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Chapter 2

Installing and Using the Camera Utility

Wireless-N Internet Home Monitoring Camera

Chapter 2:

Installing and Using the

Camera Utility

Overview

This chapter will instruct you on how to install and use the

Camera Utility. The Utility allows you to easily view and

record the Camera’s video.

If another Internet Camera Utility is already installed, you

should uninstall it before installing this Camera Utility.

Installing the Camera Utility

Insert the Setup CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.

The Setup Wizard starts. Click

Install Camera Utility

Welcome Screen

The Setup Wizard begins to install the Camera Utility.

Click

Setup Wizard

4. The

Choose Destination

screen appears. Click

Browse

and choose the folder where you would like the Utility

installed. Click

Choose Destination

5. The

Ready to Install

screen appears. Click

Ready to Install

6. The Setup Wizard installs the Camera Utility. The

progress of the installation is displayed.

7. When

the

Setup Wizard

informs

you

that

the

installation is complete, click

Finish

. The Camera

Utility starts automatically.

Installation Complete

Go to the “Using the Camera Utility for the First Time”

section.

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Using the Camera Utility for the First Time

The Camera Utility starts up automatically after the Utility

is successfully installed. To set up your first camera:

1. Click the

Setup

icon in the upper left corner of the

window.

The Cameras tab is displayed. Select your Camera from

the

Automatically add cameras

list and click

Add to

my list

. If your Camera is not listed, click

Refresh

update the list, or add the Camera manually.

To manually add a Camera, go to the

Address

field

and enter either its web address or its IP address, or to

access a camera on the WAN, enter its IP address with

port number. Then click

Add to my list

3. Complete the

Port Number

and

Stream Type

fields. If

you want to access the Camera as an administrator,

also complete the

User Name

and

Password

fields. (You

may access the Camera without completing these

fields if you are logged in as a guest.)

4. The Camera is installed. It appears in the

My camera

list

section, and its video output is displayed in

Camera

details

To learn how to use the Camera Utility, go to “Using the

Camera Utility.”

Advanced users: If you want to use the Camera’s Web-

based Utility, go to “Chapter 3: Advanced Configuration

with the Web-Based Utility.”

Using the Camera Utility

After the Camera Utility is installed, its icon is displayed on

the Desktop and in the System Tray of the Taskbar. To open

the Camera Utility, use either icon as follows:

•

Double-click the icon on your desktop

•

Right-click the icon in the system tray, then click

Linksys

Cisco

Wireless-N

Internet

Home

Monitoring Camera

Desktop Icon

System Tray Icon

When you are finished using the Camera Utility, close the

Utility window by clicking the

button in the upper-right

corner. The Utility will continue to run in the background,

and any scheduled recordings will proceed as planned.

To exit the Utility completely, right-click the Utility’s system

tray icon and select

Exit

Menu Icons

The utility has three menu icons in the upper left corner:

LiveView

View Recordings

, and

Setup

LiveView

View Recordings

Setup

LiveView

When you first open the Utility, the

LiveView

window is

displayed. The

LiveView

window can also be accessed by

clicking the

LiveView

icon. The

LiveView

window contains

the viewing area, as well as the

View Layout

and

Controls

sections.

LiveView

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Viewing Area

The viewing area takes up most of the

LiveView

window.

The viewing area can have four different layouts, with

video windows for one, four, six, or nine Cameras.

The layout is selected using the video layout controls

described in “Video Layout’” below.

Viewing Area - Single-Camera Display

Viewing Area - Four-Camera Display

Viewing Area - Six-Camera Display

Viewing Area - Nine-Camera Display

Multiple-Camera Layouts

In a multiple-Camera layout, one of the video windows

is always outlined in green. This indicates the currently

selected Camera. The

Controls

section can be used to

perform various functions on the video from this Camera.

For information on the video control buttons, refer to

“Controls” below.

The name of each Camera is overlaid on that Camera’s

video window. To specify a different Camera than the

selected Camera, click on that Camera’s video window.

Each Camera can be displayed using any of the video

windows in the layout. To move a Camera from one video

window to another, click and drag the Camera’s video

window to another video window. The two Cameras

originally assigned to each of the two windows will then

swap places. This is especially useful for the six-Camera

layout, which has one large video window and five smaller

ones. A Camera assigned to one of the smaller windows

can be quickly enlarged by dragging it to the large

window.

