Chapter 2

Installing and Using the Camera Utility

My Camera List

The My camera list section of the Setup > Cameras screen contains a list of all Cameras that have been added (up to 9).

Camera Name  Displays the name of the Camera. Selecting a Camera on this list will display its details in the Camera Details section of the screen.

Add Camera to my list

Automatically add cameras  Displays a list of currently detected Cameras on your LAN. To add a camera to My camera list, select the Camera from the Automatically add cameras list and click Add to my list. If your Camera is not listed, click Refresh to update the list, or add the Camera manually.

Manually add cameras  To manually add a Camera to My camera list, go to the Address field and enter either its web address or its IP address with port number. Then click Add to my list. To erase your entry, click Clear.

Camera Details

The Camera Details section allows you to enter camera information and then displays video and information from the currently selected Camera.

Camera Status  Displays the status of the selected Camera.

Camera Name  Displays the name of the selected Camera.

IP Address  Displays the IP address of the selected Camera.

User Name  Displays the selected Camera’s user name.

Password  Displays the selected Camera’s password. For security reasons, the password is displayed as “•••••“.

Port Number  Displays the selected Camera’s port number.

Stream Type  Displays the selected Camera’s stream type. To change the stream type, select either MJPEG or MPEG4 from the drop down list and click Save.

Two buttons are located under the video display. These buttons act upon the selected Camera’s video as explained below.

Button

Function

 

 

 

Flip  Click this button to flip the current

 

video display top-to-bottom.

 

 

 

Mirror  Click this button to reverse the

 

current video display left-to-right.

 

 

Click Advanced Camera Settings to open the Web-based Utility.

Setup > Recording Options

Click on the Recording Options tab to set the recording schedule for a network Camera.

Setup > Recording Options

Video Recording Options

To set the selected Camera to continuously record, select Always Record.

To set up a recording schedule for the selected Camera:

1.Select Record on a Scheduled Time Range if you want the Camera to record during the specified dates and times, or select Record on Motion Event in Scheduled Time Range Only if you want the Camera to record only at those (specified) dates and times when movement is detected.

2.Fill in the following fields:

•• Select Days  From the drop down menu, select the days on which you want the Camera to record. The choices are One Time, Every Day, Mon-Fri, Sat- Sun, Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, and Sat. (All settings except One Time cause recording to occur on a recurring basis.)

•• Start Date (mm/dd/yyyy)  Enter the date to start the recording, in mm/dd/yyyy format, or select the start date using the drop down calendar.

•• Start Time (hh:mm)  Select the time to start the recording using the drop down menus.

•• End Time (hh:mm)  Select the time to end the recording using the drop down menus.

3.Click Add to list to save the new recording schedule.

4.The scheduled recording appears in the table of scheduled recordings at the bottom of the screen.

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Cisco Systems WVC80N manual Setup Recording Options, My Camera List, Add Camera to my list, Camera Details

WVC80N specifications

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