User's guide - Twoja Kamera
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1. mobile no Voice FTP enabled Beep WWW Enabled SMTP server All fields FTP server All fields AVI OPTIONS FIELD General Connection configuration mode to Internet ports required to get an intended functionality O optional you can insert a value but it is not required empty giving value to the field is not required to get an intended functionality 5 4 1 A page Camera This is the most important page It makes possible to activate camera and to record the images from cameras to the disk To activate camera mark the Active field choose one of the drivers in the Camera field choose one of the formats in the Format field We can end the configuration now In this way we will get a minimal functionality permitting only to watch the images from cameras on the computer cameras server Configuration of camera 1 x Camera Detection of motion Notification www WAP SMTP Server SMS Gateway FTP Server AVI v Active Camera name Parameters of camera m Camera driver gt TV Device configuration 7 Creative WebCam WDM es Video input sse Composite Y RGB 400X300 24 bits 7 TY channel Signal Max fps s 12 sj 5ntenna z 25 m Remark Use TV Device Configuration only if TV device are checked off in Camera driver2. r Compression C None Continous Fps P si C Triggered by Picture 6 The page Camera Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide The meanings of the fields Camera driver we choose a Windows driver for a camera The camera must have been Format Max fps Configuration TV devices Recording Fps Compression installed earlier From the list we choose the driver of type WDM or DirectX only It is impossible to choose the same driver to configure two different cameras we choose the format of video data recorded to the computer This format determines the quality of watched and recorded image Format RGB 320x240 24 bits is recommended defines the maximum speed of camera frames processing This parameter should equal 25 to achieve the best quality of images But if our computer works slowly it may manifest in interrupted image breaks between consecutive frames or we connect several cameras it is possible to give value equal to the parameter It may improve performance of a system But it is necessary to take into account that in this way we degenerate the quality of camera processing and thus the quality of recorded images and motion detection fields of this data group we set only when TV device is selected as an Camera driver Then it is possible watching pictures from devices connected to input composite video or Svideo it is possible to record data in two mode
3. Check new version Www vvv twojakamera pl ang emai info twojakamera pl User name admin Your IP adress 192 168 0 100 Picture 9 The page General configuration 5 6 Other functions of programme 5 6 1 Photo It is possible to save one frame image from the chosen camera by clicking on this image The frame is written as jpg file with the name including number of camera date and time The photos are kept in Zdjecia folder 5 6 2 Full screen mode To watch an image from the chosen camera on full screen it is necessary to doble click on this image Another double click returns the application to normal mode 5 6 3 Changing password To change the password it is necessary to initiate closing Your Camera and then in the login window click Changing password button The next window opens and in the Old password field we give a password we used so far and in the New password fields we give 13 Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide twice the same new password After clicking OK button password will be changed This process can last a little It can require a connection to Internet too Your Camera J D3 Cameral None Camera3 None Camera 4 None Picture 10 Changing password 5 6 4 Watching films from an archive With Your Camera programme it is possible to watch films written to disk A right mouse button initiates the popup menu When you
4. on popular freely available computer hardware and interact with Internet cameras or with professional cameras used in monitoring systems too An easy installation and service these are the features which make Your Camera the system for everyone It is designed for small facilities requiring the installation of a few cameras like detached houses holiday houses flats small firms places of a special supervision structures which are difficult to reach or may be a supplement of just existing big monitoring systems It may be supervision of for example farmyard of house in our absence children at home children in school waiting for parents store room of firm 2 The Architecture of Your Camera Your Camera consists of the following elements Cameras Server it s the computer on which Your Camera programme is installed and to which the cameras are connected The programme records the images from cameras in the form of AVI files detects the motion sends the notifications and makes what the configuration enables Camera it s a camera connected to the computer for instance by USB or TV card Remote computer it s a computer used to watch the images from cameras via Internet and on which user receives the e mail messages with notifications of detected motion 3 System requirements Cameras Server e PC computer with minimum procesor Intel Pentium II 450 MHz recommended Intel Pentium IV 2 4 M
