If the camera is not in the list of IP installer, click “Search” button to search camera on the LAN. For the series number field, please check the label attached on the bottom of the camera. - 8 - www.vivotek.com T: 886-2-22404099 F: 886-2-2
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First access to Network Camera Check network settings even if connected already Although Network Camera already can be connected after software installation from Local Area Network, administrators should complete the network settings in the configuration page including the correct subnet mask and IP address of gateway and DNS. Ask for the network administrator or Internet service provider for the detail information. By default Network Camera will need administrator's installat
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How to Use Authentication After opening the Web browser and typing in the URL of Network Camera, a dialogue window may pop up to request a username and password except that the administrator does not save any password. Upon successful authentication, the main page will display like the figure below. In the figure, the foreground is the login window and the background shows the message when authentication fails. The user may check the option to save the password for future
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Installing plug-in If it is initial access to Network Camera in Windows, the web browser may prompt for permission to install a new plug-in that is provided by Network Camera. Prompt or not and the prompt message depend on the Internet security settings of user’s PC or notebook. The highest security level may prohibit any installation and execution attempt even the plug-in is safe. This plug-in has been registered for certificate and is used to display the motioned pictures in
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Primary user’s capability Main screen with camera view There are three parts in the layout of the main page: A. Configuration functions: The camera can be configured through these user interfaces. B. Video of the camera: the camera video window. C. Pan/Tilt control buttons: the buttons provide a command interface to control the camera. Click on the configuration link to the right of the image window to enter the configuration page. - 12 - www.vivotek.com T:
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“Digital Output” Click on the “On” or “Off” button can turn the Digital output to on or off status. “Client Settings” Click on the button would link to client setting pages, please check the following session for more details. “Configuration” Only administrator can access camera configurations. Direction buttons The buttons contain: Left, Right, Up, Down and Home function. The home button would command camera to the center of the camera. “Go to” Once the administrator set the
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Client Settings If it is the first access to “Connection type” page in Windows, the web browser will ask to install a new plug-in that is provided by Network Camera. This plug-in has been registered for certificate and is used to change the parameters at the client side. Users may click on to install the plug-in. If the web browser does not allow the user to install, check the Internet security to lower the security level or contact network supervisors. There are two set
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more real-time. But some packets may be lost due to network burst traffic and images will be obscure. If TCP protocol is selected, packet loss would not occur and video display will more accurate. But the real-time effect is worse than UDP protocol. If the network is protected by a firewall and it opens HTTP port (80) only, HTTP protocol must be selected. In this mode, audio will not be sent and you can see the video only. If you have no special needs and no idea to choose one
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http:///protocol.html is the domain name or original IP address of Network Camera. - 16 - www.vivotek.com T: 886-2-22404099 F: 886-2-22404097
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Administrator’s capability Tune the best performance The best performance means the image refresh rate should be the fastest as possible and the video quality should be the best as possible at the lowest network bandwidth as possible. Three factors, “Maximum frame rate”, “Fix bit rate”, and “Fix quality” in the Video configuration page, are correlative to the performance. My priority is real-time motioned images To achieve the real-time visual effect, the network bandwidt
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frame rate to 20 to decrease the transmitted data for better video quality since human could not easily tell the difference between 20 and 25 or 30 frames per second. If your network bandwidth is below 384 Kbps, you should fix the bit rate according to your bandwidth and try out the best performance by tuning the maximum frame rate. The larger frame rate in slow network will blur the images. You may also try to choose “Half” in size option for better images or “Halfx2” for larg
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Open accounts for users Protect Network Camera by passwords Network Camera is shipped without any password by default. That means everyone 1 can access Network Camera including the configuration as long as the IP address is known. It is necessary to assign a password if Network Camera is intended to be 1 accessed by others. Type a new word twice in ○ to enable protection. This password is used to identify the administrator. Then add an account with user name and password
