Doss L Series User manual

IP Camera
IP Camera
(L series)
(L series)
User manual
User manual
2013-01 V1.0
Dear users, the configuration for this
camera is professional, so please
read the
user manual carefully before using the
camera.

If the user manual can not help you to solve the problem, please call our technology center
for solutions. We will update the content for the new functions without notice.
1、Installation Environment
Keep away from the places for high-temperature, heat source and direct sunlight;
Keep away from water and when get wet, cut off the power immediately.
Avoid using at damp environment; the reference range for operation humidity is below
5%RH.
Avoid using in overheating and too cold environment, the reference range for operation
temperature is -10 ~ +50℃ ℃
Please install it horizontally or wall mounting, avoid strenuous vibration place and not put
other equipments onto the item
2、Transport and andling
The package is well-designed to ensure the security during the delivery, so please do
not change the package at random.
Do not move the ip cameras from overheated to supercooled condition frequently,
otherwise it will frost and shorten the service life.
Do not move the item when is power on, otherwise the main board might be damaged.
Notice:
1. Please check the power supply before it is working
2. Be careful not to bang the camera or subject it to strong impacts or shocks.
3. Do not directly touch the optical components for the image sensor, if necessary, please
place a clean and moistened cloth with alcohol and wipe the dirt gently; When not in
use, please place the dust cover on to the item to protect the image sensor.
4. Do not aim the camera directly into the sun or at other intense light sources that could
affect the image quality (it is not the problem for the ip camera), also shorten the service
life for the image sensor.
5. Keep away from laser when it is working, otherwise the image sensor can be damaged.
6. If the equipment is not working properly, please contact the store or the service center,
do not disassemble or modify the equipment in any way. （Problems caused by
unauthorized modification or repair should be at your own risk. ）
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Index
1 PRODUCT INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................. 4
1.1 PRODUCT SUMMARY............................................................................................................... 4
1.2 PACKAGE FOR TYPICAL PRODUCTIO .................................................................................. 4
2 INSTALLATION GUIDE........................................................................................................... 5
2.1 AP CO ECTIO ................................................................................................................... 5
2.2 WIRED CO ECTIO TO LA .............................................................................................. 5
2.3 WIFI CO ECTI G TO LA .................................................................................................. 6
2.4 CO ECTI G TO WA ........................................................................................................... 7
3 OPERATION OF IE BROWSER.............................................................................................. 9
3.1 VIEW VIDEO............................................................................................................................ 9
3.2 DEVICE I FORMATIO ........................................................................................................... 10
3.2.1 Device status................................................................................................................... 10
3.2.2 Device alias setting........................................................................................................... 10
3.2.3 Device date and time setting.............................................................................................. 10
3.2.4 Local recording path....................................................................................................... 10
3.3 DEVICE WEB SETTI G........................................................................................................... 11
3.3.1 Basic network settings....................................................................................................... 11
3.3.2 AP settings....................................................................................................................... 11
3.3.3 ireless wifi settings....................................................................................................... 11
3.3.4 Manufacture’s DDNS setting..............................................................................................12
3.3.5 Third party DDNS setting.................................................................................................. 12
3.3.6 UPnP settings................................................................................................................... 12
3.4 ALARM SETTI GS................................................................................................................... 12
3.4.1 Alarm service setting....................................................................................................... 12
3.4.2 Mail Service Setting........................................................................................................... 13
3.4.3 FTP Service Setting........................................................................................................... 14
3.4.4 Alarm log............................................................................................................................ 14
3.5 USER A D DEVICE SETTI G.................................................................................................. 15
3.5.1 Multi-device Setting........................................................................................................... 15
3.5.2 User Settings................................................................................................................... 15
3.5.3 PTZ settings....................................................................................................................... 15
3.5.4 Maintain............................................................................................................................ 16
4 VISITING DEVICE BY OT ER SOFTWARE......................................................................... 16
4.1 OTHER WEB BROWSER........................................................................................................... 16
4.2 MOBILE PHO E SOFTWARE.................................................................................................. 16
4.3 CE TRALIZATIO CO TROL.................................................................................................. 16
5 PRODUCT FAMILY FOR L SERIES...................................................................................... 17
5.1 VGA CUBE CAMERA............................................................................................................... 17
5.2 VGA PTZ CAMERA (MODEL A ）...................................................................................... 17
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Appendix：L series IP camera parameters comparison list........................................................ 18
1 Product introduction
1.1 Product summary
Thank you for choosing our company’s L series IP camera, the IP Camera combines a
high quality digital video camera with network connectivity and a powerful web server to
bring clear video to your desktop from anywhere on your local network or over the
Internet. It is very suitable for family, shops, office building and so on.
