Sony SNC-DF70P manual

3-863-987- 11 (1) Netw ork Camera © 2004 Sony Corporation SNC-DF70N/DF70P User’ s Guide Software V ersion 1.0[...]

2 Owner's Recor d The model and serial nu mbers are located on the bot tom. Record the serial nu mber in the space pro vided belo w . Refer to these numbers whene ver you call upon your Sony d ealer re garding thi s product. Model No. Serial No. T o av oid electrical shock, do not open the cabinet. Refe r servicing to qualified personnel only [...]

3 If you have any questions ab out this product, you may call: Sony's Business Information Center (BIC) at 1-800-686-SONY (766 9) or Write to: Sony Customer Inf ormation Services Center 6900-29, Daniels Parkw ay, PMB 330 F ort Myers, Florid a 33912 NO TICE T O USERS © 2004 Son y Corporation. All rights reserved. This manual or the software de[...]

T able of Contents 4 T ab le of Contents Overview F eatures ..... ........................... ................................ .. 6 Camera section ...................... ........................... .. 6 Network section, Control section ..................... .. 6 Others ...................... ........................... ................ 6 How to Use[...]

T able of Cont ents 5 Setting the Sch edule — Schedule setting Menu .......................... ......... 50 Setting the Alarm Buffer — Alarm b uffer setting Menu ............... ........................... ........................... 51 Setting the Motion Detection Function — Motion detection setting Menu ........................... .........[...]

Ov er vie w Features 6 Overview Features This is dome-shape d color video camera for wh ich the 1/4 type Super HAD CCD ® is adopted. It has the follo wing features. Camera section • Day/Night function automa tically switches between color and monochrome modes. Y ou can control this function th rough an ex te rnal source also. • Includes the V [...]

Ov er vie w How to Use This User’ s Guide / Precautions 7 Ho w to Use This User’ s Guide This User’ s Guide explains ho w to operate the SNC- DF70N/DF70P Network Camera fro m a computer . The User’ s Guide is written to be read on the computer display . As this sec tion gives tips on using the Use r’ s Guide, read it before you operate th[...]

Ov er vie w System Requir ements 8 System Requirements These are the requirements for the compu ter that displays the image or controls the camera. Processor Pentium III, 1 GHz or h igher (Pentium 4, 2 GHz or higher recommended ) RAM 256 MB or more OS W indows 2000/XP W eb bro wser Internet Explorer V er . 5.5 or V er .6 .0[...]

Preparation Assigning t he IP Address to th e Camera 9 Preparation The Preparation section e xplai ns what the administrator has to prepare for monito ring the images after installation and conne ction of the camera. Assigning the IP Address to the Camera T o connect the camera to a netw ork, you need to assign a new IP address t o the camera when [...]

Preparation Assigning the IP Addres s to the Camer a 10 T o spec ify the IP address manually: Select Use the f ollowing IP addr ess , and type the IP address, Subn et mask and Default gate way in the rele v ant boxes. 8 Set the DNS server address. T o obtain the DNS server addr esses automatically: Select Obtain DNS serv er address automatically . [...]

Preparation Accessing t he Camera Using the Web Browser 11 Accessing the Camera Using the W eb Br o wser When the IP address has been assigned t o the camera, check that you can actually access the camera using the W eb bro wser installed in your computer . Use Internet Explorer as the W eb bro wser . 1 Start the W eb bro wser on t he computer and [...]

Preparation Basic Config uring by the Administr ator 12 Basic Configuring b y the Administrator Y ou can monitor the image of the camera only logging in with the i nitial condition of thi s network came ra. Y ou can also set v arious functions according to the install position, ne twork condition or purpose of the camera. W e recommend you conf ig [...]

Operat ing the Camer a Administrator and User 13 Operating the Camera The Operating the Camera sect ion explains ho w to monitor the image from th e camera using th e W eb bro wser . Use Internet Explorer as the W eb browser . The functions of t he camera should be set b y the Administrato r . F or setting the camera, se e “ Administrating the Ca[...]

Operat ing the Camer a Logging in to Homepage — W elcome P age 14 Logging in to Homepa ge — W elcome P age Logging in as a User 1 Start the web browser on the computer and type the IP address o f the camer a you want to monitor . The welcome page of Networ k Camera SNC- DF70N/DF70P is displayed. 2 Select the viewer . The usable viewers dif fer [...]

