Vivotek PT7137 - 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...

- 9 - 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...

- 13 - 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...

- 14 - 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...

- 16 - 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...

- 20 - 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...

- 22 - 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...

- 25 - 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...

- 26 - 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...

- 27 - 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,...

- 28 - 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...

- 29 - 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. "Keep current date and time" Click on thi...

- 30 - 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...

- 31 - 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...

- 34 - www.vivotek.com WLAN Configuration “SSID” (Service Set Identifier), it is a name that identifies a wireless network. Access Points and wireless clients attempting to connect to a specific WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) must use the same SSID. The default setting is default. Note: The maxi...

- 37 - 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...

- 38 - 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 ...

- 39 - 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...

- 40 - 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&...

- 41 - 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...

- 42 - 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...

- 46 - 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...

- 47 - www.vivotek.com Application settings Snapshot “Enable snapshot” Enable/Disable snapshot application. Weekly schedule “Sun” ~ “Sat” Select the days of the week to perform the application. Select “Always” or input the time interval. Snapshot file name prefix The prefix name will be added on the...

- 50 - 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...

- 51 - 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.

- 52 - 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...

- 53 - 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 During booting procedure Steady green, blue and red Detecting and setting network Steady green and blue. Blink red till IP...

- 54 - 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...

- 55 - 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/...

- 57 - 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 shorterthan 40 characters> host name of server <<...

- 69 - www.vivotek.com Syntax: http://< servername >/cgi-bin/camctrl.cgi ? [move=<value>][&focus=<value>] [&iris=<value>][&speedpan=<value>][&speedtilt=<value>][&speedzoom=<value>][&speedapp=<value>][&auto=<value>][&am...

- 70 - www.vivotek.com Syntax: http://< servername >/cgi-bin/recall.cgi ? recall=<value>[&return=<return page>] parameter value description recall Text string less than 30 characters One of the present positions to recall. return <return page> Redirect to the page <ret...

- 72 - www.vivotek.com mail Send snapshot by mail send_method ftp Send snapshot by ftp ftp_suffix 0/1 Enable/Disable file name prefix Capture single snapshot Note: This request require normal user privilege Method: GET/POST Syntax: http://< servername >/cgi-bin/video.jpg Server will return the...

- 73 - 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 default valueof other fields if not specified. delete Remove an account from server. W...

- 74 - 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 Configuration file Note: This r...

- 75 - www.vivotek.com Upgrade firmware Note: This request requires administrator privilege Method: POST Syntax: http://< servername >/cgi-bin/admin/upgrade.cgi Post data: fimage=<file name>[&return=<return page>]\r\n \r\n <multipart encoded form data> Server will accept ...

- 76 - www.vivotek.com D. 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 WLAN 802.11g wireless LAN - V...

- 6 - 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 Via...

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....