Page 3 - Before You Use This Product
- 2 - www.vivotek.com T: 886-2-82455282 F: 886-2-82455532 Before You Use This Product The use of surveillance devices may be prohibited by law in your country. The Network Camera is not only a high-performance web-ready camera but also can be part of a flexible surveillance system. It is the user’s ...
Page 4 - Table of Contents
- 3 - www.vivotek.com T: 886-2-82455282 F: 886-2-82455532 Table of Contents Before You Use This Product...................................................................... 2 Package Contents .................................................................................... 6 Installation ..........
Page 7 - Package Contents
- 6 - www.vivotek.com T: 886-2-82455282 F: 886-2-82455532 Package Contents IP7138 Power adapter Camera stand Software CD Quick installation guide Warranty card
Page 8 - Installation; Hardware installation
- 7 - www.vivotek.com Installation In this manual, "User" refers to whoever has access to the Network Camera, and "Administrator" refers to the person who can configure the Network Camera and grant user access to the camera. Hardware installation Please verify that your product packa...
Page 9 - Software installation
- 8 - www.vivotek.com To install in Ethernet Make sure the Ethernet is firmly connected to a switch hub. After attaching the Ethernet cable plug in the power adapter. If the LED turns out to blink green-color, go to next paragraph “Software installation”. If the Ethernet is not available, Network Ca...
Page 10 - Initial Access to the Network Camera; Check Network Settings
- 9 - www.vivotek.com Once installation is complete, the Administrator should proceed to the next section "Initial access to the Network Camera" for necessary checks and configurations. Initial Access to the Network Camera Check Network Settings The Network Camera can be connected either bef...
Page 11 - How to Use; Authentication
- 10 - www.vivotek.com only option is to restore to the original factory default settings. How to Use A PC with Windows operating system can use the Internet Explorer to connect to the Network Camera. A plug-in will be installed into the IE when it is connected for the first time. A PC with Linux op...
Page 14 - Primary user’s capability; Main Screen with Camera View
- 13 - www.vivotek.com Primary user’s capability Main Screen with Camera View The main page layout has two parts: Configuration functions: The camera can be configured using these user interfaces. Camera View: What the camera sees. Click on the configuration link to the left of the image window to e...
Page 17 - Digital Zoom
- 16 - www.vivotek.com Digital Zoom Click on the magnifier icon under the camera view then the digital zoom control panel will be shown. Uncheck “Disable digital zoom” and use the slider control to change the zoom factors. 1 2 3
Page 18 - MP4 Recording; Snapshot
- 17 - www.vivotek.com MP4 Recording Click on the red circle button on the plugin to start MP4 recording. You can set the related options in client setting page. Snapshot Click on “Snapshot”, web browser will pop up a new window to show the snapshot. Users can point at the snapshot and click the rig...
Page 21 - Digital output; Administrator’s capability; Fine-tuning for Best Performance
- 20 - www.vivotek.com <url> http://<Network Camera>/clientset.html <Network Camera> is the domain name or the original IP address of the Network Camera. Digital output Click on “ON”, the digital output of the Network Camera will be triggered. Or, Clicking on “OFF” can let the digi...
Page 24 - Opening accounts for new users
- 23 - www.vivotek.com Opening accounts for new users Protect Network Camera by passwords The Network Camera is shipped without any password by default. That means everyone can access the Network Camera including the configuration as long as the IP address is known. It is necessary to assign a passw...
Page 25 - Build a security application
- 24 - www.vivotek.com Build a security application The Administrator can use the built-in motion detection to monitor any movement to perform many useful security applications. To upload the snapshots, users can choose either email, FTP, HTTP, Network storage or CF according to user’s needs. All se...
Page 26 - Software revision upgrade
- 25 - www.vivotek.com z Set the appropriate delay time to avoid continuous false alarms following the original event z Check the server name set in Step 10 and select the media name set in Step 11. 13.Click on save to validate. Software revision upgrade Customers can obtain the up-to-date software ...
Page 27 - Definitions in Configuration
- 26 - www.vivotek.com Definitions in Configuration Only the Administrator can access system configuration. Each category in the left column will be explained in the following pages. The bold texts are the specific phrases on the Option pages. The Administrator may type the URL below the figure to d...
Page 28 - System parameters
- 27 - www.vivotek.com System parameters "Host name" The text displays the title at the top of the main page. “Turn off the LED indicator” Check this option to shut off the LED on the rear. It can prevent the camera’s operation being noticed. "Time zone" Adjust the time with that of ...
Page 29 - Security settings
- 28 - www.vivotek.com Security settings “Root password” Change the Administrator’s password by typing in the new password identically in both text boxes. The typed entries will be displayed as asterisks for security purposes. After pressing , the web browser will ask the Administrator for the new p...
