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M204W User Manual

User Manual
Model: M204W Outdoor IR IP Camera

-ContentsChapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Introduction of Camera 2 Package Contents2 Physical Descriptions.3 Surveillance Software GUI.4 Camera Advanced Settings..10 Specification..20

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1 Introducing Outdoor IR IP Camera M204W

Dericam Low-cost outdoor IR IP camera M204W with IR-cut feature is designed to meet the demands for outdoor IP video surveillance in the DIY Home & SME & Small business security markets. This camera is specially designed to offer you a way to view what is going on outside of your home, warehouse, shops or office. Also it can be installed inside.

Key Features
1/4" CMOS image sensor, 300k pixels Auto IR-LED illumination, With IR-cut feature 36 IR LEDs IR Night vision range (up to 30 meters) Bundled with 32 Channel Surveillance Software User-friendly & Multi-lingual UI Giving alarm in cause of motion detection Wireless networks connection ( IEEE 802.11b/g) Support WEP/WPA/WPA2 encryption Control Panel add-in, i.e. snapshot, image setup, PT control Support Mac OS Safari browser Support iPhone through Safari browser Mobile Phone Streaming Live Video through Phone View APP Multi-level Password Protection for Restricting Camera Access DDNS, UPnP Supported MJPEG video compression format

2 Package Contents
IR IP Camera M204W Power Adapter 12V-1A Network Cable WiFi Antenna (Wireless Version M204W) CD-ROM with Setup Software and User Guide x1 x1 x1 x1 x1

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3 Physical Descriptions

Fig3.1 Physical parts description

1------ WIFI Antenna 2-------Reset button 3------ DC connector socket 4------ RJ45 Network cable socket 5------Lens 6------ IR LEDs

Note
Please never press reset button unless you have forget the password to login the camera.

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4 Surveillance Software GUI

Please refer to the Quick Installation Guide if you install the camera at first time. After finishing quick installation, you can take time to learn the operation of the software.

4.1 Login Window

Fig4.1 Login window of Dericam M204W Please check the login window above, it was divided to 5 sections from no. 1 to 5.

4.1.1 Section 1

Select Language

Dericam M series camera supports up to 8 languages, such as English, Spanish, Deutsch and so on. You can select the language you need via click on the select language bar to switch.

4.1.2 Section 2

Dericam Website Link

There is an access link to Dericam website homepage, if you need tech support you can contact Dericam directly.

4.1.3 Section 3

IE ActiveX Mode

If your pc is windows based OS, such as Windows XP, Windows7, Windows Vista and you are using IE-based browsers like IE6, IE, IE8, please choose IE ActiveX Mode login method.

4.1.4 Section 4

Server Push Mode

If you are using non-IE based browser, like firefox, safari, google chrome please choose Server Push Mode method.

4.1.5 Section 5

Note

You can get tech support directly from the reseller where you bought Dericam camera or refer to our tech engineer for help. Dericam provide good after-sales tech support service to help customers complete the installation successfully.
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4.2 Surveillance Window

Fig4.2 Surveillance Window of Dericam M204W Please check the surveillance window above, it was divided to 5 sections from no. 1 to 5.

4.2.1 Section 1

Multi-windows Switch button

You can select 1 window, 4 windows, 9 windows by clicking the switch button above.

Fig4.3 Switch to 4 surveillance windows

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4.2.2 Section 2

Image Parameters Settings

1) 2)

Flip & Mirror Resolution 320x240-------QVGA 640x480-------VGA

You can flip the image by enabling Flip button, or mirror the image by enabling Mirror button.

