Leuze electronic LCAM 408i User manual

LCAM 408i
Industrial Ethernet Camera
User Manual
Revision 1.2

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Revision
Changes
Date | Name
1.0
First Edition
20.05.2016 | esh
1.1
Addition RTSP-Protocol, Live stream in Browser
04.01.2018 | esh
1.2.
RSTP limits
30.01.2018
DISCLAIMER
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Federal communications commission statement
This device complies with FCC Rules Part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
This device may not cause harmful interference, and
This device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired
operation.
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device,
pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable
protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates,
uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with
manufacturer’s instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If
this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be
determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try correct the
interference by one or more of the following measures:
Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.
Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
The use of shielded cables for connection of the monitor to the graphics card is required to assure
compliance with FCC regulations. Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly
approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate
this equipment.

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Canadian department of communications statement
This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class B limits for radio noise emissions from digital
apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Department of
Communications.
This class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003.
SAFETY INFORMATION
Electrical safety
To prevent electrical shock hazard, disconnect the power cable from the electrical outlet before
reloading the system.
When adding or removing devices to or from the system, ensure that the power cables for the devices
are unplugged before the signal cables are connected. If possible, disconnect all power
cables from the existing system before you add device.
Before connecting or removing signals cables from motherboard, ensure that all power cables are
unplugged.
Make sure that your power supply is set to the correct voltage in your area. If you are not sure about
the voltage of the electrical outlet you are using, contact your local power company.
If the power supply is broken, do not try to fix it by yourself. Contact a qualified service technician or
your retailer.
Operation safety
Before installing the motherboard and adding devices on it, carefully read the manuals that came with
the package.
Before using the product, make sure all cables are correctly connected and the power cables are not
damaged. If you detect any damage, contact your dealer immediately.
To avoid short circuits, keep paper clips, screws, and staples away from connectors, slots sockets and
circuitry.
Avoid dust, humidity, and temperature extremes. Do not place the product in any area where it may
become wet.
Place the product on a stable surface.
If you encounter technical problems with the product, contact a qualified service technician or your
retailer.
RECYCLING
Please recycle packaging environmentally friendly:
Packaging materials are recyclable. Please do not dispose packaging into domestic
waste butrecycle it.
Please recycle old or redundant devices environmentally friendly:
Old devices contain valuable recyclable materials that should be reutilized. Therefore please
dispose old devices at collection points which are suitable.

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CONTENTS
1Hardware 5
1.1 M12 connectors 5
1.2 Pin definition Ethernet connector 5
1.3 Pin definition Power connector 6
1.4 Switching off 6
1.5 Optics 6
1.6 Mounting the camera 6
1.6.1 With screws 6
1.6.2 At a Rod (14-20mm) with the BT 56-1 or BT 300-1 7
1.6.3 With a mounting angle 7
2First Steps 8
2.1 What’s needed 8
2.2 What to do 8
3Web Interface 8
3.1 Changing Camera IPs 8
3.2 Default network settings 9
3.3 Default login data 9
Web interface 9
SSH 9
3.4 Camera Settings 10
3.5 Still image 10
3.6 Streaming 11
3.6.1 Stream data structure 11
4Menus 13
4.1 Administration 13
4.1.1 Factory reset 13
4.1.2 Password selection 13
4.1.3 Password setting 14
4.1.4 Reboot 14
4.1.5 Update 15
4.2 Image settings 15
4.2.1 Automatic Exposure 15
4.2.2 Manual Exposure 17
4.3 Network 19
4.3.1 Services –SSH and FTP 19
4.4 Menu general appearance 20
4.5 About Menu 20
5Appendix 21
Data sheet key data 21

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1 Hardware
This manual covers the industrial LCAM 408i with MJPEG streaming capabilities and its software. The
LCAM 408i has outer dimensions of approx. 75 mm (L), 55 mm (W), 113 mm (H).
1.1 M12 connectors
The M12 connectors on the bottom side are used for Ethernet connection (named with SERVICE) and
the other for Power Supply (named with PWR). It is an X-coded M12 with 8 pins (female) and a A-
Coded M12 with 4 Pins. Be sure to use only matching cables.
1.2 Pin definition Ethernet connector
M12 X-Coded female
Pin
Signal Name
1
D1+
2
D1-
3
D2+
4
D2-
5
D4+
6
D4-
7
D3-
8
D3+

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1.3 Pin definition Power connector
M12 A-Coded male
Pin
Signal Name
Description
1
+VIN
Supply Voltage,
positive terminal
2
not connected
3
-VIN
Supply Voltage,
negative terminal
4
not connected
The camera needs 3,6 W for operation. The device can be powered in the range from 18 to 30 Volt
DC.
1.4 Switching off
The unit may be switched off anytime, since an overlay file system is used to store persistent data.
1.5 Optics
The lens (M12) is mounted behind a protective front glass (no optical requirements) that cannot be
changed be the user.
The setup the lens focus is done in the production, and cannot be changed by the user.
The field of view is
1,80 x 1,40 m @ 1 Meter distance
2,50 x 1,90 m @ 1,5 Meter distance
3,40 x 2,60 m @ 2 Meter distance
1.6 Mounting the camera
There are different options to mount the LCAM 408i
1.6.1 With screws
The camera can by mounted to a flat surface with four M4 * 4 screws.
There is no preferred mounting direction.

