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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 1/ 56 FCS-4101 2-Megapixel D ay/Night P/T PoE Mini Dome Net work Camer a User Manual Version 1.0[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 2/ 56 Table of Contents Overview ............................................................................................................... 3 Package Contents ................................................................................................ . 4 Connections ........................................[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 3/ 56 2-Megapixel Day/Night P/T PoE Mini Dome Net w ork Cam era Overview FCS- 4101 is a 2-Megapixel Day/Night P/T PoE Mini Dom e Network Camera . Law in y our country may prohibi t the use of survei llance dev ices. The N etwork Camera is not only a hi gh-performance web-ready camera but also can be par t of a flexi[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 4/ 56 Package Conten ts If any of the abov e items are missi ng, please con tact your dealer im mediately . Note : Using a power s upply with a different vol tage than the one includ ed wi th the Network Camera will cause damage and void the warranty for this p roduct. Network Camera ( W ired or PoE) Softw are CD Po[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 5/ 56 Connections Hard w are description Outer Vie w Inner View Wired cover Slide cover Light sensor Lens IR LED Mi cro SD/SDHC card slot Reset button Internal Microphone[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 6/ 56 Hardware In stallation 1. Attach the Ne twork Camera with the includ ed stand 2. Place the Came ra fix it onto ce iling or wall Use screws to fix the Netw ork Camera onto the c eiling or wal l.[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 7/ 56 3. Power over E thernet (PoE) Using a PoE-enabled switch The Network Came ra is PoE-compli ant, allow ing transmission of pow er and data via a single Etherne t cable. Foll ow the below illustration to connect the Network Camera to a PoE-enabled sw itch via Ethernet cable. Using a non-PoE s w itch Use [...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 8/56 Connect to the Ne twork Camera Inst all the IP Finder program When y ou instal led y our Network camera on your LA N env ironment, you m ay install ―IP Finder‖ to discover Netw ork camera’s IP address. T he Administrato r must place the product software CD into the CD-ROM drive of the PC running in Micros[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 9/ 56 ―IP Finder‖ is used to search the IP address of Netw ork Cameras or Video servers on a LAN. After searching, Video Serv ers or Network Cameras will be located by the IP Finder.[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 10 / 56 Search Came ra Click search Camera button, The program will search for all family network devices on the same LAN. After searching, the main installer windo w will pop up. Click on the MAC and model name which matches the product label on your device to connect to the Network Camera via Internet Explorer.[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 11 / 56 Setup Camera Auto Install W izard w ill be started and that it can auto guide through the installation process. Press the “Next” button execute next process. For more information, pl ease refer to the Network section o n page 33.[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 15 / 56 Bonjour program Safari brow ser supports Bonjour search pro gram the wi ll search for all fam ily network devices on the same LAN.[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 16 / 56 C2.mylevel1.com (Free DDNS service) 1. W hen you want to connect the network ca mer a over Internet, you can use the service ― C2.mylevel1.com ‖. The ―ip - discovery .co m‖ is a free DDNS server for this camera. Make sure that the router must st art UPnP and DHCP serv er functions. Y ou c an get the [...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 17 / 56 Initial Access to the Network Camer a (1) For the initial access to the Network Camera in W indow s, the web brow ser may prompt for permission to install a new plug-in for the Networ k Camera. This plug- in has been registered for certific ate and is used to display the video in t he browser. Users may cli [...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 18 / 56 Primary user’s capability Main Screen with Camera V iew The main p age has three part s : 1. Configuration functions: The came ra can be con figured using thes e user interfaces. 2. Pan/Tilt & connecti on control buttons: These buttons provide the di rection to control the p an and til e of camera. 3. [...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 19 / 56 Camera view: On the top of i mage show s the connecting ty pe of the Netw ork Camera an d the current date/time. Vie w capabilities : 1. Click this button to capture and save s till ima ges. The captured images w ill be display ed in p op -up window. Ri ght-click the image and choo se Save Pi cture As to sav[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 20 / 56 Pan/Tilt & connection control buttons : 1. “Connection” User can choose R emote or Local mode for best connection quality. Proposal: Internet environment, switch Re mote mode. 2. “Video Stream” User can choose stream1 or stream2. 3. “The direct ion buttons are” ―Le ft‖, ―Right‖, ―U [...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 21 / 56 Client Settin g 1. “Video output setting” Setting video output f ormat. “Stream” Select use multiple stream video. “Picture” Select use serial video picture. 