There are two resolutions, the bigger one (VGA) is 640x480 pixels, and the smaller one (QVGA) is 320x240 pixels. The bigger the resolution, the better of the image quality is, but the lower the frame rate is. If you are accessing the camera via internet and want to get more fluent video streaming, please select resolution QVGA 320x240. 1) 2) 3) Frequency 50HZ ---------Indoor surveillance (Region: Europe, China) 60HZ ---------Indoor surveillance (Region: USA, Canada) Outdoor-------Outdoor surveillance (Region: All over the world)

There are three options within the menu of Frequency, 50HZ, 60HZ and Outdoor. It depends on the frequency of the electricity and surveillance model (indoors & outdoor). Please choose outdoor mode, when the camera was installed outside. 1) 2) Frame Rate Max---------- Maximum frame rate 20fps, 15fps, 10fps, 5fps, 1fps------- customized frame rate

You can choose option within the menu of Frame Rate to adjust the frame rate. It is often used in LAN network when you want to lower the frame rate, so that you can save more bandwidth. OSD Date/Time

1) Disable---------- Disable On-Screen-Display 2) Black, red, yellow, white, blue-------- enable On-Screen-Display with different color. 3) On-Screen-Display information------ Device name & Date & Time ADD OSD Date/Time 1) Enable----------- Add date & time information on the surveillance screen when recording 2) Disable----------- Cancel date & time information on the surveillance screen when recording Brightness Contrast Default Default parameter is 6, you can adjust the brightness of the image by clicking plus or minus button. Default parameter is 4, you can adjust the contrast of the image by clicking plus or minus button. Click Default to restore factory parameters
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4.2.3 Section 3

For Administrator

For Administrator------Path to Administrator Control Panel, Click it, and it will lead to Administrator Control Panel.

Fig4.4 Administrator Control Panel

4.2.4 Section 4

Play & Stop Buttons

1------Play 2------Stop

Click it to play the video of the camera Click it to stop the video of the camera

4.2.5 Section 5

Record & Snapshot & Full Screen Buttons

1------Record 2------Snapshot 3------Full Screen

Click it to make recording Click it to make snapshot. You can make snapshot and then select the Click it to make full-screen, or you can double click the surveillance screen to make full-screen

Note

For Advanced settings, please go to chapter five Advanced Camera Settings.

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5 Advanced Camera Settings

Click the bar For Administrator, goes to Administrator Control Panel to make advanced camera settings.

5.1 Device Information

Fig5.1 Device Information 1-----Device ID 2-----Device Firmware Version 3-----Device Web UI Version 4-----Alias 5-----Alarm Status 6-----DDNS Status 7-----UPnP Status MAC ID of the camera by wired connection System Firmware version of the camera Web UI firmware version of the camera Name of the camera The status of Alarm Service Setting The status of DDNS Setting The status of UPnP Setting

5.2 Device Name Settings

Fig5.2 Device Name Settings Go to option Device Name Settings, and set the name you come up with. The default name is Dericam.

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5.3 Date & Time Settings

Fig5.3 Date & Time Settings Go to option Date & Time Settings 1------Device Clock Time zone 2------Sync with NTP Server 3------Sync with PC Time Select the time zone which belongs to your region Enable with Network Time Protocol Enable to sync with your computers time

5.4 User Settings

Fig5.4 User Settings Go to option Users Settings The default user name is admin, and there is no password. There is three level of accessing right, 1) Administrator, 2) Operator, 3) Visitor, You can set users with different level of accessing right.

] Note You need remember the new user name & password when you change the user & password. It is better for you to write it on your memo.

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5.5 Multi-device Settings

If you want to view multi-surveillance screens on one window, you need to login one camera, and set it as the main device, and do Multi-Device Settings, add other cameras to the first one camera. Before you do multi-cams settings, you need to assign different port such as 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 to the cameras if there is 8 cams installed.

5.5.1

Multi-Camera Settings within LAN( Local Area Network)

Fig5.5 Add Multi-cams within LAN Go to option Multi-Device Settings , click refresh to list all the cameras within LAN, and click the menu the 2nd Device to add the second camera. Just select one of the camera, give a name like Cam02 to identify from the first one. Fill the LAN IP address + http port no. of the second camera, and click Add button to take effect.