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1.6.2 At a Rod (14-20mm)
with the BT 56-1 or BT 300-1
1.6.3 With a mounting angle
The camera can mount to the BT 300W and adjust in different directions

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2 First Steps
2.1 What’s needed
Before you start, you will need:
The LCAM 408i
Ethernet cable with connectors M12 X-coded –RJ-45, CAT6
Switch (1000BaseT) or direct PC connected with Gigabit Ethernet interface
Streaming video viewer Leuze viewer, VLC or equivalent.
2.2 What to do
After unpacking the camera, the following steps for a first use are:
Connect an M12 –RJ45 Ethernet cable between the LCam and a Ethernetport (PC or switch)
Connect a Cable for Power supply to the other M12 connector
Power up the cable, wait for approx. 1 minute for LCam to boot. If you hear a faint noise, do
not worry.
Detect the Lcam’s address
Either: Run the program hipca detect.exe' and identify the LCam you want to talk with
Or: Use default fixed address (see below). You may have to change the PC’s IP to an address
like 192.168.60.101, so it is in the same sub-net
Open Internet browser on the computer
In the browser’s address line type in the IP address of the LCAM 408 in the form
“192.168.60.101”
Watch for the camera’s web server surface to show up, should appear as in “Menu general
appearance”
Proceed with setting password and video parameters. For that you need a password (see
below for default)
Start streaming video
When finished, start the streaming client as shown below.
This document gives an introduction into the use of the LCAM 408i with MJPEG streaming. The
Software API is available on request.
3 Web Interface
3.1 Changing Camera IPs
Under *Network settings* you can choose between static address assignment and DHCP mode.
For static IP, fill out the fields as needed. And press "Save data". To use the new settings, pressing
"Restart network" is needed.

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3.2 Default network settings
The default factory settings for network are:
DHCP
off
IP
192.168.60.101
This is in one of the private IP spaces
IP Mask
255.255.0.0
Gateway
Not needed for test, change for large nets
DNS server
Not needed for test, change for large nets
Order number
xxx
Camera-individual
3.3 Default login data
Web interface
User: admin
Password: leuze
SSH
User: root
Password: rootLogin

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3.4 Camera Settings
Camera settings can only be changed by the web interface. It is possible to change the exposure time,
the gain of the different color channels, image flipping and Bayer mode. Gain values for the color
components can be used for color correction.
Exposure
sets the exposure time of the sensor.
Gain
global gain for all color channels
Red gain
gain for all red pixels
Blue gain
gain for all blue pixels
Green gain 1 and 2
gain for green pixels in even and in odd lines, values should be
identical
horizontal and
vertical flip
can be used to correct the image orientation according to
mounting position of the camera. Changes Bayer mode, which is
fixed yet. See below.
Bayer mode
because the flipping will change the starting pixels the Bayer
mode the mode has to be adjusted if flipping is done. In streaming
mode this setting has no effect.
Sleep between
snaps
only used in webcam mode, not in streaming mode
Automatic gain
correction
enables the automatic exposure control
Flicker-free
exposure
if 0 no flicker-free exposure is used. Gain is fixed to a medium
value and exposure is controlled by changing the exposure time
For values > 0 exposure time is limited to multiples of the value.
Exposure values in between are realized by changing the gain.
For 50Hz lighting flicker-free exposure is realized with a value of
820. For 60Hz the value should be set to 683.
Average grey value
The average gray value of the whole image, the exposure control
tries to reach.
Color saturation
color saturation of the result image in percent. 0 is black and
white, 100 neutral. The maximum lies at 200.
Button: “White
balance once”
if pressed the software calculates RGB parameters that set the
current scene to neutral white. This will take several seconds.
3.5 Still image
A JPEG file of the video stream, which is updated once a second can be accessed under the URL
http://Your_IP_here/camera/current.jpg

