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is professional, so please read the user

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IP Camera
(B series)

User manual
2012-11

V4.19

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about the solutions. We will update the content for the new functions without notice.

Notice
1 Installation Environment
,

Keep away from the places for high-temperature, heat source and direct sunlight

Keep away from water and when get wet, cut off the power immediately.

Avoid to use in damp environment, the reference range for operation humidity is below
85%RH.

Avoid to use in overheating and too cold environment, the reference range for operation
temperature is -10~ +50

Please install it horizontally or wall mounting, avoid to strenuous vibration place and not
put other equipments onto the item

2 Transport and Handling

,

The package is well-designed to ensure the security during the delivery, so please do
not change the package at random.

Do not move the ip cameras from overheated to supercooled condition frequently,

otherwise it will frost and shorten the service life.

Do not move the item when is power on, otherwise the main board might be damaged.

Notice:
1.

Please check the power supply before it is working

2.

Be careful not to bang the camera or subject it to strong impacts or shocks.

3.

Do not directly touch the optical components for the image sensor, if necessary, please
place a clean and moistened cloth with alcohol and wipe the dirt gently; When not in use,
please place the dust cover on to the item to protect the image sensor.

4.

Do not aim the camera directly into the sun or at other intense light sources that could
affect the image quality (it is not the problem for the ip camera), also shorten the service
life for the image sensor.

5.

Keep away from laser when it is working, otherwise the image sensor can be damaged.

6.

If the equipment is not working properly, please contact the store or the service center,
do not disassemble or modify the equipment in any way. Problems caused by
unauthorized modification or repair should be at your own risk.

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Index
1

PRODUCT INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................4

1.1

PRODUCT SUMMARY .................................................................................................................4

1.2

PACKAGE FOR TYPICAL PRODUCTION ........................................................................................4

INSTALLATION GUIDE ...............................................................................................................6

2.1

OPERATION OF CONNECTING TO LAN.......................................................................................6

2.2

STEP FOR WIFI CONNECTING ....................................................................................................9

2.3

OPERATION OF CONNECTING TO WAN ......................................................................................9

OPERATION OF IE BROWSER ...............................................................................................10

3.1

VIEW VIDEO ............................................................................................................................10

3.2

NETWORK SETTINGS...............................................................................................................12

3.2.1

Basic network setting .........................................................................................................12

3.2.2

WIFI setting .......................................................................................................................13

3.2.3

ADSL setting ......................................................................................................................13

3.2.4

UPnP setting......................................................................................................................13

3.2.5

DDNS Setting.....................................................................................................................13

3.2.6

MSN setting........................................................................................................................14

3.3
3.3.1

Alarm Setting .....................................................................................................................14

3.3.2

Mail Service Setting ...........................................................................................................16

3.3.3

FTP Service Setting ...........................................................................................................17

3.4

ADVANCED .............................................................................................................................17

3.4.1

User Setting .......................................................................................................................17

3.4.2

Multi-Device Setting ..........................................................................................................18

3.4.3

Other settings.....................................................................................................................18

3.5

ALARM SETTINGS ...................................................................................................................14

MAINTAIN ...............................................................................................................................19

3.5.1

Device Information ............................................................................................................19

3.5.2

Alias Setting .......................................................................................................................19

3.5.3

Time Setting .......................................................................................................................20

3.5.4

Firmware upgrade .............................................................................................................20

3.5.5

Restore Factory Default.....................................................................................................20

3.5.6

User browsing Log.............................................................................................................20

OPERATION OF OTHER SOFTWARE ...................................................................................21

4.1

OTHER WEB BROWSER ............................................................................................................21

4.2

MOBILE PHONE SOFTWARE .....................................................................................................21

4.3

CENTRALIZATION CONTROL ...................................................................................................22

4.4

OTHER SOFTWARE ..................................................................................................................22

PRODUCT FAMILY FOR B SERIES.......................................................................................23

5.1

CARD CAMERA .......................................................................................................................23