Page 31 - Network settings; Network type
- 30 - www.vivotek.com Network settings Any changes made on the Network type sectoin will restart the system in order to validate the changes. Make sure every field is entered correctly before clicking on . Network type “LAN” & “PPPoE” The default type is LAN. Select PPPoE if using ADSL "Get...
Page 35 - DDNS
- 34 - www.vivotek.com DDNS “Enable DDNS” This option turns on the DDNS function. “Provider” The provider list contains four hosts that provide DDNS services. Please connect to the service provider’s website to make sure the service charges. “Host Name” If the User wants to use DDNS service, this fi...
Page 36 - Access List
- 35 - www.vivotek.com Access List The access list is to control the access permission of clients by checking the client IP address. There are two lists for permission control: Allow List and Deny List. Only those clients whose IP address is in the Allow List and not in the Deny List can connect to ...
Page 37 - Audio and Video; Video Settings
- 36 - www.vivotek.com Audio and Video This product supports dual-stream. It provides two setting for video streams, but only one setting for audio. Video Settings “Video title” The text string can be displayed on video “Color” Select either for color or monochrome video display. “Power line frequen...
Page 38 - Audio settings
- 37 - www.vivotek.com There are three dependent parameters provided in MPEG-4 mode for video performance adjustment. “Intra frame period” The interval of intra frame. “Max frame rate” This limits the maximal refresh frame rate, which can be combined with the “Video quality” to optimize bandwidth ut...
Page 40 - Image Settings
- 39 - www.vivotek.com Image Settings Click on this button to pop up another window to tune “Brightness”, “Contrast”, “Hue” and “Saturation” for video compensation. Each field has eleven levels ranged from -5 to +5. In “Brightness” and “Contrast” fields the value 0 indicates auto tuning. The user ma...
Page 41 - Privacy Mask
- 40 - www.vivotek.com Privacy Mask Click on the button to pop up another window to set privacy mask window. All user can not view the block under privacy mask window. “Enable privacy mask” Check this option to turn on privacy mask. Click on this button to add a new window. At most five windows can ...
Page 42 - Motion detection
- 41 - www.vivotek.com Click on this button to save the related window settings. "Window Name" The text will show at the top of the window. The following figure shows the screen when is clicked and the privacy mask is enabled. Motion detection “Enable motion detection” Check this option to t...
Page 44 - Application
- 43 - www.vivotek.com Application There are three sections in application page. They are event, server and media. Click to pop a window to add a new item of event, server or media. Click to delete the selected item from event, server or media. Click on the item name to pop a window to edit it. Ther...
Page 45 - Event
- 44 - www.vivotek.com <url> http://<Network Camera>/setup/application.htm <Network Camera> is the domain name or original IP address of the Network Camera. Event “Event name” The unique name for event “Enable this event” Check it to enable this event. “Priority” The event with hig...
Page 47 - Server
- 46 - www.vivotek.com Server “Server name” The unique name for server There are four kinds of servers supported. They are email server, FTP server, HTTP server and network storage. Here is setting for email server. “Sender email address” The email address of the sender “Recipient email address” The...
Page 48 - Media
- 47 - www.vivotek.com correct. The testing result will be shown in a pop-up window. Media “Media name” The unique name for media There are three kinds of media. They are snapshot, video clip and system log. Here is setting for snapshot. “Source” The source of stream, stream1 or stream2. “Send Pre-e...
Page 50 - Recording
- 49 - www.vivotek.com Recording The Network camera supports recording on CF and network storage. The operation of editing recording item is the same as the one in application page. User can know the recording name, status, weekly and time schedule, stream source and destination of recording. There ...
Page 52 - System log
- 51 - www.vivotek.com System log The Network camera support log the system messages on remote server. The protocol is compliant to RFC 3164. If you have external Linux server with syslogd service, use “-r” option to turn on the facility for receiving log from remote machine. Or you can use some sof...
Page 53 - Viewing system parameters
- 52 - www.vivotek.com <url> http://<Network Camera>/setup/syslog.htm <Network Camera> is the domain name or original IP address of the Network Camera. Viewing system parameters Click on this link on the configuration page to view the entire system’s parameter set.
Page 55 - Maintenance
- 54 - www.vivotek.com Maintenance Five actions can be selected. “Format CF” Click it to format CF card. A pop-up window will show the result of formatting. It is failed if the event or recording uses the CF card or no CF is existed. “Umount CF” Click it to umount CF card. Suggest to stop all event ...
Page 57 - Appendix; Status LED
- 56 - www.vivotek.com Appendix A. Troubleshooting Status LED The following table lists the LED patterns in general. Condition LED color Loading system after power on Steady green and blink red (once) During booting procedure Steady green Detecting and setting network Steady orange (green + red) til...
Page 58 - B. URL commands of the Network Camera; Overview
- 57 - www.vivotek.com Restoring the factory defaults will erase any previous settings. Reset or restore the system after power on. 1. Press on the button continuously. 2. Wait for self-diagnostic to run twice. 3. Free the button as soon as the second self-diagnostic starts. B. URL commands of the N...