2. “Intranet Protocol Options” Setting camera in intranet mode of protocol. “UDP” Select use UDP protocol connect camera. “TCP”[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 22 / 56 and time to the end of the file name. NOTE : Protocol Options w hich allows choi ces on connection p rotocol between client an d server . There are three p rotocols choices to op timize y our usage – UDP ,TCP ,HTTP . The UDP protocol all ows for more real-time audio and v ideo streams. H owever , some pa[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 23 / 56 Definitions in Configur ation Please note that onl y the Administ rator can access the system configu ration. System para meters 1. “General Setting” (1) “Host name” The text display s the title on the top of the main page . (2) “LED indicator” Select turn on or turn of f the led indi cator . Fir[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 24 / 56 2. “Time Setting” (1) “T ime zone” Choose a time zone from the dow n arrow . (2) “Daylight saving” For summertime; It w ill be one hour ahead . (3) “Current Time” Network camera set the current time. (A) “Keep current date and time” Click on this to keep the current da te and time of the [...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 25 / 56 Security Security setting The administrator account name is ―roo t‖, which is permanent and can not be deleted. If you w ant to add more accoun ts in the M anage User column, please set a passw ord for the ―root‖ accoun t first. 1. “Change root p assword” Change the A dmini strator ’s p assword[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 26 / 56 (2) “Delete a user” Select an existin g user name. Cl ick Finish to enable the setting. (3) “Up date a existing user” Select an existing user name. Administ rators can modify user’s password and privi lege. Cli ck Finish to enable the se tting. Access rights a re sorted by user privilege (Admini st[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 27 / 56 Network Any changes made on this p age wi ll restart the system in o rder to val idate the changes. Make sure ev ery field is en tered correctly before clicking on “finish” Network Setting “LAN” & “PPPoE” The default type i s LAN. Sel ect PPPoE if using A DSL 1. LAN The default s tatus is Get[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 28 / 56 provides UPnP function at My Network Place) . (1) “Get IP address a utomaticall y ” (2) “Use fixed IP address” - “IP address” : This is necessary for network identification. - “Subnet mask” : This is used to determin e if the destination is in the same subnet. The default v alue is ―255.255[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 29 / 56 server or notify the User o f the new IP add ress. Note : when this field is input as ―Use r name‖, the follow ing field must be inp ut as ―Password‖. 7 . “Password” Please input the p assw ord or key to get the DDNS serv ice. 8 . “finish” Click on this button to save modi fy settings for the[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 30 / 56 Access list A ccess list setting 1. How to control access permission by v erifying the client PC’s IP address. General Settings. General Settings[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 31 / 56 ◆ A d d a rule to configure an Allowed/Denied list: Click A dd to add a rule to Allowed/Denied list. There are three types of rules for user to set up: “Single” This rule allows the user to add an IP a ddress to the Allow ed/Denied list. For example: “Network” This rule allow s the user to assi gn [...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 32 / 56 “Range” This rule allow s the user to assign a range o f IP add resses to the Allow / Deny List. This rule is only app lied to IPv4. For example:[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 33 / 56 Audio and Video setting[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 34 / 56 General Setting 1. “Color mode” Select use color or monochrome vi deo display . 2. “Video orient ation” The orienta tion of video (1) “Flip” V ertically rotate the video. (2) “Mirror” Horizontally rotates the video. 3. “Environment” The orientatio n of video (1) “indoor” This option i[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 35 / 56 Audio Setting 1. “Mute” Audio mute. 2 . “ Microphone ” Internal microphone. 3 . “Mic V olume” Ad just microphone v olume, which ran ges from 1 to 64 . Video record Schedule mode (1) “Every day” Enable/Disable ev ery day application. (2) “Week day ” Enable/Disable w eek day application. (3[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 36 / 56 (2)“Sun” / “Mon” / “T ue” / “Wed” / “Thu” / “Fri” / “Sat” Select the days of the week to perfor m the application. (3) ― Start day ‖ and ― Start time ‖ as the start timing the time. ― End day ‖ and ― End time ‖ as the end timing the time (4) “Enable cyclic record[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 37 / 56 Stream A udio codec setting (1)“Audio codec type” There are two choi ces of audio codec types avail able: ” A MR” 、 “ AAC” and ”G.711” . (2) “ Bit rate ” -- “ A MR” The bit rates are selectable at the foll owing rates: 4750,5150,5900,6700 ,7400,7950,10200 and 1220 0. -- “AAC” Th[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 38 / 56 these compression modes based on requiremen t or application (3) “Video size” Click t he down arrow to choos e the quali ty of image (4) “Connection type” User can selec t this button to choose the better video & links quali ty . (Internet mode o r Intranet mode) (5) “Frame rate” This limits [...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 39 / 56 Camera control Camera control The pan a nd tilt functions can be con trolled with these buttons. The “Lef t” button controls the cam era to the le ft; the “Right” , “Up” , and “Down” buttons control the camera accordingly . (1) “UL” , “UR” , “LL” and “LR” buttons contro l the [...