5.2

PTZ CAMERA (MODEL A ....................................................................................................23

5.3

PTZ CAMERAMODEL B ..................................................................................................24

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5.4

PTZ CAMERAMODEL C ..................................................................................................24

5.5

PTZ CAMERAMODEL D ..................................................................................................25

5.6

WATERPROOF CAMERA ...........................................................................................................26

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1 Product introduction
1.1 Product summary
Thank you for choosing our companys B series IP camera, the IP Camera combines a
high quality digital video camera with network connectivity and a powerful web server to
bring clear video to your desktop from anywhere on your local network or over the
Internet. It is very suitable for family, shops, office building and so on.

Main features for B series

The video is compressed by MJPEG. There are VGA/QVGA/QQVGA three video

resolutions optional. User can changes some parameters according to their

demands to satisfy his own visual prefer

Infrared LED for night vision covers 5m area, to realize 24 hours monitoring
Support mobile phone to view;
Support 802.11b/g/n protocol, can build up wireless monitoring
Alarming record can be stored by email, FTP server. External alarm will be active
when detecting unusuality;
Built in web serverAll data is transferred through one port; it is easy for user to
do the network setting;
Manufacture attached a label at the bottom of each IP Camera, it include Device
ID, DDNS. When IP Camera is connected to the internet, this URL can be used

to visit the device;

Manufacturer provides free software, support Multi-view, Long time recording,
video playback etc;
Manufacturer provides free mobile phone software.

1.2 Package for typical production

Accessory
Type

Stand

Power
adaptor

CD

5V

Cable

of

Antenna

plastic

Built-in

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5V

Optional

5V

Optional

5V

Optional

5V

5V

Optional

PTZ camera
Model A

PTZ camera
Model B

PTZ camera
Model C

PTZ camera
Model D

Waterproof camera
Notice:

If you choose IP camera with wireless function, so it includes wifi module inside
the camera and antenna in package.
Please check carefully if all listed items are included in the package, if anything
missing, please contact vendor in time.

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2 Installation guide
2.1 Operation of connecting to LAN
Power on the IP cameraplease check carefully the voltage of power adaptor, dont
insert incorrect power, otherwise it will damage the device, connect IP camera to
router by network cable, meanwhile, connect computer to the same router, example
of figure 1.

Figure 1
Insert CD to computer driver, double click BSearch_en.exe in the CD, will pop up
the interface as figure 2, please operate as the following steps:

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Figure 2
1) Click Search (F3);
2) Choose a camera;
3) Change the ip address of the ip camera according to the information in the red frame
on the left. The numbers in the red circle should not be the same. Http port should be
a number between 80~65535;
4) Enter user name and password for the device, the default is admin and 123456;
5) Click update;
6) After updating successfully, click Search (F3), choose the device again and click
Browse (F4). Then you can run the web browser, enter user name and password
and login IP camera to view the video, example of figure 3.
Notice
1) Please check carefully the Local PC information in top left corner of the interface, if
the computer has several network cards, please selects the one you are using.
2) If you installed the firewall software in your PC, when you run the BSearch_en.exe, it
may pop up a window to say whether you want to block this program or not, then
you should choose not to block
3) The default ip address is 192.168.0.178 and default http port is 80
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Figure 3 Interface for view video

We suggest using IE kernel browser to view the video it can provide more functions,
but user needs to install video player before viewing the video. Click download and
install player (first use) link, it will popup dialogue box as Figure 4, click Run, it will
download player and install automatically.

Figure 4
Notice:

You can hold on reset button on the camera for 10 seconds to restore factory default
if you forget user name and password, during the process, dont disconnect the
power, otherwise the camera maybe damaged;

If the camera has status indicator LED, you can view the status of camera via the
LED: slow flicker( every two seconds), indicate the camera is searching network;
flicker(one to two times per second) indicate it uses wired network; fast flicker(three
to four times per second) indicator it uses wireless network.
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2.2 Step for WIFI connecting

After finishing the wired connection as chapter 2.1, you can connect the camera with wifi
by wireless connection.
Login camera in wired connection and enter wifi setting, and then operate as the
following step, example of figure 5.

