ZM-SH721 - Security Camera Zmodo - Free user manual and instructions

Product Type	IP Security Camera
Model	ZM-SH721
Brand	Zmodo
Video Compression	H.264 Main Profile
Main Stream Resolution	640x480 (VGA)
Sub Stream Resolution	320x240 (QVGA)
Frame Rate	Up to 30 fps (main), 20 fps (sub)
Lens	Fixed focal length (typical 3.6mm)
Night Vision	IR LEDs, up to 30ft (estimated)
Network Interface	10/100 Ethernet, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Audio	Two-way audio (with external speaker/mic)
Storage	MicroSD card (up to 128GB, estimated) or NVR
Power Supply	DC 12V, 1A (adapter included)
Power Consumption	Less than 6W
Dimensions	Approx. 110 x 60 x 60 mm
Weight	Approx. 200 g (without bracket)
Operating Temperature	-10°C to 50°C
Mounting	Ceiling or wall mount with included bracket
Motion Detection	Yes, configurable sensitivity and zones
Alarm Output	Email, FTP, audio alert, recording
Software	PC-ZViewer (Windows), mobile app (Zmodo)
Protocols	TCP/IP, HTTP, DHCP, DDNS, UPnP, PPPoE

Frequently Asked Questions - ZM-SH721 Zmodo

How do I reset the Zmodo ZM-SH721 to factory defaults?

Press and hold the reset button (usually near the Ethernet port) for 10-15 seconds using a paperclip until the camera beeps or the LEDs flash. The camera will reboot with default settings.

Can I use the ZM-SH721 without an internet connection?

Yes, you can use it on a local network (LAN) for local monitoring via the PC-ZViewer software. However, remote access and cloud features require internet.

What is the default username and password for the ZM-SH721?

The default username is admin and password is 111111. It is recommended to change the password after initial setup.

How do I connect the ZM-SH721 to Wi-Fi?

In the PC-ZViewer software, go to Device Settings > Network Parameters > Wireless. Enable Wi-Fi, select your SSID, enter the password, and click Submit. The camera will connect to your wireless network.

What mobile app works with the Zmodo ZM-SH721?

The Zmodo app (available for iOS and Android) can be used to view live feed, playback recordings, and receive motion alerts. Add the camera by scanning its QR code or entering its UID.

How can I view recorded footage from the ZM-SH721?

Recordings can be stored on a microSD card or an NVR. Use the PC-ZViewer software's Playback function or the Zmodo mobile app to browse and play back recordings by date and time.

What should I do if the camera goes offline?

First, check your internet connection and power supply. Reboot the camera by unplugging it for 30 seconds. If using Wi-Fi, ensure the signal is strong. You can also try resetting the camera to factory defaults.

Can I use the ZM-SH721 with a third-party NVR?

Yes, the camera supports standard ONVIF protocol, so it can be integrated with many third-party NVRs that are ONVIF compliant.

How do I clean the camera lens?

Use a soft, dry microfiber cloth to gently wipe the lens. Avoid using any liquids or abrasive materials that could damage the lens coating.

What is the warranty period for the Zmodo ZM-SH721?

Zmodo typically offers a 1-year limited warranty. Check the product packaging or contact Zmodo support for specific warranty terms.

USER MANUAL ZM-SH721 Zmodo

PC-ZViewer User Manual

Contents

Preface....2

Statement......4

Intended Reader.... 4

Terms in this manual.... 4

Software Introduction......4

Zviewer Installation.... 5

Login Interface.... 6

Main Interface of Zviewer....7

Logout Interface.... 7

Device Management.... 7

Manually Adding a Device.... 8

Delete a Device.... 9

Edit a Device.... 9

Auto Search for Adding a Device.... 10

Searching for device....10

Edit the Device.... 11

Batch Editing Devices....11

Add Device....11

User management....11

Add a User.... 11

Delete a User....12

Edit a User....13

Video Browsing....13

Video Display Screen.... 13

Open the video.... 14

Close the video.... 15

Screen display parameters.... 15

Recording Plan.... 16

Video playback.... 18

PTZ Control....20

Device Configuration Parameters 21

Device Information Display.... 21

System Information Setting.... 22

Network Settings.... 24

Video Settings....31

Storage Management....33

Alarm setting....34

System Settings.... 35

Uninstall Zviewer....36

Preface

Thank you for using ZMODO network camera product and client software. The client software applies to integrated network cameras developed by ZMODO Company for network video monitoring, including network bullet camera, network IR bullet camera, network dome camera and spherical camera etc. High performance, monolithic SOC chip is utilized as media processor integrates video capture, compress and transmission. Standard H.264 main profile encoding algorithm ensures more clear and smooth video transmission. This series of IP camera is well suited for home and minor business, as well as any situation which needs to apply remote network transmission and remote network control. It's easy to install and operate, and can conveniently realize the real-time monitoring and remote control of the front cameras combining with the use of the Windows desktop software.

