TP-Link TL-SC3171 - Manual

6.3.1 Information ...........................................................................................................28 6.3.2 PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) ....................................................30 6.3.3 DDNS (Dynamic DNS) ...........................................

1 Package Contents The follow items should be found in your package: ¾ TL-SC3171 Day/Night Surveillance Camera ¾ Power Adapter ¾ Mounting Bracket with three screws, a Lock Ring, a Brace and a Base Plate ¾ RJ45 Cable ¾ Quick Installation Guide ¾ Resource CD, including: z This User Guide z Application...

2 Chapter 1 Minimum System Requirements We strongly recommend your computers follow our minimum requirements in order to use this IP-Camera normally. If your computer doesn’t meet these requirements below, it might cause some problems. Item Requirements CPU Pentium 4 1600MHz (or equivalent AMD) Grap...

3 Chapter 2 Physical Overview 2.1 Front View Figure 2-1 Focus Adjustment Ring : Adjust the focus to get a clear image. Built-in Microphone : Built-in microphone for two-way audio. 2.2 Bottom view Figure 2-2 Wireless Antenna : For connection of IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network. Audio In : To support a...

4 I/O Terminal Connector : Input/Output to support External Alarm and Sensor used for motion detection, event triggering and alarm notification, etc. Network Connector : For connection to the Ethernet via RJ45 standard.

5 Chapter 3 Using IP Camera via Web Browser 3.1 Obain the IP Address 1. Insert the provided CD into your CD-ROM driver. The Setup Wizard will automatically pop up on your computer’s screen as shown in the figure below. Figure 3-1 2. Choose the Intelligent IP Installer , and then the next screen appe...

6 Figure 3-2 3. After the installation is finished, click Start > Program Files > TP-LINK >Intelligent IP Installer to start using the program. Figure 3-3 4. The following screen will then display. Click the Search button to search Network Cameras in the network; it displays Network Cameras...

7 Figure 3-4 3.2 Windows Web Browser 1. Click Link to IE button in Figure 3-4 or launch your web browser, and enter the IP address (obtain from Figure 3-4) of the IP camera in the Location / Address field of your browser. ) Note: 1) For the first time login with IE, you will need to enable “ Downloa...

8 Figure 3-5 ) Note: The default User name “admin” and Password “admin” are set at the factory for the administrator. You can change them in the Account Menu. (Please check “ SETTING → BASIC → Security → Account ”) 3. The web-based management page will display on your screen. On the leftmost column ...

12 Chapter 4 Operating IP Camera via Mobile Phone 4.1 Mobile Phone Viewing 4.1.1 3G Mobile Phone Streaming Viewing For 3G mobile phone viewing, type “ rtsp://<IP>:<PORT>/video.3gp ” into your 3G Streaming Link. <IP> is the Public IP address of your IP camera; <PORT> is the RT...

13 4.2 Using IP Camera via iPhone You can use TP-LINK Web User Interface via iPhone. Please follow the setting process below. Then you can use TP-LINK Web UI via iPhone. 1. Select Safari function 2. Enter IP address in your web link. 3. Enter name and password. Default values are both admin. Then cl...

14 Chapter 5 Configuration of Main Menu You would find that the illustrative web pages in this Manual are all orange. Please note that they're from our latest firmware, which can be downloaded from our website. Web pages in our previous firmware are blue. On the leftmost column of the web-based mana...

16 Volume control bar 5.2 Setting This function is only for the Administrator. Click this button to get into the Basic and Advance settings menus. There are four sub-menus under the BASIC menu, which includes System , Camera , Network , and Security . For more information, you can refer to Section 6...

19 Chapter 6 Setting-BASIC Click BASIC to display the submenus including System , Camera , Network , and Security . 6.1 System Click System to display the submenus including Information, Date/Time , and Initialize . 6.1.1 Information The Information page provides the basic information of the product...

28 6.3.1 Information The page of Information displays the MAC address of the device. ¾ Obtain an IP address automatically (DHCP) : (If a DHCP server is installed on the network) Select this, the IP will be assigned by the DHCP serve. ¾ Obtain DNS server address automatically : Select this to obtain ...

33 ) Note: How to apply DDNS username and Host name? You can apply DDNS username and Host name by the following steps: 1. Log

34 . 3. Log in with new account and click Account → My Hosts → Add Host Services . 4. Type domain in the Hostname field and select sub-domain.

37 Forwarding for opening a port in a router or firewall in a private network in order to let a party from the outside world contact a inside user. 6.3.5 Bonjour Bonjour , also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. Bon...

38 ¾ Notify Type : You can select the notify type among DHCP, Static IP, and PPPoE. When the network settings related to the chosen notify type are changed, an e-mail notification will be sent to inform you of the updated network information of the camera. ¾ SMTP Server Name : Type the SMTP server n...

39 POP server name : It is necessary when the POP before SMTP is selected in Authentication. Type the POP (receiving mail) server name up to 64 characters, or type the IP address of the POP server. This setting is necessary when the SMTP server which sends e-mails performs authentication using the P...

41 A. Configuring your IP camera ) Note: If you use a Modem Router to access the Internet, you should set your IP Camera as the virtual server with port range 20000-21000 on the Modem Router’s web-based management page. 1. Click “ BASIC->Network->Messenger ” to enter the “Messenger” page. Enab...

42 B. Add the camera’s msn account 1. Make sure the desired computer with MSN installed. Log into the MSN. 2. Make sure the MSN view plugin is installed. This plugin is embedded in IntelligentIPInstallerSetup(TPLink)-1.1.16.09.exe and will be installed automatically when you install IntelligentIPIns...

43 5. Check its status. Normally it should be online. 6. Click the camera icon and select View a contact’s webcam to view the video.

