Moxa VPort 2140 - Manual

1 1 Chapter 1 Introduction VPort 2140 is a high-performance networking video transmitter. In addition to meeting the basic needs of video feed, many advanced features are included to help you set up surveillance or web attraction applications. The state-of-the-art design strikes a good balance betwe...

Introduction on our website. Package Checklist 1 VPort 2140 Video Server Camera control cable Power adaptor Null modem cable 2 GPIO terminal connectors Software CD L-type Fixed Aluminum pieces and 8 screws NOTE: Notify your sales representative if any of the above items is missing or damaged. Produc...

NOTE: ActiveX Control SDK is supported with flexible interface and sample codes for third-party developers (please contact Moxa sales representatives if you require this SDK.) Typical Applications Ethernet Connection Server TCP/IP 4DI/ 2DO Analog Cameras IP: 192.168.4.100 http://192.168.4.100 Server...

Introduction Product Descriptions Front Panel 1: RESET & DEFAULT buttons for restoring the system There are two buttons located at the center of the front panel. One is labeled “RESET” and the other is labeled “DEFAULT.” “RESET” will force the system to restart at any point, meaning the system w...

Introduction Rear Panel 8: COM1 & COM 2 There are 2 COM ports on VPort 2140’s rear panel. a. COM 1 (RS-232): This RS-232 serial port can connect with an RS-232 PTZ camera. For RS-485 PTZ cameras, the administrator can use the General I/O terminal block’s COM 1 (RS-485) . b. COM 2 (RS-232): This ...

2 2 Chapter 2 Getting Started This chapter includes information about how to install a VPort 2140 Video Server. The following topics are covered: Before Getting Started Setting up an Ethernet Environment Cable Connection Running the IP Installer Program Powering on VPort 2140 Video Server Assigning ...

Before Getting Started To adapt easily to different environments, the Video Server automatically detects the attached interfaces and configures itself appropriately. For this reason, users do not need to worry about whether the connected cameras are either NTSC or PAL, how to select between Ethernet...

Getting Started Rear Panel Before powering on the VPort 2140 Video Server: 1. Connect your camera’s video output with the BNC video input. 2. Connect I/O devices (such as sensors or alarms) with VPort’s GPIO Terminal Block. 3. Connect the hub or switch on the LAN to the VPort’s 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ...

Powering on the VPort 2140 Video Server First, make sure that all cables are correctly and firmly connected, and then turn on the cameras, sensors, and alarm devices. Next, power on the video server by attaching the Video Server’s power adaptor to an electrical outlet. After the POST (Power-On Self ...

Getting Started address for this VPort. If you check Use this IP whenever system boots option, you will not see this VPort the next time you run the IP installer program, unless you have restored the VPort. As a matter of convenience, we strongly recommend that you check this option. 6. Click on Set...

7. If you check Use the IP whenever system boots option, then whenever you change the root password and restart the system, a dialog window will open to ask for Server FTP Port and Root Password , since they were already changed by the administrator to something other than the default settings. If t...

Getting Started Setting up a Modem Environment VPort 2140 Video Server provides 2 modem modes: Modem and Null Modem. The null modem mode can be used for point-to-point connections in a local environment. Although the baud rate can be set up to 115.2 Kbps, the actual data rate depends on the Modem co...

Before powering on the VPort 2140 Video Server: 1. Connect your cameras’ video outputs to the BNC video inputs. 2. Connect VPort’s COM port with your PC’s COM port. 3. Connect the power adaptor. Modem Before powering on the VPort 2140 Video Server: 1. Connect your cameras’ video outputs with the BNC...

Getting Started Configuring a Modem (Under Windows 2000 Environment) Installing a new modem Null Modem Mode 1. Click on Start Control Panel Modems . 2. An Install New Modem message will appear. Check Don’t detect my modem; I will select it from a list , and click on Next to continue. VPort 2140 User...

Getting Started Modem Mode 1. Click on Start Control Panel Modems . 2. If you already have a Modem, read the Setting up a new connection section below. If you don’t have a modem, an Install New Modem message will appear. Click on Next , and the system will detect the modem automatically. If your mod...