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 40 / 56 larger value is se tting, the lar ger movement of “Up” or “Down” is per forming by the camera. (4) “Patrol cycle” It is the cycle of p atrol func tion. (5) “Auto p a n speed” This define s the speed o f auto pann ing. The larger v alue is setting, the faste r speed wi ll run by the camera. (6[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 41 / 56 Application Schedule mode (1) “Every day” Enable/Disable ev ery day application. (2) “Week day ” Enable/Disable w eek day application. (3) “Selected day” Enable/Disabl e selected day application. Schedule information (1) Enter the “Start time” and “Stop time” for day mode . Note that the [...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 42 / 56 (2) “Periodically” This option allow s the Netw ork Camera to trigge r periodicall y for every other de fined minute. (3) “Video T racking” is able to track dynamic object s within screen video. p arameters (1) “M otion p aram eters” Higher sensitiv ity and small threshold will allow easier motio[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 43 / 56 -- “User p assword” Enter the passw ord of the N AS account. Note: Vi deo record w ith the Application must be set to the same shared directory path. If y ou would li ke to do detail recording settin gs or multi-channel recor ding, please install bundled 64CH rec ording sof tware in CD.[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 44 / 56 Storage Manage the storage device. Sto rage S t atus Here show the storage dev ice information. NA S server setting (1) ― NAS Host name ‖ Choose and input the NAS Host name of this camera. (2) ― Workgroup ‖ Input the na me of Workgrou p. Y ou can see the NAS Host name you input in the same w orkgroup[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 45 / 56 Move the mouse over the file. Press the mou se right button that Right-click menu is display ed. Y ou can delete files. Move the mouse over the directo ry . Press the mouse le ft button that the file structu re exp and. Press the mous e right button that Right-click menu is display ed. Y ou can choose upload[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 46 / 56 Syslog The Network ca mera support s log the system message s on remote se rver . The protocol is compliant to RFC 3164. If you have external Linux server with sys log service, use ― - r‖ option to turn on the facility f or receiving log f rom remote mach ine. Or you can use some software on W indows tha[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 47 / 56 Status and Parameters User can find a lot of informa tion about the sy stem such as “Upnp port forwarding” , “T raversing NA T” , “Public IP” , and so on. Us er also can get the number of curren t view er of the Network Camera here.[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 48 / 56 Maintenance 1. “Reboot system” The “Reboot” button wi ll reboot the Netw ork Cam era. It’ s useful while the Netw ork Camera got problem . 2. “Restore system” Click on ― Resto re ‖ button on the con figuratio n pa ge to res tore the factory de fault settings . Restore all set tings to facto[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 49 / 56 suggested to upload a settin gs backup file. 5 . “Upgrade firmware” Select the firmw are file and clic k upgrade but ton. Please be aware that you shoul d not turn of f the power duri ng updating the firmware and w ait for finish messa ge. Warning: The upgrade firmware procedu re cannot be interrupted . [...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 50 / 56 Appendix A . T roubleshooting & Frequently A sked Questions Q1: St a tus led does not light up. A1: First, make su re that 「 Con figuration>System>Turn off the LED indi cator 」 is disabled . If it is, check the item, and the led should li ght up. Second, i f red led does n ot light up, please c[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 51 / 56 6.T ype IP address:8080 at browser . Then you can see camera throu gh Internet. 7.Y ou can also type the ddns name at below l abel of camera on browser URL field. For example, you may type ah000 01.ip-discovery .com:8080. (2) By Settin g Port Forwarding M anually 1. Select a router . Set the p ort forwarding[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 52 / 56 PS. Port 80 is HTTP P ort, port 53 is stream port, port 554 is R TSP port. and port 443 is HTTPS port. 2.Go to camera Network p age. Disab le UPnP port forwarding function .[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 53 / 56 3. T ype IP add ress at brow ser . Then y ou can see camera through Interne t. 4. Y ou can also type the ddns name at below label of camera on browser UR L field. For example, you may type ah000 01.ip-discovery .com. Note: The fire wall software at PC may block t he transfer of net work camera. Please remove[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 54 / 56 Q6 : How can I restore the network camera to default v alue? A6 : Use a gem clip to press on the inside button . Network camera begins to restore default value. You can also press the button “Factory ” in ―Maintenance‖ page to restor e the default value . Q7 : I cannot play the recorded video file. A[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 55 / 56 A12: Contact y our dealer for further help. Q13: Cannot access the login page and other web pages of Network Camera from Internet Explorer A13: • May be due to the network cable . Try correctin g your network cable and con figuration. Test the netw ork interface by connecting a local c omputer to the Ne tw[...]
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Network Camera User ’ s Manual 56 / 56 B. T echnical specifications - System RAM: 4G DDR Ⅲ (3210 M) 、 2G DDR Ⅲ (3210HA) ROM: 16M B Flash ROM - Camera specification 1/2.7 inch color CMOS sen sor , Resolution: 1920x1080 1.0Lux/F2.0 AGC, A W B, AEC (3210M ) 1/4 inch color CM OS sensor , Resolutio n: 1280x800 1.3Lux /F2.0 AGC, A W B, AEC (3210H[...]