Operat ing the Camer a Logging in to Home page — Welcome P age 15 2 Enter the user name and password for Administrato r , then cl ick OK . The user name “admin” and the password “admin” are set at the factory for the Administrator . Y ou can change them on the Use r setting menu in the Administrator me nu (see page 36). The Administrato r[...]

Operat ing the Camer a Configur ation of Main Viewe r 16 Configuration of Main Vie wer This section explains the functions of the parts and controls of the main vie wer . F or a detailed explanation on each part or control, see the specified pages. Main viewer Main menu Setting Click this button to di splay the Admini strator menu. Y ou can operate[...]

Operat ing the Camer a Controlling the Monitor Imag e 17 The last selected mode is sav ed in the computer , and it will be selected at the ne xt starting. (V olume) (Displayed when the Microp hone (page 29) is set to On .) Drag the bar of icon to adjust the v olume. When you click icon, the icon changes to and the audio output stops. T o output the[...]

Operat ing the Camer a Capturing a Monitor Im age 18 3 Select th e view size. Click Vi e w s i z e box list box to select the vie w size from among Au t o , 640 × 480 , 320 × 240 and 160 × 120 . Au t o is determined b y the image size specifie d with Image size on the Camera sett ing menu (page 28). Zooming in the monitor image 1 Click Digital z[...]

Operat ing the Camer a Sending an Image File 19 Saving the captured ima ge With the ActiveX viewer 1 Capture the monitor image. 2 Click Sav e . Sav e As dialog appears. 3 Select JPEG or Bit map as Sa ve as type . 4 Ty p e o n File name and specify Sa ve in , then click Sav e . With the Jav a applet vie wer 1 Capture the monitor image. 2 Right-click[...]

Operat ing the Camer a Recording a Still Image in the Buil t-in Memory of the Camera / Co ntrolling Alarm output 20 Recor ding a Still Image in the Built-in Memory of the Camera Y ou can capture a camera im age as a still i mage and record it in the b uilt-in memory of the came ra. T o use this function, you need to mak e Image memory activ e and t[...]

Operat ing the Camer a Controllin g Day/Ni ght Function / S witching TCP/ UDP T ransmission Mode 21 Contr olling Da y/Night Function Y ou can control the Day/Night On (night mode) and Of f (day mode). T o use this function, you need to make Day/ Night acti v e in the T rigger setting menu on the Administrator menu (page 48). 1 Monitor the image on [...]

Operat ing the Camer a Switching T CP/UDP T ransmission Mo de 22 a router which does not correspond to the mul ticast or the f ire-wall is i nstalled between the camera and the computer , the video/audio may not played properly . In this case, select TCP or UDP (Unicast) . 4 Click OK to close the dialog. If you do not chang e the tr ansmission sett[...]

Administratin g the Camera Basic Oper ations of Ad ministrator Men u 23 Administrating the Camera The Administrating the Came ra section explains ho w to set the func tions of the c amera by the Adminis trator . For monito ring the camera image, se e “Operating the Camera” on page 13. This section e xplains the basic operations and each option.[...]

Administratin g the Camera Basic Operation s of Administrator Menu 24 Example: Sy stem setting menu 4 Select the tab abo ve the setting menu, and set each setting op tion in the t ab . Example: “System” setting menu “Date & t ime” tab See page 25 to 52 for details of setting menu tabs and setting o ptions. 5 After setting, click OK . Th[...]

Administratin g the Camera Configur ing the System — Syst em setting menu 25 FTP c lient Displays the FTP client setting menu for se nding an image file to FTP server . (“Sending Images to FTP Server — FTP client setting Menu” on page 41) Image memor y Displays the image memory setting menu for recording a video/audio f ile in the built-in [...]

Administratin g the Camera Configuring the Syste m — System setting menu 26 Custom Homepage Installer included in the supplied CD-R OM. For use of the Custom Homepage Installer , see page 59. 1 Select User Setti ng/user/ . 2 T ype the path of the HTM L f ile in the text box up to 64 characters. Tip Even when you select User Setting/user/ , the ho[...]

Administratin g the Camera Configur ing the System — Syst em setting menu 27 Initialize T ab Reboot Reboots the camera. Click Rebo ot , and “The SNC-DF7 0 will be rebooted . Are you sure?” appears. Click OK to reboot the camera. It takes a bout two minutes to start again. Factory default Resets the camera to the factory se ttings. Click Fac t[...]