Statement:

The content in this manual may be different from the product version you are using. If you met any problem which can't be solved according to this manual, please contact with our tech-support or product supplier.

The content will be updated time to time. Our company reserves the right of without notice.

Intended Reader:

This manual is mainly suitable for below kinds of engineers:

System planners

Onsite tech-support and maintenance personnel

Administrators for system installation, configuration and maintenance

Users for business operation on product functions

Terms in this manual:

IP Camera or IPC in this manual means network camera including network bullet camera, network dome camera, network PT camera, and network IR camera and spherical camera etc.

- Click: Refers to left-click with your mouse

- Double click: Refers to left-double-click with your mouse

- Right Click: Refers to right-click with your mouse

- Square brackets "【】" indicates the window name, menu name and data sheet, such as "【Download】"

Software Introduction

As IP Camera, DVR, NVR are popular in security monitoring industry,

more and more users need a network video surveillance software to meet their daily work needs. In such a background, ZMODO launches its PC-ZViewer software. PC-ZViewer is the windows client software of the general users' front-end equipment and it can satisfy the users' daily management needs of IP camera, DVR and NVR.

Operating Environment

Operating Environment	Subitem Description
Software Operating system Windows XP/ Vista/Win7/Win8
Hardware	Basic configuration	1.6 GHz CPU, 1G memor 1024x768 display resolution 100G HD
	Recommended configuration	2.2 GHz or faster CPU, 2G more memory, 1280x1024 display resolution, 500G or larger HD

Zviewer Installation

Double click "Setup" for the Zviewer installation:

Select the installation path:

Choose whether to create shortcut on your desktop:

Finish the installation

Login Interface

Fill in 【User Name】 and 【Password】, then click 【Login】. The initial

User Name is admin, password is 111111.

Main Interface of Zviewer

Area No. Area No.

1	Device tree list	4	PTZ control panel
2	Video on-demand interface	5	Image quality control panel
3	Function module options	6	Video display interface layout

Logout

Single click to log out and the interface will jump back to the login interface.

Device Management

Click the 【Setting】into the settings page, click the left 【Device Management】 to add, delete or edit the device etc.

Manually Adding a Device

On the right information display area, right click 【Add】 to pop up

"New Camera Wizard" interface.

Name: Fill in device name (User defined)

Type: Choose device type (IPC or NVR)

Fill in the necessary information and click 【Next】 to go to camera setting interface.

IP: Fill in the IP address of the device

Port: Fill in the device port number

Max Channel: Fill in the quantity of channels of the device

Login: Fill in the user name of the device

Password: Input the login password

After inputting all the necessary information, click 【Finish】to finish the step.

Delete a Device

If want to delete a camera, select the IPC and right clickce and

click 【Delete】, the following window will be popped out:

Click 【Yes】to confirm the selection of delete.

Click 【No】to cancel your selection of delete.

Edit a Device

Select one of the devices, right clickce and select 【Edit】 to revise the corresponding settings of the device.

Auto Search for Adding a Device Searching for device

Click 【Discovery】 to go to the auto searching interface.

In 【Type】 drop-down list, select the device type (IPC, NVR or All) and click 【Search】 to search, the search results are as shown in

the below figure. It can show the network parameter configurations of all the devices.

Edit the Device

Double-click any one searched out device can pop up dialog box of network parameters. You can modify the parameters of the network such as IP, gateway and subnet mask, then click【save】.

Batch Editing Devices

Set up an IP Start address, subnet mask and gateway, then click the 【Modify All】button.

Distribute the network parameters to all the searched devices within the network segment.

Add Device

Click 【Add All】button to add all searched-out devices automatically.

User management

Click 【Setting】 into the settings page, click the left【User Management】for adding, deleting, editing users.

Add a User

Enter configuration page, select 【User Management】:

In the user information display area, click 【 Add】 to pop-up a dialog box, as the figure shown below:

【Role】: Administrator and Operator.

【User Name】: User name of logging in the client.

【Password】: Password of logging in the client.

【Telephone】: Contact number of user

Delete a User

Super administrator can delete users: select a user and click the 【Delete】, you can delete the user.

* Admin user is the system default super administrator user and can not be deleted, but its password can be changed.