Figure 5
Enter the Wireless LAN Setting, just as Figure 5 shown, click the Scan button, it will
show you all the wireless networks detected in the Wireless Network List column. Select
one of them and tick Using Wireless Lan, then the relevant data of the selected
wireless network will be shown in the following blanks. Input the password and click Set,
then the WIFI setting is finished.
NoticeWhen the device is connected both WIFI and wired, it will firstly connect to the
wired network, if it cant be connected, then it will changed to connect to the wifi. The IP
address and port is the same, either wireless or wired network.

2.3 Operation of connecting to WAN

You should connect the LAN network first and do the port forwarding, connect as figure 6.

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Figure 6
If visit IP Camera from WAN, you must do port forwarding on the router. Example of
figure 7.

Figure 7 Router setting

Operation Steps:
1) After login the interface of the routerchoose Port Forwarding
2) Choose Add custom Service
3) Input IP camera port.
4) Input IP address of IP cameraclick Apply
the http port and ip address should be
the same as figure 2 which set by you own)
After finishing the port forwarding, you can use WAN IP address of router and http port of
camera to visit the camera by remote computer as figure 6.
Notice: because the routers are different, so the interface and setting method of router
are also different, how to do the port forwarding for various routers, please refer to the
user manual of your router or consult with router manufacturer.

3 Operation of IE browser
3.1 View video
After installing the plug-ins, click Mode 1 to view link in Figure 3 to view the video (video
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as Figure 8).

Figure 8 View video

1 Main Menu
The main menu includes the function setting of different submenu.
2 Status Displaying Area
Indicates the status for 9 devices:
if unconnected, button is gray
if connected, button is green
If connected wrong, button is yellow
If alarm , button is red
3 Multi Channel displaying area
If users added multi channelrefer to 3.4.2, when shift to 4-Ch, 9-CH, and it will show
other devices automatically. You select one device, and you can operate it by these keys:
play, stop, and record, control Pan/tilt, etc.

These buttons mean play video, stop video, monitor, talk, record and snapshot. You can
click these buttons to start corresponding function.
Notice: If you want to click this button

to record the video, please

go to advancedOther Settings to set the Record Path at first. Please see below
figure 9.
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Figure 9 Other settings

4 PT and video control
In Pan/Tilt control area, user can control the position according to the arrow sign: up,
down, left, right, middle, horizontal cruise, vertical cruise, and stop etc.
Means alarm output IO is normally open and normally close mode.
User can also set the device frame rate, resolution, brightness, contrast and other
parameters.

3.2 Network Settings

3.2.1 Basic network setting
The user can also enter the Basic Network Settings to set the IP address except using
the search software. See below Figure 10.

Figure 10

Network settings

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3.2.2 WIFI setting

Please refer to chapter 2.2.

3.2.3 ADSL setting

User could enable the ADSL Dialup according to the below Figure 11 (The ADSL
provider will assign the user name and password to you when you apply for ADSL
service.) Connect the device directly to the ADSL modem and it is connected to the
Internet.

Figure 11 ADSL setting

3.2.4 UPnP setting

UPnP means plug and play, if you enable UPnP, once the IP camera is connected into
the LAN, it will communicate with the router in the LAN and do the port-forwarding with
open port of router automatically. In figure 12, you only tick Using UPnP to Map Port to
finish the setting, you can check if the UPnP is successful in maintain interface.

Figure 12 UPnP settings

Before using the UPnP function, please make sure the routers UPnP function has been
enabled. Not all the routers support UPnP perfectly. Please test if the router works well
with the equipment, if not, we suggest you to disable this function and do the
port-forwarding manually.

