ACTi I51 User Manual

Firmware User’s Manual A1D-500-V6.08.30-AC 2015/01/22

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 10 Access the Camera Now that the camera and the PC are both having their unique IP add

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 100 Change Motion Detection profile: This will switch the profile of the selected Motio

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 101 Manual Event You may select one event in the Manual Event area below the event list

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 102 Local Storage Management The cameras that come with built-in local storage capabili

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 103 Status When the mass storage has not been formatted or mounted yet, the camera woul

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 104 Utilities The “Utilities” are responsible for managing the storage itself rather th

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 105 Unmount Once the drive has been mounted, it can later be unmounted by pressing the

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 106 Mount Failure If the inserted disk’s file system is not EXT3, then the Mounting wou

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 107 Format Failure If the disk is damaged or it is not within the specifications of t

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 108 Scan To check the “health” of the disk, it is possible to use the “Scan” function.

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 109 File Management The File Management submenu allows users to graphically see the amo

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 11 The following examples in this manual are based on Internet Explorer browser in orde

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 110  SD (Sound Detection): When SD box is checked, the timeline bar will show orange

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 111 System The section System provides the list of functions that help manage the camer

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 112 System Info The section System Info provides the full information about camera stat

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 113 Factory Default The section Factory Default allows the camera settings be reset to

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 114 Firmware Upload The section Firmware Upload allows remote upgrade or downgrade of c

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 115 Save & Reboot The Save & Reboot section allows saving the settings

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 116 Logout Clicking this item allows you to log out of the IP device. Be sure to logout

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 117 Troubleshooting Although the default settings of the camera are ideal for 90% of th

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 118 IR light reflection Make sure the dome or bullet cover is tightly mounted; Reduce t

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www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 12 Using IPv6 to Access the Camera The camera is IPv6-ready and has been assigned its u

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 13 Live View This section describes how to configure the IP camera. The administrator h

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 14 Live View The live view will appear automatically with the video resolution of 128

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 15 Notice: These digital zoom adjustments do not influence the actual video resolution

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 16 To capture the snapshots of the current live view, press the snapshot button. The sn

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 17 The digital output controls appear on the Live View page of the cameras with digital

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 18 View Modes For Hemispheric and Fisheye cameras, the Miniature Fisheye-View a

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 19 ePTZ View Mode ePTZ mode works as an optical PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) function. You can c

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 2 Table of Contents Recommended PC Specifications 5 Preparation 6 Connect the Equ

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 20 Panorama View Mode This mode allows you to view the camera in panorama view where de

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 21 Fisheye View Mode This mode shows the camera view as though viewing from a fish’s ey

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 22 PTZ Control Panel (For PTZ and Zoom Cameras) For PTZ and zoom camera models, click t

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 23 How to Use Pan/Tilt Click the pan/tilt controls to pan/tilt the PTZ camera. Other

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 24 How to Zoom the Camera In or Out Zooming can be done continuously or by one step (on

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 25 How to Set the Home Position 1. Pan, tilt, and zoom on the area that you want to s

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 26 How to Set Touring Preset Points Preset points are user-defined areas that the camer

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 27 b. How to Set the Home Position on page 25. c. Preset point name: The camera will

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 28 How to Set and Enable Tours Once a preset point is created, the Touring Control page

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 29  To directly go to the preset point, click the icon.  To delete the preset po

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 3 Host ...

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 30 When a scan point has been set, the corresponding Delete icon appears. To remove

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 31 Setup The following chapters guide you through the Setup functions of the camera. A

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 32 Host The section “Host” allows the administrator to define the name of the camera a

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 33 Serial Setting This section allows the user to set the serial port configuration of

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 34 GPS Position This section allows users to manually set the GPS position of the camer

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 35 Date & Time Each video frame contains a time stamp. The accuracy of the time sta

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 36 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 V6.08.30 37 Network The section Network provides the list of network related functions

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 38 Using Netmask (Subnet Mask) allows you to set filtering for a whole range of IP add

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 39 Port Mapping The section Port Mapping provides the list of services and protocols

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 4 Save & Reboot ...

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 40 Multicast Setting allows users to configure the IP addresses and ports for multicast

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 41 HTTPS HTTPS protocol allows creating a secure channel over an insecure network in o

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 42 IEEE 802.1X IEEE 802.1X is an IEEE standard for port-based Network Access Cont

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 43 If certificates or private key exist already, there will be a Remove button behind t

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 44 SNMP Setting The SNMP Setting item displays the SNMP configuration page. SNMP pr

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 45 The security method of SNMP V3 uses account/password for authentication. “Security N

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 46 ICMP Provide the status and statistics of ICMP. Ex: amount of receive/error message

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 47 RTP The RTP section allows user to configure RTP Settings. If the RTSP Authentic

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 48 Network (ToS, UPnP, Bonjour, ONVIF) The section Network contains the controls for f

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 49 After changing any of the items above, press Apply to save the changes.