5.5.2

Multi-Camera Settings within WAN ( Wide Area Network/Internet)

Fig5.6 Add Multi-cams within WAN

Note

If you want to access all the cameras within one window via internet, you have to do multi-cams

settings via WAN address of the camera. Go to option Multi-Device Settings , give a name like Cam02 to identify from the first one. Fill the Domain name + http port no. or WAN IP address + http port no. of the second camera, and click Add button to take effect. Showed as Fig5.6 above
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5.6 Basic Network Settings

Fig5.7 Basic Network Settings Go to option Basic Network Settings 1------Obtain IP from DHCP Server 2------Http Port 3------Network Lamp Enable DHCP, if disable DHCP, you can assign IP address by yourself You can change port no. here by entering customized no. and click set Enable/Disable Network signal LED if there is one.

5.7 Wireless LAN Settings

Fig5.8 Wireless LAN Settings Go to option Wireless LAN Settings Click Scan button more than twice to search the SSID of the wireless router. Please make sure you click scan to search for more than twice, all the SSID of routers nearby will be list on the small window showed as Fig5.8. Select the SSID belongs to your router, and enter wireless security key password, and click set to finish the wireless setup. The camera will restart after the setup is done, Please unplug the network cable once the camera gets restarted, let the camera make wireless connection by itself. Do not shut down power during restart. The LAN IP address will disappear on the window of IP Camera Tool when the camera gets restarted. Just wait for around 1 minute, the camera will get wireless connection, and the LNA IP of the camera will be showed again on the window. Congratulations! You have done wireless connection of the camera successfully.

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5.8 ADSL Settings

Fig5.9 ADSL Settings Go to option ADSL Settings If you are connecting the camera directly to a ADSL modem, you can do ADSL settings with your ADSL account & password provided by the ISP, then make the camera connected to the network. We would not recommend you use this method, for DIY WIFI Camera is designed to use with WIFI routers. You can just leave this setting alone.

5.9 UPnP Settings

Fig5.10 UPnP Settings Go to option UPnP Settings ,You can enable UPnP if your routers UPnP option is enabled. You can just leave this setting alone, because you have done port forwarding within the router when doing remote access settings during quick installation procedure.

5.10 DDNS Settings

Fig5.11 DDNS Settings Go to option DDNS Settings .Please set DDNS Service Settings within the camera by hostname, a user name and password youve got from www.dyndns.com. Please refer to Quick Installation Guide for detailed steps.
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5.11 Mail Service Settings

Fig5.12 Mail Service Settings Go to option Mail Service Settings 1------Sender 2------Receiver 1 to 4 3------SMTP Server 3------SMTP Port 4------SMTP User 4------SMTP Password 5----- Report Internet IP Email address to be used as a sender Email address to be used as a receiver, up to four receivers SMTP Server of the Sender mailbox SMTP port no. of the mail server of the sender mailbox ID Account of the sender email address The password of the sender email address Notification of WAN IP address change information

Complete the settings with your email account, and click set to take effect.

Note
1) Sender and Receiver can be the same email address. It means that you can use one email as both sender and receiver. 2) For Enterprise mail SMTP user, you need to enter full email address on the column SMTP user. Take SMTP server mail.dericam.com for example. you might need to enter [email protected] on the column of SMTP User. 3) Please click Submit first before making Test. Trouble Shooting----The email failed to send emails or snapshots 1. Check the mail service settings, and make sure all of them are correct and try it again. 2. Check if the sender email is enabled with SMTP server. 3. Check the mailbox should not be enabled SSL or TSL encryption.

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5.12 FTP Service Settings

Fig5.13 FTP Settings with FTP server within LAN

Fig5.14 FTP Settings with FTP server within WAN Go to option FTP Service Settings 1------FTP Server 2------FTP Port 3------FTP User 4------FTP Password 5------FTP Upload Folder 6------FTP Mode

The link address of the FTP Server where you want to upload images The Port number of the FTP server, normally standard port is 21 The user account of the FTP server The password of the FTP user account Saving path of the FTP folder
Two modes, standard (POST) mode and passive (PASV) mode

Note
1) If your FTP server is set up within LAN, you can set as Fig5.13, If you have a FTP server which you can access via internet, you can set as Fig5.14. 2) Please make sure that the folder you plan to store images is available. The camera can not generate the folder itself. And also, the folder must be erasable.

