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Ganz ZN-PT304L User Manual

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    - 1 - product name: ip camera with pan/tilt(zn-pt304l) release date: 2006/12/1 manual revision: 1.00 web site: www.Ganz.Jp email: zn-tech@cbc.Co.Jp zn-sales@cbc.Co.Jp made in taiwan. ©copyright 1925-2006. All rights reserved.

  • Page 3: Before You Use This Product

    - 2 - before you use this product the use of surveillance devices may be prohibited by law in your country. The ip camera is not only a high-performance web-ready camera but also can be part of a flexible surveillance system. It is the user’s responsibility to ensure that the operation of such devic...

  • Page 4: Table of Contents

    - 3 - table of contents before you use this product......................................................................2 package contents ....................................................................................5 installation ................................................................

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    - 4 - email & ftp .................................................................................... 39 email ........................................................................................ 39 ftp .......................................................................................... 3...

  • Page 6: Package Contents

    - 5 - package contents zn-pt304l quick installation guide power adapter warranty card mounting kit & pads software cd.

  • Page 7: Installation

    - 6- installation in this manual, "user" refers to whoever has access to the ip camera, and "administrator" refers to the person who can configure the ip camera and grant user access to the camera. Hardware installation please verify that your product package contains all the accessories listed in t...

  • Page 8: Software Installation

    - 7- software installation in this manual, "user" refers to whoever has access to the ip camera, and "administrator" refers to the person who can configure the ip camera and grant user access to the camera. At the end of the hardware installation, the administrator must place the product software cd...

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    - 8- upon installation wizard’s start up, a searching box will pop up. This program searches for ganz’s product on the same lan: after searching, ganz ip cameras will be located by the installation wizard. There may be several entries shown in the window. The administrator may differentiate the ip c...

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    - 9- the ip addresses shown in the "current ip address" field reflect those on the local network. They may be from the dhcp server. If there is no dhcp server, the camera will try to find a free ip address (this takes from 15 second to 3 minutes, depending on the lan status). The method of finding i...

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    - 10- for more detailed usage of the installation wizard, please refer to the user’s manual of the installation wizard included in the product cdrom to find the location of the ip camera. There may be many ip cameras in the local network. Users can differentiate the ip cameras with the serial number...

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    - 11- initial access to the ip camera check network settings the ip camera can be connected either before or immediately after software installation onto the local area network. The administrator should complete the network settings on the configuration page, including the correct subnet mask and ip...

  • Page 13: How to Use

    - 12- how to use authentication after opening the web browser and typing in the url of the ip camera, a dialogue window pops up to request a username and password. Upon successful authentication, the following figure is displayed. The foreground is the login window and the background shows the messa...

  • Page 14: Installing Plug-In

    - 13- installing plug-in for the initial access to the network camera in windows, the web browser may prompt for permission to install a new plug-in for the ip camera. Permission request depends on the internet security settings of the user’s pc or notebook. If the highest security level is set, the...

  • Page 15: Primary User’S Capability

    - 14- primary user’s capability main screen with camera view the main page layout has three parts: configuration functions: the camera can be configured using these user interfaces. Camera view: what the camera sees. Pan/tilt control buttons: these buttons provide a command interface to control the ...

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    - 15- clicking on this button links you to the client setting pages, please check the following session for more details. “configuration” only the administrator can access camera configurations. The camera view: the information bar at the top of the camera view shows the connection type to the ip ca...

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    - 16- “play” the option will connect to the ip camera. The button is the same one as “pause”. “pause” the option will pause the video, but the connection remains. The button is the same one as “play”. “stop” the option will disconnect to the ip camera. “play volume” click on this button can adjust t...

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    - 17- “pan speed” this button sets the moving range of the “left” and “right” commands. “tilt speed” this button sets the moving range of the “up” and “down” commands. “pan” this button commands the camera to pan from the current position to the left-most and then to the right-most position. After p...

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    - 18- client settings at the initial access to the “connection type” page in windows, the web browser will ask for a new plug-in installation, the plug-in being the ip camera. This plug-in has been registered for certification and can be used to change the parameters at the client’s site. The user m...

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    - 19- the tcp protocol allows for less packet loss and produces a more accurate video display. The downside with this protocol is that the real-time effect is worse than that with the udp protocol. If no special need is required, udp protocol is recommended. Generally speaking, the client’s choice w...

  • Page 21: Administrator’S Capability

    - 20- administrator’s capability fine-tuning for best performance best performance generally equates to the fastest image refresh rate with the best video quality, and at the lowest network bandwidth as possible. The three factors, “maximum frame rate”, “constant bit rate”, and “fix quality” on the ...

