TP-Link TL-SC3230N - Manuals

IV Safety Information z When product has power button, the power button is one of the way to shut off the product; when there is no power button, the only way to completely shut off power is to disconnect the product or the power adapter from the power source. z Don’t disassemble the product, or mak...

TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Building 24 (floors 1, 3, 4, 5), and 28 (floors 1-4) Central Science and Technology Park, Shennan Rd, Nanshan, Shenzhen, China DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY For the following equipment: Product Description: Wireless N Megapixel Surveillance Ca...

1 Package Contents The following items should be found in your package: ¾ TL-SC3230N Wireless N Megapixel Surveillance Camera ¾ Power Adapter ¾ Camera Stand with screws ¾ Detachable WLAN antenna ¾ RJ45 Cable ¾ Quick Installation Guide ¾ Resource CD, including: z This User Guide z Other helpful infor...

3 1.3 Minimum System Requirements FPS (QVGA) ~120 120~360 360~540 540~960 960~ CPU Intel P4 2.4GHz Intel P4 3.2GHz Intel Pentium D 950 3.4GHZ Intel core 2 Duo E8600 3.3GHZ Intel core i7 2600K 3.8GHZ or above RAM 512MB 512MB 1GB 2GB 8GB or above Display 1024x768 resolution or above Support DirectX 9....

4 Chapter 2 Physical Description 2.1 Front View Antenna: The user can attach the included antenna to antenna connector (SMA type) or use another high-gain antenna to get higher performance. This camera has a SMA type antenna. Lens & focus ring: The user could use this ring to adjust focus manual...

5 2.2 Bottom View Audio Output Jack: Audio-out Jack allows this camera to output audio or alerting sound. DC Power Jack: The input power is 12VDC. Supply the power to the camera with the power adapter included in package. Otherwise, the improper power adapter may damage the unit and result in danger...

6 Chapter 3 Hardware Installation Follow the steps below to mount your camera. 1. Attach the camera with the included stand 2. Place the camera on the table or fix it onto ceiling or wall Use three screws to fix the camera onto the ceiling or wall. You could also put the camera on the table directly...

7 4. Connect the external power supply to camera Connect the attached power adapter to the DC power jack of the camera. Note : Use the power adapter, 12VDC, included in the package and connect it to wall outlet for AC power. Once you have installed the camera well and powered it on, the Power LED (o...

8 Chapter 4 Preparation 4.1 Search and Set up by IP Search When you installed the camera on a LAN environment, you have two easy ways to search your cameras by IP Search or UPnP™ discovery. Here is the way to execute IP Search to discover camera’s IP address and set up related parameter in a camera....

11 4.1.4 Wireless In case you want to change the IP related parameters of wireless interface, please select the camera you want to configure and click the WIRELESS button. Relative settings will be carried out as above. Click SSID to select your wireless AP or router and key in WEP or WPA key. Click...

12 Confirm the wireless setting and then submit the settings. Click OK to confirm these parameters, then IP Search will start to configure this camera with specified information.

14 ) Note: Windows 2000 does not support UPnP feature . To discover your camera, go to your Desktop and click My Network Places . Click the targeted camera . Then Internet Explorer will connect to this camera automatically. 4.3 Install the camera behind a NAT Router Once installed, the camera is acc...

15 Step2: Enable UPnP NAT traversal option of the camera Refer to Setting Î Network Î UPnP page for detail NAT traversal setting. Note that this option is enabled by default. 4.4 Access the camera from the Internet Explorer for the first time 1. Start the web browser on the computer and type the IP ...

17 Chapter 5 Operating the Camera Start-up screen will be shown as follow no matter you log into the camera as an ordinary user or as an administrator. 5.1 Monitor Image Section The image shot by the camera is shown here. The date and time are displayed at the top of the window. 5.2 Video Profile Th...

20 5.9 Snapshot Click the icon to activate this function. Press to take a picture. The image file is saved as JPEG format into your local PC. Select Browser and the pop-up window will display. Select the save path and file name prefix, and select OK to continue. If you like to retrieve the saved ima...

22 Chapter 6 Administrating the Camera This function is only available for the user logged into camera as administrator. Click on each menu name to display its setting page Item Action Network Configure Network settings such as DHCP, DDNS, 3GPP, PPPoE and UPnP Camera Adjust camera parameters, positi...