Administ rating t he Camera Setting the Came ra Imag e and A udio — Camer a sett ing Menu 28 Setting the Camera Image an d A udio — Camera settin g Menu When yo u click Camera on t he Administrator menu , the Camera set ting menu appea rs. Use this men u to set the fun ctions of th e camera. The Camera setting menu consi sts of 6 tabs: Common ,[...]

Administratin g the Camera Setting the Came ra Image and Audio — Camera setting Menu 29 3 Specify th e croppin g area. Click the left b utton of th e mouse on the still image and drag it diagonally . The red frame that appears as you drag indicates the cropping ar ea. 4 Click OK at the bottom of the wi ndow . The cropped ima ge is displayed on t [...]

Administratin g the Camera Setting the Camera Image an d Audio — Camera set ting Menu 30 A GC (Automatic Gain Contr ol) Adjusts the gain automatica lly according to the lighting conditions of the subject. Back light compensation Select On to acti vate the backlig ht compensation, or Off to deactivate it. Lens adjust Select the iris con vergence l[...]

Administratin g the Camera Setting the Came ra Image and Audio — Camera setting Menu 31 Sensor Controls day/ni ght mode by synchronizing with the sensor inpu t. The camera works in night mode while the sensor input is being detected. Note When a signal is input from the 1 pin (sen sor input +) and 2 pin (sensor in put - (GND)) of the I/O cable, t[...]

Administratin g the Camera Configur ing the Networ k — Network setti ng Menu 32 SNC-DF70P: 5, 6, 8, 10, 15, 20, 25 The numbers indicate “fps” (the number of frames transmitted per second). Image quality Set the quality of JPEG image. Selectable v alues are from Le vel 1 to Le vel 5 . Selecting le vel 5 gi v es the image with the highest quali[...]

Administratin g the Camera Configuri ng the Networ k — Network setti ng Menu 33 Default gatewa y T ype the default gateway . Obtain DNS server address automatically Select this to obtai n the address of DNS serve r automatically . It can be set only when Obtain an IP address a utomatically (DHCP) is selected. Note When you select “Obtain DNS se[...]

Administratin g the Camera Configur ing the Networ k — Network setti ng Menu 34 Primary DNS server T ype the IP address of t he primary DNS server . Secondary DNS ser ver T ype the IP addre ss of the secondary DNS server . OK/Cancel See “Buttons common to ev ery setting menu” on page 24. Dynamic IP address notification T ab — Notifying the [...]

Administratin g the Camera Configuri ng the Networ k — Network setti ng Menu 35 User name, Pass wor d T ype the user name and Password of the user who has the mail account. This sett ing is necessary when the SMTP server which se nds e-Mails performs authentication. Recipient e-Mail address T ype the recipient e-Mail address up to 64 characters. [...]

Administratin g the Camera Setting the Us er — User setting Menu 36 Setting the User — User setting Menu When you click User on the Administrator menu, the User setting menu appears. Use this menu to set the user names and passwords of Administrator and up to 9 ki nds of users (User 1 to User 9), and the access right of eac h user . Administrat[...]

Administratin g the Camera Setting the Security — Security setting Men u 37 Setting the Security — Security setting Menu When you cli ck Security on the Adv anced mod e menu, the Security set ting menu appears. Use this menu to limit the comput ers that ca n access the camera. Security function T o acti vat e the security function, select On . [...]

Administratin g the Camera Sending an Ima ge via mail — e-Mai l (SMTP) setting Menu 38 Sending an Image via mail — e-Mail (SMTP) setting Menu When you click SMTP on the Admini strator menu, the SMTP setting menu appears. By using Mail (SMTP) function, you can sen d a mail with attached image which has bee n shot linked with the external sensor [...]

Administratin g the Camera Sending an Image via mail — e-Mail (SMTP) sett ing Menu 39 OK/Cancel See “Buttons common to ev ery setting menu” on page 24. Alarm sending T ab — Setting the mail sending mode when detecting the alarm Set to send the mail with connection to the alarm detection b y the external sens or input or by the b uilt-in mot[...]

Administratin g the Camera Sending an Ima ge via mail — e-Mai l (SMTP) setting Menu 40 P eriodical sending T ab — Setting the periodical mail sending mode Y ou can set to send ma ils periodically . P eriodical sending Select On when you want to send mails periodically . If you select Off , Periodical sending is not e xecuted. Image file name T [...]

Administratin g the Camera Sending Images to FTP Server — FTP client setting Men u 41 Sending Images to FTP Server — FTP c lient setting Menu When you click FTP client on the Administrator m enu, the FTP client setting menu appears. Use this menu to set up for ca pturing and sending still images to an FTP server . By using FTP client function, [...]

