Elphel on OSX

This section will give you a brief overview on how to control the video cam via the firefox or safari browser and how to get a nice video stream on a Mac with OS X running. I will try to keep it as simple as possible to archive a good result. You will see that it is not a big deal.

Note: The standard IP address of an Elphel Camera is 192.168.0.9. I've changed the IP address of the camera for my network to 192.168.1.2.

Used Configuration

Hardware

• Mac Book Intel Duo Core, 2Ghz, 2GByte Ram, 128 GByte Solid State Drive
• Elphel Camera Model 353, 10338 sensor board, 10336 Interface board, External Power
• Lense 4-8mm, C/CF Mount
• External Power Supply (Labratory, set to 15V and 0,5A)*
• CAT5 Cable, straight, modified for external power supply (not PoE!)*

*Note: In case you're camera uses PoE (48V), refer to Using the Camera for a description on how to use PoE. If you're using external power (9-36V), check polarity twice before applying power. You can cause damage to the camera and computer/equipment in case of reverse polarity.

Software

• OS X Leopard 10.5.3
• Firefox 3.03
• Safari 3
• Quicktime Player 7.5.5
• VLC (0.9.6)
• mplayer

General and Network Configuration

After connecting the camera via the CAT5 cable to the computer and applying power to the camera (PoE or External), the yellow LED on the backside should be on. The green LED starts flashing as soon a datatransfer between the computer and the cam is established.

The network settings of the cam are:

• IP: 192.168.0.9 (standard -> I use 192.168.2.1)
• Netmask: 255.255.255.0

Check the network configuration on Leopard

--->System Configuration

               --->Network
                   -->Ethernet

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The standard setting to obtain an IP address is DHCP. As soon as you connect the interconnection to the cam, Leopard will try to get an IP address. Since the camera does not work as DHCP server, Leopard will assign itself an IP address. You can leave it by that, if you don't want to create you're own network.

The Camera in a Webbrowser

Firefox

Camera Control

Media Player/Streamer

VLC

Mplayer

Other

Possible Faults

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