Iqinvision IQeye 7 Series Installation guide

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IQinvision IQeye
7xx Series
Megapixel Cameras

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Agenda
1. Overview (Hardware)
2. IQtools CD-ROM
3. Live Page
4. Focusing
5. Settings Page
5.1 Image Tab
5.2 Windows Tab
5.3 Networking Tab
5.4 Security Tab
5.5 I/O Tab
5.6 Multiview Tab
5.7 IQrecorder Tab
5.8 Playback Tab
5.9 Triggers Tab
6. IQstream
7. Q & A

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Overview / Setup of the IQeye Cameras
IQeye 700 / 750 Connections
1. RJ-45 Ethernet connector - 802.3af PoE
2. Direct Power 12-24VDC or 24VAC
3. Factory Reset button - Recessed
4. BNC - Analog (NTSC / PAL) Video Output
5. Trigger In / Output
6. CF Media Slot
7. MAC address & Model type label
IQeye 7xx Series Lens & Miscellaneous
There are three adjustments on the Megapixel lens.
Each ring has a set screw. Loosen the set screws
prior to adjustment, and retighten when complete.
1. Focal Length
2. Iris - Set to Open
3. Focus
4. 1/4-20 Camera Mount (Top & Bottom)
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IQtools CD-ROM
The IQtools CD-ROM includes the resources needed to check
if the PC being used is ready to view images from an IQeye
camera, and the software utilities needed to configure camera
IP addresses.
Includes:
1. Utility to check if the PC is ready to view images from an
IQeye camera.
2. Sun Java
3. IQfinder
4. Visicon
Insert the IQtools CD into the CD drive of
the PC. The IQfinder installation application
will launch automatically.
Click the "Scan for IQeye cameras on my
network" button to find IQeye cameras.
Also the IQfinder can be installed and run
from the PC's hard drive.
The detected cameras will be
displayed in the IQfinder window.
Highlight a camera from the list
and click the "Edit" button to edit
the selected camera's IP
settings.

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IQtools CD-ROM
The Edit window allows:
1. The Name, IP address, Subnet, and Gateway of the
camera to be changed manually.
2. It also allows the camera to be configured to DHCP
Click the "Apply" button after making the desired
changes.
NOTE: Changing between a static IP address and
DHCP will require the camera to be rebooted.
To view a camera:
1. Double click on a camera entry in the list or click the
"Open" button.
The "Live" page will displayed.
Note: It's also possible to open Internet Explorer
then enter the IP address of the IQeye device in
the address field of the browser.
Please Note: The default user names for all IQeye
devices is "root" and the default password is
"system"

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Live Page
Open Internet Explorer and type in the camera's IP address:
For example http://192.168.1.100
The Live page provides the following functions:
1. Digital Pan Tilt Zoom within the image
2. Digital Pan Tilt via button click
3. Zoom in / out via button click
4. Full Zoom Out
5. Image size increase / decrease via button click
6. Max Image size button
7. Snap shot button - as jpeg
8. Stop button
9. Recording video clip button - as avi
10. Multi view - when configured
11. Relay button - when configured
12. Help button - On camera help
Adjust Lens
1. Open Iris to the open position
2. Set Field-of-View
3. Adjust Focus
NOTE:
The analog output can be used
with an analog monitor to
adjust focus

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Settings Page - Image Tab
Select the "Settings" folder
Factory default username = root
Factory default password = system
Quality:
Default = High
Available options = Medium - High - Fine - Super Fine
Higher quality results in higher quality images, larger file sizes, and slower transmission
times. Lower quality yields poorer image quality, smaller file sizes, and faster transmission
times. Your ideal quality setting will depend on the minimum image quality and maximum
transmission time that you find acceptable.
Gain Style:
Default = Clip Average
Available options = Clip Average - Average - Peak Detect - Dark Detect

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Settings Page - Image Tab
Gain Style:
Default = Clip Average
The autogain algorithm of your camera will set brightness to best display the
exposure window (which can be set on the IQeye7xx series with the Exposure
Window Page.
The gain style setting chooses which pixels within the exposure window will be
used by the autogain algorithm for setting brightness levels.
peakdetect: Uses only the brightest pixels in the exposure window, making sure
they're appropriately-adjusted for bright pixels. This is a good setting for watching
bright areas.
darkdetect: uses only the darkest pixels in the exposure window, making sure
they're appropriately-adjusted for dark pixels. This is a good setting for outdoor
scenes where you want to watch a shaded region.
average: uses all of the pixels in the exposure window This is a good setting for
indoor scenes where there are no very bright or very dark areas to skew the gain
calculations.
clipaverage: uses all pixels except for the very darkest and brightest pixels. This
is a good setting for outdoor scenes where you want to ignore both sky and
shadows and to watch a region of intermediate brightness levels. This is also a
good setting for interior scenes.

