Sprint SC IP Cam w User Manual

Manual is about: Day & Night, wired/wireless

Summary of IP Cam w

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    Day & night, wired/wireless ip camera model : ip cam/ip cam(w) user manual revision: 020205 date: 2009/04/21 for firmware version v020205 ip cam(w) for wireless model ip camera : for both wired and wireless model.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 2 table of contents 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 5 2. Hardware description and quick installation/usage ................................. 7 2.1. M ajor ha...

  • Page 3: List of Figures And Tables

    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 3 list of figures and tables figure 2-1: major components in the front panel figure 2-2: major components in the back panel figure 2-3: ip cam connection diagram. Figure 2-4: connect ethernet cable to a switch/router. Figure 2-5: the installation cd disk figure 2-6: ...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 4 figure 5-3: bracket figure 5-4: antenna figure 5-5: quick installation guide figure 5-6: ethernet cable figure 5-7: installation cd figure 5-8: id/password card table a-1: list of tested wireless ap/router devices table a-2: list of tested wired nat/router devices.

  • Page 5: 1. Introduction

    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 5 1. Introduction the ip camera is designed with the “user-friendly” idea deep in mind. The user can install the ip camera easily on his/her home network and then access the ip camera anywhere in the world through the accompanied video management software - camview p...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 6 ip address or domain name or ddns name or port number. And you do not need to modify the settings(like port mapping, fixed ip, ddns, virtual server) of the nat/router devices, it’s just a plug & play usage. So, the differences are the followings: ♦ public ip addres...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 7 2. Hardware description and quick installation/usage the ip cam is designed to be very easy to install and use. First, let’s see the major components of the ip cam products. 2.1. Major hardware components. The major components on the front panel of the ip cam produ...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 8 2. Power jack – this is the place to plug in the power adaptor. The power needed for this ip cam is 5v/1.0a, please make sure you are using the correct power adaptor. 3. Ethernet jack – this is the place to plug in the rj45 ethernet cable. When the ethernet link is...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 9 network, the ip cam should be connected to the internet immediately. The internet status led is constant red light to indicate this good connection status. If the led is blinking, please refer to section 3.3~3.5 to try other network settings. Figure 2-3: ip cam con...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 10 the installation options, please press the “next” button to proceed with the installation. After the installation is complete, there will be a camview icon on the desktop of your computer screen, please execute this icon. The camview program will run immediately. ...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 11 after the ip cam is installed and you can see the video from the camview software in the local network, it’s very easy to see the video in a remote location. All you need to do is add a camera item in the “cameralist” folder of the camview software, key in the ip ...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 12 2.3. Wireless connection (for ip cam ( w ) ) the ip cam can also be connected to the home/office network through the 802.11 b/g wireless connection. There are only three things that you need to do to have the wireless connection: 1. Set the wifi security settings ...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 13 figure 2-9: unplug the ethernet cable to enable the wifi function.

  • Page 14: 3. Web Configurations

    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 14 3. Web configurations you can login into the web configuration page by directly key-in the ip address of the ip cam or right-click the searched ip cam in the “auto search” list of the camview software and click the “web configure” to open the login window of the i...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 15 3.1. Information the first page of the web configuration of the ip cam is the information page. You can see the model name/firmware version, ip cam id, registration status, network type and current video settings( bandwidth, resolution) in this page. The ip cam ca...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 16 3.2. Video display this display page allows you to view the video display of the ip camera. For the first time use of this display on a computer, an activex component will be automatically downloaded into the browser. This could take some time, depends on the inte...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 17 3.3. Network the network page allows you to modify the network settings of the wired ethernet. The default settings use dhcp to obtain an ip address automatically. In most of the home and office network environment, there is a dhcp server running. In this situatio...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 18 figure 3-6: network settings page for fixed ip address.

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 19 3.4. Wifi security (for ip cam ( w ) ) you can use the wireless to connect the ip cam to the network. If your network environment has a 802.11 b/g router or ap running, you can check the “enable wifi function” button to use the wireless. Figure 3-7: wifi security ...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 20 all the fields in this page must be filled correctly with the same settings the wireless router or ap using. Figure 3-8: wifi security enabled page you can also click the “wifi test” button to check if the ip cam can connect to the wireless network for these setti...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 21 figure 3-9: wifi testing page.

