GrandTec XGUARD 4 port PCI

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bujia
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GrandTec XGUARD 4 port PCI

Post by bujia »

Hi!

Is There anyone that are using ZM with "GrandTec XGUARD 4 port PCI" ?
My problem is that ZM see only 1 camera (dev/video0), but my PCI Card have 4 connettors... I hope that I mystake something...

This PCI Card support 4 camere in Linux, is true ????? :shock:

My dmesg...

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bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:09.0, irq: 10, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfc000000
bttv0: detected: Grandtec Grand X-Guard [card=103], PCI subsystem ID is 0304:0102
bttv0: using: Grand X-Guard / Trust 814PCI [card=103,autodetected] i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0. bttv0: using tuner=4 i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered. bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .<6>hub.c: new USB device 00:10.4-4, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x7b8/0xb21a) is not claimed by any active driver. . ok
bttv0: registered device video0 bttv0: registered device vbi0

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I see that driver register only /dev/video0 ... why ??? My PCI CARD have 4 connettors...

Anyone can help me ?

Thanks in advance!

Alessandro
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Post by jameswilson »

you should be able to create a new monitor using /dev/video0 then channels 0 -3
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bujia
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GRANDTEC XGUARD PCI 4 PORT

Post by bujia »

How can I do ?

How can I create 4 channels on the same device /dev/video0 ? I thought that I had to use /dev/video0 ; /dev/video1 ; /dev/video2 ; /dev/video3 ...

Sorry...but I'm a newbie of Linux... can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance!

Alessandro
jameswilson
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Post by jameswilson »

leave the dev0 in the settings but creste a new monior using channel 1 as well, then 2 etc. I would recommend you also give the manual a read
James Wilson

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johnhell
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Grand XGGuard 4 port PCI

Post by johnhell »

Hi,

You can setup multiple analog camera the following way :
"Source" :
In the "Device Path" specify /dev/video0 for both cameras
Use "Device Channel" 0 for camera 1 and 1 for camera 2.

Regards.
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cordel
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Post by cordel »

Thats exactily how it works :wink:
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