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    - 21- for best real-time video images to achieve good real-time visual effect, the network bandwidth should be large enough to allow a transmission rate of greater than 20 image frames per second. If the broadband network is over 1 mbps, set the “fix bit rate” to 1000kbps or 1200kbps. The maximum fr...

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    - 22- bandwidth is below 512 kbps, set the “fix bit rate” according to your bandwidth and try to get the best performance by fine-tuning with the “maximum frame rate”. In a slow network, greater frame rate results in blur images. Another work-around is to choose “160x120” in the “size” option for be...

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    - 23- opening accounts for new users protect ip camera by passwords the ip camera is shipped without any password by default. That means everyone can access the ip camera including the configuration as long as the ip address is known. It is necessary to assign a password if the ip camera is intended...

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    - 24- either email or ftp according to user’s needs. Both e-mail and ftp use the network settings on the email and ftp page. Refer to the definition section for detail configuration. 1. Click on “configuration” on homepage, 2. Click on “motion detection” at the left column, 3. Check “enable motion d...

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    - 25- 1. Download the firmware file named “xxx.Pkg” from the appropriate product folder. 2. Run the upgrade wizard and proceed following the prompts. Refer to the instructions of the upgrade wizard for details. 3. Or upgrade firmware from http web page directly 4. The whole process will finish in a ...

  • Page 27: Definitions In Configuration

    - 26- definitions in configuration only the administrator can access system configuration. Each category in the left column will be explained in the following pages. The bold texts are the specific phrases on the option pages. The administrator may type the url below the figure to directly enter the...

  • Page 28: System Parameters

    - 27- system parameters "host name" the text displays the title at the top of the main page. “turn off the led indicator” check this option to shut off the led on the rear. It can prevent the camera’s operation being noticed. "keep current date and time" click on this to reserve the current date and...

  • Page 29: Security Settings

    - 28- security settings “root password” change the administrator’s password by typing in the new password identically in both text boxes. The typed entries will be displayed as asterisks for security purposes. After pressing , the web browser will ask the administrator for the new password for acces...

  • Page 30: Network Settings

    - 29- network settings any changes made on this page will restart the system in order to validate the changes. Make sure every field is entered correctly before clicking on . Network type “lan” & “pppoe” the default type is lan. Select pppoe if using adsl "get ip address automatically" & “use fixed ...

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    - 30- http “http port” this can be other than the default port 80. Once the port is changed, the users must be notified the change for the connection to be successful. For instance, when the administrator changes the http port of the ip camera whose ip address is 192.168.0.100 from 80 to 8080, the u...

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    - 31- http:///setup/network.Html is the domain name or original ip address of the ip camera..

  • Page 33: Ddns

    - 32- ddns “enable ddns” this option turns on the ddns function. “provider” the provider list contains four hosts that provide ddns services. Please connect to the service provider’s website to make sure the service charges. “host name” if the user wants to use ddns service, this field must be fille...

  • Page 34: Access List

    - 33- access list the access list is to control the access permission of clients by checking the client ip address. There are two lists for permission control: allow list and deny list. Only those clients whose ip address is in the allow list and not in the deny list can connect to the ip camera for...

  • Page 35: Audio and Video

    - 34- audio and video general “configure for computer viewing” to make quick setting for computer viewing video settings “video title” the text string can be displayed on video “color” select either for color or monochrome video display. “frame size” there are four options for video sizes. “160x120”...

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    - 35- audio settings “mute” audio mute “audio type” select audio codec “aac” or “gsm-amr” and the bit rate http:///setup/audiovideo.Html is the domain name or original ip address of the ip camera..

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    - 36- image settings click on this button to pop up another window to tune “brightness”, “contrast”, “hue” and “saturation” for video compensation. Each field has eleven levels ranged from -5 to +5. In “brightness” and “contrast” fields the value 0 indicates auto tuning. The user may press to fine-t...

  • Page 38: Camera Control

    - 37- camera control on the camera control page, there are two main function control areas: camera control area the pan and tilt functions can be controlled with these buttons. The “left” button aims the camera to the left; the “right”, “up”, and “down” buttons aim the camera accordingly. The “home”...

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    - 38- greater value, the greater angular movement when performing “up” or “down” functions will be. “auto pan/patrol speed” this defines the speed of panning and patrol, the greater the value, the faster the speed. Preset function area ”current position”, if the user wants to save the current view a...

  • Page 40: Email & Ftp

    - 39- email & ftp email when the smtp server support smtp authentication, users need to give the valid user name and password to send email via the server. “sender email address” input the email address of the sender. There are two external mail server can be configured, primary and secondary email ...

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    - 40- “password” this grants password on the external ftp server. “remote folder name” granted folder on the external ftp server. The string must conform to that of the external ftp server. Some ftp servers cannot accept preceding slash symbol before the path without virtual path mapping. Refer to t...