Accessing VPort 2140 Video Server for the First Time In Null Modem Mode Administrators can connect to http://200.1.1.1 from the web browser directly via the null modem cable. 200.1.1.1 is VPort’s default IP address for the dial-up connection; and 200.1.1.100 is the IP address assigned by VPort to th...

3 3 Chapter 3 Accessing VPort 2140 Video Server for the First Time This chapter includes information about how to access VPort 2140 Video Server for the first time. The following topics are covered: Accessing VPort 2140 Video Server Opening Your Browser Authentication Installing the Plug-in Applicat...

Accessing VPort 2140 Video Server Opening Your Browser Open your browser, type the VPort’s IP address in the Address box, and then press Enter . Authentication After opening your browser and typing the VPort’s IP address, a dialogue window will appear, asking you to enter the username and the passwo...

Accessing VPort 2140 Video Server for the First Time Installing the Plug-in Application If you access the VPort for the first time via a browser that supports server push (e.g., Netscape), the video images will be displayed directly. If you are using Windows’ Internet Explorer as your browser, you w...

Accessing VPort 2140 Video Server for the First Time Camera View selection A maximum of 4 cameras can be connected to the VPort 2140 at the same time. Users can view the image of each camera by selecting “Video 1,” “Video 2,” “Video 3,” and “Video 4,” or selecting “Video All” to view all images in Q...

4 4 Chapter 4 System Configuration After installing the hardware, the next task required is to configure VPort 2140’s settings. There are 3 configuration methods: via web access, via FTP, and via Telnet. This chapter includes the following sections: System Configuration Via Web Access Using Setup Wi...

System Configuration System Configuration Via Web Access System configuration can be easily done remotely from Internet Explorer via the Web Server. There are two wizards, in addition to classified categories of system configurations, which provide user-friendly instructions to facilitate the setup ...

Using the Application Wizard VPort 2140 has two applications to choose from: 1. Surveillance System Create a security system by configuring the built-in motion detection and external sensors to integrate with an existing e-mail or FTP server, or external alarms. You may also use the weekly schedule ...

System Configuration Date and Time The default setting for Date and Time is Keep current date and time . You may also choose from one of the following date and time configuration options: 1. The easiest way to adjust the date and time is to make the VPort Sync with computer time . 2. Select the Manu...

Add user To add a new user, type the new user’s name in the Username box, the password in the User password box, and select authorization level by checking I/O access or Camera control . Click on Add to insert the entry. The VPort 2140 Video Server has a total of 20 user accounts. Each user can be g...

System Configuration will automatically operate normally after being restarted after a power loss. 2. □ Use this IP whenever system boots = Reset network at next boot In this case, the installation process must be performed again when system reboots. This is the default setting. You can ignore this ...

System Configuration Video To allow the VPort 2140 to show cameras’ video images, check the Enable item for each camera. There are 3 kinds of settings for each camera’s video in this page. Image setting 1. Show Time stamp in image and Text on image When these options are enabled, Time stamp and Text...

System Configuration size = 30%, then the system will only detect the motion of objects that occupy an area larger than 30% of the total monitored area; the motion of objects with size less than 30% of the monitored area will NOT be detected.) 2. Sensitivity sets the measurable difference between tw...

System Configuration PTZ Cameras, for default settings of the supported PTZ cameras. Custom command VPort 2140 Video Server provides 5 custom commands in addition to the general pan, tilt, zoom, and preset functions. Administrators can click on Custom Command to configure, and refer to the manual en...

by time interval. Administrators can use combinations of options on the application web page to perform various useful security applications. Although most settings will be done automatically by the Application Wizard , administrators can also make adjustments to the settings from this page. To set ...

System Configuration Enable the external script file to exclude the following settings Administrators can write a script named SCRIPT.TXT to match the additional software according to the Command Script for DI/DO and Camera’s Actions Setting section from Chapter 5. After uploading this script to the...

Sequential Mode With this feature, VPort 2140 Video Server can upload snapshots periodically to an external E-mail or FTP server as a live video source. The interval can be set from a tenth of a second to several hours in Snapshot every □ tenth seconds. The external E-mail or FTP server must be set ...