5. the cameras in Windows we can start the installation programme Y ourCamera installation exe The programme can be downloaded from the Internet on the site www twojakamera pl ang It will lead us safely across the installation process It is recommended to accept all suggested options pressing the Next button and finish the installation correctly An important moment is giving the name of the folder in which Your Camera programme will be installed You can give your own folder name It s very important to create the folder on a disk with a lot of a free space because images from cameras will be recorded there recommended is 1 GB of free space at least We should remember the folder name because it will be necessary in a minute To end the installation we have to do one more action it is to place in our folder the file the key which we have received by e mail as an attachment After then the installation is finished 5 3 Step 3 running As a result of installation Your Camera is placed in Windows menu Start and on the desktop as an icon So now we can run the program by clicking a right position in the Start menu or by clicking twice an icon on a desktop Then the login window will appear on the screen The e mail with the key we have received contains also unique user s name and initial password We log into the application with the given name and password The same user s name and password shall be used to browse camer
6. Hz e Operating system Windows 98 SE ME 2000 or XP recommended XP e RAM min 128 MB e Hard Disk 10 MB free space for programme and over 1 GB free space for AVI films e Graphics card with DirectX driver mode 800x600x24 or better DirectX 9 0 e Internet with public IP address Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide Camera Any camera designed to work under Windows operating system and delivered with WDM drivers or DirectX drivers It can be for instance e an Internet camera connected by USB e a professional camera of a monitoring system with a composite video output connected by USB converter e a professional camera of a monitoring system with a composite video output connected by a special PC card designed for monitoring e acamera with a composite video output connected by a PC card of type Frame Graber like a popular TV tuners some DVR cards e adigital camera connected by FireWire Remote computer e PC computer Operating system Windows 98 SE ME 2000 or XP Hard Disk 2 MB free space DirectX 9 0 or later WWW browser working HTML 4 or later with Cookies and Java script for instance Internet Explorer 4 Netscape 4 Mobile phone Mobile phone with JAVA with MIDP in version at least 1 0 4 The technical parameters Number of cameras 1 16 Maximum resolution of a camera 720x576 Number of parallel cameras on the server side 1 16 Refresh rate on the server side 1 25 frame sec camera Recording speed of image
7. Recording with compression uses MPEG 4 codek REMARK Not every video format will be suitable for codek In such a situation film will be recorded without compression Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide 5 4 2 A page Detection of motion Filling out this page makes possible to activate the detection of motion and to control the sensitivity of detection algorithm With a low level of sensitivity system recognizes the occurrence of motion when a larger part of image changes With a high sensitivity even small change of image causes that system recognizes it as a motion The detection of motion is signaled by lighting up a green square on status bar under the image from camera 5 4 3 A page Notification Filling out this page specifies the way the system will notify the detection of motion E mail Marking Enabled field and giving e mail address causes that in case of detection of motion system sends an e mail including a suitable announcement and an image from camera as attachment To make this e mail notification possible it is necessary to fill out the page SMTP server Configuration of camera 1 Camera Detection of motion Remote access SMTP FTP AVI Level of sensitivity Notification 0 Switched off Your text max 80 characters C Low 2 Notification by e mail 3 Enabled Middle Notification by FTP Voice notification MV Beep notification Picture 7 The Page Detecti
8. User s Guide of Programme Your Camera version 3 2 All Rights Reserved 2004 2009 Twoja Kamera Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide CONTENTS De PS iS enV S82 NER D a vege eae ees 3 2 The Architecture Of Your Carnbera 4 ice re seriinin Ee i saii SiE TS 3 3 System fequiE e ie HES cotes ria a PSP VON T ast dedi E idu Eve tu o o Ea Me OUR d 3 A phe technical paramelers Acatet ana quie tedudtetutgasede ca edibss uem eid mop an 4 5 The installation running configuration step by step isse 4 dala Step 1 7 connectne OF the Callas sies teet erit evi vexati Po peace e sa i boves 5 5 2 Step 2 installatiOn ias ce e ret eri NE D shone USTED SEXIES ARE SAN E eS RU ROO DP Red Sdn ode 5 9 9 BICD 3 cd UNL dos eset usui Sade ood meu bon etu DN EM M I MELDE 5 5 4 Step 4 configuration of CAMERAS ss seio qusdteopastu e qaratitutus Quteltofutba du Nube e e Aa e Fo UN Sed 7 S BRE Wicca H 8 5 4 2 A page Detection of motion ases et bedvbeanadedalics sanshoeascaysued dossseesadedaoonteaes 10 SASA pate INODTICHEEO Gasse cosi E R ii Gu edo eM dd ts cus 10 2414 A page Remote ACCESS querer secans Listed emu i uus Ma Ford e ie eh 11 3 4 5 pase SM DPOSENGE noon fati eade ER M edidit in A itid uide 11 5 4 6 A page FTP Servet AVI uie esses erste I VR ESSNPRR STAR RSS UN ena a a a 11 9 9 ie cr BID s ODLDIGHB ocean o Sau obe t t ed 11 2o 1 Gienecal coti PUTATTOT eo oues tefle divas elt a EERE DES 11 53 2 Hel poe
