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Thanks for the replies. I 'm not much of a wiz on linux. I did "getent group" and for video it returned. video:x:44:www-data,keith Now, if I change the owner to keith, I still get the video stream now that it's started but I also get the permission denied as it is trying to select the form...

Hi I had to reinstall my Ubuntu machine and am trying to get back where I was with zm. I had "Failed to open video device /dev/video0: Permission denied" I had already done usual set owner and permissions and also have a rule in /ect/udev/rules.d containing. SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux&qu...

That's great, Thank you.

I guess that html post is what happens when we change the settings on the monitor settings pages. So the same mechanism could be used to change anything?

Hi doc says "...camera to be enabled or disabled by external triggers or scripts." I have seen mention of x10 enabling monitors. Is this the only way or is there some way I can enable/disable monitors using Python? When I say enable disable I really mean enable/disable motion detection as ...

just to close this if anyone is interested.
I could not get it to work. Not sure if it a Ubuntu23.04 issue or card issue but having spend some time on it, it's not really worth the effort. Especially as I just bought some ONVIF 2k cameras that seem to work well with ZM for £20 each.

Just to close this issue.
I resolved it by changing the Capture Pallet from Auto to a non auto setting YUV. Not sure what YUV it was but avoiding the auto setting fixed the startup issue. Now both local webcams startup every time. Happy days.

Thanks iconnor yes good idea I can just run my own python. I can do that by the "execute command on match" filter, right? So now I'm thinking - Can I set up different zones and pass some info that would indicate the zone that alarmed? **** Edit - yes I found it "filter on Alarmed Zone...

Hi I have a local webcam and when setup it works great. However, if the PC restarts the webcam does not work, I get the following message in the log. If I run Cheese it shows an image ok. I did a search through the forum and there have been similar errors but not a solution. Thanks --log 8/14/23, 8:...

Hi I'm still at the start of a steep learning curve to ZM, so just need a pointer to the approach to take. I want to get some serial notification of events from the RS232 com port and X10 parts of ZM say it sends stuff out on events which I could then interpret. My question is "Instead of using...

I notice that when setting to h264 it is not actually saving video but a lot of jpeg files. I have the storage Save JPEGs disabled. I only get video files when set to auto and they are mp4 but if I set the codec in the event playback to MJPEG it will play it once and after that it will not play gain...

I had the settings set to auto in the Monitor Storage tab. I assumed that mp4 is the format of the stream but I suppose recoding is only a small processor hit as it is only saving on each alert. I changed outputcodec to h264 if I select encoder as : libx264 - I get a blank event playback. h264 and t...

Apologies if this is a daft question but in the documentation under viewing events there is mp4 playback shown. My event is also an mp4 file but I have "The video could not be loaded, ... format is not supported". I have v1.36.32 installed on ubuntu 23.04. How do I get the MP4 to play when...

Thanks for the quick reply. lspci -v gives this info for the card: 03:00.0 Unclassified device [0080]: Packard Bell Device 036e Subsystem: Device 6494:0000 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 255 Memory at 80900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K] Memory at 80901000 (64-b...

Hi Apologies for what maybe a subject that has been visited before but I can't find much info. I have a newly built ubuntu 23.04 PC with an 878 type capture card from ebay which I was hoping to use with some existing cameras I have. However I can't get the capture card working. Is this approach a lo...