Administratin g the Camera Sending Images to FTP Ser ver — FTP client setting Menu 42 Suffix Select a suffix to add to the file name. Date & time: The date & time suf fix is added to the Image file name. The date/time suf fix consists of lo wer tw o-digits of year (2 digits), month (2 digits), date (2 digits), hour (2 digits), minute (2 d[...]

Administratin g the Camera Recording I mages in Memor y — Image memor y settin g Menu 43 Sequence n umber: A consecuti ve number of 10 digits between 000000 0001 and 429496 7295 and two fix ed digits 00 is added to the Image f ile name. Sequence number c lear Click Clear and the suff ix of the sequence number returns to 1. Interval T ype the inte[...]

Administratin g the Camera Recording I mages in Memor y — Imag e memor y setting Menu 44 Overwrite Select to o verwrite the f ile or not when there is insuf ficient memory space to record the image. Select On to allow o verwriting. The oldest f ile or folder is ov erwritten first. Select Off to prohibit ov erwriting . In this case, a ne w f ile c[...]

Administratin g the Camera Recording I mages in Memor y — Image memor y settin g Menu 45 consecutive 2 digits numbe r is added to th e Image f ile name. Tip A consecutiv e number added to Date & time and Sequence n umber is used to id entify eac h of multip le files crea ted with one alarm e vent. Sequence number c lear Click Clear to reset t[...]

Administratin g the Camera Recording I mages in Memor y — Imag e memor y setting Menu 46 Interval T ype the interv al at which you wa nt to record an image in the built-in memory periodically . Y ou can set the hour (H), minutes (M) and second s (S) between 1 second and 24 hours (one day). Note The actual interv al may be lo nger than the set val[...]

Administratin g the Camera Downloading Images from the Camer a — FTP server setting Menu / Setting the Alarm Output — Alarm output setting Menu 47 Do wnloading Images fr om the Camera — FTP server setting Menu When you click FTP se rver on the Administrator me nu, the FTP server setting men u appears. Use this me nu to set up for the FTP serv[...]

Administratin g the Camera Setting the Op erations from the Viewer Page — T rigg er setting Menu 48 Note The motion detection function can acti v ate or be set only when the V ideo mode of the camera is set to MPEG4 and the Cropping is set Off . Alarm duration Select the duration for whic h the alarm output is short- circuited bet ween 1 and 60 s[...]

Administratin g the Camera Setting the Op erations from th e Viewer Pag e — T r igger setting Me nu 49 Note While the V ideo mode is set to MPEG4 , t he image o f the composite video signal output from th e video output connector of the came ra may be distorted during mail transmission. FTP cl ient After checking this , you will be able to select[...]

Administratin g the Camera Setting the Sc hedule — Schedule setting Menu 50 procedures are the same as those of the Camera setting menu (page 28). Note The day/nigh t function is in vali d when its mode is se t to Disable or Au t o in the day/ni ght tab e ven when you select day/night in the T rigger setting menu. OK/Cancel See “Buttons common [...]

Administratin g the Camera Setting the Alarm Buff er — Alarm buff er setting Me nu 51 Setting the Alarm Buffer — Alarm b uffer setting Men u When you click Alarm buffer on th e Administrator menu, the Alarm b uf fer Setting menu appears. Y ou can set the Pre-alarm im age and audio (the image and audio before the alarm detecti on) and the Post -[...]

Administratin g the Camera Setting the Mot ion Detection Func tion — Motion detecti on setting Men u 52 Setting the Motion Detection Function — Motion detection setting Menu When you click Motion detection on the Administrator menu, the Motion detection setting menu ap pears. Y ou can set the conditions to acti v ate the built-in moti on detect[...]

Administratin g the Camera Setting the Moti on Detection Functio n — Motion detection se tting Menu 53 • The Motion det ection may no t operate corr ectly in the follo wing cases: – while changing a set ting on the Camera setting menu – when the ob ject is dark – when the came ra is installed in an unstable place that causes vibration to [...]

Others Using the Sup plied Setup Program 54 Others This section expla ins how to use the application software and commands, in cludi ng the supplied CD- RO M . Using the Supplied Setup Pr ogram Explains the functions e xcept the Netw ork tab in the Setup Program. T o install the Setup Program, to assign the IP address and to set the network, see ?[...]

