Axis Communications M3014 manual

USER MANUAL AXIS M3014 Network Camera[...]

About this document This manual is intended for admini strators and users of the AXIS M3014 Network Camera, and is applicable to fi rmware 5.40 and later. It includes instru ctions fo r using and managing the product on your network. Previous experience of networking will be of use when using this product. Some knowle dge of UNIX or Linux-based sy[...]

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AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a H a rd w a re ove r v i ew Hardware overview 4 5 7 6 8 9 3 1 2 1 Camera module ho lder arrow 2 Camera arrow 3 Ceiling 4 Springs 5 Metal camera module holder 6 LED indicat ors 7 Network connector 8 Control button 9 Magnetic dome cover 4[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a H a rd w a re ove r v i ew Connectors Network connector - RJ-45 Ethernet connector. Supports Power over Ethernet (PoE). Caution Due to local regulations or the environmental and ele ctrical conditions in which the product is to be used, a shielde d network cable (STP) may be appropriate or required. A ny networ k cable[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a A ccessin g the pr oduct Accessing the product To install the Axis product, refer to the Installation Guide supplie d with the product. The product can be used with most operating sy stems and browsers . The recommended bro wsers are Internet Explorer with Windows, Safari with Macintosh and Firefox w ith other operatin[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a A ccessin g the pr oduct Access from the Internet Once connected, the Axis product is accessible on your local net work (LAN). To access the product from the Internet you must con fi gure your network router to allow incoming data traf fi c to the product. To do this, enable the NAT-traversal fea ture, which will att[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a A ccessin g the pr oduct Set Power Line Frequency Power line frequency is set the fi rs t time the Axis product is accessed a n d can only be changed fro m Plain Con fi g or by resetting the product to factory default. Select the power line frequency (50 Hz or 60 Hz) used at the locat ion of the Axis product. Selecti[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a A ccessin g the pr oduct AXIS Media Control v iewer toolbar The AXIS Media Control viewer toolba r is available in Internet Explorer o nly. See AXIS Media Control (AMC), on page 10 for m ore information. The toolbar d isplays the following buttons: The Play button connects to the Axis product and starts playing a media[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Media str eams Media streams The Axis product provides severa l video stream forma ts. Your re quirements and the properties of y our netw ork will determine the type you use. The Live View page in the product provides access to H.264 and Motion J PEG video streams, and to the list of available stream pro fi les. Othe[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Media str eams T h eA M CC o n t r o lP a n e lc a nb eu s e dt oc o n fi gure vario us video settings. Please see the AXIS Media Control User’s Manual for more information. The AMC Control Pane l is automatically installed on fi rst use, after which it can be con fi gured. Open the AMC Control Panel from: • Win[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Media str eams Note • <ip>= IP addess • The Axis product supports QuickTim e 6.5.1 and later. • QuickTime adds latency to the video stream. • It may be possible to use other players to view the H.264 stream using the paths a bove, although A xis does not guarantee this. 12[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Settin g up the pr oduct Setting up the product The Axis product can be con fi gured by users with administrator or opera tor rights. Click Setup in the top right-hand corner of t h eL i v eV i e wp a g e . • Administrators have unrestricted a ccess to all settings. • Operators have access to all settings except S[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Video Video It is possible to con fi gure the following video features in your Axis product: • Video stream. S ee page 14 . •S t r e a m p r o fi les. See page 15 . • Camera settings. See page 16 . •V i e w a r e a . S e e page 16 . • Over lay image. S ee page 17 . •P r i v a c y m a s k . S e e page 17 .[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Video • The Li ve View page in Inter net Explorer in Windo ws. Right-click in the imag e and select Pixel counter .U s e t h e m o u s e to move and resiz e the rectangle. Image You can modify the image resolution and com pression, and rotate the image from the Image tab ( Video > Video Stream ). The image can als[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Video Camera Settings The Video > Camera Settings page provides access to ad vanced image settings for the Axis product. Image Appearance Increasing the Color level increases the color saturation. The value 100 gives maximum color saturation. The value 0 gives a black and white image. The image Brightness can be adj[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Video 5. Click Save to save the settings. To modify the view area, mo dify the settings as required. Click Save . Tip: • The PTZ f unctionality is useful during installatio n of the Axis product. Use a view area to crop out a speci fi cp a r to f the full view. Overlay Overlays can be used to provide extra infor mat[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Live V iew Con fi g Live View Con fi g You can customize the Live View page and alter it to suit your requirements. It is possible to de fi ne the following features of t h eL i v eV i e wp a g e . •S t r e a m P r o fi le. See page 15 . • Default Viewer for Bro wser. See page 18 . • Viewer Setting s. See pag[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Live V iew Con fi g Browser Viewer Description AMC Recommended viewer in Internet Explorer (H.264/Motion JPEG) QuickTime H.264 Java applet A slower imaging alter native to AMC (Motion JPE G). Requires one of the following installed on the client: • JVM (J2SE) 1.4. 