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by skydiver
Sun Jul 31, 2016 3:04 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.30.x
Topic: Editing Zones
Replies: 18
Views: 9378

Editing Zones

Is i my imagination or is the new zone edit screen in 1.30 missing the display of the other zones that are defined for a camera when you are editing the active zone?
by skydiver
Sat Jul 30, 2016 11:03 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.30.x
Topic: BTTV Capture card
Replies: 7
Views: 4981

Re: BTTV Capture card

Here is the card I added to move my DVI card off the PCI bus so I could reserve the whole bus for the VMWARE passthrough. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01E9Z2D60/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I now have another slot to be able to add another capture card. I also think with thi...
by skydiver
Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:15 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.30.x
Topic: BTTV Capture card
Replies: 7
Views: 4981

Re: BTTV Capture card

I appear to have everything working now. I have 5 cameras installed running at 640 x 480 8 bit greyscale the following settings: - Analysis FPS 15 - Maximum FPS 5 - Alarm Maximum FPS 10 Multi Buffering set to Use Config Value Here is what I changed to get dual cameras working: - Added a second cpu c...
by skydiver
Sat Jul 30, 2016 3:05 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.30.x
Topic: Data Drive
Replies: 5
Views: 3358

Re: Data Drive

Thanks for the tip on the df command. Now that I know that is what it uses, that answered my question.
by skydiver
Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:45 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.30.x
Topic: BTTV Capture card
Replies: 7
Views: 4981

Re: BTTV Capture card

I may not have clearly explained myself. The card is working with all 4 channel 0 inputs. It is only when I add a second camera to the chip input on channel 1 that then both channels stop working. I believe it has to due with selecti9ng the correct image for each camera out of the video stream.
by skydiver
Fri Jul 29, 2016 1:55 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.30.x
Topic: BTTV Capture card
Replies: 7
Views: 4981

BTTV Capture card

I have a 4 chip/8 input Bttv capture card running in Ubuntu server ZM in a VMWARE VM with the PCI card passed through to the VM. This card support sdual cameras on each /dev/videoX input. All primary channels work great and captures video. When I add a second camera /video0(1) both the primary /dev/...
by skydiver
Fri Jul 29, 2016 1:44 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.30.x
Topic: Data Drive
Replies: 5
Views: 3358

Re: Data Drive

Thanks. I installed as suggested then before starting the ZM service, I changed the mount point of my dedicate data drive to to /var/cache/zoneminder/events and then ran: chown -R www-data:www-data /var/cache/zoneminder/events chown -R www-data:www-data/var/cache/zoneminder/images chown -R www-data:...
by skydiver
Wed Jul 27, 2016 3:04 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.30.x
Topic: Data Drive
Replies: 5
Views: 3358

Data Drive

I am rebuilding my Zoneminder system in my new VMWARE server. I would like to set the data drive where ZM writes the events to to be a separate virtual drive running on a different storage source than the Ubuntu Server OS Should I first install ZM per the WIKI https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu_Serv...
by skydiver
Mon Mar 28, 2016 9:45 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.29.x
Topic: Error /var/lock/zm & /tmp/zm
Replies: 15
Views: 6745

Re: Error /var/lock/zm & /tmp/zm

What file ownership should the usr/lib/zoneminder folders have? root@zm:/usr/lib/zoneminder# ls -la total 20 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 13 18:54 . drwxr-xr-x 83 root root 12288 Mar 13 20:06 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 13 18:54 cgi-bin root@zm:/usr/lib/zoneminder# cd .. root@zm:/usr/lib# ...
by skydiver
Mon Mar 28, 2016 9:24 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.29.x
Topic: Error /var/lock/zm & /tmp/zm
Replies: 15
Views: 6745

Re: Error /var/lock/zm & /tmp/zm

So let me re-phrase my question: When you are logged into the zm Apache page and then request a stream to view, Apache attempts to start streaming. Where does in the Apache the configuration does Apache look to start the zm streaming process? Where in the streaming process does the binary look to wr...
by skydiver
Mon Mar 28, 2016 4:41 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.29.x
Topic: Error /var/lock/zm & /tmp/zm
Replies: 15
Views: 6745

Re: Error /var/lock/zm & /tmp/zm

I am running two other lightweigtht websrvers on this Apache server, so I really don't want to wipe this. Can someone please step through what is causing the error?

What processor & configs files are determining what launches where wand where the pid loock files are needing to be written to?
by skydiver
Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:22 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.29.x
Topic: Error /var/lock/zm & /tmp/zm
Replies: 15
Views: 6745

Re: Error /var/lock/zm & /tmp/zm

Neither of these suggestions worked. Still getting these errors when trying to stream.: 2016-03-25 15:21:06.840433 web_js 3366 ERR getStreamCmdResponse stream error: socket_sendto( /var/run/zm/zms-318744s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory - checkStreamForErrors() ?view=watch 2016-03-25 15:21:...
by skydiver
Fri Mar 25, 2016 3:38 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.29.x
Topic: Error /var/lock/zm & /tmp/zm
Replies: 15
Views: 6745

Re: Error /var/lock/zm & /tmp/zm

Still cannot stream. Have verified all the settings for both urgrading from 1.28 on Ubuntu Server LTS 14.04 and a new install. Here are some settings from the systems: user@zm:/usr/share/zoneminder/www$ ls -la total 120 drwxr-xr-x 12 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 20 11:23 . drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-da...
by skydiver
Tue Mar 22, 2016 5:48 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.29.x
Topic: Error /var/lock/zm & /tmp/zm
Replies: 15
Views: 6745

Re: Error /var/lock/zm & /tmp/zm

Any help here? I have RTFM'd both the upgrade and fresh install with no luck.
by skydiver
Mon Mar 21, 2016 1:52 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.29.x
Topic: Error /var/lock/zm & /tmp/zm
Replies: 15
Views: 6745

Re: Error /var/lock/zm & /tmp/zm

OK did it a third time this time as sudo su instead od sudo each comnad and that seemed to fix the tmp/lock issues. Now I still cannot stream. This is the error in the ZM logs: 2016-03-20 20:51:13.941936 web_js 28352 ERR getStreamCmdResponse stream error: socket_sendto( /var/run/zm/zms-661580s.sock ...