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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 2/85 owner's record the model and serial numbers are located at the bottom of device. Record these numbers in the spaces provided below. Refer to these numbers whenever you call upon your dealer regarding this product. Model no. _...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 3/85 declaration of conformity 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 inter...

  • Page 4: Table of Contents

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 4/85 table of contents overview ............................................................................................................................. 6 introduction.............................................................

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 5/85 date & time.............................................................................................. 42 maintenance.............................................................................................. 44 video: ...

  • Page 6: Overview

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 6/85 overview this user’s guide explains how to operate the mega-pixel network camera from a computer. User should read this manual completely and carefully before you operate the device. Introduction this camera is an inexpensive...

  • Page 7: Minimum System Requirements

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 7/85 z voice alerting while motion triggered z image transmission using an ftp or e-mail for event z ddns and pppoe z support upnp device discovery and nat router transversal z multi-channel control software for surveillance appli...

  • Page 8: Package Contents

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 8/85 package contents user can find the following items in the package: item descriptions 1. Camera is the main element of the product package. (the color of the camera may vary) 2. Camera stand with screws 3. Detachable wireless ...

  • Page 9: Connections and Outlook

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 9/85 connections and outlook lan socket the lan socket is a rj-45 connector for connections to 10base-t ethernet or 100base-tx fast ethernet cabling. This ethernet port built n-way protocol can detect or negotiate the transmission...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 10/85 microphone the network camera has built-in an internal microphone. This microphone is hidden in the pinhole located on the front panel. Ir leds these leds are infra-red type. It’s very useful for low-lux environment to provi...

  • Page 11: Hardware Installation

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 11/85 hardware installation 1. Attach the camera with the included stand 2. Place the camera on the table or fix it onto ceiling or wall use three screws to fix the network camera onto the ceiling or wall. You could also put the n...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 12/85 4. Connect the external power supply to camera connect the attached power adapter to the dc power jack of the network camera. Note: use the power adapter, 5vdc, included in the packageand connect it to wall outlet for ac pow...

  • Page 13: Preparation

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 13/85 preparation search and set up by ipwizard when you installed the camera on a lan environment, you have two easy ways to search your cameras by ipwizard or upnp discovery. Here is the way to execute ipwizard to discover camer...

  • Page 14: Wizard

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 14/85 if ipwizard finds network devices, wizard button will be available. Please select the device you want to set-up or connect and click the left button of the mouse on the information box. The words on the information box will ...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 15/85 selected device. Further procedures can be carried out when device is available on the lan. After pressing installation wizard, please key in authorized username of the device and password when login dialog box appears on th...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 16/85 wizard page 3: confirmation this page shows the information of the selected device to check if there is any mistake or not. If it is correct, please press “submit” button and the setting information will be uploaded to the s...

  • Page 17: Using Upnp Of Windows

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 17/85 using upnp of windows ® xp or vista upnp™ is short for universal plug and play, which is a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software, and peripherals. This device is an upnp ena...

  • Page 18: Router

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 18/85 install the device behind a nat router once installed, the device is accessible on your lan. To access the device from the internet you must configure your broadband router to allow incoming data traffic to the device. If th...

  • Page 19: Explorer For The First Time

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 19/85 access the device from the internet explorer for the first time 1. Start the web browser on the computer and type the ip address of the network camera you want to monitor as below: the login window of the network camerais pr...

  • Page 20: Logging In As An User

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 20/85 3. According your browser’s security setting, the ie web page may prompt the “security warning” window. If so, select “yes” to install and run the activex control onto your pc. Otherwise, the system will load the activex sil...

  • Page 21: Operating The Network Camera

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 21/85 operating the network camera start-up screen will be as follow no matter an ordinary users or an administrator. Monitor image section the image shot by the device is shown here. The date and time are displayed at the top of ...

  • Page 22: Streaming Protocol

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 22/85 streaming protocol user can select proper streaming protocol according to networking environment. Language the device could provide multiple languages to meet customer’s requirement. Activex control the plug-in activex contr...

  • Page 23: Digital Zoom

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 23/85 digital zoom click digital zoom to active this function as above. User can drag or scale the box over the video to adjust zoom ratio and position. Record.