2 or higher • JRE (J2SE) 5.0 or higher Windows Int[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a PTZ (P an Tilt Zoom) PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) The PTZ menu is available if digita l PTZ (pan, tilt and zoom) is enabled in t he selected view area. For more inform ation on view areas, see View Area, on p age 16 . Preset Positions A preset position is a prede fi ned view that can be used to quickly steer the camera to a sp[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a PTZ (P an Tilt Zoom) 3. Specify the pause length between runs. 4. Select an available prese t position and click Apply . 6. Specify the View Time in seconds or minutes. 7. Specify the View order or select the Random view order check box option. 8. Click Save . To modify or remove guard tours, go to P T Z>G u a r dT [...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Detector s Detectors Camera Tampering Camera Tampering can gene rate an alarm wheneve r the camera is repositioned, or when the lens is covered, sprayed or severely defocused. To send an alarm, for example an email, an action rule must be set up. To con fi gure tampering: 1. Go to Detectors > Camera Tampering . 2. [...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Detector s Set up motion detection To set up a motion dete ction Include Window, follow these instructions : 1. Go to Detectors > Motion Detection . 2. Select the Con fi gure Included Windows option and click New . Select the new w indow in the list of windows and enter ad e s c r i p t i v en a m e . 3. Adjust the[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Detector s Low level (0%) Even very small objects trigger motion detection. An object that appears in the window triggers motion detection only for a very short time before it is co nsidered as non-moving. Only very bright objects on a dark background trigger motion detection. Recommended va lues 5–15% 60–90% 75–[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Applications Applications Third party applications can be uploa ded to and installed on the Axis product. Fo r information about available ap plications, downloads, trials and licenses, go to www.axis.com/applications To upload an application, go to Applications > Overview , click Browse to locate the fi le and the[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Ev e n ts Events The Axis product can be con fi gured to perform actions whe n different events occur, for example, star t a recording when m otion is detected. The set of conditions that de fi nes how and when the action is triggered is called an Action Rule . Available Action Rule triggers and conditions include: ?[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Ev e n ts • Record Video — record vid eo to a selected storage . • Send Images —s e n di m a g e st oar e c i p i e n t . • Send Noti fi cations —s e n da n o t i fi catio n message to a recipient. • Status LED — fl ash the LED indicator. This can for example be used to validate triggers such as moti[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Ev e n ts Recipients Recipients receive media fi les and noti fi cation messages . The following recipients are available: Recipient Use with action Email Send Images Send Noti fi cation FTP Send Images HTTP Send Images Send Noti fi cation Network Share Send Images TCP Send Noti fi cation To add a recipient: 1. Go[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Ev e n ts To modify or remove recurrences, sele ct the recurrence in the Recurrences List and click Modify or Remove . 29[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Re c o rd i n gs Recordings T h eA x i sp r o d u c t c a nb ec o n fi gured to record video continuously or according to an action rule: • To start a continuous recording, see page 30 . • To s et up action rules, see page 27 . • To access recordings, see Recording List, on page 30 . •T o c o n fi gure came r[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a Re c o rd i n gs Note If a new stream pro fi le is selected while a recording is ongoing, the reco rding will be stopped and saved in the recording list and a new recording with the new stream pro fi le will star t. All previous continuous recordings w ill remain in the recording list until they are remove d manually[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a System Options System Options Security Users User access control is enabled by default and can be con fi gured under System Options > Security > Users . An administrator can set up other users by givi ng them user names and passw ords. It i s also possible to allow a nonymous viewer login, which means that anybo[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a System Options IEEE 802.1X IEEE 802.1X is a standard for port-based Network Admission Control p roviding secure authentication of wired and wireless network devices. IEEE 802.1X is based on EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol). To access a network protected by IEEE 802.1X, devices must auth enticate