24 user can access the camera by either http://xx.xx.xx.xx/ , or http://xx.xx.xx.xx:xxxx/ . If multiple cameras are installed on the LAN and also required to be accessed from the WAN, then the HTTP Port can be assigned as the virtual server port mapping to support multiple cameras. Click OK to save ...

25 Step 2: Key in security key of WEP or WPA. Then click “ Submit ” button to activate wireless setting. If the user wants to configure wireless settings manually, please follow the steps as below: ¾ MAC address: Displays the Ethernet MAC address of the WLAN card. Note that the user can not change i...

33 ¾ ONVIF: To enable or disable the ONVIF interface here. ¾ Version: Currently, the V1.0 or V1.01/V1.02/V2.0/V2.1.1 is available. 6.1.10 IP Filter You can enter different users’ IP addresses which are allowed or denied to enter by the camera.

36 ¾ Proxy Login Password: Type the password for the HTTP Proxy. ¾ Custom parameter: The user can set specific parameters to HTTP server. ¾ Message: The message will be sent to HTTP server. 6.2 Camera: Adjust camera parameters Use this menu to set the functions of the camera parameters of the camera...

37 ¾ White Balance: Auto: will adjust the white balance automatically. Hold: will hold the white balance. ¾ Exposure Control: Auto: will adjust the internal gain automatically. Hold: will hold the internal gain. ¾ Maximum Exposure Time: Set the Maximum Exposure Time. However, the real exposure time ...

38 windows to mask the video captured by this camera. By dragging mouse on the image, you can change the position and size of the selected window accordingly. ¾ Name: Name of the specified privacy window. ¾ Level: To define the gray level of mask block. The smaller value, the darker. 6.3 System: Con...

41 5. Once the firmware file was selected, click “ Firmware Upgrade ” button. 6. The upgrade progress information will be displayed. Once the uploading process completed, the camera will reboot the system automatically. 7. Please wait for timer countdown, and then you can use IP Search to search the...

42 6.4.1 Common ¾ Text Overlay Setting: There are some important information can be embedded into image, including date, time, and/or text. The user also can change the font color, background color, or transparency.

47 ¾ SMTP Server: Type the SMTP server name or the IP address of the SMTP server. ¾ Test: Send a test mail to mail server to check this account is available or not. ¾ SMTP Port: Set port number of SMTP service. ¾ SSL: Enable SSL function or not. ¾ SMTP Authentication: Select the authentication requi...

48 ¾ Add and Del: To add or delete the motion windows. The user can specify up to 10 Included and/or Excluded windows to monitor the video captured by this camera. By dragging mouse on the image, you can change the position and size of the selected motion window accordingly. ¾ Included or Excluded W...

49 6.9.1 SD Card ¾ Enable automatic disk cleanup: Delete old recorded files while the conditions are reached as below. ¾ Remove recordings order than: Delete old files by days. ¾ Remove oldest recordings when disk is: Delete old files by left capacity. 6.9.2 SAMBA Server The camera can send video st...

50 ¾ SAMBA Host: Type the IP address of the SAMBA server. ¾ Share: Type the video storage destination on the SAMBA server. ¾ SAMBA username: Type the user name to login the SAMBA server. ¾ SAMBA Login Password: Type the password to login the SAMBA server. 6.10 Continuous Recording The camera provide...

51 ¾ Disable / Enable: Enable or disable the continuous recording feature in camera. ¾ Record File Type: Select video profile to be used in video recording. Please note that max. 5 minutes of video can be recorded. ¾ Disk: Select SD card or SAMBA server as recording destination. ¾ Path: Type the pas...

53 6.12 Event Server: Set up FTP/TCP/HTTP/SAMBA server configuration 6.12.1 FTP Server You may set up FTP parameters for further operation of Event Schedule. That’s, if users want to send the alarm message to an FTP server, it will need to configure parameters here and also add at least one event sc...

56 ¾ Name: The user can specify multiple HTTP servers as wish. Therefore, the user needs to specify a name for each HTTP server setting. ¾ SAMBA Server: Type the server name or the IP address of the SAMBA server. ¾ Test: Check the SAMBA server whether this account is available or not. ¾ SAMBA Login ...

