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    AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide[...]

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    AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Page 3 ENGLISH AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Minimum recommended r equirements Install AX IS Camera St ation on a stand-alone computer de dicated mainly for running this app lication Hardware: • Intel Pentium 4 with 2 GHz processor •C D - d r i v e •5 1 2 M B R A M • Hard disk: 1 GB available [...]

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    Page 4 AXIS Came ra Station Installation Guide Overview This document will help you in stal l AXIS Camera Station and configure it for your Axis Network Cameras and Axis Video Servers. A brief introduction to the functionality of the software is covered here, see the online Help or the AXIS Camera Station User’s Manual for a detail ed descriptio [...]

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    AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Page 5 ENGLISH Network Configuration AXIS Camera Stati on can record and play back video from cameras that are connected over a LAN (Local Area Network) or over a WAN (Wide Area Network). LAN The cameras can be connected direct ly to the server running AXIS Camera Station using an Ethernet network. Internet (W[...]

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    Page 6 AXIS Came ra Station Installation Guide See the User’s Manual for details, ava ilable on the CD a nd on www.axis.com[...]

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    AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Page 7 ENGLISH Install AXIS Camera Station Software Install AXIS Ca mera Station on the ded icated stand-al one PC from where you wis h to run th e main ad ministration of your cameras and video server s. 1. Insert the CD in the CD drive. If the installation CD does not auto-start, click autorun.exe in the CD?[...]

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    Page 8 AXIS Came ra Station Installation Guide Note: If running Windows XP, you will need to permit the firewall to accept incoming requests from AXIS Camera St ation Client when prompted. 6. When the installation is finished, open AXIS Camera Station from Start > All Programs or click the prog ram icon on your desktop:[...]

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    AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Page 9 ENGLISH AXIS Camera Station Activation The first time yo u start the progr am you will be asked to r egister your license. Activate the software with your License Key The License Key can be used for only one current installation. Once registered, it cann ot be used again . Do not reques t the acce ss co[...]

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    Page 10 AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide There are two types of upgrade li censes available for purchase at your local Axis reseller: • Additional camera license . • Software upgrad e license . You can upgrade AXIS Camera Station for a limite d time from www.axis.com and then extend the lice nse. Licenses and the time period rem aining ar[...]

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    AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Page 11 ENGLISH 2. Fill in the requested informat ion. The License Key is fou nd on the inside of the AXIS Camera Station CD casing. Click A ctivate. 3. Y o ur license information will be sent to Axis Communications and your software will be activ ated automaticall y . 4. Y ou can now start usin g AXIS Camera [...]

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    Page 12 AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide No or low-speed Internet connection: Register manually If AXIS Camera Station is install ed on a computer wit hout (or with low-speed) access to the Internet, you can acquire the Access Code that is needed to activate th e software from the Ax is Web site and enter it manually. 1. Click Grace per iod .[...]

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    AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Page 13 ENGLISH 3. You will see your Server ID (a code c ontaining in formation about your PC ), make a no te of it. You w ill need the Serv er ID when filling in information on the In ternet fo rm for your Access Code. 4. You can now us e AXIS Camera Station for 5 days. During the grace period you can r eceiv[...]

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    Page 14 AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide 6. Enter your Acces s Code. License Key and Ser v er ID are filled in automati cally. 7. Click Ac t i v a t e . 8. Y ou can now start using AXIS Camera Station. Using the Demo version Another opti on is to install AXIS Camera Station a s a 30-day demo version, which works with 4 cam e ras and includes [...]

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    AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Page 15 ENGLISH Configure AXIS Camera Station After installing the software, it must be configured for your cameras and vi deo servers. The firs t time AXIS Camera Station is started, a search function automa tically f inds and installs cameras/ video servers on your network. If there are more cameras on your [...]

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    Page 16 AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Adding a Camera/video server to AXIS Camera Station 1.From AXIS Camera Station, click Options > Camera settings. Note: All settings can be found under Options. Only a few of the most essential settings are covered in this guide. See the online Help or User’s Manual for a full description. 2. From [...]

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    AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Page 17 ENGLISH 4. Click on the desired camera/v ideo server an d then OK. 5. All pertin ent inform atio n appears in the window . Camera Name is how th e camera will appear in AX IS Camera Station. If you like, you may chan ge the name to something more de scriptive such as “Ba ckdoor” or “Garage”. Th[...]

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    Page 18 AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Note: The Camera Enabled box should be checke d. If this box is n ot checked when registering a camera, recordings and live viewing are not possible 7. If came ras are set up to use a co mmon user na me and password, check the Use master password box under Credentials. If the camera has a uniqu e passw[...]

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    AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Page 19 ENGLISH Defining default camera views from AXIS Camera Station To define the camera views as seen from the main AXIS Camera Station user interface, click on Options > Views from the file menu. 1. Select the view acco rding to the number of cameras you want to configure. 2. Specify the default view t[...]

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    Page 20 AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide AXIS Camera Station User Interface The background recording serv i ce retrieves images from the connected cameras and stores th em to hard disk. From AXIS Camera Station you can start or s top the backgrou nd service, click File > Start Server or Stop Server or right-cli ck on the AXIS Camera S tati[...]

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    AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Page 21 ENGLISH AXIS Camera Station Controls View Selection Select a view and you will get a window showing live images direct from the camera. It is possible to click in the image from Pan/Ti lt/ Zoom cameras to move the camera or zoom using the mouse scroll wheel. No Live Images Click the No Live Images butt[...]

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    Page 22 AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Monitor I/O When clicking this button, th e I/O Status of I/Os defined in AXIS Ca mera Station are displayed. Monitorin g I/O defi nes when events, such as an alar m or motion detection, should be triggered. Eac h I/O is shown on one line, along wi th a colored in dicator: • green indicator means the[...]

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    AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Page 23 ENGLISH 4-camera playback Here you can play record ed events from four cameras simultaneously . Select a date an d time, and then press the search button . All the events found for the 4 cameras will be played starting at the sp ecified date and time up to the present time. Event Log The event log show[...]

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    Page 24 AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Pan/Tilt/Zoom and Audio controls These controls are only visible if th e conn ected camera has PTZ capability or a connected audio mo dule. Choo se a camera from the drop-down l ist “ Select a camera” for the controls to appear. The recording properti es for installed Axis network cam eras and vide[...]

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    AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Page 25 ENGLISH AXIS Camera Station Client The AXIS Camera Station Cl ient application is used for remote operations on client workstations , where you can perform the same tasks as from AXIS C amera Station using a similar user interface. Install AXIS Camera Station Client Softw are 1. From the client worksta[...]

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    Page 26 AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide 6. The first time you connect , this window will appear: 7. Enter th e IP addr ess or host name of the server PC where AXIS Camera Station is installed and, if required, the User Name and P assword. 8. Click OK . Notes: • When working with more one than on e AXIS Camera Sta tion, a list of recently a[...]

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    AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide Page 27 ENGLISH AXIS Camera Station Web Application A web browser can be used on cl ie nt workstations to view cameras and perform simple operations, such as review or playback recordings. Once the AXIS Camera Station Web Access has been enabled in AXIS Camera Station under Options > General > General se[...]

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    AX I S Ca m e ra S t at i o n I n s t al l at i o n G u i d e R e v . 4 . 0 Ma y 2 00 6 Copyright © Axis Communications AB, 2004-2006 Par t No. 26390[...]