Others Using the Supplied Setu p Progr am 55 Date time T ab Y ou can set the date and time on the camera. 1 Click the Date time tab to display the date/time setting windo w . 2 Click to select the camera you w ant to set the date and time for . Y ou can select multipl e cameras and set the date and time simultaneously . 3 Select the date/time forma[...]

Others Using the SNC audi o upload tool — T ransmittin g Audio to Camera 56 6 Retype the pa ssword for t he user ID in the Re -type password box. 7 Set the DNS server address. T o obtain the DNS server addr esses automatically: Select Obtain DNS serv er address automatically . T o spec ify the DNS serv er addresses manual ly: Select Use the fo ll[...]

Others Using the SNC aud io upload tool — T ransmitting A udio to Came ra 57 Connecting the Camera to the Computer 1 Connect a speaker to the line output jack on the camera. 2 Connect a microphone to the microphone input jack on the computer . Note If the microphone input jack of the computer is not set correctly , no sound is transm itted from t[...]

Others Using the SNC vid eo play er — Pla ying Video/A udio File Reco rded on Camera 58 Setting tab User Set the User ID and Password for the administrator . The default setting of t he Us er ID for the Administrator is “admin, ” and the Passw ord is “admin. ” Camera address T ype the IP address or host name of the camera you want to tran[...]

Others Using the Cust om Homepage Instal ler 59 Information boxes on the select ed file are displ ayed on the left side of the windo w as follo ws: Each click on the (information) icon switches between “display” and “Not to display” of the f ile information. Model name: Model name of th e camera with which th e file is recorded. IP address:[...]

Others Using the Cust om Homepage Instal ler 60 4 Read the notes carefully , and click Next> . The Software License Ag reement is displa yed. 5 Read the agreement carefull y , select Agree if you accept it, then click Next . 6 T ype the IP address of the camera to be uploaded in the IP address box. 7 Specify the HTTP port No. of the camera. Init[...]

Others Assignin g the IP Addres s to the Camer a Using ARP Co mmands 61 Note Do not turn off the came ra until the camera is rebooted after uploading the home page file. The follo wing page will appear after a whi le. After displaying th is page, the camera will b e adjusted and rebooted automatically in two minutes. 13 Click Finish to exit the pro[...]

Others Using the SNMP 62 Using the SNMP This unit supports SN MP (Simple Netw ork Management Protocol). Y ou can read MIB-2 objects and write some MIB-2 objects us ing software such as SNMP manager software. This unit also supports the coldStart trap which occurs wh en the po wer is turned on or the unit restarts, and th e Authentication failure tr[...]

Others Using the SNMP 63 3) sysName=<string> Set the cas e of “mib-2.sys tem.sysName.0” in the <string> position. The maximum length of <string> is 255 ch aracters . 4) enaAuthT raps=<v alue> Set the case v alue of “mib-2. snmp.snmp EnableAuthenT raps.0”. T y pe “1” (enable) or “2” (disable) in the <v alue[...]

Other s Specifications 64 Specifi cations System/ne twor k Protoco l TCP/IP , ARP , ICMP , HTTP , FTP (server/client), SMTP (client), DHCP (client), DNS (client), NTP (client), SNMP (MIB-2 ), R TP/ R TCP , PPPoE Comp ression V ideo compression format MPEG4/ JPEG Audio compression format G.711/G.726 ( 40, 32, 24, 16 kbps) Image size 640 × 480 , 480[...]

Other s Specifications 65 V ideo output BNC connector , 1. 0 Vp-p, 75 ohms, unba lanced, sync n egati v e Moni tor ou tpu t 2 Pin co nnector , 1.0 Vp- p, 75 ohms, unbalanced, sync neg ati ve Microph one input Sensiti vit y: -40 ±3. 5dB Fre guency range: 50-15,0 00Hz Plug: φ 3.5mm ( 5 / 32 inches), Mini-plug, plug-in po wer system Line out put T y[...]

Others Inde x 66 Index A Access log .............. .............. .......... 27 access right ....... ........... ............ ....... 37 Acti veX vie wer .................. ............. 15 acti vity detection function ............ .. 52 Administrator ..................... 1 3 , 23 , 36 administrator .................. .......... 13 , 36 Administra[...]

Schedule .......................... ......... 25 , 50 schedule ....................... ............ 25 , 50 Schedule setting Menu ................... 50 Security ............. ................... .......... 24 security ...................... ................. .... 24 security setting ..................... .......... 37 Security setting Menu .......[...]