  • Page 24: Snapshot

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 24/85 click record to activate this function. Press record button to start recording. The video file is saved as asf format into your local pc. While you want to stop it, press stop to stop recording. Select browser, the pop-up wi...

  • Page 25: Volume

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 25/85 volume click volume to activate this function. There are two control bars for speaker and microphone volume respectively. Scroll these control bars to adjust the audio attribute. Check the volume mute will mute the speaker o...

  • Page 26: About

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 26/85 about click about to show this activex information..

  • Page 27: Administrating The Device

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 27/85 administrating the device system setting this function is only available for user logged into network camera as administrator. Click on each menu name to display its setting page. Item action network configure network settin...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 28/85 mac address: displays the ethernet mac address of the device. Note that user can not change it. Obtain ip address automatically (dhcp): dhcp: stands for dynamic host configuration protocol. Enable this checked box when a dhc...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 29/85 could assign the second port number of http protocol, and the wan users should follow the port number to login. If the http port is not assigned as 80, users have to add the port number in back of ip address. For example: ht...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 30/85 ssid: this is the name of the wireless network the device is configured for. The field accepts up to 32 alphanumeric characters. The name must be exactly the same as that used in the wireless access point, or the connection ...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 31/85 key value of wep. Wpa settings: - wpa key: key value of wpa. The device uses a pre-shared key (psk) for key management. The pre-shared key can be entered either as manual hex, as 64 hexadecimal characters, or as a passphrase...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 32/85 dynamic domain name server is necessary. Ddns: to enable or disable the ddns service here. Server name: choose the built-in ddns server. Ddnshost: the domain name is applied of this device. User name: the user name is used t...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 33/85 the device can directly connect to the xdsl, however, it should be setup on a lan environment to program the pppoe information first, and then connect to the xdsl modem. Power on again, then the device will dial on to the is...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 34/85 streaming rtsp is a streaming control protocol, and a starting point for negotiating transports such as rtp, multicast and unicast, and for negotiating codecs. Rtsp can be considered a "remote control" for controlling the me...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 35/85 in addition, this device also provides upnp igd function for nat traversal easily. Use nat traversal when your device is located on an intranet (lan) and you wish to make it available from the other (wan) side of a nat route...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 36/85 ip filter you can enter different user’s ip address which are allowing enter or denying by the device. Ip filter: to enable or disable the ip filter function here. Ip filter policy: choose the filter policy where is denying ...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 37/85 type the subject/title of the e-mail. Tcp notification: if enable this functions, then the “tcp server” and “tcp port” field need to be filled in. Tcp server: type the tcp server name or the ip address of the tcp server. Tcp...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 38/85.

  • Page 39: Camera

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 39/85 camera : adjust camera parameters use this menu to set the functions of the camera parameters of the device. Picture rotation: turn the “mirror” and “vertical flip” on or off. The image will be overturned as below..

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 40/85 white balance: auto: will adjust the white balance automatically. Hold: will hold the white balance. Exposure control: auto: will adjust the internal gain automatically. Hold: will hold the internal gain. Power frequency: us...

  • Page 41: System

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 41/85 system : configure and maintain system use this menu to perform the principal settings of the device. System : dips (dynamic ip service): to enable or disable the dips® (dynamic ip service) function. Device id (for dips): it...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 42/85 you can find web page as below: enter your device number and press “ok” button. Then, a new web page will pop up and link to your device accordingly. You will see that dips is a much easier service than ddns. Device title: y...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 43/85 - synchronize with pc: click this option to enable time synchronization with pc time. - manual setting: click this option to set time and date manually. - synchronize with ntp: click this option if you want to synchronize th...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 44/85 maintenance default settings (including network setting): factory default settings recall the device to factory default settings. Note that pressing this button will reset all device’s parameters to the factory settings (inc...

  • Page 45: Warning!!!

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 45/85 2. Make sure that only you access this device while firmware updating. 3. Disable motion detection function. 4. Click “browse” button. Select the firmware binary file. ( note that it must make sure that the firmware only app...

