Axis AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ - Manuals

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Hardware Overview NO NO NOTICE TICE TICE Due to local regulations or the environmental and electrical conditions in which the product is to be used, a shielded networkcable (STP) may be appropriate or required. All cables connecting the product to the network...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Hardware Overview LED Indicators LED Color Indication Unlit Connection and normal operation Amber Steady during startup. Flashes during firmware upgrade. Amber/red Flashes amber/red if network connection is unavailable or lost. Red Flashes red for firmware up...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Access the Product Access the Product To install the Axis product, refer to the Installation Guide supplied with the product. The product can be used with most operating systems and browsers. The recommended browsers are Internet Explorer with Windows,Safari ...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Access the Product To prevent network eavesdropping, the root password can be set via an encrypted HTTPS connection, which requires an HTTPScertificate. HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL) is a protocol used to encrypt traffic between web browsers an...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Access the Product The product’s fans are controlled by the ambient temperature and are turned on and off automatically. If required,the fans can be activated manually by clicking the Fan button. To show the button, go to Setup > Live View Config . Under A...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Access the Product Speaker button — Click to turn the speakers on or off. Microphone button – Click to mute or unmute the microphone. In Simplex - speaker only mode , the Microphone and Talk buttons must both be active to send audio to the Axis product. Click...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Media Streams Media Streams The Axis product provides several audio and video stream formats. Your requirements and the properties of your network willdetermine the type you use. The Live View page in the product provides access to H.264 and Motion JPEG video...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Media Streams The AMC Control Panel can be used to configure various video and audio settings. Please see the AXIS Media Control User’sManual for more information. The AMC Control Panel is automatically installed on first use, after which it can be configured...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Media Streams Note • <ip>= IP addess • The Axis product supports QuickTime 6.5.1 and later. • QuickTime may add latency to the video stream. • It may be possible to use other players to view the H.264 stream using the paths above, although Axis does not...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Set Up the Product Set Up the Product The Axis product can be configured by users with administrator or operator rights. To open the product’s Setup pages, click Setup in the top right-hand corner of the Live View page. • Administrators have unrestricted acce...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Video and Audio Video and Audio The video and audio settings can be used to optimize video and audio quality. You can configure the following: • Video stream settings. See page 18 . • Stream profiles. See page 19 . • Camera settings. See page 20 . • Overlay i...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Video and Audio • Overlay settings . See Overlay on page 22 . Click Save to apply the new settings. H.264 H.264, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10/AVC, is a video compression standard that provides high quality video streams at low bit rates.An H.264 video stream ...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Video and Audio For quick setup, use one of the predefined stream profiles. Each predefined profile has a descriptive name, indicating its purpose. Ifrequired, the predefined stream profiles can be modified and new customized stream profiles can be created. T...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Video and Audio Wide Dynamic Range Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) processing balances the brightest and darkest sections of a scene to produce an image that is balanced in lighting to provide more detail. Wide dynamic range can improve the exposure when there is a ...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Video and Audio incorrectly in scenes with low contrast, high light level variations or when auto focus is slightly off. This can affect the image qualityby for example, increasing image contrast. Also, too much brightness can negatively impact the image qual...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Video and Audio Privacy Mask A privacy mask is an area of solid color that prohibits users from viewing parts of the monitored area. Privacy masks cannot bebypassed via the VAPIX® Application Programming Interface (API). The Privacy Mask List, Video & Aud...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Video and Audio • Yellow — the signal is becoming distorted. • Red — the signal is distorted. Use the Encoding option to select digital audio encoding format. • AAC requires a license for both encoding and decoding. AAC is the least complicated and most widel...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Configure the Live View Page Configure the Live View Page You can customize the Live View page and alter it to suit your requirements. It is possible to define the following features ofthe Live View page. • Stream Profile. See page 19 . • Default Viewer for B...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Configure the Live View Page • Select Use PTZ joystick mode as default to enable joystick mode. The mode can be changed temporarily from the PTZ control panel. • Select Enable recording button to enable recording from the Live View page. This button is availa...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) Preset Positions A preset position is a saved view that can be used to quickly steer the camera to a specific position. A preset position consists ofthe following values: • Pan and tilt positions • Zoom position • Focus...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) The product can be mounted in three different horizontal directions. This may cause the view from Pan 0° to be changed from theoriginal view. Click Set new Pan 0° to set the pan coordinate system to zero in the current direction. Set new P...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) 3. Click Save . 90° - 90° - 180°/180° 0° 90° - 90° - 180°/180° 0° A B B A 1 2 Top view A Pan limit start B Pan limit end Guard Tour A guard tour displays the video stream from different preset positions, one-by-one, in a predetermined orde...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) To add a recorded tour: 1. Go to PTZ > Guard Tour and click Add . 2. Select Create a record tour and click OK . 3. Enter a descriptive name. 4. Specify the pause length between runs. 5. Click to start recording the Pan/Tilt/Zoom movemen...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) x Move speed sets the speed of the camera’s pan and tilt movements. The default setting is maximum speed. When using a joystick (or emulating one with the mouse) the Enable proportional speed setting can be used to reduce the maximum pan/t...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) Control Queue The administrator can set up a queue for PTZ controllers from PTZ > Control Queue . Once set up, the PTZ Control Queue buttons appear in the Live View page offering one viewer exclusive control for a limited period of time...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Detectors Detectors Shock Detection Enable Shock Detection from the Detectors menu. Shock detection is used, for example, to generate an alarm if the product is hit by an object. Use the Shock sensitivity slider to adjust the sensitivity level at which the pr...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Detectors Parameter Object Size History Sensitivity Description Object size relative to windowsize. Object memory length. Difference in luminancebetween background andobject. High level (100%) Only very large objects triggermotion detection. An object that ap...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Detectors 3. Use the Sensitivity slidebar to define how sensitive the detection should be. The lower sensitivity selected on the Sensitivity bar, the greater difference in luminance is needed between the object and the background for the detector to be activa...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Detectors 2. Choose Object size from the drop-down list. Set the size limits of the object that should be detected. The camera will detect any object whose size falls in between the minimum (blue shape) and maximum (white shape) range. 3. Use the Sensitivity ...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Applications Applications Third party applications can be uploaded to and installed on the Axis product. Applications add functionality to the product, forexample video analytics and intelligent video capabilities such as recognition, tracking, detection and ...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Events Events The Event pages allow you to configure the Axis product to perform actions when different events occur. For example, the productcan start a recording or send an email notification when motion is detected. The set of conditions that defines how a...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Events - Recurrence – Trigger the rule periodically. See Set Up Recurrences on page 45 . This can for example be used to upload an image every 5 minutes. - Use Schedule – Trigger the rule according to the selected schedule. See Create Schedules on page 45 . A...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Events Recipient Use with action Notes Email Send Images Send Notification Send Video Clip An email recipient can contain multiple email addresses. Formore information about email recipients, see Set Up Email Recipients on page 44 FTP Send Images Send Video C...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Events Create Schedules Schedules can be used as action rule triggers or as additional conditions, for example to record video if motion is detected outsideoffice hours. Use one of the predefined schedules or create a new schedule as described below. To creat...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Recordings Recordings The Axis product can be configured to record video continuously or according to an action rule: • To start a continuous recording, see page 46 . • To set up action rules, see page 41 . • To access recordings, see Recording List on page 4...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Recordings 5. Click Save to save and start the recording. 47

