DIGITUS Plug&View OptiVision / OptiArc / OptiMax / Optimax Pro DN-16037/DN-16040 DN-16036 DN-16027 User Manual DN-16027 / DN-16036 / DN-16037 / DN-16040 1
1 Introduction: DIGITUS Plug&View series of IP cameras offers P2P Cloud service to avoid those complicated network setting for camera installation. All you need is just Plug&View with 3 simple steps. 2 Package Content: - IP camera x 1 - Power supply x 1 - Ethernet cable x 1 - Support CD x 1 - Mounting accessory x 1 - * DN-16040 has additional 2GB TF card included. 3 Installation Procedures: 3.1 Getting connected 1. Power on the camera and connect the Ethernet cable from the camera to the router. Please make sure that the router is setup to be able to access Internet. 2. Open a browser (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox...) and key in http://mydigitus.net/ to access DIGITUS Plug&View Website. Press LOGIN to enter the login portal. Please create an account for first use. Alternatively, you can also use your existing Google account to login by pressing Google Login. Then enter your account and password. 2
Alternatively you can also download DIGITUS Plug&View APP from APP store or Google Play and execute this APP from your mobile devices and login the account and password instead of using browser. 3
3. With browser, please key in the MAC address and Activation code as shown on the last page of the QIG to add camera under your account. After press Apply, it will show Success. Alternatively the easiest way to add camera without key-in long numbers is using the smart phone to scan the QR code on the last page of the QIG using DIGITUS Plug&View APP from your mobile devices. After adding the camera, you can have live-view anytime anywhere. 3.2 Getting connected wirelessly Wireless (WiFi) connection between IP cameras and Wireless router / Access point is also available with the following procedures. 4. After completing Step 1 ~ 3 for wired connection with Ethernet cable, login into http://login.mydigitus.net/ and click the setting icon to enter camera user interface. 4
After entering Camera User Interface from DIGITUS Plug&View website through setting icon, please key in admin for the Username and admin for the Password to login. At the first viewing of the IP camera, the browser will prompt the users to install the OCX component. Note: If the users didn t install the OCX before, please click the link on the page: Please install the ActiveX widget RSAV.exe. Or directly in the upper right corner to download OCX After the download installed directly, refresh or re-login the IE interface. Then the IE will go to default page and show the preview image. 5
5. Go to Parameter => Network. Select the WiFi button and the SSIDs of your available Wireless router or Access point will pop-up on the screen. Please select the SSID you want to connect to and key in the password if it is encrypted. Press OK to apply the changes. 6
Close the camera user interface window and unplug the Ethernet cable. Now you can access the camera wirelessly via Plug&View APP or through http://login.mydigitus.net 4 Change Device Name Go to Settings and click Config button to lead to a Modify page for each camera. You may change the name to any desired description. 7
5 Tool bar description Tool bar is located on the up-right-side of each IP cam media screen to foster an easy management at your preference. 5.1 Light Signal Green Signal When you read the green light that means the IP cam is online and on air, therefore, its video is successfully displayed on the screen. Yellow Signal When you read the yellow light that means the IP cam is online but not yet on air, therefore, its video is not displayed on the screen. Red Signal When you read the red light that means the IP cam is offline, therefore, the screen is blank. 5.2 Full Screen Full screen button is to lead you to a new screen layer where the video is displayed in full screen for the clearer vision and event play back function. 5.3 Live View & PTZ Live view button is to view the selected IP cam s media in a timely manner. You may also select to view the different camera s media from the camera list displayed on the left-hand side of the screen. Click the arrow buttons and to select more IP cams from the list. Click located on the top-right hand side of the screen to exit the full screen function, or click located on the right-bottom side of the screen to get back to the matrix view page. You may click to reload the live view media if you encounter problem getting it. Each selected camera s configuration can be accessed by clicking the screen. on the right-bottom side of 8
When the selected IP cam supports PTZ function, its PTZ control panel will be displayed for you to manage camera angle on the right-bottom side of the screen. Otherwise, the panel will be displayed in grey to indicate it is not functioning. Each angle adjustment requires one click to make. 5.4 Play Back Play back function is only supported when IP cam is embedded with SD card for media recording. All the recorded events can be retrieved from the blue mark displayed in timeline. 9
All recorded events are stored and marked in the timeline as in blue tag. You may manage to view them in different time length: by clicking hour, day or week located on the top-left hand side of the timeline. The detailed recorded clips will be displayed when mouse over on the blue tag and the tag turned to be in orange. Then you can select a specific clip to review at your wish. While playing back the selected media clip, you may also manage it to be stopped, paused, move one clip forward or backward from the media control panel. Or, you may also drag the progress bar cursor to the specific playing point at your preference. Setting Setting button is to lead you to that specific IP cam s setting web UI. Mute Mute or un-mute buttons are used to control whether the users would like to hear the voice receiving via camera or not. Refresh Refresh button is for you to refresh or reload the IP cam video. Remove Remove button page. is the button for you to remove this specific IP cam media in Overview 10