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 5 Recommended PC Specifications In order to configure or test the cameras, a PC with f

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 50 ONVIF The camera with given firmware is ONVIF 2.2 compliant. By default,

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 51 IP Settings The section IP Settings provides the options to define how the camera

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 52 In some rare cases, the camera may be connected to the control center over Internet

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 53 DNS The section DNS allows setting up the Domain Name Service for the camera. The c

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 54 DDNS There are surveillance solutions that consist of single cameras scatter

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 55 Every time the IP camera gets an IP that is different from pre

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 56 To activate DDNS, please check the “Enabled“. Select the service reference

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 57 Video & Audio The section Video or Video & Audio (for audio supported camera

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 58 Camera Options of Fisheye and Hemispheric Cameras Choose the Mounting Type according

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 59 Select Ceiling mount if the camera is installed on the ceiling. A double panorama is

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 6 Preparation Connect the Equipment To be able to connect to the camera firmware from y

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 60 Stream Mode: Dual (for Hemispheric Cameras only) The Dual view mode of the Hemispher

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 61 Preset Tour After you set the Preset Point, the Tour function will be enabled. See

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 62 Camera Calibration Camera Calibration allows users to manually calibrate and find

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 63 Video The sub-section is also named Video. For Audio supported cameras, there will

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 64 Parameters Description Encoder Type There are two encoder types available: H.

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 65 Video Max Bit Rate (only for H.264) Defines the upper limit of the bitrate (o

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 66 Motion Detection The section “Motion Detection” allows the user to configure the

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 67 Enabled or disabled Although all 3 motion detection regions are enabled by

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 68 Trigger threshold Look at the moving object entering the area of motion detect

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 69 possible combinations of settings using sensitivity level and trigger threshold perc

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 7 In the example below, we successfully found D11 camera that we had just c

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 70 There is one more item on the Motion Detection configuration page which was n

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 71 Day/Night The section Day/Night allows user to control the switching between day

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 72 Image The section Image allows user to control certain parameters of a video frame.

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 73 Parameters Description 3DNR. Edge Enhancement (for I-series only) Select the Edge

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 74 Exposure / White Balance The section Exposure / White Balance allows the us

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 75 the shutter speed within the allowed range (set by user under Slowest Auto Shutter S

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 76 white color to fine tune the rest of the colors. In such cases, the installer can

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 77 Exposure Mode - Manual When the lighting conditions are stable 24 hours a day, the a

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 78 OSD/Privacy Mask The section OSD / Privacy Mask allows user to do one of the two on

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 79 Below is the list of characters with special meaning that can be used in the text

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 8 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 V6.08.30 80 Privacy Mask Setup Privacy Mask is not aailable on zoom and PT(Z) cameras under the

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 81 After changing any of the items above, press Apply to save the changes. T

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 82 4. Check Enabled and press Apply to save the changes. The region is now covered wi

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 83 On-Screen Graphics On-Screen Graphics (OSG) is a new feature that allows placing cus

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 84 When done, use another URL command to configure its position: http://192.168.0.100/

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 85 Audio The section Audio is available only for audio-supported models. The user inte

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 86 Event This section describes how to setup the Event Handler, which deals with h

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 87 FTP Server FTP servers can receive snapshot or video uploads that are issued as part

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 88 To setup SMTP servers, make sure to enable the SMTP account and choose

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 89 To setup HTTP servers, make sure to enable the HTTP server, enter the user name, th

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 9 Manually adjust the IP addresses of multiple cameras: If there are more than 1 camera

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 90 Digital I/O ports Digital input/output ports (select models only) are used to connec

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 91 Sound Detection Sound detection is available on cameras with Audio in capab

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 92 Notification message Notification messages may be sent to either an email or a HTT

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 93 *Pre-requisites: SMTP server / FTP server / HTTP CGI server setup. Upload Video/snap

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 94 Upload Video/snapshot and Audio checkbox: this decides if this rule is in effect, or

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 95 CGI path & Program: Some CGI servers may require special info and settings. Plea

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 96 *Pre-requisites: HTTP CGI server setup. *Pre-requisites: SMTP server / HTTP CGI se

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 97 Event List You may define a maximum of 10 Event rules, which will be shown in abbre

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 98 How is it triggered? Events may be triggered by one of the several sources. Schedu

www.acti.com Firmware User’s Manual V6.08.30 99 Device boots successfully: This will trigger the event responses once the device bo