3.2.5 DDNS Setting

If doing port forwarding successfully, and visit the camera via ip address in WAN, you
also can visit it via DDNS.
Manufacturers DDNS
Manufacturer puts a label of DDNS at the bottom of each IP Camera, it is uniquethe
manufacturer has established a DDNS system, and allotted a DDNS to every device, the
user only enter the website into browser, and then view it from remote PC, example of
figure 13.

Figure 13 Manufacturers DDNS

Third Party DDNS
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User can also use third party DDNS, such as www.dyndns.com, User must apply a free
domain name from this website and fill the info into the below blanks (Figure 14) and
save the settings. Then the domain name can be used.

Figure 14 Third Party DDNS setting

NoticeUsing the third party domain name, if the http port is not 80, the port number
should be adding to the domain name with colon. Example: http://btest.dyndns.biz:81.

3.2.6 MSN setting

Figure 15 MSN setting

The user can apply MSN account number by himself, fill in account information in figure
15, and add friends to the number, the camera will display in friends list when it is
connected, the friend only need to send url? to the camera, it will send its link in WAN to
the friend, so the friend can use the link to visit the camera.

3.3 Alarm Settings

3.3.1 Alarm Setting
1 Alarm Detect

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Figure 16 Alarm settings

User can select the motion detection. If there is any motion, it will detect the motion
and trigger the alarm. In the motion detect sensibility and sound sensitivity, the
larger the figure, the more sensitivity.
As showed in Figure 16, if any external alarm detector is connected, user will be
able to tick Alarm Input Armed. If the external alarm detector is an always on
switch alarm, please choose open. If the external alarm detector is always off
switch alarm, please choose close.
When active the audio alarming, the larger value, the higher sensitivity, easy to
trigger alarm.

2 Alarm action
After triggering the alarm, you can adopt several alarm mode in scheduled time, example
of figure 16.
IO interface for alarm signal output: when relay is switched on, the external alarm
will begin to alarm
Send alarm info by email
Send the site pictures to the FTP server, user can also set the interval time between
two pictures
Alarm to active audioonce the camera detects alarm, you can hear the beeps from
the computer
Alarm to active recordonce the camera detects alarm, it will launch the alarm
recording and record it to the computer.
3 Scheduler
Device will trigger alarm in scheduled time. User can set schedule time to be all the
time. Before you set Schedule, please go to Date and Time settings to set the correct
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time for the item, as shown in figure 17.

Figure 17

Schedule interface

3.3.2 Mail Service Setting

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Figure 18 Mail service setting

When it detects alarming, it can send email to your appointed email box, but you need to
set email service parameters correctly. Example of figure 18, click Submit to save these
parameters, and then you can click Test to check if the setting is successful.Notice
Before setting these parameters, please check if they are OK.
When you set email service parameters correctly, can active enable Report Internet IP
by mail. After every restart, the device will send its Internet IP address to users email
address. You can use the ip address to visit the device when it was mapped to internet.

3.3.3 FTP Service Setting

Figure 19 FTP service setting

When alarming, device will snap and send the image to FTP server, please make sure
the FTP setting is correct. Above Figure 19 of FTP setting for your reference, after the
setting is finished, click Test to check your settings are correct or not.
NoticeFor using the FTP function, you need to apply a user with authority that you
can write and create submenu and some memory space
After correct setting FTP server, you can use upload Image Periodically function. Even
no alarm, device can also send the snap image to FTP periodically.

3.4 Advanced
3.4.1 User Setting

Figure 20 User setting

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3.4.2 Multi-Device Setting

Figure 21 Multi-device setting

As Figure 21, User can add 9 devices the maximum to view the device simultaneously.
Click refresh button to check the device in the LAN. When click a device, will popup
setting dialogue box and input the device info, as figure 22 and click save to add device.
After that, must click Submit button in figure 21 to save device.

Figure 22

Add device

3.4.3 Other settings

You can choose open or close indicator LED. If set PTZ center on start Yes, when start
device, Pan/Tilt will move to center and then stop. You can also set the Horizontal patrol
rounds and vertical patrol rounds, when you click patrol on the view interface, it will
round according to your setting rounds. You can also set PTZ speed, 0 means fastest.