Edit a User

Right click the user need to be modified, select 【Edit】 to modify the user information.

Video Browsing

Click the 【Live】into the main video interface for VOD operation.

Video Display Screen

Click for one channel video display layout.

Click for 4-channel video display layout.

Click for 8-channel video display layout.

Click☐for full-screen display at any layout

Drag the on-demand device to the right side of the window area to display the surveillance video. Right click and select"Open Video" to open this channel video.

Close the video

Click the × at the top right corner of the open video window to close the video

Select any one of the device on the left side, right click and select" close" to close the videos. Refer to below figure

Screen display parameters

Icons Description

Brightness

Adjust the brightness

Contrast

Adjust the contrast

Saturation

Adjust the saturation

Color Adjust the color(black and white)

Orientation

Adjust the orientation(normal, flip, mirror, flip plus mirror)

Voltage Adjust the voltage

Reset Restore default settings

Recording Plan

Set the local manual recording plan, the selected device will begin recording at the set time period. The video files will be stored in the local PC. The file path can be modified at the 【local setting】 and the stored video can play back locally.

Steps for setting the local recording plan:

1. Set the time period for recording, left click to select the time period, the selected area will be changed into blue color (click the blue area again can cancel the time period)

Note: Left click the to set the recording plan for the week

Left click the weekday(i.e.) to set the recording plan for the whole day

Left click 0 to 24 area of the timeline to set the recording plan for the same time period of the whole week

1. Click the device allocated for the recording plan to select, one or more devices can be selected and then click the【Save】 button.

Double click any device to check its recording plan.

Video playback

Click the Playback button to enter into the video playback interface

Select the device from the list on the left side to playback

Select the playback date from the calendar

Click the button to play the video, click to stop the video Click the button for fast forward playback and click the for slow playback.

Drag on the time bar for playback of the video, the blue bar means there is a time period while the gray area means there isn't.

24 2 1 05 Control the display accuracy of the play scale 24-hour display accuracy

2-hour display accuracy

1 hour display accuracy

0.5-hour display accuracy

PTZ Control

PTZ control is realized through PTZ panel.

Icon	Description
	Reset
	Zoom in/out
	Brightness adjustment
	Focal length adjustment
	Direction adjustment
	Set preset
	Move to preset position
	Set interval time
	Patrol route

Device Configuration Parameters

Select the device need to modify parameters, right click 【 Device Settings】to set.

Set the relevant parameters on the popped out interface.

Device Information Display

Such information as ID, software and hardware version information, header information and network connection status will be displayed on the interface.

System Information Setting

Date Time Settings:

Figure 220 System Sync Time

【Time Synchronization】: Select to synchronize the local time.

【Synchronization Method】: Select 【Use Local Time】 and click

【Sync Time】can realize the PC system time synchronization.

User Settings:

1. Each IPC can be set to be used by multiple users.

2. User privilege: Administrator: Root

Ordinary users: Ordinary

1. Modify password: in the password input box directly enter the new password, click the 【modify】to modify the password.

2. Modification of user: select one of the users, select another user and click 【modify】.

Upgrade Device Firmware:

Upgrade the equipment in the upgrade interface.

Click the Browse button, select the upgrade file, and click the 【Update】 button to upgrade.

Backup Restore Settings:

Periodic Maintaining: Choose any time of any day and set the time for auto reboot.

Restore Factory setting: Click this button to make all settings of the equipment restore to factory condition.

Reboot: Click this button to reset device.

Backup & Restore: Equipment backup and recovery

Network Settings

Basic Network Settings:

【DHCP】Start the DHCP function of the route, then IP camera will obtain address automatically from the router.

【IP Address】Set the IP address of IP camera device.

【Subnet mask】Default is 255.255.255.0 (Suggest user not to change this)

【Gateway】Set gateway IP of IPC, for example if IPC access public network through router, the gateway IP need to be set as the router IP which has accessed the public network.

【DNS address】if to use DDNS function, the DNS address need to be set as DNS address of the place where the device is belonging to.

Wireless Lan Settings:

【 Whether to use WIFI 】 Select this to start the IPC wireless network function.

【Whether to use DHCP】If the route enables DHCP function, select it and the IP camera will obtain address automatically from router.

【IP Address】Set wireless IP address of IP camera device.

【Gateway】Set the IP address of the current wireless gateway (Route/AP), such as 192.168.1.1.

You can select a wireless network from the auto search list or manually add one.

【Wireless Network】is SSID, is the login name of wireless network for authentication, it must be consistent with the SSID of the wireless gateway (router/AP). (Such as: TP-LINK_4A2DDC).