9. a 3 None Camera2 None I Camera4 None Picture 5 The menu of the camera zu 2 3 Intemet None eeece o Configuration of the camera amounts to fixing the parameters placed on the pages of the configuration window and then clicking OK or Apply button The difference between these buttons lies in the fact that OK button additionally causes the configuration window to be closed However clicking the Cancel button causes the inserted changes not to be approved Not all the pages must be filled out Everything depends of what functionality of Your Camera we want to get The example functions and pages which are required to fill out are presented in the table bellow TABLE 1 Watchin Recording Recordin Notification Watching Watching FUNCTIONALITY OF g the the g the on on YOUR CKAMERA images images images EIMIVIFIB WWW mobile AND from from from mloo T e phone THE REQUIRED cameras cameras cameras a blilple CONFIGURATION 7 i i c p PARAMETERS continuous triggered I lle mode mode PAGE FIELD Camera Camera Format 4 4 4 Max fps 4 4 4 Compression O O O Recording Fps Detection of a Level of TL i c d nz d motion sensitivity Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide Notification Email enabled Email address Cellphone Enabled
10. as images using WWW pages After we have entered the application correctly the main window of Your Camera will appear When we run the application it is visible at Window s Task Bar and close to Clock at right down screen corner at the Notification area When we press minimize of application button then application will be visible at Notification area Double click on icon of programme at Notification area cause application to visible again Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide icon of pr Picture 4 Notification area Background color of icon informs about the state of programme gray programme active green motion is detected at any cameras Your Camera L J 3 12 53 10 7 Intemet None Camera 1 None Camera 3 None Camera4 None Picture 2 The login window Your Camera minimize of f camera t connection to Inte dicato Internet None Camera2 None Camera3 None Camera4 None Picture 3 The main window of the programme Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide 5 4 Step 4 configuration of cameras We configure each camera separately To do this we push the right mouse s button on the image from the chosen camera Then the popup menu will appear from which we choose the option Configuration of camera Your Camera O A Camera Camera online Camera from archive Start Pause Stop Configuration of camera Cameral None Camer
11. ave UPS and we want Your Camera to stay active after the power cut 5 5 2 Help The user instruction is available in PDF format You need a free copy of Acrobat Reader to browse the instruction It can be downloaded from WWW site http www adobe com products acrobat readstep2 html We encourage to visit WWW site http www twojakamera pl ang faq html with frequently asked questions FAQ 5 5 3 Information On this page it is possible to get information about product version license IP address and also to download latest version of Your Camera programme 12 Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide 1 Upgrade of programme A user which has valid license can free download over Internet the latest version of programme For example if you have bought a 2 5 0 0 version you can free download e g 2 7 0 0 version but you can t download 3 0 0 0 version For upgrade computer Windows must be connected to Internet Upgrade is possible in two manner Singly by pressing button Check new version Automatically by marking Auto during start of the programme Then during launching Your Camera checks if there is a new version on Twoja Kamera on the server If so user can decide to get this or not Configuration Configuration Information Licence YOUR CAMERA X Upgrade Auto during start of the programme Your Camera Version 3 2 0 0 Copyright 2004 2009 Twoja Kamera All right reserved
12. choose Camera from archive option you will be able to select one of the AVI files containing films Other options Start Stop Pause you use to control watching To watch films it is possible to use other specialized programs as e g Windows Media Player The name of AVI file includes number of camera date beginning of the recording time 5 6 5 Web Camera function Thanks to this property you can place pictures from your cameras on your WWW site Watching the cameras will not generate intensive transfer on your WWW server Server WWW doesn t need high transfer limitation Transfer of pictures does takes place directly between computer with WWW browser and computer with connected cameras cameras server For this reason cameras server must have permanent IP address To activate this function it is enough to setup Your Camera for watching cameras via Internet see chapter 6 Method of placing on WWW site 1 You put the following line of HTML code on WWW site on which you want to watch camera iframe src kam1 html width 320 height 240 frameborder 0 scrolling no gt lt iframe gt Parameters width and height you set depending on dimension of the picture 14 Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide 2 You create kam1 html file which includes IDOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC W3C DTD HTML 4 01 Transitional EN gt html head title Camera 1 title meta http equiv content type contentz te