System Configuration Demo VPort 2140 Video Server provides a demonstration mode to allow general access for demonstration purposes. To set up the demonstration mode, administrators must choose the services to be permitted by each camera. If administrators select the view option, users may use demo a...

2. The “default” logo is the MOXA logo. 3. An external logo or image can be used by selecting the URL option, and typing the url for the image in the text input box. Logo link Administrators set up the Logo with a Logo link , so that visitors are directed to another web address when they click on th...

System Configuration View parameters Clicking on View parameters allows you to view all system parameters, which are listed by category. The content is the same as CONFIG.INI of VPort 2140 Video Server. Factory default This function is used to restore the Video Server to its factory default settings...

System Configuration Via FTP CONFIG.INI FTP can be used to configure VPort 2140 Video Server much more quickly than configuring from web browser, particularly when configuring multiple Video Servers. To configure a Video Server via FTP, first download the parameter file, CONFIG.INI, customize each f...

System Configuration <PTZ enabled> (0)NO or YES (1)NO or YES (2)NO or YES (3)NO or YES <video is open> (0)NO or YES (1)NO or YES (2)NO or YES (3)NO or YES [SYSTEM ADDON] <NTP Update Interval> 3 System Configuration Via Telnet Telnet Commands Video Server has a Telnet daemon that al...

5 5 Chapter 5 Advanced Applications This chapter will introduce more advanced applications. The following topics are covered in this chapter: Capturing Up-to-date Still Images Getting snapshot via URL Getting snapshot via FTP Video Embedded in Customers’ Homepage Download Event-triggered Snapshots G...

Capturing Up-to-date Still Images Getting snapshot via URL Administrators and users can use a specific URL to capture the current still image. Video Channel URL Video 1 http://<IP of Video Server>/cgi-bin/video1.jpg[?<param>=<value>] Video 2 http://<IP of Video Server>/cgi-bi...

Advanced Applications document.write(" CLASSID=\"CLSID:EAA105FE-7BBD-4196-8B96-D46743894195 \" "); document.write("CODEBASE=\"http://username:[email protected]/plugin /mjpegcontrol.cab#version=2,0,0,6\">"); document.write("<PARAM NAME=\"VSize\" ...

Advanced Applications time except for the above schedule . Step 5: Check the option Enable the external script file to exclude the following settings to activate the command script. Command format [Event][“Operator”Event]……=[Action][+Action]……; Event [“Digital Input Number””Digital Input State”] [“M...

%s second %t tenth second Practical Examples Command line Description MAB=1C; When any motion is detected on channel 1 or 2, “Normal Close” of relay output 1 will short with “Common”. 1H*2\=(5)1O; When DI1 high companied with DI2 transient from high to low, “Normal Open” of relay output 1 will short...

Advanced Applications URL Commands for DI/DO & Camera’s Actions Setting Query status of digital inputs /cgi-bin/getdi.cgi Video Server will return status of four digital inputs in one line. Drive digital outputs /cgi-bin/setdo.cgi?do1=<state> <number> 1, 2 for DO1 and DO2 <state&g...

read. Then read 6 bytes after waiting for 1000 milliseconds. The read data can be up to 128 bytes and will return as ASCII coded hexadecimal value, e.g., 0x41, 0x42, 0x43 read from COM port will show in returned homepage as 414243 instead of ABC. Send command to device attached to COM2 /cgi-bin/send...

6 6 Chapter 6 Upgrading System Firmware Customers can check the appropriate product page on Moxa’s website to download the latest firmware. Only administrators can upgrade the system firmware of Video Server. The following topics are covered in this chapter: Using Upgrade Wizard to Upgrade Firmware ...

Using Upgrade Wizard to Upgrade Firmware Easily Step 1: Run the Upgrade Wizard (.exe) included in the product CD Step 2: Key in the web address of the Video Server whose firmware you want to upgrade, and type the administrators’ password. Then click Next . Step 3 : The program will detect the Video ...

