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1. Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com
2. WI Arecont Vision megapixel technology beyond imagination USER MANUAL Megapixel IP Cameras and AV100 Video System Software Rev 5 1 1 August 13 2008 support arecontvision com AV100 SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ON AS IS BASIS ARECONT VISION LLC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS IN NO EVENT SHALL ARECONT VISION BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTUOUS ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Table of Contents enaner I Te HON as once evasai cies ee EEEE ARAE R 5 kool U lei OVO VION a oer ieee re ee eee eee 5 FP ROGUICE COMM CIN erpi E EEE E O 5 Server Requirements cccceccceeceeeeneteeeeeeceeeteceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesesseeseseeenes 6 Network PoE Switch or PoE RoOutel cccccccceecceeeceeeeeeseeeseeeeeeeeeeeseeees 6 Recommended Accessories cccscceeccececeecaeeceesuseseceeeceeseesaueseesaeeseeeseess 7 Camera RST STING Cac oeeae erscctnecisectaaea ose ancermeuaneecesies eaccese does iomeionemeieeneeses T CONNECCION E EEE 8 POWOD e a ee ne er eee eee eee ee 9 PIOUSIMNG ANG MOUNINO acces caccesste teenth acdc sane sessseew e er rE EE ET 9 NOWO Ca DINO ereraa E O E 9 Manual and Auto lris len
3. 10 to 10 e illum illumination setting for auto white balance valid values are auto indoor outdoor mix e freq frequency of AC powered light sources valid values are 50 and 60 e lowlight low light mode of the camera allows tradeoff between frame rate and image quality valid values are balance speed quality highspeed moonlight If highspeed is used an additional parameter shortexposures can be set with valid values 1 through 10 e rotate image rotation valid values are 0 and 180 e autoexp allows to turn on and off auto exposure valid values are on and off e expwndleft left coordinate of user defined auto exposure measurement window valid values should fall within sensor window e expwndtop top coordinate of user defined auto exposure measurement window valid values should fall within sensor window e expwndwidth width of user defined auto exposure measurement window valid values should fall within sensor window e expwndheight height of user defined auto exposure measurement window valid values should fall within sensor window e sensorleft left coordinate of sensor window valid values defined by sensor size e sensortop top coordinate of sensor window valid values defined by sensor size e sensorwidth width of sensor window valid values defined by sensor size this value affects sensor frame rate e sensorheight height of sensor window valid values defined by sensor size this v
4. Check Calibration button If the displayed number falls within the range 768 6144 the calibration is successful otherwise the calibration has failed the power of the flash needs to be adjusted up or down or the camera s iris has to be closed down or opened up The lower the calibration number the more there is room for automatic adjustment to darker than calibration conditions and the higher is the image quality To decrease the calibration number the camera s iris should be further opened up or the power of the flash increased However if the calibration number equals 768 the image may be overexposed too bright To increase the calibration number camera s iris should be further closed down or the power of the flash reduced Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL NOTE Calibration should be repeated every time when the flash power and or duration is adjusted or the camera s iris is adjusted or the camera s sensor format is changed While in Single Capture mode there is no live video displayed In case of trigger events AV100 software receives the captured images and stores them in the photo folder If the checkbox Add timestamp to photos is checked the captured images will display timestamps Image Quality Figure 16 Image Quality menu SEE Select Image Quality from the Setting menu to open up a lowe
5. http camera_ip img jpg id 0 99999999999999 amp ssn 0 65535 where id an arbitrary number used to control the web browser s cache ssn a unique HTTP session number which cancels out any earlier sent HT TP request with the same number which got hung 2 Requesting continuous Motion JPEG image stream http camera_ip mjpeg lt channel gt res half full amp x0 0 1600 amp y0 0 1200 amp x1 32 1600 amp y1 3 2 1200 amp quality 1 21 amp doublescan 0 1 amp fps 0 15 amp id 0 99999999999999 amp ssn 0 65535 where Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL res image resolution full or half x0 y0 x1 y1 image cropping coordinates quality image quality the inverse of image compression level doublescan read mode reserved for future use fps desired frame rate frames per second id an arbitrary number used to control the web browser s cache ssn a unique HTTP session number which cancels out any earlier sent HT TP request with the same number which got hung NOTE MJPEG request without lt channe l gt parameter specified will cause the camera to transmit next available image from any of the currently enabled channels The channel number of the transmited image could then be identified trom the HTTP header Etag see RFC 2068 HTTP 7 7 ETag Channel lt cha
6. 3Com IntelliJack Switch that accepts the power over Ethernet can be used to avoid the need to provide mid span power supply Are AV cameras RoHS compliant Arecont Vision products confirm to the Europeans Union Restrictions on Use of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic equipment ROHS Directive 2002 95 EC for six regulated substances The certification is applicable to all Arecont Vision products shipped after April 15 2006 Can we mount a motorized zoom lens from another supplier Motorized zoom is not supported by the camera but you can mount the external PTZ unit with independent controls How do access the Arecont Vision MegaPixel WEB camera home page to view my cameras remotely Simply type in http 200 168 100 10 index html Replace bold 200 168 100 10 IP address with actual camera IP address Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL 80 19 Is the MegaPixel WEB camera home page compatible with Mozilla Firefox You can view photo video and adjust the camera setting via the internet using Mozilla Firefox 20 Does your software include motion detection Our software does include motion detection However most AV cameras also support on board motion detection that in contrast to software motion detection does not take up CPU cycles The on camera feature was implemented to reduce the overall net
7. A few examples are Bosch March networks and Sanyo DVRs Please visit our website www arecontvision com for the latest updates 6 Can update all my cameras with the same version of firmware There are several types of firmware update files The camera model s is listed in the update file name Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL 7 How do I find out what version of software is installed and what are the IP and MAC addresses of my cameras This information is displayed in the About dialog Figure 34 To open the About dialog right click mouse and select About Figure 34 About dialog 50 62708 MAC 00 00 27 27 03 FF C 0014 07 a eo 200 168 1 17 712 MAC 00 14 07 00 0 05 80 li 200 1681 18 F p at E 114 L IER i D ae 07 i AAC 00 14 07 0 14 ANMESBO 6241 0 Mi C OO 14 0 00 3 Arecont Vision Wersion 47 1 21 creen resolution 19201200 8 What is the cost of an Arecont Vision camera The cost varies from camera to camera but for unparallel clarity our prices are unbeatable Almost all cameras have MSRP well below 1000 Visit us online at http www arecontvision com buy html Fill out the form and our sales staff will contact you 9 Is there a third party software that can be used Arecont Vision cameras are supported by many third party software packages Contact websales arecontvision
8. To highlight another camera left click on the camera number To take the snapshot from all cameras highlight cameras at the root top of the drop down camera list The snapshot file names contain the camera number date and time of the snapshot To locate view the snapshots in the snapshot folder right click bkd 13 anywhere on screen then select photo browse Alternatively snapshots can be taken by right clicking on the live video image and then selecting photo save The directory path to the snapshot folder is specified in the Settings menu see Settings or using the Right Click menu under Save To see Right Click menu By default this is the directory C Documents and Settings User Profile My Documents My Pictures Arecont Vision Photos Reports the current CPU usage and network usage The first two LED bars on the left show the CPU usage and total network usage respectively The rest of LED bars show the network usage for each camera The shown values are relative to the camera which uses the most bandwidth displayed as 100 usage Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Settings Settings menu Figure 13 is displayed by clicking on the Settings button in the toolbar Figure 13 Setting menu Exposure Settings menu is the top level menu for all settings provided in the AV Imag
9. by 1944 AV5100 is typically viewed at 2560 by 1600 resolution with the frame rate up to 12 fps AV5100 supports MJPEG compression only AV5105 supports both MJPEG and H 264 MPEG4 Part 10 compression AV8180 is a quad sensor 8 megapixel camera consisting of four 2 megapixel sensors and operating at up to 22 fps at 1600 by 1200 resolution It is capable of providing 180 degree field of view AV8360 is a quad sensor 8 megapixel panoramic camera consisting of four 2 megapixel sensors and operating at up to 22 fps at 1600 by 1200 resolution It is capable of providing 360 degree field of view All cameras are equipped with LAN connector and can deliver image data at a maximum data rate of up to 55 Mbps Images are sent over the network using TFTP HTTP and RTSP available for H 264 only protocols All cameras feature e Automatic Exposure AE and Gain AGC control e Automatic backlight compensation e Automatic multi matrix white balance e 50 60Hz selectable flicker control e Electronic Zoom Pan and Tilt PTZ e Programmable brightness saturation gamma sharpness windowing and decimation e Simultaneous delivery of full field view and zoomed images at video frame rate e Up to eight simulations connections per camera e Electronic image rotation by 180 degrees e On board motion detection e Optional auto iris e Optional day night IR switching filter Connectors All AV Megapixel cameras have the following connectors located
10. cables must be cross over The other cable must be regular not cross over NOTE AV8360 cameras require a higher PoE power class Class 3 from 6 49 to 12 95 Watt than other AV camera models Switches and Routers Note that some Gigabit switches and network adapters incompletely emulate 100BaseT signaling levels and may not work correctly with high bandwidth 100BaseT equipment Low Sharpness If the image sharpness appears to be low e Check if the lens is in focus e Check if the lens is appropriate for a megapixel camera e Under Image Quality menu decrease compression and increase sharpness e Check if the lens iris is fully open or closed down too much For best resolution and depth of field the iris depending on lens make and model should be closed by 2 3 F stop Frequently Asked Questions 1 What type of video compression is used in AV cameras AV cameras use MJPEG Motion JPEG and H 264 Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL 2 How much storage space is required when using AV cameras The storage space requirements will vary depending on how compressible your imagery will be Shown below Figure 31 is an example of a system running at 22 FPS However the user can specify the archival frequency to be lower than the full frame rate Most AV cameras also provide highly sophisticated on board motion detection To further reduc
11. com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL r n lt JPEG image 2 data gt r n fodr r n Content Type image jpeg r n r n lt JPEG image n data gt r n fodr r n HTTP Request Format for Receiving Individual H 264 Frames NOTE H 264 http requests described below are supported only by camera models AVXxx85 Notational conventions e camera_ip IP address of the camera e means one or another but not both e allowable values e a range of values incrementable by 1 e non mandatory value which could be dropped To maintain a continuous H 264 stream the requests for individual video frames should be sent one after another Ifthe delay between the requests exceeds 5 sec the camera will initiate a new stream by sending an Intra coded frame first in response to the next frame request Individual H 264 video frames are requested from AV cameras by using the following HTTP request format http camera_ip h264f res half full amp x0 0 2596 amp y0 0 1944 amp x1 32 2596 amp y1 32 1944 amp qp 4 36 amp doublescan 0 1 amp ssn 1 65535 amp iframe 0 1 amp bitrate 1 51200 amp intra_period 0 255 where e Res can take the value of either full or half to specify whether the camera should decimate the image by a factor of 2 in each dimension Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MAN
12. digital frame Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL integration and will offer significantly better image quality than cameras that employ digital frame integration However the motion blur will still be significant Setting the Low Light Mode to Speed is the first thing to do to eliminate the motion blur If that doesn t produce enough improvement the user may want to open the lens aperture more to allow more light in The user may also want to consider going with the camera equipped with auto iris lens the lens will open automatically as illumination diminishes If that is not sufficient the user may want to consider using lower resolution camera For example 2 megapixel AV2100 has larger pixels and has better low light sensitivity than the 3 mega pixel product AV3100 If that still does not yield sufficient low light performance then the user should consider AV3130 day night camera that uses monochrome sensor in low light conditions and is sensitive to 0 00 lux Figure 35 Exposure menu Exposure Image Quality Archive Motion Detection Save to Advanced Authentication Remote Viewing Camera 1 Ea lluminatior r Lighting Automatic StH Indoor oe Outdoor Mis Low Light Mode 60Hz Mode Short exposures Balanced a 1 al High speed ACF m m Pegi Balanced Quality Moon Light TM O Add timestamp to ph
13. motion after a period of time specified Fi t_ Save all frames under Continue after motion detected Save all and mark motion Save motion frames only Frequency is a drop down list of options for archive recording rate Frequency Time unit The Off option disables the archive recording The Max option sets 1 ha Second ca Wher time unit is DAY arhcive at i ae different for different camera models Ponte aor motion tekested Continue after motion detected is a drop down list of options for the time sec fos g a duration of archiving after the motion was last detected by the on the archive frequency limited only by the camera and the network altuna REEL Smee camera motion detector and the frame rate at which such recording is 10 Ge Sane done NOTE If new motion is detected during such after motion recording the rate of recording will revert to the one specified under Frequency Minimum free disk space set the minimum free disk space that is needed on a disk to start overwriting old video recordings It is recommended that at least 5GB of free space is always available Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Motion Detection Motion detection is achieved by analyzing inter frame brightness changes on a pixel by pixel basis There are two modes of Mo
14. options in Advanced settings see pg 35 Miscellaneous enables access to the following e Save To see pg 34 e Advanced see pg 35 e Authentication see pg 36 e Remote Viewing see pg 37 Motion enables access to Motion Settings see pg 32 e Printer opens up the Print Setup menu Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Dump logs camera settings to a file named LocalMachine ini located in the installation directory When contacting Arecont Vision s technical support this file should be included Video displays live video in full screen mode Import License allows locating the folder with the license to enable the archiving in AV100 software Save to Flash saves camera setting to camera flash memory Factory Default resets the camera setting without changing camera IP Address to factory settings Photo enables saving and printing individual snapshots as well as browsing Save takes a snapshot of live video and saves it in the snapshot folder The snapshot is taken from the camera which is highlighted in the drop down list of the installed cameras see Toolbar on pg 20 To highlight another camera left click on the camera number To take the snapshot from all cameras highlight cameras at the root top of the drop down camera list Save Print takes a snapshot and prints it instantly Browse opens the snapshot folder for bro
