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www.acti.comEncoder Firmware V4.06.09 User’s Manual 1 Firmware User’s Manual A1D-500-V6.03.17-AC 2013/05/10

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 10 Assuming that the camera’s IP address is 192.168.0.100, you can access it by openin

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 11 Live View This section describes how to configure the IP camera. The administrator h

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 12 Live View The live view will appear automatically with the video resolution of 128

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 13 You can also digitally re-scale the video to fully match the size of your display wi

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 14 The cameras with audio function shall have the audio controls on Live View page. To

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 15 Setup The following chapters guide you through the Setup functions of the camera. A

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 16 Host The section “Host” allows the administrator to define the name of the camera an

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 17 Date & Time Each video frame contains a time stamp. The accuracy of the time sta

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 18 If all the cameras are getting the date and time from the same NTP Server, you can b

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 19 Network The section Network provides the list of network related functions

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 2 Table of Contents Recommended PC Specifications ... 4 Prepar

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 20 “Allowed” mode will refuse access to all IP addresses except the ones listed below.

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 21 Port Mapping The section Port Mapping provides the list of services and protocols

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 22 HTTPS HTTPS protocol allows creating a secure channel over an insecure network in o

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 23 IEEE 802.1X IEEE 802.1X is an IEEE standard for port-based Network Access Contro

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 24 If certificates or private key exist already, there will be a “Remove” button behind

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 25 SNMP Setting The SNMP Setting item displays the SNMP configuration page. SNMP pr

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 26 SNMP function is now enabled. You may now install and run the SNMP management softwa

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 27 RTP The RTP section allows user to configure RTP Settings. If the RTSP Authentic

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 28 Network (ToS, UPnP, Bonjour, ONVIF) The section Network contains the controls for f

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 29 undoes the changes that had just been made but not Applied yet. Most of the Windows

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 3 Compression ...

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 30 ONVIF The camera with given firmware is ONVIF 2.2 compliant. By default,

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 31 IP Settings The section IP Settings provides the options to define how the

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 32 the camera by the domain name instead. Please refer to the DDNS section for more det

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 33 DNS The section DNS allows setting up the Domain Name Service for the camera. The c

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 34 DDNS There are surveillance solutions that consist of single cameras scatter

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 35 Every time the IP camera gets an IP that is different from

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 36 To activate DDNS, please check the „Enabled“. Select the service referenc

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 37 Video The section Video provides the options to adjust the video quality and confi

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 38 Compression The section “Compression” allows the user to define the compression s

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 39 Video Max Bit Rate (only for H.264) Defines the upper limit of the bitrate (

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 4 Recommended PC Specifications In order to configure or test the cameras, a PC with f

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 40 Motion Detection The section “Motion Detection” allows the user to configure t

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 41 Enabled or disabled Each of the 3 motion detection regions can be enabled or disable

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 42 Trigger threshold Look at the moving object entering the area of motion detect

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 43 possible combinations of settings using sensitivity level and trigger threshold perc

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 44 actions again. There is one more item on the Motion Detection configuration p

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 45 Day/Night The section Day/Night allows user to control the switching between day

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 46 Image The section Image allows user to control certain parameters of a video frame.

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 47 Exposure / White Balance The section Exposure / White Balance allows the us

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 48 Shutter speed choices according to environment: Shutter Speed 1/5 1/13 1/15 1/25 1/

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 49 and wait a few seconds – the auto white balance system will adjust the colors until

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 5 Preparation Connect the Equipment To be able to connect to the camera firmware from y

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 50 Exposure Mode - Manual When the lighting conditions are stable 24 hours a day, th

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 51 OSD/Privacy Mask The section OSD / Privacy Mask allows user to do one of the two on

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 52 Below is the list of characters with special meaning that can be used in the text fi

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 53 There are 4 pre-defined color options for privacy masks. If the user wants to use an

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 54 On-Screen Graphics On-Screen Graphics (OSG) is a new feature that allows placing cus

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 55 When done, use another URL command to configure its position: http://192.168.0.100/

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 56 Audio The section Audio is available only for audio-supported models. The user inte

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 57 Event This section describes how to setup the Event Handler, which deals with

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 58 To setup FTP servers, make sure to enter the network address of FTP server, the Ne

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 59 To setup SMTP servers, make sure to enable the SMTP account and choose

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 6 In the example below, we successfully found D11 camera that we had just con

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 60 To setup HTTP servers, make sure to enable the HTTP server, enter the user name, t

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 61 disable it. This will allow you to keep the settings without using it, which will be

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 62 *Pre-requisites: SMTP server / FTP server / HTTP CGI server setup. Upload Video/snap

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 63 Upload Video/snapshot and Audio checkbox: this decides if this rule is in effect, or

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 64 CGI server designer for this section. IP devices do not allow upload of Snapshots /

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 65 *Pre-requisites: HTTP CGI server setup. *Pre-requisites: SMTP server / HTTP CGI se

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 66 Event List You may define a maximum of 10 Event rules, which will be shown in abbre

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 67 How is it triggered? Events may be triggered by one of the several sources. In the e

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 68 Reboot device: This triggers the event response when the device is shut down via web

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 69 Go to a preset point: if the device is a PTZ camera, and there are p

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 7 Use the default IP address of a camera: If there is no DHCP server in the given netwo

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 70 System The section System provides the list of functions that help manage the camera

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 71 System Info The section System Info provides the full information about camera statu

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 72 Factory Default The section Factory Default allows the camera settings be reset to t

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 73 Firmware Upload The section Firmware Upload allows remote upgrade or downgrade of ca

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 74 Save & Reboot The Save & Reboot section allows saving the settings

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 75 Logout Clicking this item allows you to log out of the IP device. Be sure to logout

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 76 Troubleshooting Although the default settings of the camera are ideal for 90% of the

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 77 in Auto Exposure mode; Reduce the Exposure Gain in Manual Exposure mode Streaming Q

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 8 Manually adjust the IP addresses of multiple cameras: If there are more than 1 camera

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.03.17 9 Access the Camera Now that the camera and the PC are both having their unique IP addr