Q: I can see picture on mobile pages, but video monitor page is black or blank, what's the problem?

A: The OCX use a non-standard HTTP command to request video stream.Some Anti-virus software will monitor TCP 80 and block OCX to fetch video stream. The solution is disable monitor TCP 80 on anti-virus or use another port on IPCamera device.
There is a plan to use standard protocol instead of private protocol,it can resolve this problem perfectly.
 

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Q: Do the camera's work on VISTA & WINDOWS 7 ?

A: Yes. Our SIMPLEMINDERS IP camera's support Vista and Windows7.
In order to register OCX successful in Vista,you may need to download ocx.exe manually from the ipcamera,click right mouse and select "run as administrator".
This step is not needed for Windows7.
 

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Q: How to access the device on linux or firefox?

A: The device supports CGI released on 12.08.2009,you can use standard HTTP command to fetch video, control device...
We also provide a demo, that can be used in IE or firefox :demo
Just input the ip of your ip camera, user and password, then click "start".
 

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Q: IE crashes when viewing video

A: Reinstall ocx released on 12.08.2009.
To avoid IE cache old OCX, after you install new OCX, you had better to restart computer and retry.
A simple method is kill all iExplorer.exe on Task Manager and restart iExplorer.exe, in this way, restart computer is NOT need.
Keep your data safe before you kill iExplorer.exe!

 

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Q: How to reset the configuration?

A: The correct steps to reset config are:
1. keep the reset button down
2. power the ipcamera device on
3. keep the reset button down for about 20 seconds, then the config should be reset and the default user & password is both "admin".

 

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Q: How to get video stream use VLC?

A: You must use TCP over RTSP, to config in VLC (take vlc version 1.0.3 for example):
open VLC main menu Tools/ Preferences /Input & Codecs and check "Use RTP over RTSP (TCP)".
If the ip and port of your ipcamera is 192.168.1.123 and 80,user and password both "admin",
then you can input:
rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.123:80/0
to get video stream in VLC.
Notice: video stream does NOT use the default RTSP port(554),it uses the same port as HTTP,so you must always designate the port explicitly!





 

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Q: How to config FTP

A: We have rewritten ftp module, and we suggest upgrade to appp.bin(vs2.0) or higher version.
Download updated version HERE.

"Folder":
start from vs2.0, ftp folder is relative to the home directory of ftp server.
from vs1.1 to vs1.9,ftp folder is absolute directory on the ftp server, so you must make sure what's the home directory of ftp server.
valid folder examples:
/myipcam/dev_001/alarm

a demo config as follows:


 

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Q: How to config SMTP

a demo config as follows:


 

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Q: How to config alarm(send picture by FTP and EMail when motion detect)
  
A:
.config EMAIL and FTP.
.check "enable motion detect"
.check "enable email alarm"
.check "enable FTP alarm"
.select the areas by drag left mouse,drag the right mouse to cancel selected area
.click "save"
a demo alarm config as following picture:


 

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Q: How to embed the camera video into my own website?
  
A:
Following is a simple demo to show this usage: use_ocx
Notice: use_ocx.htm demo assume camera IP is 192.168.1.123,port is 80,user name and password both are admin.
Before test, make sure you have changed the ip+port to your camera in use_ocx.htm,and give correct user name and password.

Following picture show how it works:


The demo only show the basic function, if you need to add more functions as in the video monitor page, you can reference videomonitor.htm

This is a html source of video monitor, you must modify it according to your requirement.

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