Vivotek PT7135 - Manual

- 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...

- 8 - www.vivotek.com Software 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. At the end of the hardware installation, the Admin...

- 12 - www.vivotek.com Initial Access to the Network Camera Check Network Settings The Network Camera can be connected either before or immediately after software installation onto the Local Area Network. The Administrator should complete the network settings on the configuration page, including the...

- 13 - www.vivotek.com How to Use Authentication After opening the Web browser and typing in the URL of the Network Camera, a dialogue window pops up to request a username and password. Upon successful authentication, the following figure is displayed. The foreground is the login window and the back...

- 15 - www.vivotek.com Primary user’s capability Main Screen with Camera View The main page layout has three parts: Configuration functions: The camera can be configured using these user interfaces. Camera View: What the camera sees. Pan/Tilt control buttons: These buttons provide a command interfac...

- 19 - www.vivotek.com Client settings At the initial access to the “Connection type” page in Windows, the web browser will ask for a new plug-in installation, the plug-in being the Network Camera. This plug-in has been registered for certification and can be used to change the parameters at the cli...

- 21 - www.vivotek.com Administrator’s capability Fine-tuning for Best Performance Best performance generally equates to the fastest image refresh rate with the best video quality, and at the lowest network bandwidth as possible. The three factors, “Maximum frame rate”, “Constant bit rate”, and “Fix...

- 24 - 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...

- 25 - 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 or FTP according to user’s needs. Both e-mail and FTP use the netwo...

- 26 - www.vivotek.com Software revision upgrade Customers can obtain the up-to-date software from the web site of Vivotek. An easy-to-use Upgrade Wizard is provided to upgrade the Network Camera with just a few clicks. The upgrade function is opened to the Administrator only. To upgrade the system,...

- 27 - 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...

- 28 - 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. "Daylight Saving Time" Click on this to r...

- 29 - 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...

- 30 - www.vivotek.com Network settings Any changes made on this page 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 IP address aut...

- 31 - www.vivotek.com “Confirm password” Input password again for confirmation HTTP “Http port” This can be other than the default Port 80. Once the port is changed, the users must be notified the change for the connection to be successful. For instance, when the Administrator changes the HTTP port...

- 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...

- 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 ...

- 36 - www.vivotek.com Audio and Video General “Configure for computer viewing” To make quick setting for computer viewing “Configure for mobile viewing” To make quick setting for cell phone viewing Video Settings “Video title” The text string can be displayed on video “Color” Select either for colo...

- 37 - www.vivotek.com “Mirror” Horizontally rotate the video. Check options both if the Network Camera is installed upside down. “White balance” Adjust the value for best color temperature. Audio settings “mute” Audio mute “Audio type” Select audio codec “AAC” or “GSM-AMR” and the bit rate <url&...

- 38 - 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...

- 39 - www.vivotek.com Camera Control On the Camera Control page, there are two main function control areas: Camera control area The pan and tilt functions can be controlled with these buttons. The “Left” button aims the camera to the left; the “Right”, “Up”, and “Down” buttons aim the camera accord...

- 43 - www.vivotek.com Motion detection “Enable motion detection” Check this option to turn on motion detection. Click on this button to add a new window. At most three windows can exist simultaneously. Use the mouse to click, hold, and drag the window frame to resize or the title bar to move. Click...

- 44 - www.vivotek.com Application settings The server provides two kinds of applications, snapshot and videoclip. There are two independent snapshot items to set, and they are named as Snapshot #1 and Snapshot #2. The status, schedule, trigger condition, and action of three applications are summari...

- 45 - www.vivotek.com Select “Always” or input the time interval. Snapshot file name prefix The prefix name will be added on the file name of the snapshot images. Send out the snapshot while motion detection There are three windows for motion detection each can be assigned a name. Select the window...

- 47 - www.vivotek.com Video Clip The setting for video clip is mostly the same as snapshot. “Video clip max file size” This indicates the maximum file size for video clip (Kbytes).

- 48 - 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...

- 49 - www.vivotek.com Viewing system parameters Click on this link on the configuration page to view the entire system’s parameter set. The content is the same as those in CONFIG.INI.

- 50 - www.vivotek.com Maintenance Four actions can be selected “reboot” click the reboot button to restart system “factory default” Click on Factory default button on the configuration page to restore the factory default settings. Any changes made so far will be lost and the system will be reset to...

- 51 - 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 red, blue, green During booting procedure Steady red, blue, green Detecting and setting network Steady green and blue. Blink r...

- 52 - www.vivotek.com Restoring the factory defaults will erase any previous settings. B. URL commands of the Network Camera For some customers who already have their own web site or web control application, the Network Camera can be easily integrated through convenient URLs. This section lists the...

- 53 - www.vivotek.com where <parameter pair> is <parameter>=<value>\r\n [<parameter pair>] <length> is the actual length of content. Example: request IP address and it’s response Request: http://192.168.0.123/cgi-bin/admin/getparam.cgi?network_ipaddress Response: HTTP/...

- 55 - www.vivotek.com \r\n network.ipaddress=192.168.0.123\r\n Available parameters on the server NOTE: The bold characters in table are the default value of each parameter. Group: System NAME VALUE DESCRIPTION hostname (r/w) <text string shorter than 40 characters> host name of server <&l...

- 66 - www.vivotek.com right Move camera right speedpan -5 ~ 5 Set the pan speed speedtilt -5 ~ 5 Set the tilt speed speedapp -5 ~ 5 Set the auto pan/patrol speed pan Auto pan patrol Auto patrol auto stop Stop camera return <return page> Redirect to the page <return page> after the param...

- 67 - www.vivotek.com redirect to an empty page. Application page CGI command Note: This request requires administrator privilege. Method: GET/POST Syntax (For snapshot): http://<servername>/cgi-bin/admin/gen-new-eventd-conf.cgi ? [ <prefix_app_index>_ snapshot_enable=<value>] [&a...

- 69 - www.vivotek.com always 24 hours full day time_method interval Select begin time and end time begin_time hh:mm Begin time of weekly schedule end_time hh:mm End time of weekly schedule prefix <text string shorter than 60 characters> Snapshot/Videoclip file name prefix for both event and s...

- 70 - www.vivotek.com Return: HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n Content-Type: image/jpeg\r\n [Content-Length: <image size>\r\n] <binary JPEG image data> Account management Note: This request requires administrator privilege Method: GET/POST Syntax: http://< servername >/cgi-bin/admin/editaccoun...

- 71 - www.vivotek.com userpass <value> The password of new user to add or that of old user to modify. The default value is an empty string. <value> The privilege of user to add or to modify. The privilege can be the addition of the following values. Ex: A user with configure access can ...

- 72 - www.vivotek.com Configuration file Note: This request requires administrator privilege Method: GET/POST Syntax: http://< servername >/cgi-bin/admin/configfile.cgi Server will return the up-to-date configuration file. Return: HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n Content-Type: text/plain\r\n Content-Lengt...

- 74 - www.vivotek.com C. Technical specifications - System CPU: Vivotek VVTK-1000 RAM: 32MB SDRAM ROM: 4MB 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...

- 75 - www.vivotek.com Technology License Notice MPEG-4 AAC Technology THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE MPEG-4 AAC AUDIO PATENT LICENSE. THIS PRODUCT MAY NOT BE DECOMPILED, REVERSE-ENGINEERED OR COPIED, EXCEPT REGARD TO PC SOFTWARE, YOU MAY MAKE SINGLE COPIES FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES. FOR MORE INFORM...

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....