themselves. The[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a System Options If using a host name for the NTP server, a DNS server must be con fi gured. See DNS Con fi guration, on page 35 . • Set manually allows you to manually set date a nd time. If using an NTP server, select your Time zone from the drop-down list. If required , check Automatically adjust for daylight savi[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a System Options Always - The Axis product will constantly attempt to connect to the AVH S service ov er the Internet. Once registered the product will stay connected to the service. This option can b e used when the p roduct is already installed and it is not convenient to use the one-click installation. AXIS Internet D[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a System Options HTTP The HTTP port used by the Axis product can be changed under System Options > Network > TCP/IP > Advanced . I n addition to the default setting, which is 80, any port in the range 1024–65535 can be used. HTTPS The HTTPS port used by the Axis product can be changed under System Options >[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a System Options Note H.264 video streams will not be a vailable if the RTSP se rver is disabled. SOCKS SOCKS is a networking proxy p rotocol. The Axis product can be con fi gured to use a SOCKS server to reach networks on the other side of a fi rewall or proxy server. This functionality is useful if the Axis product i[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a System Options To use SNMP v3, HTTPS must be enabled, see HTTPS, on page 32 . To enable SNM P v3, check the box and provide the initial user password. Note The initial password can only be set once. If the password is lost, the Axis product must be reset to factory default, see Reset to factory default settings, on pag[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a System Options Maintenance The Axis product provid es several maintena nce functions. These are available under System Options > Maintenance . Click Restart to perform a correct restart if the Axis prod uct is not beha ving as expected. This will not affect any of the current settings. Click Restore to reset most se[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a System Options Parameter List - Shows the product's parameters and their current setti ngs. This may prove useful when troubleshooting or when contacting Axis Support. Connection List - Lists all clients tha t are currently a ccessing med ia streams. Crash Report - Generates an archive wi th debugging information.[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a T r oubleshooting Troubleshooting Checking the fi rmware Firmware is softwar e that determines the f unctionality of ne twork devices. One of y our fi rst actions when troubleshooting a problem should be to check the curr ent fi rmware version. The latest version ma y contain a correction that fi xes your particula[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a T r oubleshooting arp -s <IP address> <serial number> temp ping -s 408 <IP address> In Windows , type the following from a command/DOS prompt: arp -s <IP address> <serial number> ping -l 408 -t <IP address> 2. If the product does not reply within a few seconds, res tart it and wait f[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a T r oubleshooting The product is accessible locally but not externally Router con fi guration To con fi gure your router to allow incoming data traf fi c to the Axis product, enable the NAT-traversal feature which will attempt to automatically con fi gure the router to allow access to the A xis product, see NAT tra[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a T r oubleshooting Status indicator LED is fl ashing red and the product is inaccessible A fi rmware upgrade has been interrupted or the fi rmware has othe rwise been damaged See Emergency recovery procedure, on page 41 . No images displayed on web page Problems with AXIS Media Control ( Internet Explorer only ) To e[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a T r oubleshooting Motion Detection triggers unexpectedly Changes in luminance Motion detection is based on changes in luminance in the image. This means that if there are sudden changes in the lighting, motion detecti on may trigger mistakenly. Lower the sensitivity setting to avoid problems with luminance. 45[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a T echnical Speci fi cations Technical Speci fi cations Function/group Item Speci fi cat ions Model AXIS M3014 Image sensor Progressive scan RGB CMOS 1/4” Lens 2.9 mm: F2.0, fi xed iris Horizontal angle of view: 80° Vertical angle of view : 48° Diagonal angle of view: 100° Minimum illumination 1l u xF 2 . 0 Shu[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a T echnical Speci fi cations Function/group Item Speci fi cat ions Application Programming Interface Open API for software integration, including VAPIX® and AXIS Camera Applicat ion Platform from Axis Communications; speci fi cations available at www.axis.com Includes the ONVIF speci fi cation avai lable at www.onv[...]

AXIS M3 0 14 Netw ork Camer a T echnical Speci fi cations Performance considerations When settings up your system, it is important to consider how variou s s ettings and situations will affect performance. Some factors affect the amount of bandwidth (the bit rate) required, others can affect the frame rate, and some affect both. If the load on the[...]

User Manual Ver. M1.7 AXIS M3014 N etwork Camera Date: December 2011 © Axis Communic ations AB, 2 011 Part No. 45 300[...]