13. erver Default value is 25 5 4 6 A page FTP Server AVI We fill out this page only in situation shown in Table 1 To fill it out correctly it may be necessary to contact your internet provider or administrator The meaning of fields Server name the name of FTP server to which we will send AVI films for instance www mikrosoft com or 123 23 24 214 User Name the name of user on FTP server Password the password to access FTP server Port the port number of FTP server Default value is 21 Folder the folder on FTP server in which films are stored 5 5 Step 5 options eeq To choose an option we should to click button in the main window of the programme 5 5 1 General configuration 1 It is possible to choose a kind of connection to Internet There are four connection modes available None In this mode Your Camera doesn t execute any functions requiring connection to Internet that is WWW sending e mail etc Permanently LAN recommended Modem We don t have permanent access to Internet and it by modem or other DialUp device Then before you start working with the programme it is necessary to connect a computer to Internet using a dial up connection in Windows Before you do it it s necessary to configure a DialUp so that in the case of interruption of it the DialUp is automatically resumed Modem alarm We don t have permanent access to Internet and get it by modem or other Dia
14. l Up device Then it is necessary to choose from the list the name of modem link up which Your Camera will be use if configuration of cameras require an access 11 Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide to Internet e mail FTP ect In this mode after executing any function requiring connecting to Internet the connection will be disconnected REMARK If we have permanent LAN connection to Internet and choose Modem alarm mode them Your Camera uses a permanent connection and it doesn t link up by modem However when the permanent connection is lacking Your Camera connects by modem and continues this link up even when the permanent connection appears again A disconnection will not ensue if before a DialUp attempt any other modem DialUp exists State of connection to Internet is indicated in main programme window When connecting with Internet is found the globe is shows When programme connects to Internet the globe flash Configuration Configuration Information Licence Connection mode to Internet Communication ports Ns MPEG4 port Permanently LAN 30055 C Modem WWW port 30056 C Modem alarm Parameters modem alarm 1 1 1 HH b si AutoStart after restart of Windows Cancel Apply Picture 8 The page General configuration 2 Autostart Marking this field Enabled causes that programme will start automatically after restart of Windows It is specially useful e g if we don t h
15. necessary to remember if we want to watch images from cameras safely 1 Don t disclose user name and password to the incorrect persons 2 Limit an access of the incorrect persons to the computer on which we watch the images from cameras in Internet 3 Don t make the cellphone on which we watch the images from cameras available to the incorrect persons 17
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17. omputer on Remote access page of configuration of camera and have chosen the mode of connection to Internet To watch the images from cameras it is necessary to have an internet browser installed on the computer e g Internet Explorer or Netscape in version 4 0 or later or anotther serving HTML format in version 4 0 or later with Cookies and Java script 15 Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide We run it enter the site www twojakamera pl ang In login window we enter IP address and port and click Go button Address IP is address of cameras server which we can read in main configuration of Your Camera programme on page Information Port is communication port on page Main configuration We can watch images from 4 cameras Each of them is refreshed with the maximum frequency fixed in the programme during configuration of camera The speed of refreshing can be lower than declared among other things because of too slow connection to Internet To watch image from one camera only we click on this image To return and watch images from 4 cameras we click Back in Internet browser On WWW site we can change the quality of watched pictures To achieve that we change parameters visible at the bottom of the site After setting a new value press button OK The meaning of the fields Resolution acceptable values 40x30 720x576 Quality compression level Acceptable values 1 99 The better quality the wor
18. on of motion FTP Marking Enabled field causes the two AVI films recorded before and after the appearance of motion to be sent to the given folder on FTP server To make this notification possible it is necessary to fill out Server FTP AVI page Voice notification Marking Enabled field causes Your Camera speaks e g camera one motion over loudspeaker connected to sound card if motion is detected Beep notification Marking Enabled field causes that in case of detection of motion computer produces a sound beep that you can hear on loudspeaker We can add a short text to email by filing out the field Your text 10 Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide 5 4 4 A page Remote access We fill out this page only when we want to watch the images from cameras via Internet When we want watch the images from cameras on a other computer or a cellphone then we mark field Available 5 4 5 A page SMTP Server We fill out this page only in situation shown in Table 1 To fill it out correctly it may be necessary to contact your internet provider or administrator The meaning of fields Server name the name of SMTP server used to send email messages Server requires authentication we mark it when our SMTP server for sending messages requires to give user name and password User Name the name of user of SMTP server Password the password to access SMTP server Port the port number of SMTP s