Main features for L series：
The video is compressed by MJPEG. There are VGA/QVGA/QQVGA three video
resolutions optional. User can changes some parameters according to their demands to
satisfy his own visual prefer;
Infrared LED for night vision covers 5m area, to realize 24 hours monitoring;
Support 802.11b/g/n protocol, can build up wireless monitoring;
Support AP mode, the PC and mobile phone can be directly connected to the
camera by WiFI, don’t need the router;
Support motion detection, send alarm information by email and FTP;
Support mobile phone to view;
Built in web server, all data is transferred through one port; it is easy for user to
do the network setting;
Manufacture attached a label at the bottom of each IP Camera, it include
DDNS. When IP Camera is connected to the internet, this URL can be used to
visit the device;
Manufacturer provides free software, support Multi-view, long time recording,
video playback etc;
1.2 Package for typical production
Accessory
Type
Power
adaptor
CD Cable Brack
et
Stand
of
plastic
Antenn
a
5V √ √
√ √ √
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5V
√ √ √ √ Built-in
Notice:
Please check carefully if all listed items are included in the package, if anything
missing, please contact vendor in time.
2Installation guide
2.1 AP connection
Power on the camera (Please check carefully output voltage of power adapter, don’t insert
incorrect adapter, otherwise it will damage the camera), after 2 minutes, the camera works
normally. You can use PC or mobile phone to connect directly the camera by WiFi, as
Figure 1.
Figure
1
1)
Turn
WLAN on in PC, and search available SSID, if searched AP SSID in device label,
then you can connect it, default password is 123456789.
2) After connecting the camera, it will assign IP address to PC( PC wifi IP address
need to be set to obtain automatically).
3) Open browser in PC, enter IP address of camera(AP default IP address is
192.168.9.1 ）then you can visit the camera(refer to 2.2).
Note: Please check the user manual of mobile phone software when you connect to the
camera by mobile phone.
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2.2 Wired connection to LAN
Power on the IP camera, connect IP camera to router by network cable, meanwhile,
connect computer to the same router, example of figure 2.
Figure
2
Insert
CD to computer driver, double click “LSearch_en.exe” in the CD, run the software,
click “Search”, select the device searched, click “Browse” to open browser, it will
pop up user login dialog, enter default user name(admin) and password(123456) to
login the camera as figure 3.
Figure 3
We suggest using IE kernel browser to view the video （it can provide more functions ）,
but user needs to install video player before viewing the video. Click “OCX Download ” to
download OCX and install it.
otice:
If you installed the firewall software in your PC, when you run the LSearch_en.exe, it may
pop up a window to say “whether you want to block this program or not”, then you should
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choose not to block.
You can hold on reset button on the camera for 10 seconds to restore factory default if you
forget user name and password, during the process, don’t disconnect the power, otherwise
the camera maybe damaged.
2.3 WIFI connecting to LAN
You can connect the camera with router by wireless connection, as figure 4.
Figure 4
Before
connecting
router by
wifi, please
connect them as chapter 2.2 to Login camera and enter wifi setting, and then operate as
the following step, example of figure 5.