15. page 2 Log in using the admin password and set the viewer password 3 Convey the viewer password to the users In order to delete viewer password log in as admin and change the viewer password to a reserved password empty this would restore the full anonymous access to the camera The admin user can change the viewer password at any time even without knowing the current viewer password NOTE If the admin password has been set and forgotten it can only be erased through reprogramming the camera s firmware or by accessing the camera registers via developers register access trom AV100 software Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Chapter IV Troubleshooting and Useful Tips Connecting Directly to Laptop or PC In a typical scenario cameras are connected using network cables to a network switch A camera can also be connected to a PC or laptop directly Be sure to use a cross over network cable between the camera and PC when connecting in this fashion When a camera is connected directly in some cases you may need to change TCP IP configuration on your PC For example configure the PC to work with a static IP address When a PoE injector is used and connected directly to a PC there are two networking cables one cable connects the PC to the PoE injector the other connects the injector to the camera Only one of these
16. point When opening a new stream for example when changing the image size and or frame rate the Intra frame will be sent automatically regardless of the input value of iframe To reduce the stream size reduce the frequency of iframe 1 in the requests The default number of P frames for any of the streams sent by the camera is set using HTTP command http camera setreg page 3 amp reg 21 amp val number of P frames The camera will return an Intra frame even if iframe in the request is set to 0 when the on camera counter of P frames fills up To find out whether an Intra frame was received check the HTTP Content Type Bitrate is used to set up a constant bitrate of the H 264 stream in kilobits per second If this parameter is present in the request string and is larger than zero then QP parameter is ignored and the camera adjusts quantization parameters automatically to maintain the specified bitrate Intra_period is valid only in bitrate control when a non zero bitrate is present in the request string and iframe 1 is periodically requested by the user In this case the user must specify the intra frame period at which the user is sending requests with iframe 1 If the user does not specify intra_period Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL in this case then bitrate control will not function correctly unless the actual period of ifram
17. required image size in terms of percentages of the full image size as shown in the following example HTTP 200 168 1 10 image res full amp x0 0 amp yO 0 amp x1 100 amp y1 100 amp quality 12 amp doublescan 0 Motion Detection Control Parameters The unique design of AV cameras allows supporting highly accurate 64 zone motion detection also see Motion Detection Motion detection is achieved by analyzing inter frame brightness changes on a pixel by pixel basis To provide accurate motion detection in low contrast and low light environments EACH pixel of EACH frame is analyzed The user can set the size of motion detection zones via mdzonesize select the sensitivity to motion via mdlevelthreshold select the zones where the motion detection has to be blocked via mdprivasymask and specify the size of the moving objects of interest via mddetail Motion detection information can be obtained from the camera in terms of amount of motion in each zone via mdresult In addition to retrieving motion detection information the camera can also be configured to output images only if motion is detected via mdmode On camera motion detection unit utilizes up to 64 distinct zones All zones are square have equal size and are arranged in 8 rows with 8 zones per row The zones are numbered from 0 to 63 upper leftmost zone having number 0 and lower rightmost zone having number 63 The zones are broken into sub zones of size 32x32 pixels
18. software AV100 AV100 supports full motion real time multi camera viewing and policy based archiving remote access to live and archived video via Internet Explorer post event zooming from digital archives simultaneous viewing of full field of view and multiple Zoomed images and a multitude of other features that take advantage of unique functionality and performance of Arecont Vision cameras A typical system consists of a number of cameras connected over the local or wide area network to server PC running AV100 software To achieve full motion archival rate the server may be placed locally to the cameras so that the interconnecting LAN has sufficient bandwidth and small roundtrip delay between cameras and the server PC A remote PC can connect to the Server PC over a slower network connection such as Internet Once connected the remote PC can display live video stream and browse archives using Internet Explorer Note that when connected to AV100 software the remote PC does not connect to cameras directly but rather to the server PC on which AV100 is running Figure1 Typical System Configuration Server Running AV Video System Product Contents The AV Megapixel Camera system consists of the following e Arecont Vision camera s e CDwith NVR software Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL ira Inspect t
19. triggering due to a sudden overall change in lighting that would trigger motion detection in a large number of zones simultaneously If the number of zones activated simultaneously is larger than Limit motion detection will be blocked This parameter cannot exceed the number of zones in the grid displayed in the lower left corner of Motion Settings Save To Exposure Image Quality Archive Motion Detection Authentication Remote Viewing Photo folder C Documents and S ettin 4 chive folder Wideo Storage 4 chive Ores BEEE Hard Drive All E al EJ Show all drives E The lower level Save to menu allows to specify the directory path for video archives and for snapshot images Note that the name of archival directory should be the same for all cameras it is possible to specify different Hard Drives for each camera Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com Advanced ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Select Advanced from the Setting menu figure 19 to set the following options Figure 19 Advanced menu Exposure Image Quality Day Might Archive Save to et O Authentication Remote Viewing P Use Directs if possible Directs size 2048x1536 eal Auto Startup Real time if folded eg Show motion Use double packets eg Warning on disconnect Static ARP Don t update sensor window ee Panoram
20. vertically and width Height 2048 1536 horizontally to rotate it 180 degrees Select size 2045 1536 ba Rotate 190 Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Rate Control Rate Control is an option available only for H 264 video streams and has to be enabled individually per camera If rate control is enabled image quality setting under Image Quality is ignored the camera will automatically adjust its video quality on a frame by frame basis to maintain the desired constant bit rate The video quality may deteriorate at very low bit rate settings Ca Exposure Camera 1 Irn age Wu ality za Use bitrate control in full view video 2200 kbps 22 00 GED ay Rate Control EJ Use bitrate control in multi wiew video 1000 kbps 10 00 GED ay k Archive Motion Detector zg Use bitrate control in archive video 2200 kbps 22 00 GBD ay ly Save to Advanced Authentication Remote Yiewing There are three options available for Rate Control e Use bitrate control in full view video enables constant bit rate for live video display at full resolution e Use bitrate control in multi view video enables constant bit rate for live video display at a reduced resolution when multiple cameras video is displayed e Use bitrate control in archive video enables constant bit rate for archiving The frame rate and bandwi
21. www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Chapter II AV100 Video Surveillance Software Software Installation To install AV100 video surveillance software 1 Make sure your Windows XP Vista account has Administrative privileges 2 Open Control Panel Add or Remove Programs remove old versions of AV Video System software if any Turn off all Anti Virus Software and Windows Firewall 4 Run Setup exe and follow the directions to complete the installation If using Windows Vista users must navigate to installation directory open My Computer C Drive ProgramFile ArecontVision VideoSurveillance AVInstaller exe type choose Application Right click on this file named AVInstaller exe choose properties gt Compatibility gt Privilege Level and enable the Run this program as an administrator option Setup process installs software and places a shortcut Arecont Vision Application Manager on the desktop and creates a group Arecont Vision AV Video System in the Start menu Configure Firewall As you start AV applications your PC may prompt you to permit access to the network AV Video System includes two applications that need access to the network AVInstaller exe the camera finding and installation program LocalMachine exe the viewing and archiving program Both executables are located in the AV installation folder You should grant access to these two applications when the firewall prom
22. zones 3 zones after every 5 zones must be ignored as well as all zones after zone 32 Example mdresult 00 1A 01 means that in zone 0 motion was not detected in zone 1 there are 26 32x32 sub zones with motion in zone 2 there is one sub zone 1 with motion Access Control Arecont Vision cameras support dual level password protected access control Camera authentication is compatible with RFC 2068 HTTP 1 1 and is supported by all standard browsers and video surveillance software There are two types of users with the following reserved names admin has full access to all camera settings and the video viewer has viewing access to all current camera settings and the video Setting and removing the passwords is the privilege of the admin user while the viewer can only use the existing password but not change it Factory defaults erase all current passwords for both the admin and the viewer A newly shipped camera has no password protection and allows full anonymous access from the Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL network In case the admin password has not been set the camera has full anonymous access from the network even if the viewer password has been set Access control setup consists of three steps 1 Set admin password using http commands or using the camera s web page see below 2 Log in using th
23. 10 compression AV2100 2105 is a 2 megapixel resolution camera with a maximum resolution of 1600 by 1200 and achieving a maximum frame rate of 24 fos AV2100 supports MJPEG compression only AV2105 supports both MJPEG and H 264 MPEG4 Part 10 compression AV3100 3105 is a 3 megapixel resolution camera with a maximum resolution is 2048 by 1536 AV3100 is typically viewed at 1920 by 1200 resolution with the frame rate up to 20 fps AV3100 supports MJPEG compression only AV3105 supports both MJPEG and H 264 MPEG4 Part 10 compression AV3130 is a dual sensor day night camera featuring a 3 megapixel color sensor paired with a 1 3 megapixel monochrome sensor sensitive to near infrared illumination When the scene is well illuminated the 3 megapixel sensor is selected to deliver color images of up to 2048x1536 pixels To provide seamless transition between day and night modes the color sensor is set to default resolution of 1920x1200 pixels In low light conditions AV3130 can automatically switch to the 1 3 megapixel 1280x1024 monochrome sensor enabling the delivery of clear imagery at illumination levels as low as Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL IE 0 00 lux infrared only AV3130 typically delivers 20 fps in day mode at 1920x1200 and over 30 fps in night mode AV5100 5105 is a 5 megapixel resolution camera Its maximum resolution is 2592
24. I file MJPEG H 264 best quality offers a video format as recorded in the archive without decompression and recompression procedures For this reason this format offers best video quality In case that timestamp is selected please refer to timestamp section for Clarifications XviD http www xvid org is a codec recommended by Arecont Vision it is distributed together with AV Software and is typically installed during the AV software installation This codec has been found to produce reasonably good quality and compression ratio MSVC standard is a standard Microsoft video codec Choose from codecs list allows selection of any of the alternative codecs that are installed on the computer The drop down list opens after Make AVI is clicked Figure 29 Figure 29 Video Compression Video Compression Compressor Full Frames Uncompressed Cancel Indeo video 5 10 e viO MPEG 4 Codec E Morgan Multimedia W JFPEG W2 LusRiot OYA JPEG Codec Len LusRiot DWA JPEG Codec Le Full Frames 11 Click ac If no records are available for the selected range of dates or times a warning will be displayed 12 In the Save As window type in a file name for your new AVI file then click Save If Codec List was selected under Video Compression the drop down list of available codecs will appear Selecta codec from the list to proceed 13 The AVI Maker will begin to create the AVI a
25. Purchaser twenty 20 business days after receipt unless Purchaser rejects such Product within such twenty 20 business day period for failure to comply with the Limited Warranty set forth in above Upon such rejection Purchaser shall immediately notify AV of the rejection and shall at AV s option return the Product or allow AV to inspect the rejected Product and shall follow AV s instructions regarding disposition of the rejected Product Prior to the return of any Product to AV as provided for hereunder Purchaser shall obtain from AV s Technical Support Department a Return Material Authorization RMA number Within ten 10 business days after receiving an RMA number for the Product Purchaser shall package the Product in its original packing material or an equivalent and return such Product to AV or such other location as AV may designate in writing AV shall bear the cost of freight and insurance for the return to AV Purchaser shall enclose with the returned Product the applicable RMA form and any other documentation or information requested by AV AV may refuse to accept returns of any Product not packed and shipped as provided in this paragraph Upon verification that the Product does not comply with the Limited Warranty AV shall repair replace or provide a refund for such Product at AV s option no later than thirty 30 days after the time AV receives from Purchaser written notice of such return or rejection AV shall be respon
26. S OR PARTS AND DOCUMENTATION WILL MEET THE END USERS REQUIREMENTS Ill THE PRODUCTS OR PARTS WILL OPERATE IN COMBINATIONS AND CONFIGURATIONS SELECTED BY THE END USER OTHER THAN COMBINATIONS AND CONFIGURATIONS WITH PARTS OR OTHER PRODUCTS AUTHORIZED BY AV OR IV THAT ALL LICENSED PROGRAM ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED 3 Exclusive Remedy Limitation of Liability Purchaser s exclusive remedy for a breach of the Limited Warranty shall be limited to repair or replacement of or refund for the non conforming Product at AV s sole option Product returned to AV for non compliance with this Limited Warranty shall be returned in accordance with the Rejection Return provisions below Any refund shall be equal to the actual purchase price for the applicable Product INNO EVENT SHALL AV BE LIABLE TO PURCHASER FOR ANY INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM AV S PERFORMANCE OF FAILURE TO PERFORM WHETHER DUE TO BREACH OF CONTRACT OR WARRANTY NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE 4 Repaired or Replaced Product The warranty for repaired or replaced Product shall be limited in scope to the warranty set forth above and shall have a duration of the greater of i the remaining Warranty Period in the original warranty that was applicable to the original Product extended by the time elapsed between AV receiving notice of the non conformity and Purchaser s receipt of the repaired or replaced Product or ii ninety 90 days following de
27. SER MANUAL Firmware Loader Upgrading Camera Firmware Hardware in the Field W av FirmwareLoader Options Help IP 192 168 l 26 Marc Model version Result C 00 14 07 00 1 7 97 192 168 1 15 AM OOM 63005 C 00 14 07 00 3E C4 192 168 1 22 AW ST OOM E3005 C 00 14 07 00 5C 60 192 769 1720 AM IT 30 64116 00 14 07 00 E 3 14 192 168 1 26 AMS OOM B2429 C 00 14 07 01 01 44 192 168 1 50 Awo1T0SON 6401 Find Cameras Upgrade Firmware Upgrade Hardware All models of AV cameras are field upgradeable AV Firmware Loader is the utility for upgrading the camera s firmware and or hardware All AV cameras starting with firmware revision 51821 support firmware upgrades Please contact your distributor to obtain the latest firmware upgrade file and utility NOTE It is recommended that the user runs AV camera installer immediately prior to running the firmware loader Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL To upgrade a camera 1 The AV Firmware Loader is started by clicking the corresponding Run button in the AV Application Manager 2 Click Find Cameras It may take up to a minute to find the camera s Once the camera s have been found select the camera s to upgrade 3 To upgrade the firmware e Click Upgrade Firmware and choose the firmware upgrade file The file name starts with fwupdate and the file exten
