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The title bar of a monitor window used to give the monitor's name - but now it gives the control type under the control tab. Would be much more useful to see the monitor's name again.

Don't ever buy one of these cameras - it's a POS. Bad video, terrible interface.

Anyone have experience setting up this camera in Zoneminder?

Just thought I'd jump in here - had the same problem. Turns out in the Source tab under Source Path you need to OMIT the port in the string

So I figured this out - in the Control Device field under the control tab you used to specify username:password; now it has to be in this form: user=USERNAME&pwd=PASSWORD

I've been using ZM for a while now - I just reinstalled my system with the newest Ubuntu & ZM from the instructions - version 1.29. I use Foscam indoor and outdoor cameras - most two to three years old. The controls worked on them fine with the older ZM, but now I can't get any of them to "...

So...Trying to export a video of your events? FFMPEG is not really available but zoneminder depends on it for the export. I found a way to make this work: First find avconv on your system - on Ubuntu server it's in /usr/bin. Then just copy avconv to ffmpeg. Then go to the config for zoneminder and e...

I used the newer Arun's script linked at the bottom to match my firmware - works great!

So I went back and re-installed Ubuntu server and zoneminder...and...I'm now able to get the video feeds! Now i just have to figure out how to implement the PTZ controls...

Model # FI8918W

Hello - I have a Foscam webcam that I know works with Zoneminder. When I open a monitor I get the red screen with only the date and time on it. I have the software setup correctly, I believe. This is a relevant part of the zmc daemon log - seems it's getting the wrong format response from the camera...

Hello - I have a Foscam webcam that I know works with Zoneminder. When I open a monitor I get the red screen with only the date and time on it. I have the software setup correctly, I believe. This is a relevant part of the zmc daemon log - seems it's getting the wrong format response from the camera...