How To import new PTZ control script info to an existing dB

[knight-of-ni]

In time I will be posting additional documentation regarding the different things you can do with the new zmcamtool.pl script. For starters, you can use zmcamtool to get new ptz control script information into your database.

While new versions of zoneminder will copy new ptz control script files onto your file system during an upgrade, your existing database remains untouched. You won't see the new scripts listed in the UI.

Here's how to fix that:

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sudo zmcamtool.pl --import

If you want to overwrite existing ptz control scripts in your database, issue this command:

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sudo zmcamtool.pl --import --overwrite

You can even import this information from a sql file exported from another system (more on this later):

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sudo zmcamtool.pl --import /full/path/to/sql/file.sql

[basketcase]

I tip my hat to you guys, upgrade is great, lower CPU usage and two of cams crashing to red screens are now solved!

I have one niggling error... My Foscam FI8910W's PTZ, previously working on 1.26.5 before yesterdays update

Firstly received this error:

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2014-03-24 18:52:50.765629	web_php	2949	ERR	/usr/bin/zmcontrol.pl --autostop --command=moveConDown --id=5=>	/usr/share/zoneminder/www/includes/functions.php

Then found this post and ran:

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[dt@Centos ~]$ sudo zmcamtool.pl --import
[sudo] password for dt:
Number of ptz camera controls added: 2
Number of existing ptz camera controls skipped: 11
Number of existing presets skipped: 66

Still can't get PTZ to work and now receive this error, which indicates a bad password, but none of that has changed from yesterday when it all worked and I've checked it again just in case.

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Error check failed: '401 Unauthorized' for URL http://192.168.0.23/decoder_control.cgi?command=92&user=admin&pwd=user=operator&pwd=operatorpw

along with

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2014-03-24 20:08:36.222038	zmc_m5	26208	ERR	Unable to get response	/builddir/build/BUILD/ZoneMinder-1.27.0/src/zm_remote_camera_http.cpp	1110
2014-03-24 20:08:36.171784	zmc_m5	26208	ERR	Unable to read subheader	/builddir/build/BUILD/ZoneMinder-1.27.0/src/zm_remote_camera_http.cpp	938
2014-03-24 20:08:36.121703	zmc_m5	26208	ERR	Select error: Interrupted system call	/builddir/build/BUILD/ZoneMinder-1.27.0/src/zm_remote_camera_http.cpp	162

My Controls are all still listed and look the same as they were on 1.26.5

Edit: I gather second error is related to the fact I installed the update from http://bauerhaus.dyndns.org/linux zoneminder-1.27.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm rather than building from source?

Any thoughts?

[basketcase]

After a bit of mucking around I got this to work.

Checking the bundled FI8908W.pm it takes a different string for the Control Device: user and password, in this case delimited by a colon : rather than an ampersand in my existing script...

I've started work on re-writing my FI8910W script using lessons from the FI8908W script, because the 08 doesn't have saved presets which are very handy.

The strangest behavior though as I've been testing and re testing every now and then zmcontrol reverts back to my Control Device variable = "user=operator&pwd=operatorpw" and passing that which gives the above unauthorized failure... it will do this despite me changing and saving the setting many times over, then suddenly it will work again. Restarting ZM doesn't seem to fix the issue, I gather it gets cached somewhere... If someone can educate me on how to clear those presets it'd make testing the new protocol script much easier.