28. SQ 10mm 40mm Using Auto lris Lenses AV1300Al AV2100AI AV3100AlI and AV5100AI are available with DC auto iris option To use the DC auto iris lens e Attach the lens to the AV camera e Plug in the lens cable into the connector on the back of the camera Make sure that the lens cable is long enough Many DC lenses are available with short and long cable options The camera will automatically detect the presence of an auto iris DC lens and start using it Auto iris lens operation typically proceeds as follows e If illumination is sufficient the camera will close the iris within half a minute e When the iris is closed the image should become visibly sharper As the iris is gradually closed the image brightness may fluctuate slightly Monitoring Auto lris Status with AV Video System You can monitor the state of the auto iris in AV Video System Settings dialog see Operating AV Video System on pg 23 for details Accessing AV Cameras AV Cameras can be accessed and controlled by means of e AV100 Video System software e Third party software utilizing Arecont Vision camera SDK Software Developer Kit e HTTP requests issued from Microsoft Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox and other web browsers e RTSP capable media players such as Apple QuickTime VLC or other third party RTSP software for camera models supporting H 264 compression Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08
29. TTP 1 1 protocols as defined by RFC 1945 and RFC 2068 respectively While HTTP 1 0 is simple it limits the speed of image transmission for cases when the user requests individual images rather than mjpeg stream This is due to the fact that connection is closed after the transmission of each image forcing the client to incur round trip delay repeatedly However HTTP 1 0 is supported by all HTTP implementations and can be used reliably albeit with limited speed By default Arecont Vision cameras are configured to respond using HT TP 1 0 protocol regardless of the HTTP version used by the client The users who desire faster full duplex communication and image delivery may request responses over HTTP 1 1 protocol To do so the user should append parameter ver HTTP 1 1 to the request string as shown in the following example AIT TP 192 168 0 36 image res full amp x0 0 amp y0 0 amp x1 16008y1 12008quality 128doublescan 0 amp ver HT TP 1 1 It is important to note that AV cameras implement chunked transfer encoding as defined by paragraph 14 40 of RFC 2068 While RFC 2068 requires that all HT TP 1 1 implementations support chunked encoding in reality many older implementations Indy 9 WinHTTP 5 0 etc are not fully compliant with the requirements of the standard As a result if the HTTP 1 1 protocol is requested from a non compliant implementation the chunks separators will remain in the data stream and the jpeg image will be c
30. The size of zones is specified in terms of the square root of the number of sub zones via Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL parameter mdzonesize The zones can be defined to be as small as 7x7 sub zones to as large as 15x15 sub zones By setting the limit on how many sub zones should contain the motion for the entire zone to be considered to contain motion the user can effectively decide on the size of the moving objects that should be detected This is done via parameter mddetail e motiondetect enables on camera motion detection valid values are on and off e mdmode motion detection mode for mjpeg streams valid values are on and off if set to on the camera will only output an image in the presence of motion If the motion is not detected the field following the frame boundary separator fbdr will be followed by Content Type text plain instead of usual Type image jpeg and the image data will be substituted with the text message no motion e mdtotalzones number of independent motion detection zones Currently must be 64 There are 8 rows of zones 8 zones per row Note that depending on zone size and the camera model image resolution in terms of the number of pixels some zones may not correspond to the active image area valid value 64 e mdzonesize size of motion detection zones measured in
31. UAL XO YO X1 Y1 are the left top right and bottom coordinates of the requested image window respectively These values cannot exceed the size of the image sensor array for the specific camera model and should be divisible by 32 if Res full and 64 if Res half QP is the quantization parameter for H 264 frame To achieve a higher quality video a lower QP is needed recommended values are in the range 16 37 Doublescan is the parameter that allows the user to specify whether the camera should delay the frame output until the new frame is available from the sensor doublescan 0 or the request should be serviced by outputting the content of the memory buffer that has been already once output useful for picture in picture display SNN specifies stream identifier MPEG codecs including H 264 codecs are context dependent decoding of the current frame depends on the previous frame s The stream is a sequence of frames of the same resolution which can be decoded sequentially by one instance of an MPEG decoder Accordingly SSN is a means to distinguish different streams from each other Use unique SSN for each stream with a unique image size quality and or frame rate Each camera supports up to eight simultaneous non identical streams Each individual client must have a unique ip ssn Iframe set to 1 will force the camera to return an Intra frame with a corresponding SPS and PPS as an IDR slice so that the stream is decodable from this
32. _ip set viewer text string of 1 8 ASCII symbols empty NOTE to erase the password use the reserved word empty 29 Camera s register access http camera_ip getreg page 0 6 amp reg 0 255 http camera_ip setreg page 0 6 amp reg 0 255 amp value 0 65535 Access Control for Panoramic Cameras Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Arecont Vision cameras support dual level password protected access control Camera authentication is compatible with RFC 2068 HTTP 1 1 and is supported by all standard browsers and video surveillance software There are two types of users with the following reserved names admin has full access to all camera settings and the video viewer has viewing access to all current camera settings and the video Setting and removing the passwords is the privilege of the admin user while the viewer can only use the existing password but not change it Factory defaults erase all current passwords for both the admin and the viewer A newly shipped camera has no password protection and allows full anonymous access from the network In case the admin password has not been set the camera has full anonymous access from the network even if the viewer password has been set Access control setup consists of three steps 1 Set admin password using http commands or using the camera s web
33. a description of the camera which will be stored on camera double click on the IP address of the camera and make the changes Press Save Exit button to save the installation information and exit the Camera Installer Figure 9 Basic mode SS Arecont Vision Installed Cameras aleonl 192 168 1 88 255 255 255_0 Index Ethernet Address Result Model Version Descripti 1 00 1A 07 00 O0B A2 192 168 1 14 Installed online av5100mM 62603 00 1A 07 00 AE B 192 168 1 20 Installed online 3 00 1A 07 00 AC 2E 192 168 1 19 Installed online BAV2105 63829 New Cameras x Ethernet Address Model Version Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com Figure 10 Advanced mode A Arecont Vision Camera Installer 1 00 1a 07 00 0B A2 2 00 17 07 00 4E B7 New Cameras Index Ethernet Address 1 00 1A 07 00 AC 2E ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL SS Arecont Vision Installed Cameras aleonl 192 168 1_88 255 255 255 0 Index Ethernet Address Current IP 192 168 1 17 192 168 1 24 Current IP 192 168 1 19 Status End Detecting Cameras Found 1 New Cameras Advanced Mode Result Installed online Installed online Result Ready to install Model ersion aAVv5100M 62603 AV3100M 63005 Model ersion AYV2105 63829 Find Cameras Description Install Cameras Unselect All View Selected Edit Selected Remove Selected Save 7 Exit Hide Advan
34. acana S N 32 Se E o A E E E ET 34 AOV COO eerren E E E E 35 AUMOA OT eree A E E E 36 FS MUCOUS GVW INNO eeen a a eencnene eee onesecdestacecee 3 OI INU GW E 38 AUO MIS oe ae seees copes E E E E EE E 39 Fe CNC MEN osre 40 Language SeleCUON sepccun bebe teeabesetcsete aeneis rA A OaE 42 BONER ACN CS sers TR E E 42 AVI Maker Making video clips from the archive c cccceeeeeeeeeeeeeees 44 Viewing Your Recorded Video ccccccceecseeeeeeceeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeseees 47 Firmware Loader Upgrading Camera ccccccccecccseeeeeceeceeeeeeeeeesaues 48 CaP RED 5 MLD gat 616 lt lt gerne mentee tes en Rees Hein nee enertertet TEA 50 On Camera Web Page cccccecccececseeceeeceeececeseee cesueesaeeseeseeeaueeseeesaeeas 50 HTTP Request Format for Receiving Individual JPEG Frames 50 HTTP Request Format for Continuous MJPEG Video Streaming 51 HTTP Request Format for Receiving Individual H 264 Frames 53 RTSP Request Format for Continuous H 264 Video Streaming 55 Basic Camera Control Parameters cccccccecceecceeeeceseeeceeeseeeeeeeseeesaees 57 Parameters Specific to AV3130 and DAY NIGHT Cameras 59 Motion Detection Control Parameters cccccccceeeceeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeaees 60 PCC CSS CONTON e E E R 62 TEET VS ATIR TO errre EE AE Ai 64 HTTP Access of Panoramic Cameras ccccccceecceeeeeeeee
35. alue affects sensor frame rate e imgleft left coordinate of default image returned in response to the simple request http ip_address img jpg valid values should fall within sensor window e imgtop top coordinate of default image returned in response to the simple request http ip_address img jpg valid values should fall within sensor window e imgwidth width of default image returned in response to the simple request http ip_address img jpg valid values should fall within sensor window Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL e imgheight height of default image returned in response to the simple request http ip_address img jpg valid values should fall within sensor window e imgquality quality setting of image returned in response to the simple request http ip_address img jpg valid values 1 to 21 e imgres resolution of default image returned in response to the simple request http ip_address img jpg valid values are full and half where half is used to request images decimated by a factor of 2 in both directions e auto iris allows to enable and disable auto iris valid values are on and off e _irisgain allows to specify threshold for closing the auto iris valid values are from 8 to 255 e save saves current camera configuration all parameter values in the non volatile memory http ip_address set
36. amp y0 0 amp x1 1600 amp y1 1200 amp quality 12 amp doublescan 0 The user also has the option of specifying default image parameters via parameter set requests and then obtaining the image by using a simple request without additional parameters HTTP ip_address img jpg HTTP Request Format for Continuous MJPEG Video Streaming Continuous sequence of JPEG images MJPEG separated by the boundary separator can be requested from AV cameras by using the following GET method request format GET mjpeg res resolution_value amp x0 X0 amp y0 Y0 amp x1 X1 amp y1 Y 1 amp quality quality_value amp doublescan double scan_value amp fps value amp id value HTTP 1 1 r n Host ip_address r n r n Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL where e Res can have value of either full or half and specifies whether camera should decimate the image by a factor of 2 in each direction e XO YO X1 Y1 are the left top right and bottom coordinates of the requested image window respectively These values cannot exceed the size of the image sensor array for the specific camera e Quality is the compression quality of the jpeg image with the range from 1 to 20 e Doublescan is the parameter that allows the user to specify whether the camera should delay the image output until the new image is available doublescan 0 or the image request should be serviced by outpu
37. ast forward E Forward Starts browsing from the end of recording Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL The slider on the bottom of the screen displays positions the current frame position in the archive It has a date and time display located to the right side of the slider to reference a particular event To take a snapshot from the archive use amp button from the Toolbar Alternatively snapshots can be taken by right clicking on the video image and then selecting photo save AVI Maker Making video clips from the archive The AVI Maker Figure 28 is started by clicking the corresponding Run button in the AV Application Manager Figure 28 AVI Maker E AVI Maker m4 Click here to select your clip caer Click here to playback Speed of Playback Start End Select All Cancel Zoom Out Zoom in gggopgpggp p Click here to start Video Settings a C Size of frame Video compressor ee 100 MJPEG H 264 best quality Select Archive Camera 1 x Frame period XviD http www xvid ora i RA pan aman a If archive not found please try 1000 meini z ae aman i yf N 3 O ist y 7 Browse Drives to Find Archive Timestamp on video sc lec ee ed se pae j Status NOTE Make sure that the archive is not empty when making avi clips Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Flo
38. bled by pressing the Fe button in the Toolbar or via the right click menu see Right Click Menu on pg 40 Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Figure 27 Archive screen Camera Filter All M nne M ld 44 4 11 gt gt Dd DI Begin End Quality Skip Frames Speed 10 Date M D ae Full E 2007 05 13 17 20 5 14 2007 12 59 14 PM 421 2007 05 1 431 5 24 Bea ES ieee eee ewe eee eee ee Eee Se eae Eee eee Te ene Archive browsing controls are located on the bottom of the playback screen Figure 27 Archives are best viewed when the video is displayed in full screen mode The date and time stamp is located on the top left hand side of the image The user can select playback speed and frame skipping as well as the image quality If the archive was recorded using motion detection see Motion Detection browsing can be based on detected motion by selecting Motion from the drop down list under Filter Ci Rewind Starts browsing from the start of recording KI Fast Reverse KI Play in Reverse Plays the recorded archive continuously in reverse not available in H 264 archives Play by Frame in Reverse Starts the playback one frame at a time reverse o Pause Pauses the playback Play by Frame Forward Starts playback one frame at a time forward oC Play Plays the recorded archive continuously forward D gt F
39. ced Features Description Add Remote Units Snapshot Lock IP Address Unlock IP Address Turnoff Firewall Configure Firewall Factory Default Sorting In this mode the user has the ability to manually control camera installation in contrast with the basic mode where the installation is performed automatically In the advanced mode the installer offers a mechanism to protect previously installed cameras if any from accidental changes of their IP address To access Advanced Mode on your menu bar select Mode then select Advanced The Advanced Features can be displayed by clicking on Show Advanced Features To hide this options click again Figure 10 Find Cameras Arecont Vision The Advanced mode provides the following Camera Installer functions Find Cameras this function searches for all AV cameras that are present on the local network and are accessible by the broadcast request sent over the network by the Camera Installer The top panel will list the previously installed cameras if any that may be marked as Installed online or Installed offline and depending on whether the camera is still accessible The bottom panel will list the newly found cameras if any that were not previously installed with the result Ready to install 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL giall Selected Install S
40. cessible and there is no IP conflict 27 Do the AV cameras support multicast No AV cameras do not support multicast 28 Are there any moving mechanical parts in the AV3130 The AV3130 does not have any mechanical moving parts inside 29 What is Ethereal and where can get it Ethereal is a network protocol analyzer It can be obtained through their web site at http www ethereal com 30 How do I reset the camera settings to the original factory configuration Resetting the AV camera to its original configuration can be achieved through the built in web server To reset the AV camera open IE explorer and type as http ip_address set params factory Replace ip_address with the actual camera IP address Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Chapter V Regulatory Compliance FCC Compliance Statement All AV cameras have been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is li
