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I have several zoneminder systems in the field and was wondering what are standard preventative maintenance practices that are recommended?

Ok I have made great progress. It turns out that from the ubuntu zoneminder package, after the install it doesn't set all the permission appropriately and found out that the www-data user wasn't added to the video group so apache or zoneminder didnt have access to /dev/video. Even sifting through th...

Ok I have made great progress. It turns out that from the ubuntu zoneminder package, after the install it doesn't set all the permission appropriately and found out that the www-data user wasn't added to the video group so apache or zoneminder didnt have access to /dev/video. Even sifting through th...

ok, I can run multiple programs like mplayer and I get video with a line in the bottom of the screen with this output: mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=384:height=288:device=/dev/video0 MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer:...

thanks

You have many valid points, actually I tip my hat off to that one because you hit it on the pin head but in the end you cant avoid,"the penny pinchers". This box that I am in I have to dig myself out and I would appreciate your help.

First of all the customer is under a super tight budget and the decision to go with that was based on several other bad experiences with different surveillance systems. Secondly, you are correct in the fact that Zoneminder support is community based and one who decides to venture in that direction t...

thanks for the reply but I did all of that and I am now getting this from the logs: May 29 01:38:32 Security zmdc[4529]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' started at 10/05/29 01:38:32] May 29 01:38:32 Security zmc_dvideo0[4529]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>] May 29 01:38:32 Security zmc_dvideo0[...

i looked at /var/log/messages and pulled this: May 29 01:38:32 Security zmdc[4529]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' started at 10/05/29 01:38:32] May 29 01:38:32 Security zmc_dvideo0[4529]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>] May 29 01:38:32 Security zmc_dvideo0[4529]: WAR [Different video standards...

I have a zoneminder 1.24X system and am having trouble getting video from a generic analog color IR camera with these specs: 1/3 Sony Super HAD CDD Sensor 270K/420 TV Line (enhanced) 0.1 LUX (W/CDS Sensor on 0.00 Lux Built in 12 IR LED NTSC or PAL 510(H)X492(V) for NTSC / 500(H) X 582(V) for PAL Res...

I have been setting up multiple security system in the area and was wondering what was the easiest way is to get the camera information that one would need in setting up survellance systems like zoneminder. I use xawtv for testing: xawtv -c /dev/video0 and zmu -d <device_path> -q -v But how can I ge...

I have setup zoneminder using Ubuntu server 10.04 lucid and am using the bluecherry PV-981A-8A 8 port card. When I look at how many video interfaces there are it only show 4 /dev/video0-4 I spoke to bluecherry and they said that ubuntu is only showing 4 ports for bttv card and that I need to add som...

what would be the shared memory setting for a 750GIG hdd and 4 gig memory?

no I will do that. I changed the resolution 704X480 to 352X240 and now I have black screen but?????????????????/

I have installed and configured Zoneminder 1.24x under Ubuntu and now am trying to configure the Dlink 3220 camera (192.168.3.17). I used http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/D-Link and used http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/enterprise/2009/109020103.asp Source Type: Remote Remote Host Name: IP Ad...