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 22 3.5. Advanced network in some special situation, your network environment only provides pppoe connection(adsl service), there is no nat/router available. You will then need to set the pppoe settings in the “advanced network” page. Only the pppoe username and passw...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 23 3.6. Video settings the ip cam is designed to provide high quality video for viewing from camview software. In this page, you cam modify some settings related to the video viewing: 1. Password(play video) – this is the password needed for viewing the video from th...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 24 very vague. For indoor usage, if there is strong sun light into the room, please select the “indoor+sun light” choice. 12. Enable/disable audio microphone – you can enable or disable the audio microphone on the ip cam. If disable, there will be no voice on the cam...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 25 3gpp/rtsp settings the ip cam is able to be viewed from a 3g mobile phone, for detailed settings on the 3g mobile phone, please refer to appendix e. Users can disable the 3g mobile access ability in this page. After the 3gpp/rtsp feature is disabled, no 3g mobile ...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 26 3.7. Night mode control the ip cam is able to work both in day time and night time. There are some ir leds that can let the ip camera see the objects in the night time. This night mode control page is to control when the time the ir leds will be on. There are thre...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 27 3.8. Email/ftp alarm the ip cam provides the email/ftp function, you can enable schedule the email/ftp ability in this page, the ip cam will then send out an email with a jpeg picture attached in the email and/or send out the jpeg picture file to a ftp server. The...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 28 8. Send ftp message – if this item is enabled, the ip cam will send out a jpeg picture file to the specified ftp account. 9. Ftp server – this is the ftp server address to receive the jpeg file. 10. Ftp username/password – this is the username/password to login in...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 29 3.9. Nas settings the ip camera provides the recording of the video files into a standard nas ( network access storage ) device. The ip camera connects to the nas device using the standard lmx_ns/cifs/ssn protocols that are the same as the microsoft windows networ...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 30 where id is the id of this ip camera. All the recorded files are with the name of hhmmss.Crf format, where hh is the hour, mm is the minute, ss is the second of the starting time of the recording video. The files are segmented every five minutes. Users can use the...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 31 3.10. Scheduling the ip camera provides the scheduling function for the motion detection triggered email/ftp sending and/or the nas recording with the individual parameters set in the . “email/ftp alarm” settings and the “nas settings” page. Totally 12 schedule li...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 32 figure 3-16: schedule management page.

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 33 led display control the ip cam provides the led display control function, you can enable or disable the led display/indication on the front panel of the ip cam device. The related settings are explained below: 1. Normal led display – select this to enable the stat...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 34 3.11. Date/time the ip cam can synchronize the date/time with the universally available time server( for example stdtime.Gov.Tw) through ntp protocol. The date/time will then be corrected with the time server anytime when the internet is connected. Users can choos...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 35 3.12. Admin in this page, you can modify the web login account. With this account, you can login to the ip cam and do any modifications. The default account is “admin” without password. If the login account is forgotten, you can reset the ip cam to the factory def...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 36 3.13. Upgrade if there is some new firmware available from the supplier of this ip cam, you can upgrade the firmware on this page. Please ask for the correct information about ftp server, username/password account and firmware filename from your supplier, and then...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 37 figure 3-21: firmware upgrade status page.

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 38 3.14. Reboot you can restart the ip cam manually on this page. All the connected video viewing users will be disconnected. Figure 3-22: system reboot settings page figure 3-23: system reboot under-going page.

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 39 3.15. Safe mode if by some abnormal operation, for example, powered off during the critical point of the upgrade procedure, the ip cam will enter into the safe mode. In this mode, you will see the following “safe mode” page when login into this ip cam. Please do t...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 40 3.16. Set to factory default for some reason, for example you forgot the web login password, you may want to set the ip cam to the factory default settings. The only thing you need to do is using a stick to press the “reset” button on the back of the ip cam body f...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 41 4. Features and specifications 4.1. Features ¾ easily access the camera from anywhere in the world via the id/password ¾ no complicated nat/router settings needed. ¾ free video management software - camview program accompanied for easy access and multi-camera mana...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 42 4.2. Specifications models ip camera power dc 5v, 1a processors risc cpu, hardware video processing and compression. Network interface ethernet 10baset/100basetx, auto-mdix, rj-45 wireless interface ieee 802.11g 6 - 54 mbps ieee 802.11b 1 - 11 mbps transmit power:...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 43 bps frame rate : 1~5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 fps audio built-in microphone for audio monitoring audio compression: mpeg2 audio, amr-nb for 3gpp/isma security web management username/password protection video display id/password protection wifi wep and wpa security mod...

  • Page 44: 5. Package Contents

    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 44 5. Package contents figure 5-1: ip camera body figure 5-2: power adaptor figure 5-3: bracket figure 5-4: antenna figure 5-5: quick installation guide figure 5-6: ethernet cable figure 5-7: installation cd figure 5-8: id/password card.

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 45 appendix a. List of tested nat/router devices the followings are the list of tested nat/router devices that can work with the ip cam and camview software when viewing in a remote location. You do not need to do any modification on the default settings of the nat/r...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 46 appendix b. Maximum allowed video users the maximum allowed video users for a single ip camera at the same time is dependent on the video settings including “internet speed” and resolution. The followings are the summary of the maximum allowed video users: notice ...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 47 appendix c. Performance information 1. Video performance information the video quality is dependent on the video parameter settings and the network quality. If you want to have a better video quality, you will usually set higher resolution and higher frame rate. T...

  • Page 48: Appendix D. Trouble Shooting

    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 48 appendix d. Trouble shooting 1. What’s going on when the red led light on the ip camera is flashing? A: when the ip cam is connected to the internet and working correctly, the red led light will be on constantly. If the red led light is flashing, it’s probably bec...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 49 a: it’s probably because the internet bandwidth (internet speed) is not big enough. Please try to apply for a better internet connection from your internet service provider or decrease the bandwidth settings of the ip cam. You can adjust the bandwidth requirement ...

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    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 51 appendix e. 3gpp/isma operation 3gpp/isma is using rtsp protocol for 3g mobile phone to display the video stream from some network devices, including ip camera. The ssc323w support the rtsp protocol and video/audio codec needed by 3gpp/isma. Users only need to acc...

  • Page 52: Integration

    Sprintsc - day & night ip camera 52 appendix f. Third party and embedded web page integration for third party and embedded web page integration, ip camera support the standard rtsp protocol and video/audio codecs needed by most generally used video play software, including apple quicktime and videol...