41. com for an updated list or visit www arecontvision com Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL 10 When should the user choose auto iris option Many AV cameras support auto iris option These cameras are AV1300 Al AV2100 Al AV3100 Al and AV5100 Al Auto iris option allows keeping the lens optimally closed when there is sufficient scene illumination providing good depth of focus When the illumination diminishes the camera opens the lens allowing more light to reach the sensor thus extending the sensitivity range of the camera Auto iris option should only be used for outdoor applications where there is a large variation in illumination conditions In many applications the auto iris is unnecessary It is important to keep in mind that the best image quality will be achieved with megapixel lenses The auto iris lenses available on the market today are not megapixel and will yield the images that are less crisp than those that can be obtained with manual megapixel lens 11 What adjustments can be made to reduce the motion blur The shutter speed is automatically controlled by the camera The motion blur may occur when the camera operates slow shutter speeds long exposure times This may happen when the scene is relatively dark AV cameras provide a number of options that allow the user to control auto exposure behavior when the illumination is lo
42. contvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL An individual image can be requested from AV cameras by using the following HTTP request format HTTP ip_address image res resolution_value amp x0 X0 amp y0 Y0 amp x1 X1 amp y1 Y 1 amp quality quality_value amp doubl escan doublescan_value amp id value where e Res can have value of either full or half and specifies whether camera should decimate the image by a factor of 2 in each direction e XO YO X1 Y1 are the left top right and bottom coordinates of the requested image window respectively These values cannot exceed the size of the image sensor array for the specific camera and should be divisible by 16 if Res full and 32 if Res half e Quality is the compression quality of the jpeg image with the range from 1 to 20 e Doublescan is the parameter that allows the user to specify whether the camera should delay the image output until the new image is available doublescan 0 or the image request should be serviced by outputting the content of the image buffer that was already once output useful for picture in picture display e ID is the optional field that is ignored by the camera but may be set by the user to a random value to force some browsers to display the new image The following example illustrates the request to camera with IP address 192 168 0 36 for the new full resolution 1600x1200 image with compression quality 12 HTTP 192 168 0 36 image res full amp x0 0
43. d the earlier buffered frame from memory which may have been already sent before ssn a unique RTSP session number cancels out any earlier RTSP request with the same number bitrate sets the desired constant data rate in 1Kbps increments the camera automatically adjusts image quality to maintain constant data rate regardless of the qp parameter The camera recognizes the following RTSP methods OPTIONS requesting supported RTSP methods DESCRIBE requesting available resources and their format SETUP resolving the camera s and the client s ports PLAY starting RTP video stream The camera also recognizes PAUSE and TEARDOWN but terminates the RTSP session when it receives these commands To resume the stream it is necessary to Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL repeat stream initialization Following is a sequence of resolving camera s parameters and starting an RTP stream 1 Open TCP connection on port 554 RTSP of the camera 2 Request the camera s data format via DESCRIBE The camera will respond with SDP parameter set of the H 264 stream SPS PPS and the method of forming RTP data packets and synchronization 90 KHz timer 3 Specify via SETUP the client ports for receiving the video stream 4 Request PLAY to start the RTP video stream 5 Receive and decode H 264 video frames packed into fragment
44. dale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Auto exposure On Off is an option to enable disable the on camera automatic exposure control Auto exposure maintains the user set image brightness under changing lighting conditions Single Capture please refer to the Single Capture section of this manual single Capture Single Capture mode is designed for applications where a single image is to be captured with an aid of an external flash triggered by the auxiliary output of the camera while the capture itself is triggered by an external signal connected to the camera s auxiliary input Possible application areas include license plate capturing access control systems photo booths etc The auxiliary input and output are accessible from the back panel as shown below Both the input and the output are electrically isolated from the rest of the camera s electrical circuitry via general purpose photo couplers The input is additionally protected with a serial 250 Ohm resistor and a debouncing circuit ye bae H 2 Cathode 3 Emitter 4 Collector Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Electrical Characteristics Input voltage V measured between and terminals Output current mA Collector Emitter Voltage V ke ore ft measured between and terminals NOTE T
45. dth can be displayed by pressing Ctrl S If the last option is enabled the displayed values are calculated by adding the archival bit rate to the display bit rate for full resolution or multi view resolution In case the archival rate is set to maximum frame rate the displayed values correspond to the archival rate settings NOTE Certain values of bit rate may not be achievable depending on the camera resolution image cropping light conditions exposure settings and amount of motion Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Archive Select Archive Figure 17 from the Setting menu Archive is a lower level menu to set up video archival settings Figure 17 Archive menu pe Resolution selects between archiving the video at full resolution or at a Image Quality reduced quarter resolution Rate Control Filter is a group of archiving options Save all frames enables archiving the entire video stream te received from the camera Advanced Save all and mark motion enables saving the entire video coe ae stream and marking the frames when motion was e detected for future archive browsing Camera 1 Arecont Vision H 2b4 ha Archive Save only motion enables archiving only when motion was detected by the on camera motion detector and disables Resolution Fullresalution Quarter resolution it in the absence of
46. e 1 requests is the same as the default number of P frames specified in register 3 21 of the camera via http camera setreg page 3 amp reg 21 amp val number of P frames If there are no iframe 1 requests then intra_period parameter is not required the bitrate control will rely on the default number of P frames set in register 3 21 The following example illustrates a request to a camera with IP address 192 168 0 36 for a full resolution 1600x1200 image as a part of the stream with a constant bitrate set to 2 Mbits sec http 192 168 0 36 h264f res full amp x0 0 amp y0 0 amp x1 16008 amp y1 1 200 amp quality 12 amp doublescan 0 amp bitrate 2048 amp ssn 1 Each frame sent by the camera may contain multiple zero bytes at the end there is no Unit Delimiter UD Although this does not contradict ITU T H 264 standard ISO IEC 14496 10 some decoders may delay decoded frames by one due to the absence of the UD To avoid this replace all zero bytes at the end with the UD a sequence of the following five bytes 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x09 0x10 In addition the number of zero bytes at the end of a frame may be significant up to a few hundred bytes Replacing them with the UD will also reduce the stream size RTSP Request Format for Continuous H 264 Video Streaming Reference documents for the RTSP RTCP SDP RTP protocol implementation are e RFC 3550 for RTCP e RFC 1889 for RTP e RFC 2327 for SDP e RFC 2326 for RTSP e RFC 3984 for the da
47. e Quality E Video System Rate Control Selecting one of the menu items opens up a lower level drop down menu containing detailed settings and options Depending on the Vichi camera model some of the listed groups of settings may become AIcnive unavailable for example Day Night settings are available only for the dahan Detector Motion Detection AV3130 and DN cameras i d Y Li Advanced Suthentication Remote Viewing The lower level menus contain a Camera field that displays the camera number which the settings are applied to Figure 14 The Camera field can be expanded to a drop down list of all installed cameras to select from The list includes an All cameras option to apply settings to all cameras Figure 14 Display the camera number Camera NOTE Selecting Reset all restores default settings for that camera Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL AV cameras offer two options for image resolution full and reduced quarter resolution where image resolution is reduced by a factor of two in horizontal and vertical dimension Either resolution image can also be cropped to any size In order to save bandwidth the images are displayed at a reduced resolution The format of the reduced resolution display is determined by the chosen screen layout See Toolbar above on pg 20 An individual ca
48. e admin password and set the viewer password 3 Communicate the viewer password to the users In order to delete viewer password log in as admin and change the viewer password to a reserved password empty this would restore the full anonymous access to the camera The admin user can change the viewer password at any time even without knowing the current viewer password NOTE If the admin password has been set and forgotten it can only be erased through reprogramming the camera s firmware or by accessing the camera registers via developers register access trom AV100 software HTTP commands for password setting 1 For admin passwords http camera_IP get admin http camera_IP set admin a string of 1 8 ASCII symbols or empty The reserved password empty is used to erase the existing password 2 For viewer passwords Figure 30 http camera_ IP get viewer http camera_IP set viewer a string of 1 8 ASCII symbols or empty The reserved password empty is used to erase the existing password Figure 30 Camera s web page menu for setting the passwords Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL About Access control User admin password contirmation User viewer password contirmation save to flash Factory default HTTP 1 1 vs HTTP 1 0 Arecont Vision cameras support both HTTP 1 0 and H
49. e the required storage the user has an option to archive only those images that contain the motion Furthermore AV cameras support real time resolution changes and image windowing on a frame by frame basis The user may wish to archive windows of interest or reduced resolution images at the high frame rate while archiving full resolution images at the lower frame rate Figure 37 Example of a system running at 22 FPS Busy scene lot of motion e g busy parking lot LERS e a e es Quality 2 Storage Quality 13 Storage Quality 21 Storage 1920x1200 154 12 197 292 723 216 17 107 410 573 352 27 878 669 082 1280x1024 100 7 920 190 080 139 11 009 264 211 227 17 978 431 482 640x480 29 2 297 55 123 40 3 168 76 032 60 4752 114 048 Quiet scene not a lot of motion e g hallway Quality 2 Storage Quality 13 Storage Quality 21 Storage 1920x1200 1 8791 210 989 151 11 959 287 021 267 21 146 507 514 1280x1024 69 5 465 131 155 97 7 682 184 378 165 13 068 313 632 Notes Quality refers to JPEG compression Therefore Quality 21 refers to high quality image 3 Why do I get a license warning A license is only need if you need to achieve video You can obtain a license file by contacting your distributor or contacting websales arecontvision com 4 Why is my Arecont Vision camera not detected by the Camera Installer If the camera is not detected it maybe because of the firewall setting
50. e top panel the removed cameras will appear in the bottom panel Press Save Exit to save changes 5 f Exit hl Saves the information about the installed cameras into a file LocalMachine ini used by AV 100 Video System and exports a plaintext list of cameras into a file CameraList txt for third party software then exits the Installer cL ARE EAT The remote units are the cameras that may not be present on the local area network or may not have been installed normally Users should use this feature only if the camera s Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL MAC and an available IP addresses are known and the connectivity has been verified Opens an Advanced dialog to add cameras manually 5 hot Take and display video snapshots for all cameras that have been installed Lock IP Address Sets the lock on camera to protect its IP Address from getting changed by the Installer or any software unless the lock is first removed an asterisk will appear next to the IP Address of the locked camera This option is available for firmware version 64116 or greater Unlock IP Address Unlocking the highlighted cameras will make their IP Address changeable the asterisk next to the IP address will be removed Turnoff Frewall Opens a command prompt window that turns off your Windows Firewall Configure Firewall Opens a command prom
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52. ed RTP packets that are transmitted via UDP by the camera 6 At least every 5 seconds of the RTP streaming send RTCP feedback packets If the camera does not receive any RTCP packets over a 10 second period the session will be terminated The camera sends IDR frames followed by multiple P frames All frames are transmitted in the form of FU A fragmented RTP packets as described in RFC 3984 The default number of P frames is 50 and can be modified using the following HTTP command http camera_IP setreg page 3 amp reg 21 amp val number of P frames Current P frame setting can be checked using the following HTTP command http camera_IP getreg page 3 amp reg 21 Basic Camera Control Parameters The camera parameters can be accessed via the HTTP requests of the following format HTTP ip_address set parameter value HTTP ip_address get parameter Examples HTTP 192 168 0 36 set brightness 15 HTTP 192 168 0 36 get brightness Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL The following parameter requests are supported via HTTP protocol by AV cameras e brightness image brightness valid values are from 50 to 50 e sharpness image sharpening valid values are from 0 to 4 e saturation color saturation valid values from 0 to 6 e color balance adjustment tint o blue valid values from 10 to 10 o red valid values from
53. elected this function installs the cameras highlighted by the user in the bottom panel and verifies their operation in a similar way to the Install Cameras function in Basic mode After the installation process is completed the installed cameras will appear in the top panel while the cameras that were not highlighted will remain uninstalled in the bottom panel If no cameras were highlighted the Installer will not install any cameras listed in the bottom panel The IP addresses of the installed cameras in the top panel will not be changed during the installation of the new cameras from the bottom panel If the IP address of an installed camera was changed by another computer on the network the Installer will display red alert message showing the previous and the changed IP address Booster oll Unselect All Remove highlighting from all cameras View Selected SO memean View Selected Opens a web browser to view live video from the camera and configure the camera settings using its webpage interface TIP Double clicking the selected camera in Result or Model Version column has the same effect Edit Selected l l l Edit Selected Opens an Advanced dialog to edit the selected camera s IP address and or type in camera description to be stored on camera TIP Double clicking the selected camera in IP address or Description column has the same effect FISAN aea Uninstall the cameras highlighted in th
54. eras AV8 amp 360 AV8180 allow only one zoom window per channel and no ROI settings ROI Region of Interest Settings Phato ROI Lock this ROI Browse Delete this ROI Hide Separate Window Log off s New Camera exit Archive Yiew Settings About 3 4s Exposure Reference Restore 4uto exposure ROI can be configured by right clicking on the green outline of the selected region of interest and selecting ROI from the menu A separate ROI options menu will open e Lock this ROI will freeze the ROI position in place and disable PTZ functions e Delete this ROI deletes the selected ROI and is the same as clicking on the red X to close the window e As New Camera creates a new video window of the selected ROI as a virtual camera and assigns new numbers to the cameras starting at ROI 101 The virtual camera video can be archived Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL independently as any other camera and its archival frame rate and video display frame rate could be independently adjusted e Archive View Settings opens up archival settings menu to set the rate of ROI archiving and viewing Rol Settings NOTE The actual number of frames per second minute depends on camera model image resolution exposure settings etc EEE per Second C minute Py In addition to archive stream view this ROI at 10