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Settings Page - Image Tab
Autogain: Sets how fast the autogain responds to changing lighting conditions
Default = Fast
Electronic Shutter: Sets the type of shutter response
Default = Auto
optimize speed: Use this setting for fast moving subjects. This setting may cause
images to appear grainy in low light conditions.
optimize quality: Use this setting for high quality images. This setting may cause
images to blur in low light conditions.
auto: This setting is ideal when there is adequate light and objects are not moving too
fast.
fixed exposure: Forces an exposure speed. The list of available exposures may
change based on other settings like frame rate, lightgrabber, and resolution.
locked: gain is held at the current value
slow: slower speed for outdoor (sunlight) conditions
medium: faster speed for indoor (fixed) conditions
fastest: default speed is fastest possible response

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Settings Page - Image Tab
LIGHTGRABBER:
Default = 4X
Available options = 4X - 2X - 1X - Disabled
Enables or disables special processing for low light images. The 4X setting specifies
integration of four frames, twice the low light correction as the 2X setting which
specifies integration of two frames
Max frame rate: Enter a maximum frame rate in frames per second. This is the
maximum number of images per second which the camera will send to any one
viewer.
Note that you can also set a bandwidth limit, limiting the total network traffic from
the camera.
Live page:
Default = Optimize For Quality
Optimizes the live streaming page for image quality or speed. If optimized for
quality, the camera will deliver the highest resolution possible. If optimized for
speed, the camera will deliver a lower resolution but a higher framerate over slower
links.

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Settings Page - Image Tab
Sharpness: Increasing the sharpness value will enhance the edges and small
features in your camera's images. If your image's edges appear too smooth or blurred,
increase sharpness. If your image seems rippled or noisy, decrease sharpness.
Increasing sharpness works against increasing compression by increasing file sizes
Saturation: Saturation describes the difference of a color from the gray of the same
lightness. Increasing saturation will deepen the colors of your images, making reds
redder and blues bluer. Decreasing saturation will bring your image closer to a
grayscale (i.e. monochrome, black-and-white) image.
When saturation is set to 0, your camera will go into monochrome mode. In this
case, your camera will discard all color information, creating grayscale images.
Monochrome images compress better and transfer faster than comparable quality
color images.
In dark scenes, there is often little or no useful color information, so image quality
will improve with monochrome images.
Contrast, gamma: Configure the midtone levels of your image for best viewing.
Select the value by entering a number into the form field.
Brightness: Select the value by entering a number into the text field.
A/C power frequency: If your camera is trained on a scene lit by artificial lighting,
then you may set this value to reduce banding in your images. The United States uses
A/C power with a 60 Hertz (Hz) frequency. 50Hz is used in many other countries. A
few countries use both frequencies.

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Settings Page - Image Tab
Overlays are information which is added on top of an image.
Timestamp: Enable or disable a timestamp overlay that will appear on your image.
Overlay text: Enter a text message, of no more than 31 characters, that will appear
as an overlay on your image. You may use dynamic variables in this field. To use a
'$' sign, enter "$$".)
Note: The overlay text automatically becomes enabled after you enter text into the
overlay text field and press <Tab>. Disable the text overlay by deleting the text from
the overlay text field and then pressing <Tab>.