Upgrading System Firmware Using FTP to Upgrade Firmware Step 1: Use the FTP program and change the working directory to the local folder where FLASH.BIN resides. Step 2: Connect to Video Server with user name as “root” and password. Step 3: Use the PUT command to upload FLASH.BIN to Video Server. Th...

7 7 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting This chapter describes some problems that might occur during installation or operation, and provides the basic solutions to those problems. The following topics are covered in this chapter: Power On Self Test (POST) Frequently Asked Questions

A A Appendix A URL Commands of Video Server Video Server can be easily integrated with existing websites or web control applications using convenient URLs. This section lists the commands in URL format corresponding to the basic functions of Video Server. Some RFC standards related to HTML may be a ...

URL Commands of Video Server v2allowed <not required> allow user to view video 2 v3allowed <not required> allow user to view video 3 v4allowed <not required> allow user to view video 4 ioallowed <not required> allow user to control DO ptzallowed <not required> allow use...

ftpfolder1 <text string shorter than 40 characters> upload folder in primary FTP server ftp2 <domain name or IP address> secondary FTP server ftprp2 <number less than 65535> secondary FTP server port ftpuser2 <text string shorter than 15 characters> user name for secondary FT...

URL Commands of Video Server saturation <-5 ~ 5> adjust saturation of image preview <not required> not save the parameters restore <not required> recall the original settings save <not required> save the parameters COM 1 Configuration URL URL: /cgi-bin/serial1.cgi Name Value ...

reatt <integer> redial attempts discon <integer> minutes delay before disconnection init <text string shorter than 40 characters> command to initialize modem phone1 <text string shorter than 40 characters> phone number of primary ISP user1 <text string shorter than 40 char...

URL Commands of Video Server Custom camera configuration URL URL: /cgi-bin/custom.cgi Name Value Description baud1 <integer> set baud rate of COM1 data1 <integer> set data bits of COM1 1 set 1 stop bit of COM1 stop1 2 <other than 1> set 2 stop bits of COM1 None set parity check of ...

B B Appendix B Settings of Supported PTZ Cameras Since the COM port settings can be adjusted to other than the default settings, check the correct default settings for the attached camera. Camera model Baud rate Data bits Stop bit Parity bit Sony VISCA 9600 8 1 None Canon VC-C1 9600 8 2 None Canon V...

C C Appendix C Camera Control Cable The included cable can be used to control motorized cameras of desktop types from Sony and Canon. The pin assignment is illustrated in the following chart. To control cameras of another brand, check the user’s manual of the motorized camera to see if the pin assig...

D D Appendix D Time Zone Table The hour offsets for different time zones are shown below. You will need this information when setting the time zone in automatic date/time synchronization. GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time, which is the global time that all time zones are measured from. (GMT-12:00) ...

E E Appendix E Technical Specifications System CPU: Trimedia PNX1300 RAM: 16MB SDRAM ROM: 2MB FLASH ROM Networking Adjustable bandwidth limit Protocols TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, FTP, Telnet, NTP, DNS and DHCP Modem PPP (dial-up, direct cable connection) Ethernet 10BaseT Ethernet or 100BaseT Fast Ethernet ...

F F Appendix F Service Information This appendix shows you how to contact Moxa for information about this and other products, and how to report problems. In this appendix, we cover the following topics. MOXA Internet Services Problem Report Form Product Return Procedure

MOXA Internet Services Customer satisfaction is our number one concern, and to ensure that customers receive the full benefit of our products, Moxa Internet Services has been set up to provide technical support, driver updates, product information, and user’s manual updates. The following services a...

Service Information Problem Report Form MOXA VPort 2140 Customer name: Company: Tel: Fax: Email: Date: 1. Moxa Product: VPort 2140 2. Serial Number: ___________ ______ Problem Description: Please describe the symptoms of the problem as clearly as possible, including any error messages you see. A cle...

VPort 2140 User’s Manual F-4 Product Return Procedure For product repair, exchange, or refund, the customer must: Provide evidence of original purchase. Obtain a Product Return Agreement (PRA) from the sales representative or dealer. Fill out the Problem Report Form (PRF). Include as much detail as ...