55. f the computer running AV100 and the port corresponds to the port number set in the Remote Viewing menu Please note that in order to access AV100 server remotely the user should enable the server by checking the Allow Remote Viewing field and select the port that is not blocked by the firewall For increased security the default value of remote access port is 4250 The user has the option to select any available port Often the port 80 HTTP port is most likely to be open on the secured network as it is used by default by IE browser Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL 25 What is the night performance Lux of the AV3130 camera In low light conditions AV3130 switches to 1 3 megapixel monochrome sensor resulting in good image quality down to 0 01 Lux AV3130 is also sensitive to near infrared illumination allowing the use of standard infrared illuminators as the light source 26 When attempt to update the firmware on the AV camera with the firmware update option receive the Ack Timeout message Why do get this error If you get the timeout message take the following steps Make sure that no application is requesting the images from the camera during the update Make sure that the camera is connected via switch and not with direct cross over cable Re run AV Installer prior to the upgrade to make sure that the camera is ac
56. frames per second NOTE If both boxes are checked the displayed frame rate the frame rate display is enabled by pressing Cirl S corresponds to the view rate value e As Exposure Reference enables the on camera auto exposure system to use the brightness within the ROI to adjust the overall brightness of the entire camera image while ignoring the brightness outside of the ROI A typical use of this feature is backlight compensation when the camera is facing a window where bright backlight makes objects in the foreground appear dark By positioning ROI over the foreground object and selecting As Exposure Reference the foreground objects can be made brighter e Restore Auto Exposure reverses the exposure control based on the ROI to a default exposure mode based on a default window in the center of the image and its background Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com Exposure Figure 15 Exposure menu Exposure Image E uality Rate Control Archive Motion Detection Save to Advanced Authentication Remote Viewing Lamera 1 4recont Vision H 2b4 Illuminator ir Corector r Lighting Automatic Indoor Outdoor Hix Low Light Mode Mode Shot eanocunes Balanced es Auto exposure Ort S0Hz 60Hz Single Capture ono ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Select Exposure Figure 15 from the Setting menu to adjust e
57. gear ProSafe 24 2 Gigabit Switch with PoE 1 Gigabit output w 12 PoE 100Base TX www netgear com e D Link Web Smart DES 1316 POE Switch Hub 10 100Base TX 8 PoE ports and 8 non PoE ports True IEEE 802 3af www compuplus com e TRENDnet TPE S88 POE Switch Hub www trendnet com 10 100Base TX 8 PoE ports and 8 non PoE ports True IEEE 802 3af www provantage com e PowerDsine PD 6001 AC PoE Single port hub www powerdsine com 10 100Base TX Single Midspan POE port True IEEE 802 3af www provantage com Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL PoE network equipment must be CE marked for use in European Community Note that the cameras are designed for use with indoor network cabling only Recommended Accessories We recommend the following monitors e Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24 inch Wide Aspect Flat Panel LCD Monitor with Height Adjustable Stand www dell com e Samsung s 243T 24 Inch LCD Display www samsung com Camera Reference AV1300 1305 AV2100 2105 AV3100 3105 AV3130 AV5100 5105 AV8180 and AV8360 are megapixel resolution IP cameras capable of delivering crisp low noise images at video frame rate AV 1300 1305 is a 1 3 megapixel resolution camera with a maximum resolution of 1280 by 1024 and achieving a maximum frame rate of 30 fos AV1300 supports MJPEG compression only AV1305 supports both MJPEG and H 264 MPEG4 Part
58. hannel by using daynight Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL ro request The switch point between day and night modes is determined based on overall AE AGC gain and can be adjusted via parameter nightgain To avoid oscillations between day and night modes the night to day transition is specified via parameter daygain in terms of hysteresis relative to day to night transition threshold e daynight if set to auto the camera will select between color and monochrome channels automatically based on daygain and nightgain thresholds valid values are auto day and night e nightgain allows to specify the automatic switching point for day to night transition in proportion to overall exposure gain value The user may need to adjust this value if the lenses on day and night channels have different f stops Higher values will cause the transition to night mode at lower illumination level valid values for AV3130 are 0 18 for DN models are 64 512 e daygain allows to specify the automatic switching point for night to day transition as hysteresis relative to night to day transition Higher values will cause the transition to day mode at higher illumination level valid values for AV3130 are 0 6 for DN models are 1 4 As AV3130 camera has two sensors with different resolutions it is most convenient to specify the
59. he archives but not to the settings c Live only grants access to live video only Adding changing and removing the users is done via three buttons Add Change and Remove on the bottom of the menu If one or more user accounts were created the AV Video System will display a log in dialog prompting for the user name and password Figure 21 Figure 27 User authentication Mame Password Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7th Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Remote Viewing AV 100 software has built in web server allowing AV cameras and archives to be viewed remotely Figure 22 Figure 22 Remote viewing menu To enable the built in HTTP server select Remote viewing from the Setting gene menu and do the following Image Quality 1 Select Allow Remote Viewing Day 7 Night On the bottom of the menu click Apply then Ok Archive 3 Start Internet Explorer and type in the address of the web server For ene example if AV Video System is installed on a PC with IP address coils 200 168 1 102 type in the following address ee http 200 168 1 102 4250 quix htm O Remote Yiewing 4 Then click Enter to have Internet Explorer open that page Fallow Remote Viewing Upon successful connection a web page will open Internet Explorer will Port SSL Part prompt to install an ActiveX component Click on the webpage as a an prompted to insta
60. he auxiliary input has a built in hardware debouncing circuit The duration of any input signal should be at least 5 ms to comply with the requirements of the debouncing circuit When single capture is enabled the camera stops sending live video and enters an endless loop waiting for an external trigger event In the absence of a trigger event the camera responds to image requests from the network with a single short data packet When an event occurs the camera responds to the most recent image request with the captured image Single capture function is primarily designed for low light applications where an external flash is needed If there is sufficient light the camera automatically switches to a regular High Speed mode with short exposure time about 1 2 ms without triggering the external flash To use the Single Capture function the camera must be physically connected to an external trigger signal using the camera s auxiliary input and an external flash using the auxiliary output The camera must be first calibrated by the user to adjust its parameters to the power of the external flash The AV100 software offers automatic calibration procedure under Exposure Single Capture function group using Calibrate Flash button The calibration process takes about 13 seconds during which period the flash will be triggered 13 times Once the calibration is finished the user should verify the result of calibration by clicking the
61. he package and contents for visible damage If any components are damaged or missing do not use the unit contact the supplier immediately If you need to return the unit you must ship it in the original box server Requirements We recommend a dedicated PC to receive the image streams from cameras for archiving and display The suggested minimum computer requirements are detailed for standard and high performance installations Standard Performance 24fps at full resolution for AV2100 e CPU Core 2 Duo 2Ghz e RAM 1 GB e Video Card NVIDIA 128 MB RAM e Network card 100 base T 2 network cards one for cameras and one for remote viewing A PC with single slower CPU is sufficient in the case when images are to be archived but not displayed HDD size depends according to the desired capacity of the video archives approximately 200Kbytes image As an example two 400GB drives will yield approximately 6 days of archiving capacity for an 8 camera system recording at 1 frame per second Network PoE Switch or PoE Router Using a 100 Mbps Ethernet Switch with PoE ports or a Router with PoE ports is recommended Gigabit Ethernet Switch with PoE ports for multiple camera connections is highly recommended Simple hubs do not provide collision management and are not suitable for multi camera AV system Suggested models e Netgear ProSafe 8PT 100Base TX Switch with PoE FS108PNA 10 100Base TX w 4 PoE 100Base TX www netgear com e Net
62. his chapter Camera performance in terms of frame rate is somewhat slower via HTTP than via TFTP and is comparable to other multi megapixel products available on the market On Camera Web Page AV cameras can be accessed from a web browser via the on camera web page The web page allows changing camera settings and to view live video by means of Java script stored in camera s non volatile memory The web page is accessed by typing in web browser HTTP ip_address or http ip_address index html In addition to the web page AV cameras also implement html video container that can be used for incorporation of the camera URL into user s own html page Video container is accessed from http ip_address livevideo To incorporate the video container in the user s html page the user should add the following line in the body of the page lt iframe src http 200 168 1 10 width 800 height 600 marginheight 0 marginwidth 0 scrolling no gt lt iframe gt where parameters width and height specify the image size requested from the camera HTTP Request Format for Receiving Individual JPEG Frames NOTE Complete set of http requests described in this document is supported for firmware versions 61430 and above If you have AV camera with lower firmware version contact your distributor or email support arecontvision com for a firmware upgrade Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www are
63. httime mode and disables the daylight mode Threshold adjusts the automatic switching of the camera Note for dual sensor camera models the values are displayed in F Stops while for single sensor DN models the values are in terms of camera gain e Switch At adjusts the level of darkness to switch from daylight to nighttime mode e Toggle Guard adjusts the level of brightness to switch from nighttime to daylight mode Toggle Guard set to 0 corresponds to Switch At set to 100 Toggle Guard should be adjusted to prevent mode toggling during the transitional lighting Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 www arecontvision com Revised 08 13 08 ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Auto Iris The Auto lris menu allows you to monitor the state of the automatic DC iris If the scene is too dark the camera will open the iris fully This allows more light onto the sensor and will substantially improve the low light performance If the scene is too dark when the camera is started the camera will not close the iris until there is enough illumination Camera DC auto iris can be configured using Auto lris menu Figure 24 Figure 24 Auto ris menu The state of the auto iris is displayed on a color panel which has Exposure six different states Image Luality e Disabled The auto iris is either disabled by un checking Auto Iis the Enabled check box or is not present e Evaluating The camera is preparing t
64. ic Mode Language English ea Apply Use DirectX if possible is an option to use DirectX functions that utilize graphics card hardware to display images instead of using the software This reduces the load on the CPU The drop down list DirectX size provides options for the graphics area supported by DirectX the selected size should correspond to the size of video images displayed f using 5 Megabits camera please increment value as the default value would correspond to a 3 Megabits camera Auto Startup is an option to automatically restart the AV Video System with the earlier settings after it was stopped Real time if folded is an option to continue running the AV Video System application at the top priority level in the Windows Task Manager after the application was minimized and placed onto the system tray of the Windows task bar Show motion is an option to mark the areas of the image where motion was detected requires enabling motion detection Use double packets is an option to use data packets with 2904 bytes instead of the regular 1450 bytes for image transmission This allows increasing image transmission bandwidth but may lead to a less stable performance on overloaded networks Warning on disconnect is an option to display a red screen warning in place of live video that has been disconnected or temporarily lost An alternative when disabled is to display the last captured frame Static ARP is an opti
65. imum frame rate is achieved only when there is a single request arriving to each channel at any given time 1 Requesting individual JPEG images Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL 66 1 1 Requesting images using explicit parameter list within the HTTP string http camera_ip image lt channel gt res half full amp x0 0 1600 amp y0 0 1200 amp x1 32 1600 amp y1 32 12 00 amp quality 1 21 amp doublescan 0 1 amp id 0 99999999999999 amp ssn 0 65535 where res image resolution full or half x0 y0 x1 y1 image cropping coordinates quality image quality the inverse of image compression level doublescan read mode reserved for future use id an arbitrary number used to control the web browser s cache ssn a unique HTTP session number which cancels out any earlier sent HT TP request with the same number which got hung NOTE Image request without lt channe l gt parameter specified will cause the camera to transmit the next avallable image from any of the currently enabled channels The channel number of the transmitted image could then be identitied from the HTTP header Etag see RFC 2068 HTTP 1 1 ETag Channel lt channe l gt 1 2 Requesting images using implicit parameter list parameters are loaded on camera in advance using separate http commands see section B 16 below
66. ion Prevention Norton Account Spyware Protection Help Phishing Protection Technical Support Email amp Messaging Quick Tasks Outgoing Email Scanning Run LiveUpdate p Scan Now View History ME Reports amp Statistics Open Q Support opn z Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com If you are using Windows XP firewall follow these instructions Click the Windows Start button and select Control Panel gt Windows firewall Windows Firewall settings dialog will appear If the firewall is on make sure Don t allow exceptions is unchecked Figure 5 Click Exceptions tab Make sure AV Manager AV Video System and AV Installer appear in the list of programs and services and have a checkmark next to them Figure 6 If these applications are not in the list click Add Program button Find AV Installer in the list of programs and click Ok Repeat the same steps for AV Video System Click Ok to close the Windows Firewall dialog Figure 7 Exceptions Tab i Windows Firewall General Exceptions Advanced Windows Firewall i turned off Your computer is at risk of attacks and intrusions from outside sources such as the Internet Wie recommend that you click the General tab and select On Programs and Services Mame 4M Installer 4 Manager 4M Video System O File and Printer Sharing iTunes Remo
67. ipment the Warranty Period b during the Warranty Period the Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Products will materially conform with the specification in the applicable documentation c all licensed programs accompanying the Product the Licensed Programs will materially conform with applicable specifications Notwithstanding the preceding provisions AV shall have no obligation or responsibility with respect to any Product that i has been modified or altered without AV s written authorization ii has not been used in accordance with applicable documentation iii has been subjected to unusual stress neglect misuse abuse improper storage testing or connection or unauthorized repair or iv is no longer covered under the Warranty Period AV MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS EXPRESS IMPLIED STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE OTHER THAN THE EXPRESS LIMITED WARRANTIES MADE BY AV ABOVE AND AV HEREBY SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER EXPRESS STATUTORY AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE NON INFRINGEMENT AND THE IMPLIED CONDITION OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY ALL LICENSED PROGRAMS ARE LICENSED ON AN AS IS BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY AV DOES NOT WARRANT THAT I THE OPERATION OF THE PRODUCTS OR PARTS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE Il THE PRODUCT