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Languages Languages Multiple languages can be installed in the Axis product. All web pages including the online help will be displayed in the selectedlanguage. To switch languages, go to Setup > Languages and first upload the new language file. Browse and ...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera System Options System Options Security Users User access control is enabled by default and can be configured under System Options > Security > Users . An administrator can set up other users by giving them user names and passwords. It is also possible t...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera System Options 2. Select an HTTPS certificate from the list of installed certificates. 3. Optionally, click Ciphers and select the encryption algorithms to use for SSL. 4. Set the HTTPS Connection Policy for the different user groups. 5. Click Save to enable ...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera System Options To install a self-signed certificate: 1. Go to Setup > System Options > Security > Certificates . 2. Click Create self-signed certificate and provide the requested information. To create and install a CA-signed certificate: 1. Create a...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera System Options Network Basic TCP/IP Settings The Axis product supports IP version 4 and IP version 6. Both versions can be enabled simultaneously, and at least one versionmust always be enabled. IPv4 Address Configuration By default, the Axis product is set t...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera System Options ping -l 408 -t <IP address> Windows example (this may require that you run the command prompt as an administrator) arp -s 192.168.0.125 00-40-8c-18-10-00ping -l 408 -t 192.168.0.125 4. Check that the network cable is connected and then re...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera System Options Domain name - Enter the domain(s) to search for the host name used by the Axis product. Multiple domains can be separated by semicolons. The host name is always the first part of a fully qualified domain name, for example, myserver is the host ...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera System Options Note • For NAT traversal to work, this must be supported by the router. The router must also support UPnP TM . • In this context, router refers to any network routing device such as a NAT router, Network router, Internet Gateway, Broadband rout...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera System Options SNMP The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) allows remote management of network devices. An SNMP community is thegroup of devices and management station running SNMP. Community names are used to identify groups. To enable and configure S...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera System Options Storage SD Card NO NO NOTICE TICE TICE To prevent corruption of recordings, the SD card should always be unmounted before it is ejected. Note For SD card recommendations see www.axis.com The Axis product supports SD cards with up to 64 GB of st...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera System Options 1. Insert the SD card in the SD card slot. 2. Open the Axis product’s webpages and go to Setup > System Options > Storage . 3. Click SD Card . 4. Click Format and select the desired file system. 5. Click OK to start formatting the card. N...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera System Options Maintenance The Axis product provides several maintenance functions. These are available under System Options > Maintenance . Click Restart to perform a correct restart if the Axis product is not behaving as expected. This will not affect an...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera System Options Parameter List - Shows the product's parameters and their current settings. This may prove useful when troubleshooting or when contacting Axis Support. Connection List - Lists all clients that are currently accessing media streams. Crash Report...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Multi-Connector Cable (sold separately) Multi-Connector Cable (sold separately) When connecting external equipment to the Axis product, a multi-connector cable (available from Axis) is required in order tomaintain the product’s IP rating. The multi-connector ...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Check the Firmware Firmware is software that determines the functionality of network devices. One of your first actions when troubleshooting a problemshould be to check the current firmware version. The latest version may conta...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Troubleshooting 5. Reinstall the product, referring to the Installation Guide. If the emergency recovery procedure does not get the product up and running again, contact Axis support at www.axis.com/techsup/ Symptoms, Possible Causes and Remedial Actions Prob...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Technical Specifications Function/group Item Specifications Casing IP52-rated metal casing (aluminum), acrylic (PMMA) clear dome Memory 512 MB RAM, 128 MB FlashBattery backed-up real-time clock Power Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) IEEE 802.3at max 30 WAxis H...

AXIS Q6045 Mk II PTZ Dome Network Camera Technical Specifications Performance Considerations When setting up your system, it is important to consider how various settings and situations will affect performance. Some factorsaffect the amount of bandwidth (the bit rate) required, others can affect the...