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Figure 23 Other setting

3.5 Maintain
3.5.1 Device Information

Figure 24

Device information

3.5.2 Alias Setting

Figure 25 Alias setting

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3.5.3 Time Setting

If the device is connected to the Internet, you enable the NTP server to correct the time
and need to select the correct time zone. Otherwise you should use the PCs time to
correct its time.

Figure 26 Date and time settings

3.5.4 Firmware upgrade

Figure 27 Upgrade firmware

The camera runs two kinds of firmware, one is system firmware, another is application
firmware, can upgrade them respectively.

3.5.5 Restore Factory Default

Click Restore Factory Default, it will pop up a dialogue to confirm if you really want to
restore the factory default. After confirmation, the system will restore the factory default
and reboot.

3.5.6 User browsing Log

After enter the log interface, you can view who and when the device is visited.

Figure 28

Visit log

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4 Operation of other software

4.1 Other web browser
Except IE browser, you can visit the camera by Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera browser
etc, please select Mode 2 to view when using these browser (example of figure 3).
You can use Mac search and setting tool in CD to search the camera and set IP
address of camera in Mac computer. Because the camera supports bonjour protocol, so
you can view the camera in LAN and visit it directly in safari browser, example of figure
29.

Figure 29

4.2 Mobile phone software

For more information, please see the user manual for mobile phone in attached CD, or
download the latest software and user manual in our website.

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4.3 Centralization Control

IPCMonitor is a free software offered by factory, several devices on LAN and WAN can
be browsed at the same time. The software also supports snapshot, video record,
alarming and so on. The interface is as figure 30.

Figure 30
For more information, please refer to the <<IPCMonitor User Manual>> in CD.

4.4 Other software

You can use the VLC software etc to play video, visit it as the following URL format:
http://IP address:port/videostream.asf?user=user name&pwd=password
http://IP address:port/videostream.cgi?user=user name&pwd=password
For example
http://192.168.0.178/videostream.asf?user=admin&pwd=123456

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5 Product family for B series

5.1 Card camera

Figure 31
The camera adopts 300K pixels CMOS sensor, 3.6mm lens, built in MIC, 12 pieces IR
LED, audio out port. It uses 5V power adaptor.

5.2 PTZ camera (Model A

Figure 32
The camera adopts 300K pixels CMOS sensor, 3.6mm lens, built in PTZ and MIC, 10
pieces IR LED, audio out port, alarm in/out port. It uses 5V power adaptor.

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5.3 PTZ cameraModel B

Figure 33
The camera adopts 300K pixels CMOS sensor, IR cut, 3.6mm lens, built in PTZ and MIC,
8 pieces IR LED, audio out port, alarm in/out port. It uses 5V power adaptor.

5.4 PTZ cameraModel C

Figure 34
The camera adopts 300K pixels CMOS sensor, IR cut, 3.6mm lens, built in PTZ and MIC,
8 pieces IR LED, audio in/out port, alarm in/out port. It uses 5V power adaptor.

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5.5 PTZ cameraModel D

Figure 35
The camera adopts 300K pixels CMOS sensor, IR cut, 3.6mm lens, wifi module, built in
PTZ, speaker and MIC, 10 pieces IR LED, audio out port. It uses 5V power adaptor.
The camera have a slide switch, you can put switch to AP on or AP off mode.
The RJ45 interface will be disabled when the switch is located AP on, the device is like as
wireless router, it can connect with computer and mobile phone directly via wifi,
example of figure 36.

Figure 36
The camera is connected to internet by network cable or wifi when switch was located AP
off.

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5.6 Waterproof camera

Figure 37
The camera adopts 300K pixels CMOS sensor, 4mm IR lens, 36pcs IR LED. It uses 5V
power adaptor.

Statement
1. This manual may be different with your using camera, if you have any questions
of the manual, please contact our technical support.
2. This manual will be updated periodically; the company reserved the right to
without prior notice.

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