68. jinon HF16SA 1 16mm Fujinon HF25SA 1 25mm HF35SA 1 35mm Fujinon HF50SA 1 50mm Fujinon HF75SA 1 75mm e Fujinon DF6HA 1B 6mm HF9HA 1B 9mm HF12 5HA 1B 12 5mm HF16HA 1B 16mm HF25HA 1B 25mm HF35HA 1B 35mm HF50HA 1B 50mm HF75HA 1B 75mm e Tamron 12VM1040ASI 10mm 40mm Using Manual Iris Lenses Choosing the lens correctly is very important for megapixel cameras Poorly selected lenses may cause the image to appear blurry when the lens iris is fully open or closed too much To deliver sharp megapixel resolution images it is recommended to e Use megapixel resolution lenses e Obtain best resolution and depth of focus by having the iris slightly closed When setting up the camera direct the camera at the scene fully open the iris first and then try closing the iris slightly At some point the image will look it s sharpest However do not close down the iris too much to the point where the image becomes too noisy due to insufficient light Auto Iris Lenses Standard DC auto iris lenses can be used with AV1300Al AV2100AI AV3100AI AV5100AI AV1305Al AV2105AI AV3105Al and AV5105Al cameras equipped with the auto iris feature Arecont Vision recommends the following high resolution optics e Computar HG2Z0414FC MP 4mm 8mm Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL e Tamron 12VM412ASIR SQ 4mm 12mm e Tamron 12VG1040ASIR
69. kely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his her own expense Modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user s authority to operate the equipment under FCC rules 1 It is suggested that the user use shielded CAT6 cables to comply with FCC rules It is suggested that the user use power over Ethernet supply To comply with FCC rules when using auto iris with AV1300 AV2100 and AV3100 it is also suggested using a ferrite common mode choke Fair Rite 0444164281 with 1 2 turns place on the auto iris lens cable three centimeters from the lens Terms and Conditions of Sale 1 Terms and Conditions This sale is subject to the terms and conditions set forth below which supersede any and all terms and conditions set forth in any documents issued by Purchaser including Purchaser s purchase order ANY ADDITIONAL DIFFERENT OR CONFLICTING TERMS AND CONDITIONS HEREBY ARE OBJECTED TO BY ARECONT VISION LLC AV AND SHALL BE OF NO FORCE AND EFFECT No waiver or amendment of these terms and conditions shall be binding on AV unless made in writing expressly stating that it is such a waiver or amendment and signed by AV 2 Limited Warranty AV warrants to Purchaser and only Purchaser the Limited Warranty that a each Product shall be free from material defects in material and workmanship for a period of twelve 12 months from the date of sh
70. livery to Purchaser s of the repaired or replaced Product Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com Q1 o ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Shipment and Risk of Loss All Products shipped by AV shall be packaged in AV s shipping cartons so as to prevent damage and shall be delivered to a common carrier FOB AV s facility in Altadena CA USA at which time risk of loss shall pass to Purchaser All freight insurance and other shipping expenses as well as expenses for any special packing requested by Purchaser and provided by AV shall be paid by Purchaser Licensed Programs Upon the sale of any Product to Purchaser AV grants to such Purchaser a non exclusive non transferable royalty free license to i install copies of the Licensed Programs in appropriate hardware and ii use the Licensed Programs for their intended purpose Purchaser may make copies of any Licensed Programs only as necessary to exercise its rights authorized hereunder and as necessary to backup the Licensed Programs Payment Payment shall be in U S Dollars and shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms set forth on the applicable AV Quotation Payment shall be in an amount equal to the purchase price for the applicable Product plus all applicable taxes shipping charges and other charges to be borne by Purchaser Rejection Return All Products shall be deemed accepted by
71. ll Activex M eee oe E The main AV menu located on the left hand side of the IE window will provide fel Se full access to each AV camera Selecting the AV camera of choice will display the option to disconnect as well as make changes to settings such as the Resolution Speed Archive Zoom and viewing images in separate windows Right clicking anywhere on the Explorer web page will provide access to the options menu Click Save to take a snapshot image Click Manage Servers to provide server information and allows changes to the servers Click Auto Hide Menu to automatically hide the main menu Click Settings to adjust camera and video settings Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com Day Night ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Day Night Figure 23 settings apply only to dual sensor and single sensor DN camera models equipped with a switching IR filter Figure 23 Day Night setting menu E SDOS Le riage E uality Rate Control i Day 7 Night Archive Motion Detection Save bo Advanced Authentication Remote Viewing Camera Dap Might Automatic e Day Night Switch At Toggle Guard Automatic enables the camera to automatically switch from daylight conditions to nighttime conditions and back based on the Threshold settings Day enables the daylight mode and disables the nighttime mode Night enables the nig
72. m auto indoor outdoor mix 9 Mains frequency Hz for indoor lighting compensation http camera_ip get lt channel gt freq http camera_ip set lt channel gt freq 50 60 10 Exposure mode low light mode http camera_ip get lt channel gt lowlight http camera_ip set lt channel gt lowlight highspeed speed balance quality moonlight 11 Shutter time in high speed exposure mode in milliseconds http camera_ip get lt channel gt shortexposures http camera_ip set lt channel gt shortexposures 1 10 12 Auto exposure control http camera_ip get lt channel gt autoexp http camera_ip set lt channel gt autoexp on off 13 Auto exposure mode http camera_ip get lt channel gt exposure Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL 69 http camera_ip set lt channel gt exposure auto on off 14 Exposure window http camera_ip get expwndleft http camera_ip set expwndleft 0 max of the corresponding sensor size http camera_ip get expwndtop http camera_ip set expwndtop 0 max of the corresponding sensor size http camera_ip get expwndwidth http camera_ip set expwndwidth 0 max of the corresponding sensor size http camera_ip get expwndheight http camera_ip set expwndheight 0 max of the corresponding sensor size 15 Sensor cropping http camera_i
73. mera image can be expanded to a full resolution display by double clicking on the image The full resolution image can be scaled back to its reduced resolution display by double clicking on the image Image size in pixels is displayed in the upper right corner of the image An alternative mode of viewing the full resolution content is the zoom window see ROI pg 24 Figure 12 Zoom window of screen snapshot ZAJE Thu 7 31 2008 11 04 1 Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL To zoom in on a region of interest ROI draw a rectangle with the mouse by right clicking and holding down the mouse button A separate zoom window will open up showing live video of the selected area at full resolution The window size can be 320 by 240 pixels or greater A green outline of the selected area will appear in the underlying reduced resolution image Zooming in and out is performed by pressing Page Up and Page Down on the keyboard or alternatively by rotating the mouse wheel if available Panning of the zoomed area is performed by dragging the green outline across the underlying camera image with the mouse by right clicking within the outline and holding down the mouse button or alternatively with the keyboard arrow keys A maximum of three independent live regions of interest ROI windows can be opened per each camera NOTE Panoramic cam
74. nd show the progress in the progress bar Optionally click Stop to terminate the process Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Viewing Your Recorded Video x A AYI Maker E lt Language JPEG 45 48 Hour p u a OM O T 7 17 2008 09 56 45 602 Selected NONE 7 25 2008 17 00 00 117 Click here to select your clip Hor Mnie Second Click here to playback Speed of Playback Start End Select All Cancel Zoom Out Zoom In qh at fu gt gt m Click here to start Video Settings Size of frame Video compressor Load Archive on Drive C S s 100 v MJPEG H 264 best quality Select Archive Camera 1 z Frame period O XviD http www xvid org ee gt man a S s If archive not found please try 1000 me Upel ps a REENER i a e 9 b oose from codecs list N E Browse Drives to Find Archive Timestamp on video x Se x Status To view recorded video download the latest Apple Quick Time v 7 4 5 or higher for Windows XP or Vista from http www apple com quicktime download 1 Select the drive where you stored your video recording by pressing and locate the recording 2 Double Click on the video recording to start the player 3 Click on the play button Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION U
75. nnel gt Getting and Setting Camera Parameters NOTE All command s listed below that allow parameter setting without explicitly specifying the channel number apply to all four channels NOTE The parameter setting is allowed only for the users with the admin access level see below under Camera Access Control 1 Enabling camera channels http camera_ip get channelenable http camera_ip set channelenable 1 15 as a 4 bit mask where each bit corresponds to one camera channel LSB is channel 1 2 Image rotation http camera_ip get lt channel gt rotate http camera_ip set lt channel gt rotate 0 180 3 Brightness http camera_ip get lt channel gt brightness http camera_ip set lt channel gt brightness 50 50 4 Sharpness Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL 68 http camera_ip get lt channel gt sharpness http camera_ip set lt channel gt sharpness 0 4 5 Saturation http camera_ip get lt channel gt saturation http camera_ip set lt channel gt saturation 0 6 6 Blue balance http camera_ip get lt channel gt blue http camera_ip set lt channel gt blue 10 10 7 Red balance http camera_ip get lt channel gt red http camera_ip set lt channel gt red 10 10 8 Illumination http camera_ip get lt channel gt illum http camera_ip set lt channel gt illu
76. number of 32x32 pixel blocks in each zone All zones are squares of the same size from 7x7 to 15x15 valid values are 7 to 15 for AV1300 and AV2100 and 8 to 15 for AV3100 and AV3130 e mdlevelthreshold motion detection threshold that determines the sensitivity to local inter frame brightness changes valid values are 2 31 Lower settings may cause false motion detection due to noise This parameter corresponds to Level under Motion Settings in AV Video System GUI e mdsensitivity sensitivity of the motion detection to sudden overall lighting changes This allows preventing false triggering due to sudden overall brightness change that triggers motion detection in a large number of zones simultaneously If more than this number of zones have motion it is assumed that the change is due to lighting change and detected motion is ignored recommended values are 40 for AV3100 AV3130 30 for AV2100 and 20 for AV1300 This parameter corresponds to Limit under Motion Settings in AV Video System GUI e mddetail allows controlling the size of detectable moving objects The value is the number of 32x32 sub zones within each zone that should contain motion for the entire zone to be considered to contain motion valid values are 1 through square of mdzonesize This parameter corresponds to Detail under Motion Settings in AV Video System GUI e mdprivasymask Privacy matrix An 8 byte array where each byte corresp
77. o close the iris Archive e Too Dark The camera cannot close the iris because the scene illumination is too low nave to e Closing The iris is closing down by the number of F stops Advanced appropriate for the lens model Authentication e Closed The iris is closed Remote Viewing e Opening The iris is opening Camera Auto iris will open the lens fully once the on camera analog gains ota Ts exceed a certain level Gain scroll bar adjusts the point where the auto Saeed iris will open fully the higher the gain the later the auto iris will open as the illumination diminishes The iris can be disabled by un checking Enabled The camera will open the iris fully and have electronic auto exposure working This Gain Higher configuration is identical to using a manual lens Status Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Right Click Menu Right clicking anywhere within the AV Video System screen brings up an additional menu Figure 25 Figure 25 Additional menu within AV Video System screen Settings enables access to changing the main groups of settings as described in Settings see pg 22 Camera enables access to a combined menu that includes e Exposure see pg 26 elmage Quality see pg 29 e Rate Control see pg 30 e Archive see pg 31 e Day Night see pg 38 e Auto Iris see pg 39 elt also includes some of the
78. on the rear panel of the camera housing e LAN connector accepting a network UTP or STP cable carrying 100 Base T The LAN connector also accepts Power over Ethernet PoE e Power terminals accepting 15V 48V DC supply Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL ae e Optionally a DC auto iris connector AV3130 does not support auto iris and does not have this connector e Auxiliary input and output connector Power Power for all AV cameras can be supplied as follows e Via LAN connector according to IEEE 802 3af PoE For a list of recommended PoE switches see Network PoE Switch or Router PoE on page 7 e Via DC jack 15V 48VDC see power ratings below Power consumption will vary depending on the mode of operation The maximum power consumption takes place when the camera is polled at a maximum frame rate and at full resolution The maximum power consumption is e AV1300 AV2100 AV3100 AV5100 3 W e AV1305 AV2105 AV3105 AV5105 4 W e AV3130 3 2 W e AV8360 AV8180 7 8 W Housing and Mounting All AV camera models feature a durable aluminum housing that minimizes fire hazards The housing is not hermetically sealed The ambient temperature should be maintained between 0 C and 50 C 32 F to 122 F The cameras used outdoors must have appropriate protective enclosures Cameras are mounted using a x 20 threaded hole a
79. on to enable a static link between the camera s MAC address and its IP address An alternative is a dynamic ARP that is not supported by some of the older models of the AV cameras Don t update sensor window is an option that determines how the changes to the image size are applied ata software level or in hardware the image sensor Enabling this option helps to avoid conflicts when multiple users are viewing the same camera each will be able to set different image size Alternatively disabling this option allows to increase the camera frame rate due to a smaller image size Panoramic Mode is used for panoramic camera model AV8180 to automatically position and display the four images on screen Language let you select a Language Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com Authentication ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Authentication is used to set up password protected access to AV Video System For any users there are three levels of access available Figure 20 Figure 20 Authentication menu Ex posure mage Guality Days Night Archive Motion Detection Save bo Advanced Authentication Remote Viewing Password Confirm Authentication Administrator Viewer Orly Live Add Change Remove a Administrator grants full access to all features of AV Video System b Viewer grants access to live video and browsing t
80. onds to one row of motion detection zones Each bit in a byte enables motion detection in a corresponding zone if set to 1 Leftmost zone is controlled by MSB rightmost zone by LSB Example set mdprivasymask 2a8f3d135b 71ee04 results in the following enabled zones relative to camera image 01010100 11110001 Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL 10111100 11001000 11011010 10001110 01110111 00100000 e mdresult Motion detection information returned by the camera The return value is no motion if motion has not been detected otherwise the motion detection information is returned in the following format mdresult lt SP gt lt hexadecimal byteOQ gt lt SP gt lt hexadecimal byte1 gt lt SP gt lt hexadecimal byte63 gt where lt SP gt is the SPACE symbol and the byte value byteN indicates the number of sub zones blocks of 32x32 pixels with motion within zone N Note the sub zone size is fixed to 32x32 and cannot be changed Important the user should keep in mind that the total number of zones is always 64 8 vertically and 8 horizontally Therefore if the zone size is large some zones may not correspond to the active pixel array In that case their motion detection value is not meaningful and should be ignored For example for AV1300 camera if the image size is 1280x1024 then for zone size 8x8 there are 5 by 4 active