61 ¾ Record File Type: Choose a profile to record. ¾ Record File Prefix: Define the prefix of recorded filename. ¾ JPEG Picture Numbers: Define the picture numbers of JPEG to be sent out. (by mode) ¾ Pre-Trigger Duration: Define the maximum duration of pre-alarm. ¾ Best Effort Duration: Define the b...

63 IP Search program cannot find the camera. z Re-power the camera if the program cannot find the unit within 1 minute. z Do not connect camera over a router. IP Search program cannot detect camera over a router. z If IP address is not assigned to the PC which running IP Search program, then IP Sear...

64 z The port number assigned in your camera might not be available via Internet. Check your ISP for available port. z The proxy server may prevent you from connecting directly to the camera, set up not to use the proxy server. z Confirm that Default Gateway address is correct. z The router needs Po...

66 around the camera brighter. Noisy images occur. The video images might be noisy if the camera is located in a very low light environment. Make the condition around the camera brighter or turn the White-light LED on. Miscellaneous Cannot play the recorded ASF file Have installed Microsoft®’s Direc...

67 Appendix B: PING IP Address The PING (stands for Packet Internet Groper) command is used to detect whether a specific IP address is accessible by sending a packet to the specific address and waiting for a reply. It’s also a very useful tool to confirm the camera installed or if the IP address con...

68 Appendix C: Bandwidth Estimation The frame rate of video transmitted from the camera depends on connection bandwidth between client and server, video resolution, codec type, and quality setting of server. Here is a guideline to help you roughly estimate the bandwidth requirements form your camera...

69 Appendix D: Specifications Camera LAN WLAN Image Camera 1.3 Mega-pixel image sensor Effective Pixels 1280 x 1024 pixels Sensitivity 1.0V/lux-sec Lens 4.3mm IP Module Video Video Encoder H.264, MPEG4 and Motion JPEG simultaneously (Tri-encoders) Video Profile 8 profiles simultaneously (including 3...

71 Appendix E: Configure Port Forwarding Manually The camera can be used with a router. If the camera wants to be accessed from the WAN, its IP address needs to be set up as fixed IP address, also the port forwarding or Virtual Server function of router needs to be set up. This camera supports UPnP ...

72 Your WAN IP Address will be listed here. Note: Because a dynamic WAN IP can change from time to time depending on your ISP, you may want to obtain a Static IP address from your ISP. A Static IP address is a fixed IP address that will not change over time and will be more convenient for you to use...

74 Appendix F: DDNS Application 1. Preface If you have a Cable modem or xDSL, this is a great way to host your own camera or other TCP/IP Service. Get your own domain like www.yourname.com, www.yourname.com.tw etc. (Note: This domain must be registered with Internic via registration authorities such...

76 d) Submit all the input information and finish creating an account (5) Check your e-mail mailbox. There will be an e-mail with a title “Your DynDNS Account Information“. Click the hyperlink address to confirm the DDNS service that you just applied. Click these two options

77 Then DDNS you applied activated. (6) Enter the web page

79 (11) We could create a domain name without any charge at this step. First, we input the host name. (Pink No.1) Then we pick a domain that is easy to remember. (Pink No.2) The 3 rd step is to click “Offline Hostname” from Service Type. (Pink No.3) Finally, click the “Create Host” to submit the dom...

81 Appendix G: Power Line Frequency Country Voltage Frequency Comments Argentina 220V 50 Hz *Neutral and line wires are reversed from that used in Australia and elsewhere. Australia 230V* 50 Hz *Outlets typically controlled by adjacent switch. Though nominal voltage has been officially changed to 23...

82 Appendix H: 3GPP To use the 3GPP function, in addition to previous section, you might need more information or configuration to make this function work. Please note that to use the 3GPP function, it strongly recommends to install the camera with a public and fixed IP address without any firewall ...

83 Appendix I: Enable UPnP of Windows XP Use the following steps to enable UPnP settings only if your operating system of PC is running Windows XP. Go to Start > Settings . Click Control Panel Click Add or Remove Programs

84 Click Add/Remove Windows Components The following screen will appear: Select Networking Services Click Details

85 Select Universal Plug and Play Click OK Click Next

86 Please wait while Setting up configures the components. Click Finish