Figure 5
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Enter the Wireless LAN Setting, click the “Scan” button, it will show you all the wireless
networks detected in the Wireless Network List column. Select one of them and tick
“Using Wireless Lan”, then the relevant data of the selected wireless network will be
shown in the following blanks. Input the password and click “Submit”, then the WIFI
setting is finished. Unplug the cable, then you can connect to router by wifi.
otice: When the device is connected both WIFI and wired, it will firstly connect to the wired
network. If the camera enables DHCP to obtain IP address automatically, so the IP address is not
same in wired connection and wifi connection, recommend to set fixed IP address for the camera.
2.4 Connecting to WAN
You should connect the LAN network to WAN first and do the port forwarding, connect
as figure 6.
Figure 6
If visit IP Camera from WAN, you must do port forwarding on the router. Example of
figure 7.
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Figure 7
Operation Steps:
1) After login the interface of the router, choose “Port Forwarding”
2) Choose “Add custom Service”
3) Input IP camera http port
4) Input IP address of IP camera, click “Apply”
After finishing the port forwarding, you can use WAN IP address of router and http port
of camera to visit the camera by remote computer as figure 6.
otice: because the routers are different, so the interface and setting method of router are also
different, how to do the port forwarding for various routers, please refer to the user manual of
your router or consult with router manufacturer.
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3 Operation of IE browser
3.1 View video
After installing the plug-ins, click “Mode 1 to view” as Figure 3 to view the video (video
as Figure ).
Figure
1）Audio, Talk, Record, Snapshot
You can click these
buttons to perform
audio, talk, record and
snapshot functions.
Note: about recording path, click
button to enter setting interface, you
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can set it in “Local Recording Path”, as figure 9.
Figure 9
2）Multipicture change button
If you add multi-devices in chapter 3.4.2 “multi-device setting”, it will connect other
device to display pictures automatically when changing to 4, 9 split screen. In playing
video area, you can select a picture to control audio, talk, record, snapshot and PTZ
control etc.
3）Viewing control area
You can control PTZ moving, picture reversal and mirror etc. when viewing video, and
can adjust picture parameters, includes resolution, brightness etc.
The camera supports 16 preset points, you can set one place as preset point when
moving the PTZ to a place, also can call the preset point when the camera move to
another place, so the camera can return to set place.
Note: button can control work mode of IR LED. IR LED may have auto, forced
close two mode, the IR LED will power on or off according to environment light
in auto mode; the IR LED always power off in forced close mode.
4）Setting device parameters
Click button to enter setting interface,
you can set all parameters of the
camera described in chapter 3.2 to
3.5. Only administrator can login to set these parameters.
3.2 Device information
3.2.1 Device status
The user can obtain “Device firmware version”,” Web UI version”, “Alias”, “AP MAC” etc.
3.2.2 Device alias setting
The user can name the camera, example for home, office etc.
3.2.3 Device date and time setting
You can enable “Sync with NTP Server” when the device was connected to WAN, but
need to select correct time zone where the camera is located, otherwise need to select“
Sync with PC time”.
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Figure 10
Remark ：Please carefully check the camera time, so it can be sure the alarm
accuracy.
3.2.4 Local recording path
The camera will be automatically create a file folder named “Record files” when the user
don’t set “local recording path” and launch recording directly, and then save recording
file to the folder, as figure 11.
Figure 11
3.3 Device web setting
3.3.1 Basic network settings
The user can also enter the Basic Network Settings to set the IP address except using
the search software “LSearch_en.exe”. See below Figure 12.
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Figure 12
Remark: The router connected to camera need to enable DHCP when the user uses
“obtain IP from DHCP server”; the routers enable DHCP by default.
3.3.2 AP settings
Example of chapter 2.1, the user can directly connect to the camera by mobile phone
and laptop with WiFi. The label with default AP SSID was sticked to bottom of the
camera, the default password is 123456789. The user can change the SSID and
password, but the password must be or above characters and digitals.
Figure 13
3.3.3 Wireless wifi settings
Please refer to chapter 2.2.
3.3.4 Manufacture’s DDNS setting
Manufacturer puts a label of DD S at the bottom of each IP Camera, it is unique, the
manufacturer has established a DD S system, and allotted a DD S to every device, the user
only enter the website into browser, and then view it from remote PC, example of figure 14.