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Settings Page - Window Tab
Note: Image parameters apply to the area inside the exposure window, and can
help when optimizing image quality or addressing backlight situations
Exposure: Use the Exposure Settings Page to set the part of the image used for
automatic exposure (gain) calculations.
You can select a rectangular region of interest for which brightness and color balance
will be best.
This is useful if parts of your image are excessively bright or dark, for example, if your
image contains large amounts of sky or sunlit windows. Setting an exposure window
may darken or brighten other areas of your image.
For best color balance, use an exposure window containing at least 20,000 pixels (e.g.
200 by 100), and attempt to include some gray or white areas.
One include window and multiple exclude windows can be set. Brightness is adjusted
by looking at the image within the include window but not including the exclude
windows.
In addition to setting the exposure window, you may wish to set the gain style
algorithm from the Image Settings Page .

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Cropping images results in the following:
1. Smaller file size
2. Reduced bandwidth
3. Increased storage capacity
Settings Page - Window Tab
Cropping: Use the Crop Page to personalize the size of your camera's image.
Cropping involves discarding all but a selected a region of interest in your camera's
image, creating a smaller image, possibly increasing your frame rate.
Press the apply button to set your camera to use the crop settings currently shown
on the page.
Press the default button to remove cropping from your image.
Press the cancel button to restore this page's crop settings to the state they were in
when you entered the page.

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Settings Page - Window Tab
Privacy: Use the Privacy Settings Page to cover parts of your camera's image with
privacy masks.
You can configure up to 8 rectangular privacy windows in the image to be masked
from view. Initially the pulldown menu includes all currently-configured privacy
windows plus, at the end of the pulldown, an entry for one un-configured privacy
window. After that window is configured, another un-configured privacy window
selection will be added to the pulldown menu.
To delete the current privacy window, click on the "default" button. The current
privacy window will be deleted and all subsequent privacy windows will be
renumbered downward by one.
Setting a window with your mouse: If there are multiple windows displayed, the
selected window has its corners marked with solid squares You may click (without
releasing) on a corner or side of the selected window to move that corner or side.
Drag to the desired location, then release the mouse button. Clicking in the center
of a selected window will allow you to move the position of that window without
altering its size. You may click (without releasing) outside the selected window to
start a new window (you can also start a new window this way if there is no selected
window). Click on the point on the image where you want the top-left of the crop
window to appear. Drag to where you want the bottom-right of the window, then
release the mouse button.

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Settings Page - Window Tab
Motion detection: Use the Motion Settings Page to configure motion detection on
the camera. The motion detection settings allow you to configure up to 8 rectangular
windows of the image to be used for motion detection.
The motion detection algorithm running on your camera will trigger when "significant"
change has occurred to "enough" pixels in a chosen part of your camera's image.
The default action is to use all pixels in the image for motion detection. You may
change this by configuring one or more windows.
Mode: For each window, choose whether its interior is to be included or excluded
from consideration by the motion detection algorithm. The algorithm will use every
pixel that is in an included window but not in any exclude windows. Exclude windows
are drawn in red. Include windows are drawn in blue.
For each included box, you must set two threshold values.
Sensitivity: specifies how much a pixel value must change in order that such change
be considered "significant." Sensitivity values range between 0 and 255. The default
value, "auto", for your IQeye702 sensitivity will be sufficient for most applications.
'Auto' is high enough to filter out most noise and slight lighting changes, and low
enough to detect most motion. If 'auto' doesn't give appropriate detection for your
application, try lower values to increase sensitivity to pixel value changes, and higher
ones to decrease it. A sensitivity of 255 triggers only with a change between absolute
black and absolute white. Sensitivity values under 10 often trigger from imager noise
even when no motion is visible to the eye.
Size: specifies how many pixels in a box must change (by the sensitivity) in order
that "enough" change has occured to trigger motion detection. Size is given as a
percentage of the number of pixels in a box so it has values between 0 and 100.