To quickly view any Camera’s video at full scale, double-

click that Camera’s video window. The layout will change

to a single-camera display of the selected Camera’s video.

View Layout

This section of the

LiveView

window lets you change the

layout of the viewing area. To select a particular layout,

click the layout’s icon.

Video Layout Icons

Icon

Function

Click this icon to display video from one

Camera only.

Click this icon to display video from up to

four Cameras. The video windows are all

of equal size.

Click this icon to display video from up

to six Cameras, with one large video

window and five small video windows.

Click this icon to display video from up to

nine Cameras. The video windows are all

of equal size.

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Controls

The video controls are located along the right edge of the

LiveView

window in the

Controls

section.

Controls

These controls act upon the selected Camera as explained

below.

Control

Function

View

Click this button to view the

current video.

Instant Record

Click this button to

record the current video.*

Snapshot

Click this button to take a

snapshot of the

current video image

Speaker

Click this button to toggle the

sound on or off. Move the slider to the

left to decrease the volume or to the

right to increase the volume..

Microphone

This feature is not available

on the WVC80N.

Quality

Move the slider to the left to

decrease the video quality or to the right

to increase the video quality.**

Zoom

Move the slider to zoom into

current video display. The zoom factor

cycles from 1x to 16x. Click the Up, Down,

Left, and Right arrows to navigate within

the monitor window.

* The length of the recording is configured in the

Setup > Settings screen of the Camera Utility. During

recording, the Utility’s System Tray icon turns into an

animated icon (arrow moves up and down).

When recording ends, the icon reverts to its original state.

Recording In Progress

No Recording In Progress

** This option will only be selectable when the MPEG-4/

MJPEG Setting is set to Fixed Quality. This setting is found

in the Advanced Configuration > Image screen of the

Camera’s Web-based Utility.

View Recordings

The

View Recordings

window is accessed by clicking the

View Recordings

icon. The

View Recordings

window

is used to play back videos that you have recorded and

saved. This window has three sections:

Video Controls

Memory Status

, and the video playback section.

View Recordings

Video Controls

This section of the

View Recordings

window allows you to

perform basic functions on the video you have selected

for playback.

Video Controls

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The controls and their functions are described below.

Control

Function

Play/Pause

Click this button to toggle

the video between play and pause.

Playback Speed

Click and drag the

wheel clockwise to increase the speed of

the video playback, or counterclockwise

to decrease the speed of the video

playback. When the wheel is centered

(with the indicator at the top position),

the video will play at normal speed.

Frame by Frame

Click these buttons to

go back (left arrow) or go forward (right

arrow) exactly one video frame.

Previous/Next

Click these buttons to

view the previous (left arrow) or the

next (right arrow) recording.

Zoom

Move the slider to the right of

this icon to zoom into the current video

display. The zoom factor cycles from 1x

to 16x.

Snapshot

Click this button to capture a

still image of the current video display.

Click this button to print the

current video image.

Sound

Click this button to toggle the

sound off or on. Move the slider to the

left to decrease the volume or to the

right to increase the volume.

Memory Status

This section of the

View Recordings

window indicates, in

hours and gigabytes (GB), how much hard disk space is

available for recorded video.

Memory Status

Video Playback

The section at the bottom of the

View Recordings

window

is used to locate video for playback.

Video Playback

To locate and play a recording:

If you want to see all available recordings, toggle the

button above the timeline to

View all recordings

If you want to see only those recordings which were

triggered by motion detection, toggle the button to

View by motion detection only

Using the calendar to the right of the timeline, select

the date of the recording you want to view. (Bolded

dates have recordings.)

The timeline displays blue bars where recordings are

available. To display video from a specific time, click

and drag the marker above the timeline to any point

above a blue bar. The marker will display the date and

time of the point you have chosen.

4. The video plays, starting from the point you have

chosen.

Setup

The

Setup

screen is accessed by clicking the

Setup

icon.

There are three tabs along the top of the

Setup

screen:

Cameras

Recording Options

, and

Settings

. By default,

the

Cameras

tab is selected when the

Setup

screen is

opened. These tabs display screens whose functions are

described below.

Setup > Cameras

Click the

Cameras

tab to set up a network Camera.

Setup > Cameras

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