Page 59 - General CGI URL syntax and parameters
- 58 - www.vivotek.com with the referred syntax as seen below. The name of the server is written as <servername>. This is intended to be replaced with the name of the actual server. This can either be a name, e.g., "mywebcam" or "thecam.adomain.net" or the associated IP number ...
Page 60 - Security level; Get server parameter values
- 59 - www.vivotek.com Example: Setting digital output #1 to active http://mywebserver/cgi-bin/dido/setdo.cgi?do1=1 Security level SECURITY LEVEL SUB-DIRECTORY DESCRIPTION 0 anonymous Unprotected. 1 [view] anonymous, viewer, dido, camctrl 1. Can view, listen, talk to camera 2. Can control dido, ptz ...
Page 62 - Set server parameter values
- 61 - www.vivotek.com network.ipaddress=192.168.0.123\r\n Set server parameter values Note: The access right depends on the URL directory. Method: GET/POST Syntax: http://<servername>/cgi-bin/ anonymous /setparam.cgi? <parameter>=<value> [&<parameter>=<value>…][&am...
Page 63 - Available parameters on the server
- 62 - www.vivotek.com (.vspx) file. It can not be a CGI command. It can nothave any extra parameters. This parameter must beput at end of parameter list) Return: HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n Content-Type: text/html\r\n Context-Length: <length>\r\n \r\n <parameter pair> where <parameter pair&g...
Page 88 - Drive the digital output; Query status of the digital input
- 87 - www.vivotek.com Drive the digital output Note: This request requires the privilege of viewer. Method: GET/POST Syntax: http://<servername>/cgi-bin/dido/setdo.cgi?do1=<state>[&do2=<state>] [&do3=<state>][&do4=<state>][&return=<return page>] W...
Page 89 - Query status of the digital output
- 88 - www.vivotek.com http://<servername>/cgi-bin/dido/getdi.cgi?[di0][&di1][&di2][&di3] If no parameter is specified, all the status of digital input will be returned. Return: HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n Content-Type: text/plain\r\n Content-Length: <length>\r\n \r\n [di0=<state&...
Page 90 - Capture single snapshot
- 89 - www.vivotek.com http://<servername>/cgi-bin/dido/getdo.cgi?[do0][&do1][&do2][&do3] If no parameter is specified, all the status of digital output will be returned. Return: HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n Content-Type: text/plain\r\n Content-Length: <length>\r\n \r\n [do0=<state...
Page 91 - Account management
- 90 - www.vivotek.com Syntax: http://<servername>/cgi-bin/viewer/video.jpg?[channel=<value>][&resolution=<value>][&quality=<value>] If the user requests the size larger than all stream setting on the server, this request will failed! PARAMETER VALUE DEFAULT DESCRIPTI...
Page 92 - System logs
- 91 - www.vivotek.com [&privilege=<value>][…][&return=<return page>] PARAMETER VALUE DESCRIPTION add Add an account to server. When using this method,“username” field is necessary. It will use defaultvalue of other fields if not specified. delete Remove an account from server. W...
Page 93 - Upgrade firmware
- 92 - www.vivotek.com Syntax: http://< servername >/cgi-bin/admin/syslog.cgi Server will return the up-to-date system log. Return: HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n Content-Type: text/plain\r\n Content-Length: <syslog length>\r\n \r\n <system log information>\r\n Upgrade firmware Note: This req...
Page 94 - IP filtering
- 93 - www.vivotek.com IP filtering Note: This request requires administrator access privilege Method: GET/POST Syntax: http://<servername>/cgi-bin/admin/ipfilter.cgi? method=<value>&[start=<ipaddress>&end=<ipaddress>][&index=<value>] [&return=<return...
Page 95 - RTSP SDP
- 94 - www.vivotek.com start <ip address> The start IP address to add or to delete. end <ip address> The end IP address to add or to delete. index <value> The start position to add or to delete. return <return page> Redirect to the page <return page> after theparameter ...
Page 96 - D. Technical specifications; Networking; - Operating Environment
- 95 - www.vivotek.com D. Technical specifications - System CPU: Vivotek VVTK-1000 RAM: 64MB SDRAM ROM: 8MB FLASH ROM - Networking Protocol TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, FTP, DDNS, UPnP, Telnet, NTP, DNS, DHCP and RTSP Physical 10 baseT or 100 baseT Fast Ethernet auto negotiation - Video Algorithm supported M...
Page 97 - Technology License Notice; AMR Technology
- 96 - www.vivotek.com Technology License Notice AMR Technology This product includes AMR narrowband speech coding technology licensed by VoiceAge. Please refer to http://www.voiceage.com/ for more details. MPEG-4 AAC Technology This product includes MPEG-4 AAC audio coding technology licensed by Vi...
Page 98 - Liability
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) This device compiles with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions. • This device may not cause harmful interference, and • This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation....