【Authentication Mode】can choose WEP, WPA, WPA2 three encryption methods, this setting must be consistent with the security type of wireless gateway (router /AP).

【Password】is a authentication password of wireless network, this setting must be consistent with the security type of wireless gateway (router /AP).

Save parameters after all settings are done. Now unplug cable can realize the IPC wireless access through wireless IP, such as 172.183.230.

Port Settings:

【web Listening Port】The default value is 80.

【Video Listening Port】The default value is 8000.

【Mobile Phone Listening Port】The default value is 9000.

PPPOE Settings:

【Switch】: Tick 【Switch】to select the PPPOE dial-up mode.

【User】: The user name can be obtained from Internet service providers.

【 Password】: Password can be obtained from Internet service providers.

UPnP Settings:

【Switch】If in LAN it has server with UPNP function, enable this function, the server will automatically forward the set port to public network.

【web mapping port】set the web port which will be mapping to the server.

【digital mapping port】set the digital port which will be mapping to the server.

【Mobile phone mapping port】set the mobile phone port which will be mapping to the server.

DDNS Service Settings:

【Service provider】3322.org or dynDDNS.org selectable

【 Domain 】 the device domain which is set by user, such as golinwei.3322.org.

【 Register name】 The user name which you registered on DDNS server.

【Password】The password which you registered on DDNS server.

Mail Service Settings:

【SMTP Server】Send email server address, different email service provider provides different email server address.

【Email receiving address】 Email address to receive the email, 4 addresses can be added.

【Email sending address】Email address to send email.

【SMTP password】Log in password for the email box.

【 SMTP Port 】 Port of SMTP Server, different email server has different port.

【Email Title】: The title of sending email

Ftp Service Settings:

FTP services will send the alarm triggered recording file or captured photo via FTP to certain FTP server.

【FTP server】IP address or HTTP network address of FTP server.

【FTP port】Port of FTP server, default port is 21.

【FTP user name and password】User name and password of FTP Server.

Video Settings

Encoder Settings:

【Video Quality】User can choose suitable image quality per need: best, very good, good, common, or poor.

【 Stream Type 】 Two types: CBR(Constant bit rate)and VBR(Variable bit rate) to choose, CBR applies constant bit rate coding, VBR applies variable bit rate coding.

【 Resolution 】 Set image resolution, main stream VGA(640×480=307200 pixel), sub stream QVGA(320×240=76800 pixels).

【 Frame rate 】 Set coding frame rate per second. Under not satisfying network situation, you can reduce the frame rate to control the coding bit rate, to ensure the smooth of the moving footage

Character Overlay:

【Title】Name of video channel will be shown on the up left of the image, max supports 16 characters.

【Time format】You can choose whether to display title, date and time, and also you can choose the time format.

Video Block:

User can set the image mask area by clicking and dragging the cusor or cancel the shield area by right clicking the mouse. You can choose to shield the entire image, or only shield the part of

the image. It can mask up to four areas.

Storage Management

You can view the total disk capacity and the remaining space and set loop video

Video Plans

【 Appointment Setting】: Set reservation time of timing video recording, can set everyday specific video time, up to 4 time period.

【Set recording time】: Can set a single file recording time as 15,30,45 or 60 minutes

【Other settings】: Before recording, can choose video types as timing recording or alarm recording; can choose record any day of a week or record everyday of the week; can choose a single channel or all the channels.

Alarm setting

【 Protection time setting 】 Set the protection time of motion detection. It can set detail time period of everyday, up to four time period.

【Motion detection switch】Set whether to edit the mobile area or open the motion detection.

【Motion detection setting】After enable motion detection switch, the setting interface will appear grid line. User only needs to click the little cube on the image to set the motion detection area. Right click the little cube to cancel related area detection.

【Alarm action mode】Set linkage output format after triggered alarm. Sound alarm or sending email can be selected. Sending email is sending motion detection alarm information via email to user.

【 Sensitivity 】 The sensitivity of motion detection includes four levels: high, little high, mid, and low.

【Output delay】Set delay time of alarm linkage, time range is limited between 0\~30.

System Settings

Click the【Setting】into the settings page, then click the 【Local

Settings】on the left.

【Video Storage Path】: Set local video, as the default installation directory: \Zmodo\Zviewer\ZviewerVideo.

【Screenshot Storage Path】: Set capture image storage path. The default installation directory is \Zmodo\ZViewer\ ZviewerImage.

【HDD Full】: Operate after the hard disk is full, can choose to 【Overwrite】 or 【Stop Record】.

【Video Storage Size】: Default is 512M, minimum is 100M.

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