81. or Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL To make video clips from your archives click Run on AVI Maker from AV Application Manager On Click here to start 1 Specify to the AviMaker which drive contains the video archive If your AV100 has the default settings then C would be the default archive drive Otherwise type in the correct drive letter in the edit box for example D 2 Click bead Sichive on Dive This will initiate a search on the specified drive for all available archives The archives will be listed in the combo box numbered according to the camera numbers they were recorded with starting with the smallest number 3 Use the pull down menu to select the desired camera archive number 4 Click eclect Sichive Comers An image will appear on the screen corresponding to the earliest record of your video archive If no archive is found the screen will remain blank Browse Drives to Find Archive 5 To explicitly specify which folders to search click button and select folders that contain your video archive 6 To play archive press the play button Ma use the Speed scrollbar to increase or decrease the speed of playback 7 Select a specific time interval by pressing a then scroll the timeline scrollbar to the desired point in time then press End under To select your clip click Alternatively aciect oe select video by the hour minute or second 8 To nar
82. orrupted If the user receives Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL corrupted images over HT TP 1 1 the user should either remove HTTP 1 1 specification from the request or upgrade the HTTP implementation to fully compliant e g WinHTTP 5 1 HTTP Access of Panoramic Cameras Notational conventions camera_ip IP address of the camera get get a parameter from camera via http set set a parameter on camera via http lt channel gt camera channel number from 1 to 4 a symbol string in ASCII means one or another but not both allowable values a range of values incrementable by 1 positive values do not need the sign while the negative values do need the sign in front of the value non mandatory value which could be dropped In order to access the built in camera s web page type either of the two following http commands into the web browsers address field http camera_ip http camera_ip index html Requesting Images from Panoramic Cameras The AV8360 AV8180 camera models support two types of image requests individual JPEG image requests image or img jpg and a continuous stream MJPEG stream requests mjpeg The maximum number of supported simultaneous requests of single images or mjpeg streams is eight NOTE Even though the camera supports multi user access the max
83. oto 12 What information can provide to AV customer support for a faster response to my issues AV Camera MAC address and firmware release shown in the About dialog box Switch or POE model number Type of network cable eg Cat 5e min and max distance of run Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com 13 14 15 16 17 18 ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Type of power used VDC milliamps Watts Computer Information PC Model number 100base T or Gigabit card CPU speed Hard disk size and available free space Please provide the Imlog dat file and localmachine ini file This file can be found on XP C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data Video and Vista C Users YourUserName ApplicationData Video Application Or C Users YourUserName AppData Local VirtualStore ProgramData Video Application How do disable the auto startup of the Arecont Vision software Click on Advanced on the AV Software Settings and uncheck Auto Startup Is there a link to view live video from your camera systems We have three sites that can be accessed Please contact our sales team at sales arecontvision com What is the maximum physical distance between computer and AV camera Typical Ethernet 100Base T has a maximum distance of 100 meters 330 feet The range can be increased by using the standard powered mid span switch Alternatively
84. p get sensorleft http camera_ip set sensorleft 0 max of the corresponding sensor size http camera_ip get sensortop http camera_ip set sensortop 0 max of the corresponding sensor size http camera_ip get sensorwidth http camera_ip set sensorwidth 0 max of the corresponding sensor size http camera_ip get sensorheight http camera_ip set sensorheight 0 max of the corresponding sensor size 16 Image settings used as the implicit parameter list in img jpg image requests http camera_ip get imgleft http camera_ip set imgleft 0 max of the corresponding sensor size http camera_ip get imgtop http camera_ip set imgtop 0 max of the corresponding sensor size http camera_ip get imgwidth Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com 20 21 22 23 24 25 ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL http camera_ip set imgwidth 0 max of the corresponding sensor size http camera_ip get imgheight http camera_ip set imgheight 0 max of the corresponding sensor size http camera_ip get imgquality http camera_ip set imgquality 0 21 http camera_ip get imgres http camera_ip set imgres full half Getting MAC number http camera_ip get mac Getting camera model http camera_ip get model Getting firmware version http camera_ip get fwversion Getting image processor engine version ht
85. params save e mac retrieves the MAC address of the camera read only e make retrieves the manufacturer abbreviation requires firmware version 64116 e model retrieves a four digit camera model number read only e g AV2100M camera will return model 2100 e fwversion retrieves firmware version of the camera e procversion retrieves version of the image processor e netversion retrieves version of the network processor e revision retrieves the revision code of the PCB e factory restores camera parameters to factory defaults http ip_address set params factory The camera registers can be accessed via the HTTP requests of the following format http camera_ip getreg page 0 6 amp reg 0 255 http camera_ip setreg page 0 6 amp reg 0 255 amp value 0 65535 Parameters Specific to AV3130 and DAY NIGHT Cameras AV3130 camera utilizes two distinct sensors for its day and night modes Specifically a 3 Megapixel color sensor with IR cut filter is used in the day mode and a 1 3 Megapixel monochrome sensor without IR cut filter is used in the night mode Single sensor Day Night camera uses a mechanical IR switcher to switch between day mode color with IR cut filter and night mode monochrome without IR cut filter By default the camera automatically switches between day and night channels as illumination changes However it is also possible to force the camera to operate in either day or night c
86. pt window that will configure your Windows Firewall to allow exceptions for Arecont Vision software Factory Default oe coder linen Restores all camera settings to factory default this will not change your camera IP Address Operating AV Video System AV100 Note AV Video System requires a license file for each AV Camera that needs to archive using AV100 The license is tied to a unique camera s MAC address The license files are located in the C Program Files Arecont Vision Video Surveillance license folder However for the evaluation purposes AV100 will operate any AV cameras without a license After the cameras are successfully installed the AV Video System can be activated by clicking Run button on Live video in the AV Application Manager The Arecont Vision logo screen will appear and hide automatically The AV Video System software will start on its own after a few seconds Shown below Figure 11 is the AV Video System displaying live video from eight AV cameras If minimize button is selected the application will be placed onto the system tray of the Windows task bar Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Figure 11 Live video display LAs Mon 6008 16 48 51 Toolbar The toolbar of the AV Video System is located in the upper portion of the screen above the video display area It contains the following icons T
87. pts you Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL For McAfee Personal Firewall For example Click Grant Access McAfee Personal Firewall Plus For older version of Norton Internet Security McAfee Personal Firewall Plus Select Permit Always and click Ok oo Application Has Been Modified Figure 2 Older version of Norton Internet Security The application Locallachine has Norton Internet Security x changed since you first gave it l access to the Internet Do you still Program Control want to let it access the Internet High Risk 2 Path C Program Files 4recont dlert Assistant vision ideo Surveillance AvVInstaller exe is attempting to access the Internet LocalMachine exe Show Details A hcAfee Does not recognize this application Tell McAfee about this program I want to Grant Access Block All Access What do you want to do For newer version of Norton Internet Security Figure 3 go to Settings gt Personal Firewall under Web Browsing and select Turn Off Figure 3 Newer version of Norton Internet Security nate Norton Protection Center Internet Security V Subscription 27 days remaining 5 Tasks amp Scans Settings 2 Basic Security At Risk Auto Protect On Protection Updates 7 11 2007 Automatic LiveUpdate On Web Browsin FIX NOW dagi J Personal Firewall Quick Links Intrus
88. r level menu for adjusting image quality settings Compression Format offers two options for compressing the video eG JPEG and H 264 Motion Detection Save to Frame Rate adjusts and displays the frame rate at which the software Advanced Authentication is requesting frames from the camera s for viewing only Quality adjusts the compression level for three display modes applies Camera ara econ Wiel 71 H 2B 4 P A e e ALE to both JPEG and H 264 compression formats PaE H 264 eS Fae lela Seelam bn See Full View is to display and archive full resolution video m e Multi View is to display multiple cameras at a reduced EELE eee i Sane resolution Full eu Higher z e Zoom View is to display zoom windows Molt Wiers Higher s Brightness adjusts image brightness Zoom Wie Higher Sharpness adjusts image sharpness Adjustment r Saturation adjusts image color saturation pees ie Red adjusts the red tint This setting changes the target for camera s Sharpness Sharper automatic white balance computation The effect is gradual it takes shell T 20 30 seconds for the camera to fully adjust to the new setting pl i Gamma adjusts image contrast to reveal more or less shades of gray Blue More in the dark and light areas of the image requires firmware 64116 and hardware 64107 Gamma 1 67 a Size of Picture adjusts image cropping Left Top o o Rotate 180 is an option for flipping the image
89. re or via a web browser using HIT TP commands Camera Installer supports two modes of operation Basic and Advanced To start the Camera Installer press the Run button under Camera Installer Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Basic Mode In this mode Camera Installer detects all AV cameras that can be reached by the broadcast request sent over the network by the computer running the Camera Installer It automatically assigns IP addresses to the cameras selecting those addresses that belong to the same sub network as the computer running Camera Installer and that are not assigned to other network devices To detect and install the cameras automatically press Install Cameras button The installer will find configure and verify the operability of the cameras Once the installation is completed the list of newly installed cameras will appear in the top panel with the result Installed online The list can be sorted by the MAC address or IP address by clicking on the respective column name The list may also include previously installed cameras that could be listed as Installed online or Installed offline depending on whether the camera is still accessible The installer offers a mechanism to protect previously installed cameras if any from accidental changes of their IP address To change the IP address manually or type in
90. row down your time scale use ALL button by clicking the SOOMAN button repeatedly the time scale will change from Hours to Minutes to Seconds To change the time scale in the reverse direction use the coom gu button 9 Video Settings group offers three options e Size of Frame adjusts the AVI frame size relative to the archived frame size This option only affects XviD and MSVC video codecs and does NOT affect MJPEG H 264 format e Frame Period adjusts the AVI frame rate in milliseconds AviMaker will automatically calculate the average frame period for selected archive If the calculated number is longer than 1000 milliseconds 1000 millisecond will be used If the actual archive frame rate varies with time the resulting video will be played accordingly faster or slower depending on how much the actual frame rate deviate from the average e Timestamp adds date time information to the resulting video clip Notice that it works differently in case MJPEG H 264 codec is selected when the selected archive is JPEG format AviMaker will decompress and recompress the top 64 lines of each frame to Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL incorporate the timestamp but the rest of the image will remain intact When the selected archive is in H 264 format the timestamp option is ignored 10 Video Compression offers three options for making the AV
91. s To allow Camera Installer access to the network the user should configure the firewall properly To configure the Windows firewall access the Windows Security Center in the Windows Control Panel and then click on Windows Firewall In the Windows Firewall window Figure 33 click the Exceptions tab and add AV programs AV Installer AV Manager and AV Video System to the list of exceptions Once the selections have been made click OK and re run the Camera Installer If the Camera Installer still cannot find the camera make sure that there are no hardware firewalls in the gateways and routers on your network Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Figure 33 Windows firewall 5 Windows Firewall General Exceptions Advanced Windows Firewall is blocking incoming network connections except for the programs and services selected below Adding exceptions allows some programs to work better but might increase your security risk Programs and Services AW Manager AM Video System O File and Printer Sharing iTunes Remote Assistance O Remote Desktop Tuevector Service O UPnP Framework Add Program Add Fort Display a notification when Windows Firewall blocks a program what are the neska of allowing exceptions 5 Which DVRs support AV cameras There are several DVRs that support Arecont Vision cameras
92. s Common Files 4dobe E SD Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL AV Application Manager After the software installation is complete a shortcut to the AV Application Manager will appear on the user s Desktop All programs and utilities comprising the AV Video System can be accessed via AV Application Manager The standard items include Camera Installer Video System and AVI Maker The optional Firmware Loader is not included in the installation but is available upon request It will appear in the Application Manager as shown below figure 8 by placing the FirmwareLoader exe in Arecont Vision Video Surveillance folder C Program Files Arecont Vision Video Surveillance Figure 8 Application manager A AV Application Manager z The AV Application Manager selections include Camera Installer setup cameras see pg 15 Video System watch live video see pg 19 AVI Maker make video clips from archive see pg 44 Camera Upgrade upgrade cameras see pg 48 Camera Installer Camera Installer allows to find all AV cameras that are present on the local area network assign IP addresses to detected cameras and to verify that the cameras are accessible and operational The assigned IP address is stored on camera and maintained when the power is off The camera cannot change its own IP address it can only be changed by a computer running AV Camera Installer or by third party softwa
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94. sible for returning at AV s cost repaired or replaced Products to Purchaser Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL 9 General Provisions Notwithstanding any other provision hereof performance by AV shall be excused to the extent that performance is rendered commercially unreasonable by acts of God war fire flood riot power failure embargo material shortages strikes governmental acts man made or natural disasters earthquakes failure or limitation of supply or any other reason where failure to perform is beyond the reasonable control and not caused by the negligence of AV The time for performance shall be extended for the time period lost due to the delay This Agreement shall be governed by and construed under the laws of the State of California USA without reference to conflict of laws These terms and conditions including those on the face page hereof if any set forth the entire agreement and understanding of AV and Purchaser with respect to the sale and distribution of Products the Licensed Products and Parts and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements relating thereto written or oral between the parties Purchaser may not assign its rights or delegate its obligations hereunder without the express written consent of AV Any assignment by Purchaser without such consent shall constitute a breach hereof by Purchaser