Figure 14
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3.3.5 Third party DDNS setting
User can also use third party DD S, such as www.dyndns.com, User must apply a free domain
name from this website and fill the info into the below blanks (Figure 15) and save the settings.
Then the domain name can be used.
Figure 15
otice ：Using the third party domain name, if the http port is not 80, the port number should be
adding to the domain name with colon. Example: http://btest.dyndns.biz:81 ﾧ. Don’t enter port
number when you use manufacturer’s DD S.
3.3.6 UPnP settings
If you enable UPnP, once the IP camera is connected into the LAN, it will communicate
with the router in the LAN and do the port-forwarding with open port of router
automatically. In figure 16, you only tick “Using UPnP to Port Mapping” to finish the
setting.
Figure 16
Before using the UPnP function, please make sure the router’s UPnP function has been
enabled. Not all the routers support UPnP perfectly. Please test if the router works well
with the equipment, if not, we suggest you to disable this function and do the port-
forwarding manually.
3.4 Alarm Settings
3.4.1 Alarm service setting
If user need to monitor a fixed area, when there is any motion, it will detect the motion
and trigger the alarm. In the motion detect sensibility, the smaller the value, the more
sensitivity.
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After triggering the alarm, you can adopt several alarm mode in armed time, example of
figure 17.
Link to the Preset when alarming: need to set preset point of the camera;
Send alarm info by email ( a email include a picture); every alarm trigger a email;
Send the snap to the FTP server, user can also set the interval time between two
pictures.
Device only triggers alarm when it detects any motion in armed time. User can set
schedule time to be “all the time”, also assign the armed time. Before you set “Time
Schedule”, please go to Date and Time settings to set the correct time for the item.
Figure 17
3.4.2 Mail Service Setting
When it detects alarming, it can send email to your appointed email box, but you need
to set email service parameters correctly. Example of figure 1 , click “Submit” to save
these parameters, and then you can click “Test” to check if the setting is successful.
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Figure 1
3.4.3 FTP Service Setting
When alarming, the device will snap local picture and send them to FTP server, but
need to set the FTP setting correctly. As figure 19, after the setting is finished, click
“Test” to check your settings are correct or not.
Figure 19
otice ：For using the FTP function, you need to apply a user with authority that you can write
and create submenu and some memory space.
3.4.4 Alarm log
You can inquire when the device performs alarm in alarm log.
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Figure 20
3.5 User and device setting
3.5.1 Multi-device Setting
As Figure 21, User can add maximum 9 devices to view video simultaneously. Click
“refresh” button to check the device in the LAN. When click a device, will popup setting
dialogue and enter the device info, and click “Add” to add device. After that, must click
“Setup” button to save device.
Figure 21
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3.5.2 User Settings
Figure 22
3.5.3 PTZ settings
Figure 23
Note: When you set cruise turns all the time, the camera will automatically stop after
cruising one hour.
3.5.4 Maintain
Figure 24
Click “Restore factory settings”, it will pop up a dialog to ask you if restore factory
settings, the camera will restore factory settings and reboot after you confirmed.
There are two types software in the camera, one is device firmware, another is Web UI,
and you can upgrade them respectively.
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4 Visiting device by other software
4.1 Other web browser
Except IE browser, you can visit the camera by Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera browser
etc., please select “Mode 2 to view”.
4.2 Mobile phone software
For more information, please see the user manual for mobile phone in attached CD, or
download the latest software and user manual in our website.
4.3 Centralization Control
IPCMonitor is a free software offered by factory, several devices on LAN and WAN can
be browsed at the same time. The software also supports snapshot, video record,
scheduled record, alarming and so on. The interface is as figure 25.
Figure 25
For more information, please refer to the <<IPCMonitor User Manual>> in CD.
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5 Product family for L series
5.1 VGA Cube camera
Figure 26
The camera adopts 300K pixels CMOS sensor, 3.6mm lens, built in MIC, 12 pieces IR
LED, audio out socket. It uses 5V power adaptor.
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