  • Page 42: Motion Detection

    - 41- motion detection “enable motion detection” check this option to turn on motion detection. Click on this button to add a new window. At most three windows can exist simultaneously. Use the mouse to click, hold, and drag the window frame to resize or the title bar to move. Click on the ‘x’ at th...

  • Page 43: Application Settings

    - 42- application settings snapshot “enable snapshot” enable/disable snapshot application. Weekly schedule “sun” ~ “sat” select the days of the week to perform the application. Select “always” or input the time interval. Snapshot file name prefix the prefix name will be added on the file name of the...

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    - 43- operation is still subject to the conditions set in the weekly schedule. Method for sending snapshot “email” this selects the uploading method following the intervals set above. The snapshot named “prefix-yyyymmdd-hhmmss.Jpg” will be attached in the email. “ftp” the snapshots will be uploaded ...

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  • Page 46: System Log

    - 45- system log the ip camera support log the system messages on remote server. The protocol is compliant to rfc 3164. If you have external linux server with syslogd service, use “-r” option to turn on the facility for receiving log from remote machine. Or you can use some software on windows which...

  • Page 47: Viewing System Parameters

    - 46- viewing system parameters click on this link on the configuration page to view the entire system’s parameter set. The content is the same as those in config.Ini..

  • Page 48: Maintenance

    - 47- maintenance four actions can be selected “reboot” click the reboot button to restart system “factory default” click on factory default button on the configuration page to restore the factory default settings. Any changes made so far will be lost and the system will be reset to the initial fact...

  • Page 49: Appendix

    - 48- appendix a. Troubleshooting status led the following table lists the led patterns in general. Condition led color loading system after power on steady red during booting procedure steady red and green. Detecting and setting network steady green. Blink red till ip address is confirmed. After ne...

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    - 49- b. Url commands of the ip camera for some customers who already have their own web site or web control application, the ip camera can be easily integrated through convenient urls. This section lists the commands in url format corresponding to the basic functions of the ip camera. Get server pa...

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    - 50- request: http://192.168.0.123/cgi-bin/admin/getparam.Cgi?Network_ipaddress response: http/1.0 200 ok\r content-type: text/html\r context-length: 33\r \r network.Ipaddress=192.168.0.123\r set server parameter values note: this request require administrator access method: get/post synt...

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    - 51- return: http/1.0 200 ok\r content-type: text/html\r context-length: \r \r where is =\r [] only the parameters that you set and readable will be returned. Example: set the ip address of server to 192.168.0.123 request: http://myserver/cgi-bin/admin/setparam.Cgi?Network_ipaddress=192.1...

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    - 52- 0 do not turn off the led indicator ledoff (r/w) 1 turn off the led indicator year, month and date separated by slash. Keep date unchanged date (r/w) using ntp to sync date/time automatically hour, minute and second separated by colon. Keep date unchanged time (r/w) using ntp to sync date/time...

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    - 53- (r/w) userpass_ (r/w) than 14 characters> change user’s password. The userpass_0 is root’s password. Userattr_ (r) [conf] show user’s privilege. The privilege can be - only permit to view live media conf – permit to change server’s configuration usercount (r) 1 ~ 21 the current account number ...

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    - 54- (r/w) address, string shorter than 40 characters> mailto1 (r/w) characters> mail recipient address mailuser1 (r/w) 63 characters> user name of primary smtp server mailpass1 (r/w) 15 characters> password of primary smtp server smtp2 (r/w) address, string shorter than 40 characters> secondary sm...

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    - 55- ftp2 (r/w) address, string shorter than 40 characters > secondary ftp server ftpport2 (r/w) than 65535> secondary ftp port ftpuser2 (r/w) 63 characters> user name for secondary ftp server ftppass2 (r/w) 15 characters> password for secondary ftp server ftpfolder2 (r/w) 40 characters> upload fol...

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    - 56- group: video name value description text (r/w) than 14 characters> enclosed caption 0 mpeg4 codectype (r/w) 1 mjpeg keyinterval (r/w) 1, 3, 5, 10, 30, 60, 90, 120 key frame interval 1 half 2 half x 2 3 normal 4 normal x 2 5 double size (r) 256 this field is obsolete (use resolution) 176x144 vi...

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    - 57- 256000 set bit rate to 256k bps 512000 set bit rate to 512k bps 768000 set bit rate to 768k bps 1000000 set bit rate to 1000k bps 1500000 set bit rate to 1500k bps 2000000 set bit rate to 2000k bps 3000000 set bit rate to 3000k bps 4000000 set bit rate to 4000k bps 1 set maximum frame rate to ...