5.5 Google Drive - Cloud Storage On mydigitus.net website, after login with your registered account, please go to Setting page. Please press the Google Authentication button on the top left corner and accept to use Google Drive as your cloud storage by clicking OK. Then the Google Drive login website will pop-up. Please login your Google Drive account and password if you already have an existing account. Otherwise, please SIGN UP for a new account. After entering your Google account, please press Allow access to permit video backup from the camera to Google Drive. Then this window will close automatically. 11
So this cloud storage feature is making a copy of your video files stored in the Micro-SD card to Google Drive. That means the motion triggered recorded videos or scheduled recording videos stored in the local storage can also be found and even play online on cloud storage. Please login to your Google Drive and select the recorded videos (rtv) file to view the videos online. In order to have this cloud storage feature, please make sure the Micro-SD card is inserted to the camera and formatted. 6 Camera User Interface 6.1 Menu Description The camera UI has 5 functions (Home, Replay, Log, Parameter & System). 6.1.1 Home This page is showing the Live-view of the camera. 12
Under Home, you can also control Pan & Tilt (only DN-16036 model) as well as the video settings such as brightness, contrast and saturation. 6.1.2 Log Log is used to record down all the events happened such as motion detection or alarm. You can select the date and press the search button to list out all the logs for this date. To playback the event, you can press View for the recorded video. 6.1.3 Parameters Network, Video Parameters, DDNS & UPnP, Video Cover, Motion Detection, CMOS Sensor, OSD Set and Alarm Set can be configured here. Network Under Network setting, you can select between Fixed IP or DHCP modes. Different ports for HTTP, RSTP and RCFG can also be configured here if port forwarding setting is necessary. 13
Video Parameters Users can set the resolution, bit rate, type, frame rate, image quality, etc. of the main stream in the Video Parameters Setting. The user can select the Main flow and Minor flow. Main flow is mainly used if high resolution video streaming is required with using Computer and Notebook where there are higher CPU power comparing to Mobile devices. Minor stream is normally used if mobile phone access is desired. Both of the main and sub stream support Constant Bit Rate (CBR) and Variable Bit Rate (VBR) mode You can select 5 levels of image quality setting: Very High, High, Normal, Low and Very Low. 14
6.1.4 Video Cover This menu allows users to cover the privacy area with color block. The camera maximum supports 4 color blocks area. Click on the video image and drag the mouse, there will be a green block, that is, the cover region. Click OK. Choose the Video Cover option as Off, click OK to close all the configurations. 6.1.5 Motion Detection Please select On to enable motion detection. Use the mouse cursor to click the region for motion detection. The high-lighted color region is the motion detection region. The Motion Detection Level ranges from 0 to 5 where the smallest value indicates the highest sensitity. Typical suggestion is Level 3. The Motion Detection Gap indicates how many frames later, the motion detection should be re-triggered. 15
6.1.6 OSD Set Users can set Time, Device Name and two other extended information on screen. The color and position of the characters are also adjustable. 6.1.7 Alarm Set There are three types of alarm settings: Motion Detection, External Alarm and Time Recording. Time recording allows you to select the desired time for continuous recording to the Micro-SD card. For example, you can set the normal work time of Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm by high-lighted the block with blue colors. High-lighting with color means during this period, the recording will be always ON. Please enable Record by ticking the box. Please press OK to apply the changes. 16
For motion detection setting, please tick the box to enable this feature. Please go to Motion Detection setting first if the detection area and the sensitivity have not yet been set as shown in the earlier section of this document. Please high-light the time blocks with blue color for the motion detection period. Please enable Record to enable motion triggered recording to the Micro-SD card.you can also setup the email notification in the event of motion detection as shown below. Snapshot is also possible in the event of motion detection by enable Capture. Together with snapshot, you can also setup the email notification with attachment of this captured picture as shown below. Please press OK to apply the changes. Upload to FTP is also available. Please enable FTP and press FTP set to input the FTP information. This feature will backup all of the recorded videos and pictures from the TF card to the FTP. 17
6.2 System System Setting includes Local Settings, Time Settings, System Tools, User and Device Information. 6.2.1 Local Settings Login options and video streaming options, select the type of stream video files and capture pictures and save path set in the Local Settings. 6.2.2 Time Settings Manual Setting, Sync with computer time, Sync with NTP and Time Zone are optional. Users can choose the method they want. Manual Setting: Please key in the time and date manually. Sync with computer time: IP camera time will be auto synchronous with the users PC. Sync with NTP: Input domain name or IP address of the NTP server. Time Zone: Users can choose the time zone according to their location. 18
6.2.3 System Tools System Tools includes Reboot, Factory default,sd format, View Picture on SD-card, update Backup configuration file, Update configuration file and System. System update is used for firmware upgrade. 19