RTSP timed out

[heggers]

Hi, I have a strange behaviour. probably someone can help me. I have a Foscam FI9901EP connected via cable to my switch. I followed the instructions to connect the camera "Remote" and "RTS/RTSP". Very often I get the following errors.

ERR [ RTSP timed out] and after about 20s its repeating the error.

I reduced the FPS to 9 on the camera no changes, I reduced to 8bit colour no changes. I'm running zoneminder under virtual box on ubuntu 16.04.
best heggers

[heggers]

Jan 8 15:05:26 camera zmc_m1[6872]: ERR [RTSP timed out]
Jan 8 15:05:26 camera zmc_m1[6872]: ERR [Failed to pre-capture monitor 1 621040884 (1/1)]
Jan 8 15:05:27 camera zmdc[28103]: ERR ['zmc -m 1' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
Jan 8 15:05:27 camera zmwatch[28151]: INF [Restarting capture daemon for xxxxxx, shared data not valid]
Jan 8 15:05:27 camera zmdc[6876]: INF ['zmc -m 1' started at 17/01/08 15:05:27]
Jan 8 15:05:27 camera zmdc[28103]: INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 17/01/08 15:05:27, pid = 6876]
Jan 8 15:05:28 camera zmc_m1[6876]: INF [Starting Capture version 1.30.0]
Jan 8 15:05:35 camera zmc_m1[6876]: ERR [RTSP timed out]
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[iconnor]

Review your monitor connection settings. Your camera is not talking to the capture process. Maybe port or ip are wrong?

[knight-of-ni]

We are no longer maintaining the Remote -> RTSP method. Try switching to ffmpeg or libvlc.

http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/lat ... tml#remote

http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/lat ... tml#ffmpeg

If the problem truly is with the camera, then this may not help, but at least it will help you isolate where the problem is.

[heggers]

Thanks for the info. Seems to work now much better.
best heggers

[genobob]

Not to bring back an older thread, however I am curious if you could send me a screenshot of the capture settings you ended up using for this camera? For whatever reason, every other camera I have works fine, except for this model.

Thank you,
Genobob