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3.6 Streaming
To watch the streamed image with the VideoLANClient VLC on a 64-Bit Windows system use the line:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" tcp://IPaddress:5001 --network-caching=0
Fill in the IP address of the camera and adjust the path to vlc.exe as needed.
The typical setting in VLC looks like this:
Be sure to set caching and IP address if not done so on the command line.
3.6.1 Stream data structure
To access the video data in your own software, open a socket to port 5001 of the camera and scan
the incoming data for the separator string ---jworudfg83h23lsow2z04. The following line contains the
content type and the next the length of the image data.
The typical structure of the stream data is:
---jworudfg83h23lsow2z04
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 200976
|
|
jpeg
data
here
|
|
---jworudfg83h23lsow2z04
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 200437
|
|

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3.6.2 RTSP-Protocol (Softwareversion 45d1eab)
The LCAM supports the livestream on the RTSP-Protocol.
You can use the with e.g. Siemens Comfort-Panel
rtsp://192.168.60.101:554/jpeg
(It shows the Default IP-Adrdess of the LCAM)
Important: The RTSP-Protocol allow maximum Pixels up to 2000. Therefore we recommend to use
as maximum the picture resolution of 1920x1080 pixel (FullHD)
3.6.3 Live stream in the browser (Softwareversion 45d1eab)
The LCAM supports the livestream in the browser.
You can use the with e.g. Mozilla Firefox
http://192.168.60.101/camera/live_image.lp
(It shows the Default IP-Adrdess of the LCAM)
Remark:The Camera-resolution can be choose from 640x480 to 2592x1944 pixel

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4 Menus
The LCAM 408i has an internal web server that has the following menus.
4.1 Administration
4.1.1 Factory reset
4.1.2 Password selection
Here one of the two possible passwords can be selected to be changed or set.

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4.1.3 Password setting
Here passwords are changed and set.
4.1.4 Reboot
System reboot is done without further data and should be finished after a minute.

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4.1.5 Update
The update process needs a path to a firmware file.
4.2 Image settings
4.2.1 Automatic Exposure
Here, image sizes and frame rates can be selected. Image size is limited by sensor parameters,
however, smaller images can be selected.
The LCam supports two independent streams with the same content on different ports, one full-size
and one scaled-down.
When the image size is set to values smaller than half the linear sensor pixel number (see data sheet
below) binning is enabled, first ½, later ¼. Binning is very useful in low-light situations, since the
effective pixel size is increased by 4 resp. 16.
Be sure to set the frame rate if slow refresh is observed.
Note: by clicking on Open image… at the bottom a live image is displayed, so adjustments can be
judged.

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Bayer mode
because the flipping will change the starting pixels the Bayer
mode the mode has to be adjusted if flipping is done. In streaming
mode this setting has no effect
Sleep between
snaps
only used in webcam mode, not in streaming mode
Automatic gain
correction
enables the automatic exposure control
Flicker-free
exposure
if 0 no flicker-free exposure is used. Gain is fixed to a medium
value and exposure is controlled by changing the exposure time
For values > 0 exposure time is limited to multiples of the value.
Exposure values in between are realized by changing the gain.
For 50Hz lighting flicker-free exposure is realized with a value of
820. For 60Hz the value should be set to 683
Average grey value
The average gray value of the whole image, the exposure control
tries to reach
Color saturation
color saturation of the result image in percent. 0 is black and
white, 100 neutral. The maximum lies at 200
Button: "White
balance once"
if pressed the software calculates RGB parameters that set the
current scene to neutral white. This will take several seconds

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4.2.2 Manual Exposure
In manual exposure mode, gain and exposure parameters can be set.
At the moment camera settings can only be changed by the web interface. It is possible to change the
exposure time, the gain of the different color channels, image flipping and Bayer mode. Gain values
for the color components can be used for color correction.

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Exposure
sets the exposure time of the sensor
Gain
global gain for all color channels
Red gain
gain for all red pixels
Blue gain
gain for all blue pixels
Green gain 1 and 2
gain for green pixels in even and in odd lines, values should be
identical
horizontal and
vertical flip
can be used to correct the image orientation according to
mounting position of the camera. Changes Bayer mode, which is
fixed yet. See below.
Bayer mode
because the flipping will change the starting pixels the Bayer
mode the mode has to be adjusted if flipping is done. In streaming
mode this setting has no effect.
Sleep between
snaps
only used in webcam mode, not in streaming mode
Automatic gain
correction
enables the automatic exposure control
Button: “White
balance once”
if pressed the software calculates RGB parameters that set the
current scene to neutral white. This will take several seconds.

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4.3 Network
Here you can choose between static address assignment and DHCP mode.
For static IP, fill out the fields as needed. And press "Save data". To use the new settings, pressing
"Restart network" is needed. For DHCP mode, no addresses are needed, they are obtained from the
DHCP server.
4.3.1 Services –SSH and FTP
Here SSH and FTP can be selected.

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4.4 Menu general appearance
This image shows the general menu structure.
4.5 About Menu
The “About” screen shows data needed for service enquiries or for searching a camera in the network.