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    - 58- aac4 (for computer) set codec to aac type (r/w) gamr set codec to gsm-amr 16000 set aac bitrate to 16k bps aacbitrate (r/w) 32000 set aac bitrate to 32k bps 4750 set amr bitrate to 4.75k bps 5150 set amr bitrate to 5.15k bps 5900 set amr bitrate to 5.9k bps 6700 set amr bitrate to 6.7k bps 740...

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    - 59- dwelling (r/w) 0 ~ 9999 time to dwelling when patrol presetname_ (r/w) text string shorter than 40 characters. The name of preset location presetpan_ (r/w) -1024 ~ 1024 the pan coordinate of preset location. Presettilt_ (r/w) -56 ~ 144 the tilt coordinate of preset location. Patrolname_ (r/w) ...

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    - 60- group: ddns name value description enable (r/w) 0, 1 enable or disable the dynamic dns. Provider (r/w) 1 ~ 6 dyndns.Org (dynamic) dyndns.Org (custom) tzo.Com dhs.Org safe100.Net dyn-interfree.It hostname (r/w) text string shorter than 127 characters. Your dynamic hostname. Usernameemail (r/w) ...

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    - 61- group: app name value description scriptname (r) 255 characters> file name of script 0 disable script enablescript (r/w) 1 enable script group: syslog name value description 0 disable remote log enableremotelog (r/w) 1 enable remote log serverip (r/w) log server ip address serverport (r/w) ser...

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    - 62- left move camera left right move camera right speedpan -5 ~ 5 set the pan speed speedtilt -5 ~ 5 set the tilt speed speedapp -5 ~ 5 set the auto pan/patrol speed pan auto pan patrol auto patrol auto stop stop camera return redirect to the page after the parameter is assigned. The can be a full...

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    - 63- redirect to an empty page. Application page cgi command note: this request requires administrator privilege. Method: get/post syntax: http://servername>/cgi-bin/admin/gen-eventd-conf.Cgi?[ snapshot_enable=] [&weekday=][&time_method=][&begin_time=] [&end_time=] [&ss_prefix=][&trigger_type=] [&m...

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    - 64- parameter value description 0 enable snapshot application snapshot_enable 1 disable snapshot application weekday 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 the array indicate weekly schedule always 24 hours full day time_method interval select begin time and end time begin_time hh:mm begin time of weekly schedule end_time...

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    - 65- return: http/1.0 200 ok\r content-type: image/jpeg\r [content-length: \r] account management note: this request requires administrator privilege method: get/post syntax: http://servername>/cgi-bin/admin/editaccount.Cgi ? Method=&username=[&userpass=][&privilege=] [&privilege=][…][&return...

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    - 66- the privilege of user to add or to modify. The privilege can be the addition of the following values. Ex: a user with configure access can be assigned privilege as privilege=conf. Privilege conf configuration privilege return page> redirect to the page after the parameter is assigned. The can ...

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    - 67- method: get/post syntax: http://servername>/cgi-bin/admin/configfile.Cgi server will return the up-to-date configuration file. Return: http/1.0 200 ok\r content-type: text/plain\r content-length: \r \r \r upgrade firmware note: this request requires administrator privilege method: po...

  • Page 69: C. Technical Specifications

    - 68- c. Technical specifications - system cpu: cbc-1000 ram: 32mb sdram rom: 4mb flash rom - networking protocol tcp/ip, http, smtp, ftp, ddns, upnp, telnet, ntp, dns, dhcp and rtsp physical 10 baset or 100 baset fast ethernet auto negotiation - video algorithm supported mpeg4(simple profile) for s...

  • Page 70: Technology License Notice

    - 69- technology license notice amr technology this product includes amr narrowband speech coding technology licensed by voiceage. Please refer to http://www.Voiceage.Com/ for more details. Mpeg-4 aac technology this product includes mpeg-4 aac audio coding technology licensed by via licensing. Plea...

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    Electromagnetic compatibility (emc) this device compiles with fcc rules part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions. • this device may not cause harmful interference, and • this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation....

  • Page 72: English

    English disposal of your old appliance 1. When this crossed-out wheeled bin symbol is attached to a product it means the product is covered by the european directive 2002/96/ ec. 2. All electrical and electronic products should be disposed of separately from the municipal waste stream via designated...

  • Page 73: Italiano/italian

    Italiano/italian informazione agli utenti ai sensi dell’art. 13 del decreto legislativo 25 luglio 2005, n. 151"attuazione delle direttive 2002/95/ce, 2002/96/ce e 2003/108/ce, relative alla riduzione dell'uso di sostanze pericolose nelle apparecchiature elettriche ed elettroniche, nonché allo smalti...