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I've written a PTZ control script that should work for HikVision IP cameras. It has the following capabilities: Move including diagonals Zoom Focus Iris Goto and Set presets Home position Camera reset (reboot) Instructions 1. Save the code to a file named "HikVision.pm" 2. Find out where t...

I just bought an HikVision and am working on a module for the PTZ controls.
If I get it working I'll post it

I am having the same problem with inodes reaching 100%...I have a feeling this is the root cause of most of the issues I have been having with zoneminder...just out of suriosity what remedy is there to fix this problem? I see your post that you will be reformatting, what options will you be using t...

Now I wrote a simple script to reset all 3 of my cameras. http://stuff.jaygroh.com/zoneminder/test.sh The command is zmcontrol.pl --id 23 --command=presetGoto1 Now at the command line if I manualy type in sudo zmcontrol.pl --id 23 --command=presetGoto1 It will work fine. The PTZ controls in zonemin...

> "Error, username and password or auth string must be supplied"

More information is needed.

> I delete old events, but not freed space on my hard drive

run zmaudit.pl and/or enable RUN_AUDIT in the system tab of options.

Have a look at Options -> Paths -> PATH_SOCKS

The directory this points to must exist for it to work and must be read and writeable by the user zm runs as.

zoneminder records video. If the signal has been lost then there is no video to record so no event is generated. Your best option is to install some monitoring software such as Nagios (http://www.nagios.org/). This will monitor any number of IP cameras and alert you if/when the network loses contact...

Its been quite a while since I've done anything with md5 but if I recall correctly text is processed in 64 byte chunks. This means that if you can arrange for ZM_AUTH_HASH_SECRET.$user['Username'].$user['Password'] to be a multiple of 64 bytes then you can probably generate a hash without storing th...

It is possible the card might have something on it to allow you to identify it. Have a look see what you can find.
You could also post the output of:

lspci -nns 0000:02:0f.0

This might allow someone to identify the card.

It is identifying your card as an IVC-200 (card number 102). Have you checked the documentation that came with your card to verify that this is correct? I see from the original post that each BT878 handles 2 video channels. Have you tried different device channel numbers? I have come across one card...

Here are a few things you can do to save space: 1. Decrease the frame rate. 2. Decrease the resolution. 3. Don't create analysed alarm images (Options->Config->CREATE_ANALYSIS_IMAGES) 4. Decrease the JPEG quality (Options->Images->JPEG_(ALARM)_FILE_QUALITY) 5. Change alarm zone settings to decrease ...

I assume that xawtv doesn't get any picture either.

It might be that your system isn't detecting the correct video card. You should be able to see what card it is using by looking at the output from dmesg.

I am going to assume that your zoneminder web files are located in /usr/share/zoneminder and that you want all events stored on a disk mounted at /media/500Reiser under a subdirectory called "events" and that this events directory exists. If that is the case then you need to do the followi...

I had similar problems a couple of years ago. I resolved it by changing to ext3 and adding "noatime" to the fstab entry. It solved the problem. Because I made both changes at the same time I don't know whether both or just one of the changes fixed it. You say: and my remote power cycle con...

The timezone being displayed might be controlled by PHP. Look under the /etc directory for a file called "php.ini" (there might be more than one) and within this file you will find a line like this: date.timezone = 'UTC' Change the timezone to your one and restart apache. You can find a li...