95. sion is txt MAKE SURE THAT THE CAMERA MODEL YOU ARE UPGRADING IS INCLUDED IN THE FWUPDATE FILE NAME e The firmware upgrade will start automatically Do not disconnect the AV camera When the upgrade is complete Success message will be displayed next to the new version of firmware 4 To upgrade the hardware e Click Upgrade Hardware and choose the hardware upgrade file The file name starts with hwupdate and the file extension is bin MAKE SURE THAT THE CAMERA MODEL YOU ARE UPGRADING IS INCLUDED IN THE HWUPDATE FILE NAME e The hardware upgrade will start automatically Do not disconnect the AV camera When the upgrade is complete Success message will be displayed next to the new revision of hardware i IMPORTANT DISCONNECTING THE POWER TO THE CAMERA DURING THE UPGRADE WILL RESULT IN PERMANENT DAMAGE TO THE CAMERA Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Chapter Ill HTTP Access Arecont Vision cameras support three protocols TFTP HTTP and RTSP TFTP protocol is recommended for application scenarios where high quality video at full frame rate is required The drawback if any is that the implementation of TFTP protocols requires custom software application development based on Arecont Vision s SDK RTSP protocol is supported only in camera models that are equipped with H 264 encoder as described at the end of t
96. t the bottom of the housing When mounting the camera make sure that the mounting screw is no longer than 7 The cameras are to be installed according to the applicable code and regulations The mounting hardware should be able to support 1 Ib camera except AV8360 that weights 4lbs Model AV3130 requires a 3 enclosure window all other cameras can use most any outdoor housing Network Cabling Category 5e cabling or better is recommended All network cabling must be installed according to applicable codes and regulations Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Manual and Auto Iris lenses All AV cameras should be used with a 1 2 or 2 3 megapixel resolution lenses AV3130 requires two manual iris lenses and has a limitation on lens diameter lt 38mm AV8360 is supplied with 4 preinstalled high quality lenses megapixel resolution lenses Manual Iris Lenses A wide variety of C CS mount lenses with megapixel resolution may be used with AV cameras Note that all C mount lenses require a 5mm adaptor ring Some lenses may also require 0 4mm 0 8mm adjustment spacers Arecont Vision lens suggestions include e Arecont LENS4 10 4mm 10mm e Computar HO514 MP 5mm M0814 MP 8mm M1214 MP 12mm M1614 MP 16mm M2514 MP 25mm M5018 MP 50mm HG2Z0414FC MP 4mm 8mm M3Z1228C MP 12mm 36mm e Fujinon HF12 5SA 1 12 5mm Fu
97. ta format of H 264 streaming over RTP Unicast camera access The AV 5 series cameras support RTSP protocol via TCP connections Any request sent to camera via UDP will be ignored The maximum number of simultaneously serviced unicast requests or video streams is eight Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Accessing video stream via RTSP commands Notational conventions e camera_ip IP address of the camera e means one or another but not both e allowable values a a range of values incrementable by 1 e positive values do not need the sign while the negative values do need the sign in front of the value am d non mandatory value which can be dropped skipped An H 264 video stream is requested via RTSP using the following URL rtsp camera_ip h264 sdp res half full amp x0 0 max_sensor_width amp y0 0 max_sensor_height amp x1 32 max_sensor_width amp y1 32 max_sensor_height amp qp 4 51 amp ssn 1 65535 amp doublescan 0 1 amp bitrate 0 65536 where res image resolution full half x0 y0 x1 y1 image cropping coordinates qp H 264 quantization parameter an inverse of image quality this parameter is ignored if bitrate value is also specified doublescan the mode of frame access 0 wait for the fresh frame from the sensor 1 rea
98. te Assistance CI Remote Desktop Truevector Service O UPnP Framework Display a notification when Windows Firewall blocks a program Add Port What are the risks of allowing exceptions Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Figure 5 Windows Firewall General Tab i Windows Firewall General Exceptions Advanced Your PC is not protected turm on Windows Firewall Windows Firewall helps protect your computer by preventing Unauthorized users from gaining access to your computer through the Internet or a network On recommended This setting blocks all outside sources from connecting to this computer with the escepton of those selected on the Exceptions tab C Don t allow exceptions Select this when You connect to public networks in less secure locations such as airports ou will not be notified when Windows Firewall blocks programs Selections on the Exceptions tab will be ignored x OH not recommended Avoid using this setting Turing off Windows Firewall may make this computer more vulnerable to viruses and intruders what else should know about Windows Firewall Figure 6 Add a program Add a Program To allow communications with a program by adding it to the Exceptions list select the program or click Browse to search for one that te not listed Programs Pi EAN Manager Ai ayv Video System Path C Program File
99. th the mouse by left clicking and holding down the mouse button The privacy mask is marked with red crosses A more complex shape can be created by drawing multiple rectangles Erasing the mask or part of the mask is done by drawing a rectangle with the right mouse button Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Figure 18 Image of motion detection Ld Motion Settings A Detected by Sensitivit_ _o Software Level Detail Camera Limit Grid 8x6 Motion detection settings apply only to the camera which number is displayed in the Camera field on the left of the Motion Settings menu use drop down list to change the camera number The settings are Detected by provides two options to select between the software motion detection and the on camera motion detection Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Sensitivity is a group of controls to adjust motion detection computation e Level adjusts the inter frame brightness change threshold that triggers motion detection Lower settings may cause false motion detection due to noise e Detail adjusts the size of the detectable objects within each motion detection zone Lower settings may cause false motion detection due to noise e Limit serves as a guard against false
100. tion Detection supported in AV Video System a software mode and an on camera mode e The software mode performs motion detection by processing the images after they were transmitted from the camera to the computer In contrast the on camera mode performs motion detection prior to transmitting the images to the computer Thus the on camera motion detection allows to significantly reducing the CPU load and the network load when motion detection is enabled e Motion detection is enabled via the Archive settings when one of the two following options is selected Save all and mark motion or Save only motion If the Archive is enabled for Save all frames motion detection is disabled The Enabled Disabled status is displayed in the bottom right corner of the Motion Settings window e Motion detection is computed independently in multiple detection zones on a square grid The largest grid supported for any AV camera model and image size is 8 by 8 The actual grid for any particular model is determined by the chosen zone size a drop down list in the lower right corner of the Motion Settings screen and the camera s pixel resolution The actual grid is displayed in the lower left corner When motion is present the Motion Settings window displays green marks selectable between crosses and boxes in the zones affected Figure 18 e A privacy mask can be set up to block motion detection in some of the zones by drawing a rectangle wi
101. tp camera_ip get procversion Getting network processor version http camera_ip get netversion Getting PCB revision http camera_ip get revision Store current settings into the flash memory http camera_ip set params save Restore factory default settings http camera_ip set params factory Custom mode settings http camera_ip get lt channel gt kneepoint Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL http camera_ip set lt channel gt kneepoint 1 100 http camera_ip get lt channel gt analoggain http camera_ip set lt channel gt analoggain 1 10 http camera_ip get lt channel gt maxkneegain http camera_ip set lt channel gt maxkneegain 2 7 http camera_ip get lt channel gt maxexptime http camera_ip set lt channel gt maxexptime 0 100 http camera_ip get lt channel gt maxdigitalgain http camera_ip set lt channel gt maxdigitalgain 32 127 26 Alternative receiving port of the camera s web server http camera_ip get webserverport http camera_ip set webserverport 0 65535 27 User password with admin level of access http camera_ip get admin http camera_ip set admin text string of 1 8 ASCII symbols empty NOTE to erase the password use the reserved word empty 28 User password with viewer level of access http camera_ip get viewer http camera
102. tting the content of the image buffer that was already once output useful for picture in picture display e FPS specifies the requested frame rate values 1 to 15 result in the specified frame rate while omitting fos parameter as well as fps values of 0 and all values above 16 result in maximum frame rate that is model dependent The following example illustrates the request to camera with IP address 192 168 0 36 for the new full resolution 1600x1200 video stream with compression quality 12 at a maximum frame rate GET mjpeg res half amp x0 0 amp y0 0 amp x1 1600 amp y1 12008 amp quality 12 amp doublescan 0 HTTP 1 1 r n Host 192 168 1 11 r n r n In response to the above request the camera sends continuous stream of images separated by the boundary separator fodr in accordance with MIME multipart x mixed replace format Please note that MIME multipart x mixed replace format is not directly supported by Internet Explorer and requires user application to correctly process the image stream For video viewing based on IE only the users should use on camera script that can be accessed via HT TP ip_address index html request HTTP 1 0 200 Ok r n Content Type multipart x mixed replace boundary fbdr r n r n fodrir n Content Type image jpeg r n r n lt JPEG image 1 data gt r n fodr r n Content Type image jpeg r n Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision
103. urns on off a drop down list of the installed cameras Individual cameras are disabled enabled by left double clicking on the camera number When disabled live video image from the disabled camera is replaced with a blue rectangle and the camera number in the drop down list is marked with a red cross Displays the Settings menu see Setting below Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL es Enables a full screen display without the toolbar and menus Selects screen layout for viewing live archived video from multiple cameras from left to right single camera layout 2x2 camera layout 3x3 camera layout 4x4 camera layout 10 camera layout with 2 large and 4x2 smaller images 8 camera layout with 1 large 3x1 and 1x4 smaller images 13 camera layout with 1 large 2x2 and 4x2 smaller images 8 camera layout with 2x4 images for panoramic cameras 10 camera layout with 2 large and 2x4 smaller images for regular and panoramic cameras Depending on the chosen screen layout and the actual number of the installed cameras the unused sections of the layout will be filled with a watermark image of the Arecont Vision logo Displays the Archive controls see Browsing Archives below Takes a snapshot of live video or an archive The snapshot is taken from the camera which is highlighted in the drop down list of the installed cameras see above
104. w The user can set the preferred exposure time that the camera will attempt to maintain as long as illumination level allows This setting essentially allows the user to choose the tradeoff between gains and exposure time at reduced light levels There are 3 basic settings Speed Balance and Quality Figure 35 These settings can be selected from Low Light Mode menu Mode list Speed setting will result in higher image noise but will attempt to maintain 10ms exposure time for as long as possible reducing motion artifacts Quality setting will maintain 40 ms exposure time resulting in low noise image with some motion blur in low light Balanced setting is in between There are also two special modes High Speed and MoonLight that can be used for very fast moving targets and very low illumination respectively High Speed mode allows the user to specify fixed exposure time in terms of milliseconds from 1 to 80 While this will allow crisp video of fast moving vehicles the side effect of this setting is that low light performance of the camera will be significantly worse up to 800 times than in default mode Therefore High Speed should only be used for well lit scenes The other special mode MoonLight implements long exposure times up to 0 5 seconds in combination with proprietary noise cancellation technology This mode allows viewing under extremely low illumination conditions It is important to note that MoonLight is NOT
105. work bandwidth so the camera itself will not send images until motion is detected The user can adjust 3 motion detection sensitivity settings and specify up to 64 motion detection zones 21 Can image archival be configured for cyclic recording AV 100 software will overwrite old files every few minutes once the available disk space reaches a limit value that the end user can set By default the value is 15GB but can be changed manually by editing the storage field of LocalMachine ini file located in C Program Files Arecont Vision Video Surveillance 22 How can register with the Developer Support Portal Access to Developer Support Portal requires an NDA Non Disclosure Agreement to be signed in paper form prior to obtaining access More information can be provided through websales arecontvision com 23 How do the Arecont Vision cameras utilize PTZ Pan Tilt Zoom There is no mechanical PTZ However AV cameras have multi megapixel resolution and allow instantaneous electronic pan tilt and zoom by specifying PTZ window coordinates Multiple users can each select their own windows as though each user independently controls the PTZ 24 How can I get the AV100 built in web server to work AV 100 software has built in web server that allows multi user remote access to live video and video archives This web server can be accessed from IE browser by typing HTTP ip_address port guix htm where ip_address is the IP addresses o
106. wsing Browse presents three options Archive enables access to browsing archives See Browsing Archives Photos enables access to snapshots taken with the AV cameras The default snapshots location is C Documents and Settings User Profile My Documents My Pictures Arecont Vision Photos a different directory path to the snapshot folder can be specified in the Settings menu see Settings on pg 22 HTTP opens the default web browser to view the video stream from the selected camera via the web browser Hide minimizes the AV Video System application and hides it in the system tray of the Windows task bar Log off logs off the current user Exit exits the AV Video System application About shows the version of the AV Video System software and additional information for each of the installed camera s version of firmware and hardware MAC address and IP address Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7 Floor Glendale CA 91205 Revised 08 13 08 www arecontvision com ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL Language Selection AV Live Video System supports user interfaces in Arabic Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional English Finnish German Japanese Spanish Russian and other languages To select language press the F2 button to bring up the language menu Figure 26 Figure 26 Language menu Auto 5 fm ee Pam I U a in Bmp E S i Dutch Wetierlands Browsing Archives Archive browsing is ena
107. xposure related settings make sure to select the camera s it applies to Illumination is a group of options to adjust camera s white balance computation to the illumination of the scene Automatic enables the camera to adjust for illumination automatically Correction aids in flicker control in AV5100 05 camera models Lighting is to prevent flicker caused by oscillation frequency of the indoor lighting European 50 Hz or US Japan 60 Hz Low Light Mode is a group of options to adjust camera s operation under low light conditions a High Speed enables the shortest exposure selectable from a drop down list Short Exposure between 1 and 80 ms and the maximum frame rate This option will reduce motion blur but may result in a noisier video due to a very short exposure time To improve image quality under this setting provide ample scene illumination b Speed enables short exposure time of 10 ms but under low light conditions may increase the exposure up to 80 ms c Balanced enables medium duration exposures of 20 ms but under low light conditions may increase the exposure up to 80 ms d Quality enables longer exposures of 40 ms but under low light conditions may increase the exposure up to 200 ms Motion blur may become high but video will contain less noise under low light conditions e Moon Light enables very long exposures up to 500 ms if necessary Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St 7t Floor Glen

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