  • Page 46: Video

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 46/85 video : configure profile this device provides 2 modes of video profile. The first one is mega-pixel mode which supports “mega mpeg4” and “mega jpeg” streams simultaneously. The second one is multi-profile mode which support...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 47/85 mpeg4/vga video type: it’s a mpeg4 mode in this profile. Resolution: it’s vga mode (640x480) in this profile. Rate control: defines the rate control method of this profile. There are two options: constant bit rate (cbr) or v...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 48/85 mpeg4/qvga video type: it’s a mpeg4 mode in this profile. Resolution: it’s qvga mode (320x240) in this profile. Rate control: defines the rate control method of this profile. There are two options: constant bit rate (cbr) or...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 49/85 mpeg4/qqvga video type: it’s a mpeg4 mode in this profile. Resolution: it’s qqvga mode (160x120) in this profile. Rate control: defines the rate control method of this profile. There are two options: constant bit rate (cbr) ...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 50/85 video/jpeg video type: it’s jpeg mode in this profile. Resolution: user can select vga, qvga, or qqvga mode as the resolution of this jpeg profile. Rate control: the quality level is between 1 and 100. The higher value is th...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 51/85 defines the rate control method of this profile. There are two options: constant bit rate (cbr) or variable bit rate (vbr). For cbr, the video bit rate is between 384kbps and 4096kbps. User can set the desired bit rate to ma...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 52/85 max frame rate: defines the targeted frame rate of this profile. For example, set the frame rate to 5 fps, then the image will be updated for 5 frames per second as possible. User need to set reasonable max frame rate versus...

  • Page 53: Audio

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 53/85 audio : audio parameters audio: to enable or disable audio function audio mode: to select simplex or full duplex (2-way audio) mode input gain: to adjust gain of input audio output gain: to adjust gain of output audio.

  • Page 54: User

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 54/85 user : manage user name, password and login privilege use this menu to add, update, or remove the usernames and passwords of the administrator and viewer. Viewer login: select “anonymous” to allow any one viewing the video o...

  • Page 55: E-Mail

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 55/85 e-mail : setup e-mail configuration you may setup smtp mail parameters for further operation of event schedule. That’s, if users want to send the alarm message out, it will need to configure parameters here and also add at l...

  • Page 56

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 56/85 type the sender’s e-mail address. This address is used for reply e-mails. E-mail to: type the receiver’s e-mail address. E-mail subject: type the subject/title of the e-mail..

  • Page 57: Object Detection

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 57/85 object detection : setup object detection use this menu to specify motion detection window 1 to window 4 and set the conditions for detection while observing a captured image. Add and del: to add or delete the motion windows...

  • Page 58: Event Server

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 58/85 event server : setup event server configuration ftp: setup ftp configuration you may setup ftp parameters for further operation of event schedule. That’s, if users want to send the alarm message to an ftp server, it will nee...

  • Page 59

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 59/85 ftp path: set working directory path of ftp server. Ftp passive mode: select passive or active mode connecting to ftp server. Tcp server: setup tcp server configuration in addition to send video file to ftp server, the devic...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 60/85 name: user can specify multiple http servers as wish. Therefore, user needs to specify a name for each http server setting. Url: type the server name or the ip address of the http server. Test: check the http server whether ...

  • Page 61: Event Schedule

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 61/85 event schedule : configure the event schedule this menu is used to specify the schedule of events and activate the some actions provided by this device. Name: name of the event or schedule. Enable: enable or disable this eve...

  • Page 62: Appendix A: Restore Factory

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 62/85 appendix a: restore factory default settings there is a button hidden in the pinhole near to the dc power connector. This button is used to restore the all factory default settings. Sometimes restarting the device will make ...

  • Page 63: Frequently Asked Questions

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 63/85 appendix b: troubleshooting & frequently asked questions question answer or resolution features the video and audio codec is adopted in the device. The device utilizes mpeg4 and jpeg dual compression to providing high qualit...

  • Page 64

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 64/85 holding down more than 3 seconds on the device. 2. Reconfigure the device. Forgot the ip address of the device. Check ip address of device by using the ipwizard.Exe program or by upnp discovery. Ipwizard program cannot find ...