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5.13 Alarm Service Settings

Fig5.15 Alarm Service Settings Go to option Alarm Service Settings 1------Motion Detect Armed 2------Motion Detect Sensibility 3------Alarm Input Armed 4------IO Linkage on Alarm 5------Send Mail on Alarm

Enable or disable Motion detection alarm service From 1 to 10, the bigger the number is, and more sensibility it is. No use, just leave this option alone No use, just leave this option alone
Enable or disable sending snapshots by email Enable or disable uploading snapshots to FTP server The interval of uploading snapshots

6------Upload Image on Alarm 7------Upload Interval 8------Scheduler

Enable or disable Schedule alarm service

Normally this alarm service is often used by email alert, sending snapshots to the email address within the Mail service settings.

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5.14 Upgrade Device Firmware

Note

Fig5.16 Upgrading WEB UI

1) All Dericam camera are sold out with latest version of firmware, please try to contact us to see if there is a new version of firmware before you want to upgrade the firmware. 2) Please do not try to upgrade the firmware, if the existing firmware works ok. It takes risk of making the camera dead if the upgrading operation is not right. 3) Normally, only Device WEB UI need to be upgrade, please do not try to upgrade the Device Firmware. 4) Please use wired connection method before you upgrading the files 5) Never shut down the power of the camera during upgrade until the IP camera restart and get connected.

5.15 Backup & Restore Settings

Fig5.17 Backup or Restore Settings

You can backup all settings by saving the settings as a .bin file. And also you can restore the existing settings by saved .bin. file.
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5.16 Restore Factory Settings

Fig5.18 Restore Factory Settings

5.17 Reboot Device

Click option reboot device to get the camera restarted, which is the same as unplug the power and re-plug it.

5.18

Log

Fig5.19 Record of login in information Log record shows the date, time, user account, IP address accessed

5.19

Back
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Click Back button to go back to surveillance window

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6 Specification
ITEMS
Image Sensor Image Sensor Disaplay Resolution Lens Mini. Illumination Lens Type Lens IR-Cut Viewing Angle Audio Input Audio Compression ImageCompression Image Frame Rate Video Resolution Flip Mirror Images Light Frequency Video Parameters Ethernet Supported Protocol Communication Wireless Standard Data Rate Wireless Security Infrared Light Physical Dimension Gross Weight Net Weight Power Power Supply Power Consumption Operate Temper. Environment Operating Humidity Storage Temper. Storage Humidity CPU PC Requirements Memory Size Display Card Supported OS Browser Certification Warranty

M204W
1/4" Color CMOS Sensor 640 x 480 Pixels(300k Pixels) f:=6mm, F:2.4 (IR Lens) 0.5Lux Glass Lens IR-Cut filter built-in, true color with IR lens 60 Degree N/A N/A MJPEG Max.15fps(VGA),30fps(QVGA) 640 x 480(VGA), 320 x 240(QVGA) Vertical / Horizontal 50Hz, 60Hz or Outdoor Brightness, Contrast One 10/100Mbps RJ-45
HTTP,FTP,TCP/IP,UDP,SMTP,DHCP,PPPoE,DDNS,UPnP,GPRS

IEEE 802.11b/g 802.11b: 11Mbps(Max.), 802.11g: 54Mbps(Max.) WEP&WPA &WPA2Encryption 36 IR LEDs,Night visibility up to 30 metres 140(L) x75(W) x80mm(H) 1.2kg (Color Box Size:228x128x108mm) 1.0kg ( accessories included) DC 12V/1.0A (EU,US,AU adapter or other types optional) 5 Watts (Max.) -20 ~ 60 C (-4 ~ 140 F) 20% ~ 85% non-condensing -10C ~ 60 (14F ~ 140F) 0% ~ 90% non-condensing 2.0GHZ or above (suggested 3.0GHz) 512MB or above (suggested 1.0GHz) 64M or above Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/ MAC OS IE 7, IE8, Firefox, Safari or other standard browsers CE,FCC Limited 1-year warranty

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