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Settings Page - Network Tab
Name: Specify the name of the
camera
IP address: Specify the IP address
of the camera. This will not take
effect until the camera is rebooted.
Subnet mask: Specify the subnet
mask, or netmask, that the camera
should use. IP networks can be
divided into several smaller
networks by subnetting. When a
network is subnetted, you must
specify a subnet mask which tells
network devices which smaller
network they belong to.
TCP/IP gateway: Enter the IP address of the host to use as a TCP/IP gateway
between networks. The gateway allows communication between devices that are
on different networks. Without a correct gateway setting, the camera cannot receive
or transmit data from/to devices that are not in the same network address range.
Primary nameserver: Specify the IP address of the external nameserver (if any)
the camera will use when it attempts a TCP/IP connection with another host. An
external nameserver must be specified for the camera to access an FTP server by
using its text-based name. Since network devices can only recognize numeric IP
addresses, a nameserver is needed to resolve the correct numeric IP address from
a text-based name used in a connection request.
Domain name: Enter the domain name for the network that the camera is on. For
example, one might enter mycompany.com as the domain name for your camera.
The camera will append this suffix to requests that it sends to the nameserver.
Web port: Enter the desired web port (i.e. the port number of your camera's web
server). Port numbers may range from 0 to 65536. The default port number is 80. If
your camera has a network name of mycam.mycompany.com, and has web port
8080, then its URL address is http://mycam.mycompany.com:8080 . If its web port
is 80, then its url may be abbreviated as http://mycam.mycompany.com.

Bandwidth limit: This sets the
maximum network bandwidth limit in
kilobits per second. "Unlimited"
means that image streams are
delivered at full speed. You may
wish to change this so that an image
stream doesn't take up all the
bandwidth in your network.
Specifying a non-zero value will
restrict your camera to that amount
of bandwidth. For example, a value
of 64 will limit the frame rate of your
camera so that it outputs no more
than 64 kilobits of image data each
second. The value "0" is will be
accepted as an alternate method of
specifying "unlimited."
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Settings Page - Network Tab
Ethernet mode: Sets the camera's ethernet connection mode. "Auto" is the default
value and autonegotiates the correct setting with the switch. If your switch is not set
to autonegotiate you can set the camera to 10Mbit or 100Mbit, full-duplex or half-
duplex. This setting should match your switch. Use extreme caution when changing
this setting as the incorrect value means you will no longer be able to connect to the
camera. Changing this value requires a reboot.
Mailserver: the name or IP address of a SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server
on your camera's network. The mail server must be an SMTP server and must accept
connections on port 25.
Timeserver protocol: Set this select box to 'none', 'ntp', or 'daytime', depending on
the timeserver protocol used by your network. Setting this to 'none' will mean that your
camera does not obtain its time from the network.

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Settings Page - Security Tab
General password protection: Use the pull-down menu to enable or disable
general password protection for your camera. When this feature is enabled, users
must enter the general password to view camera images.
Change general password: Enter a new general password. This password should
be seven or fewer alphanumeric characters with no spaces. Passwords should
contain both numbers and letters to decrease their chances of being guessed.
Authentication mode: You may choose Basic or Secure authentication for
submitting usernames and passwords to your camera.
Basic authentication sends usernames and passwords over the network without
secure encoding. It allows logging in by a URL address like:
Secure authentication encrypts usernames and passwords before they are sent
over the network. The MD5 encryption standard and a "handshaking" protocol
ensure security. Secure authentication does not allow users to login by simply
specifying their passwords as part of a URL address. In order for secure
authentication to work, "cookies" must be enabled in your web browser.
Change management password: Enter a new management password. This
password should be seven or fewer alphanumeric characters with no spaces.
Passwords should contain both numbers and letters to decrease their chances of
being guessed. The management password cannot be disabled. Users must enter
the management password in order to change camera settings.
You may choose two passwords: the general password for username "login" and the
management password for username "root".
When general password protection is enabled, users must enter the general password to
view camera images.
To change camera settings, users must enter the management password. You should
change this password when setting up a new camera.

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Settings Page - Security Tab
Access Hours: You can limit access to
camera images on weekends or weekdays
(or both). Set weekdays or weekends to ON
or OFF to allow or deny access to camera
images for the selected days. Alternatively,
select TIMER, then specify the periods
during which images will be accessible by
entering the start and stop times in 24 hour
format (hh:mm, e.g. 16:00 = 4 PM, 01:00 =
1 AM). During "OFF" hours, camera images
will be accessible only to the management
user.
Note that IQrecorder will not record images during "OFF" access hours.
Camera firmware: Select a local file to update the camera's firmware. It is very
important that the camera does not lose power during this process. The camera will
reboot after a successful update.
License file: Select a local license file to unlock functionality on this camera. Contact
IQinVision to obtain this file. The camera must be rebooted for changes to take effect.