44 7. Wait for a moment, and you will see the video captured by your IP Camera. 6.4 Security Click Security to display the submenus including Account and HTTPS .

45 6.4.1 Account The device default account and password setting is “admin / admin”. That means everyone who knows IP address can access the device including all configuration. Therefore, it is necessary to assign a password if the device is intended to be accessed by others. ¾ User name : Set a use...

47 ) Note: 1) When enable HTTPS with RTSP on mode, the IP Camera only protect the setting such as username and password and do not protect video and audio. 2) When enable HTTPS with RTSP off mode, the IP Camera will protect all setting including video and audio.

51 ) Note: 1) You can set motion detection on motion detection page (Please go to “ Setting → Advance → Motion detection → Setting ”). For more details, you can check Section 7.7 . 2) Motion Detection works only when the MPEG4 function is On and the Cropping is set to Off. z Use Alarm Buffer : Selec...

52 ) Note: You can set the alarm buffer function at Alarm Buffer page (Please go “ Setting → Advance → Alarm Buffer → Setting ”). For more details, you can check Section 7.7 . z Alarm Input: Select the connected alarm. Sensor input1: The external sensor which is connected to sensor input1 of the ala...

53 ) Note: You can set schedule function on Schedule page . (Please go to “ Setting → Advance → Schedule → Setting ”) For more details, you can check Section 7.5 . 7.1.3 Periodical sending You can set to send an image file to FTP server periodically by selecting On to send the image file to FTP serv...

55 7.2.1 General Select On when you use the SMTP function. The common setting options are displayed below. Select Off if you do not wish to use the e-Mail (SMTP) function. ) Note: The Setting of General will be the same as the setting of IP Notification (Please check “ SETTING → BASIC → Network → IP...

56 ¾ SMTP server name : Type the SMTP server name up to 64 characters, or the IP address of the SMTP server. ¾ SMTP Server Port : You can set port number from 1~65535 according to your mail server. The default value is 25. ¾ Security setting : Check SSL box if the mail server you use has security re...

59 ¾ Alarm z Motion Detection : Click it for using Motion Detection function as a sensor. You can set motion detection function on the motion detection page.

61 ) Note: You can set the alarm buffer function at Alarm Buffer page (Please go “ Setting → Advance → Alarm Buffer → Setting ”). For more details, you can check Section 7.7 . z Alarm input : Select the connected alarm. Sensor input1 : The external sensor which is connected to sensor input1 of the a...

62 ) Note: You can set schedule function on Schedule page . (Please go to “ Setting → Advance → Schedule → Setting ”) For more details, you can check Section 7.5 . 7.2.3 Periodical sending You can set to send an image file by SMTP server periodically by selecting On to send the image file by SMTP se...

64 7.3.1 General ¾ HTTP even t: Set up the HTTP server URL, port, User ID, Password, and Proxy Server settings.

65 For example: URL: 192.168.1.7/cgi-bin/operator/ptzset ) Note: 1. The setting of URL should be the same as CGI. 2. The example above is for reference only. For more details, please refer to SDK in the subdirectory of the IP camera product on our website http://www.tp-link.com. 7.3.2 Alarm sending ...

67 9 Message: message will show up in the form of Message = PTZ down. If your target device didn’t support the parameter of message, you can’t see the message. So you can just take the message as a note. For example: PTZ down. ) Note: You can set the alarm input function at alarm input page (Please ...

69 z Motion Detection : Click it on for using Motion Detection function as a sensor. You can set motion detection function at the motion detection function page. ) Note: 1) You can set motion detection on motion detection page (Please go to “ Setting → Advance → Motion detection → Setting ”). For mo...

70 ) Note: You can set the alarm buffer function at Alarm Buffer page (Please go “ Setting → Advance → Alarm Buffer → Setting ”). For more details, you can check Section 7.7 . z Alarm Input: Select the connected alarm. Sensor input1 : The external sensor which is connected to sensor input1 of the al...

71 z Schedule: You can specify the period when the periodical sending is effective in the Schedule setting in the other section. ) Note: You can set schedule function at schedule page. (Please go “ Setting → Advance → Schedule → Setting ”) For more details, you can check Section 7.5 . 7.5 Schedule W...

74 7.7.1 Setting Alarm buffer : The basic setting options are displayed below. ¾ Recording capacity z Pre-alarm period : Display the maximum recording capacity of image/audio before the alarm detection. z Post-alarm period : Display the maximum recording capacity of image/audio after the alarm detec...

77 7.9.1 Setting ¾ Enable remote log : Enables user to send the log data to a specified log server. ) Note: There is a function called Watchdog which can automatically detect errors and restart the IP camera while mpeg, mjepg, 3gpp, or web cannot work. It will take about 5 minutes from detection to ...

78 Appendix APPENDIX a – FRAME RATE & BIT RATE TABLE This chapter provides tables that help you to optimize your IP camera with your network environment. Base on your network upload environment to choose the best Image-Quality setting. For example, if the network environment is ADSL 256Kb(upload...

80 320*240 Good 5 260 5 320*240 Medium 15 350 13 160*120 Medium 5 130 5 160*120 Excellent 15 600 13 160*120 Excellent 5 230 5 160*120 Good 15 300 13 160*120 Good 5 115 5 160*120 Medium 15 170 13 160*120 Medium 5 65 5 APPENDIX b – STORAGE REQUIREMENT TABLE This chapter provides tables that help you s...

82 FAQ Q1. What can I do if I forgot the login name and password? Press and hold the Reset button on the bottom panel with a pin or paperclip. Please continue holding down the Reset button for approximately 15 seconds. And then IP Camera will reboot. It will require 45 seconds. Both the default user...