19. s continuous and triggered e The continuous recording guarantees to record images from cameras in the form of AVI films in the ten minute sequences every sequence in a separate AVI file All the cameras record films in the same folder named Filmy e The triggered recording is a recording mode used in the professional monitoring systems It is also called recording with pre alarm It means that the recording will start only when the motion is detected If you choose this mode then after every detection of a motion two five second AVI films will be recorded One of them will include the images preceding detection of motion and the second one the images following it The quality of the recorded film depends on format fps and compression Better quality involves more disk space needed to wrote the film For instance a film with the properties RGB 320x240 24 bits fps 5 10 minutes long has size of 691 MB when not compressed and about 25 MB when compressed using MPEG 4 codec this parameter frames per second specifies a number of frames per second that we want to record in a film System will try to record with the given value of Fps but it may turn out that it is impossible when our computer is too slow or when we will have too many cameras connected Value 25 frames sec gives the best quality Recommended value of Fps is less or equal 5 frames sec enables to decrease the size of AVI files at the cost of quality
20. s on the server side 1 25 frame sec camera Number of watched cameras on the WWW side 1 4 Refresh rate of watched images on the WWW side 1 999 sec between frame Refresh rate of watched images on the remote 1 25 frame sec camera computer with Your Camera Client programme REMARK Refresh rate and recording speed depend on software configuration computer power and Internet connection speed 5 The installation running configuration step by step This chapter will lead us step by step through the actions which are necessary to run Your Camera Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide 5 1 Step 1 connecting of the cameras Without cameras Your Camera programme is useless Thus the first step which is necessary to do is connecting them according to the instruction provided with the cameras If the camera is correctly installed in Windows and supports WDM or DirectX drivers almost every multimedia device supports them then Your Camera will interact with it Here are several examples of connecting the cameras e an Internet camera by USB USB 2 0 is recommended e an analog camera with a composite video output connected by USB converter USB 2 0 is recommended e an analog camera with a composite video output connected by DVR card e an analog camera with a composite video output connected by composite video input of TV card e adigital camera connected by FireWire 5 2 Step 2 installation After we have installed
21. se compression Sec between determines the number of seconds between refreshing pictures frames Acceptable values 1 999 We improve quality by increasing value of parameters resolution and quality The better quality the larger quantity of data must be sent via Internet If our connection speed to Internet is too slow and the value of Sec between frames parameter is too small then it is possible that we will not see the picture on WWW site So if the frames from camera are displayed irregularly then we should increase the value of parameter Sec between frames until we get smooth frame changes Actual refresh rate can be lower than declared because of too slow connection to Internet It is possible watching live pictures on others devices like Pocket PC with installed WWW browser 6 2 Remote access and watching cameras using Your Camera Client programme Your Camera Client is a programme which makes possible watching live pictures To download and install the programme we run Internet browser and enter the site www twojakamera pl ang and click Download in menu After installing we run the programme and write login like in Your Camera programme But before we run the programme we should connect to Internet If the login process and connection to Cameras Server computer with ran Your Camera programme succeeds we will watch live pictures 16 Your Camera 3 2 User s Guide 7 Security What is
22. xt html charset SO 8859 2 gt meta HTTP EQUIV Refresh content 3 gt meta HTTP EQUIV Pragma content no cache gt meta HTTP EQUIVz Cache Control content no cache gt lt head gt lt body gt lt img src http 81 81 81 81 80 1X320x240x50 jpg alt Camera 1 unreachable gt lt body gt lt html gt Line lt meta HTTP EQUIV Refresh content 3 gt determines the refresh rate of image Value 3 means that image will be refreshed every 3 seconds Line lt img src http 81 81 81 81 80 1X320x240x50 jpg alt Camera 1 unreachable gt determines address and format of the image 81 81 81 81 IP address of cameras server 80 port of cameras server 1 number of camera 320 width of image in pixsels 240 height of image in pixsels 50 quality Acceptable values 1 99 99 means the best quality You set parameters appropriately 3 You upload such prepared files on your WWW server 5 7 Closing the application To close the system we click the window closure symbol X in the top right corner Then the logout window will open After giving a user name and a password the programme will close The logout prevents from interrupting the monitoring by the wrong persons 6 Watching the images from cameras by Internet on the computer 6 1 Login remote access and watching cameras using WWW browsers The images from camera can be available via Internet if you have marked Enabled c
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