  • Page 65

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 65/85 external network. Refer to your router's manual for details. • access the device from the internet with the global ip address of the router and port number of the device. • some routers reject the global ip address to access...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 66/85 than the setting. The frame rate. The network congestion causes frame rate slower than the setting. • check the bandwidth of internet connection. If the internet bandwidth is lower than target bit rate, the video streaming w...

  • Page 67: Appendix C: Ping Ip Address

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 67/85 appendix c: ping ip address the ping (stands for packet internet groper) command is used to detect whether a specific ip address is accessible by sending a packet to the specific address and waiting for a reply. It’s also a ...

  • Page 68

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 68/85 appendix d: bandwidth estimation the frame rate of video transmitted from the device depends on connection bandwidth between client and server, video resolution, codec type, and quality setting of server. Here is a guideline...

  • Page 69: Appendix E: Specifications

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 69/85 appendix e: specifications model cmos ir network camera video encoder mpeg4 and jpeg simultaneously and multi-profile video resolution mega-pixel mode: up to 15fps @ 1024x768 (mpeg4) up to 5fps @ 1280x1024 (jpeg) multi-profi...

  • Page 70: Appendix F: Configure Port

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 70/85 appendix f: configure port forwarding manually the device can be used with a router. If the device wants to be accessed from the wan, its ip address needs to be setup as fixed ip address, also the port forwarding or virtual ...

  • Page 71

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 71/85 your wan ip address will be listed here. Note: because a dynamic wan ip can change from time to time depending on your isp, you may want to obtain a static ip address from your isp. A static ip address is a fixed ip address ...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 72/85 • if you are using the default camera port settings, enter 80 into the public and private port section, click apply. • scheduling should be set to always so that the camera images can be accessed at any time. A check mark ap...

  • Page 73: 1. Preface

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 73/85 appendix g: ddns application 1. Preface if you have a cable modem or xdsl, this is a great way to host your own networked deviceor other tcp/ip service. Get your own domain like www.Yourname.Com, www.Yourname.Com.Tw etc. (no...

  • Page 74

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 74/85 (3). After the columns show up at the left side, click “ create account”. (4). Fill the application agreement and necessary information. A. Username b. E-mail address and confirmation c. Password and confirmation d. Submit a...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 75/85 (5). Check your e-mail mailbox. There will be an e-mail with a title “your dyndns account information“. Click the hyperlink address to confirm the ddns service that you just applied. Then ddns you applied activated. Click th...

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 76/85 (6). Enter the web page http://www.Dyndns.Org/ again. Input your username and password that you just applied to login administration interface of ddns server. Click to confirm input your account.

  • Page 77

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 77/85 (7). If the correct username and password are input, you can see the following picture at the top-right of the login page. (8). Click the “ services”. (9). Click the “ dynamic dns ”. (10). Click the “ create hosts ”..

  • Page 78

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 78/85 (11). We could create a domain name without any charge at this step. First, we input the host name. (pink no.1) then we pick a domain that is easy to remember. (pink no.2) finally, click the “add host” to submit the domain n...

  • Page 79

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 79/85 appendix h: power line frequency country voltage frequency comments argentina 220v 50 hz *neutral and line wires are reversed from that used in australia and elsewhere. Australia 230v* 50 hz *outlets typically controlled by ...

  • Page 80: Appendix I: 3Gpp

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 80/85 appendix i: 3gpp to use the 3gpp function, in addition to previous section, you might need more information or configuration to make this function work. Note: 1. The camera must be set as multi-profile mode, not mega-pixel m...

  • Page 81: Appendix J: Enable Upnp Of

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 81/85 appendix j: enable upnp of windows xp use the following steps to enable upnp settings only if your operating system of pc is running windows xp. Go to start > settings. Click control panel.

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 82/85 click add or remove programs click add/remove windows components the following screen will appear:.

  • Page 83

    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 83/85 select networking services click details select universal plug and play click ok.

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 84/85 click next please wait while setup configures the components..

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    Abs megacam 311m/312m series network camera user’s manual www.Abs.Com 85/85 click finish.