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I have a zoneminder set up on ubuntu 10.04. Zoneminder is installed and the process is running at boot however when I open the zm console it says zoneminder is stopped. How do I make it so zoneminder is in the running state automatically at boot? It needs to be automatically done because this comput...

Ok when I try to add a camera on video0 channel 0 I get this in my logs ==> /var/log/messages <== Feb 21 17:34:11 zoneminder zmdc[18933]: WAR [Can't find process with command of 'zmc -d /dev/video0'] Feb 21 17:34:11 zoneminder zmdc[18933]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' starting at 12/02/21 17:34:11, pid...

Also I just noticed something else here. When I add Video1 Channel 0- I get a working camera When I add Video1 Channel 1 - I get a working camera When I add Video0 Channel 0 - Camera doesn't work and it breaks the other two on Video1. Also it seemed to break Video0 Channel0 because I added that rbef...

Heres what I just got for doing that: root@zoneminder:/home/zoneminder# zmu -q -d /dev/video0 -v Error, failed to query crop /dev/video0: Invalid argument But when I do it on video1 i get the following. root@zoneminder:/home/zoneminder# sudo zmu -q -d /dev/video1 -v Video Device: /dev/video1 General...

output of ipcs -l: ------ Shared Memory Limits -------- max number of segments = 4096 max seg size (kbytes) = 163840 max total shared memory (kbytes) = 671088640 min seg size (bytes) = 1 ------ Semaphore Limits -------- max number of arrays = 128 max semaphores per array = 250 max semaphores system ...

Ok this is fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with Zoneminder installed. The first two cameras work when I add them. However when I add the third none of them work and even after erasing the third none of them work. The Camera's are all CCTV Q-see cameras hooked up To a pv-981-16 Card via bnc cables....

When setting up different cameras with Zoneminder all feeds for /dev/video1 on channels 0-3 are all the same feed, even though there are different cameras connected. What is the problem here? They channels all seem to work fine by themselves.

I changed the port from the webmin control for the virtual server thats used for zoneminder, now i cannot access zoneminder on that port (I used port 81) as port 80 seems to be blocked by time warner, i did the port forwarding and for some reason I cannot connect to it. Is there something else I nee...

Hello everyone, im working on getting all 16 channels working on this zoneminder box. I have 8 of the 16 channels working however I cannot get the last 8 to work. I read through a few different pages and it talks about adding something to /etc/modprobe.conf, however I do not have on of those files. ...

Ok, now i got it working for the most part, however i can only get 8 of the 16 channels to work, I found the first 8 because they were all channels 0 and 1, however when getting to camera numbers 9-16 they are not showing up under channels 2 or 3. Ive tried a few other channels but still cannot find...

Yeah I think your correct, however now im noticing a different error, maybe because out of all the ports i only have one camera connected currently? 2011-09-19 11:44:02.108180 zmdc 19173 ERR 'zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 255 zmdc.pl 2011-09-19 11:44:02.106740 zmc_dvideo0 19843 ...

Hello, Im working on configuring this zoneminder system on Ubuntu Server and it appears as I have zoneminder installed and I can log into it. However I havent added any cameras as of yet. Its a 16 Channel card and I purchased it from Blue Cherry, however in terminal i only have 4 /dev/video devices....

When trying to do "make" in the zoneminder directory I get a few warnings and an error, ive read through a lot of documentation and im not sure where to go from here so I posted on the forums. The error that I get is: zm_mpeg.cpp zm_mpeg.cpp: In member function ‘void VideoStream::SetParame...

Hello im wondering if anyone has any advice on what hidden ip cameras will work well with zoneminder. I need to set up a covert camera and already have 8 q-see bnc cameras so im planning on building a box for zoneminder to support several ip cameras and about 10 BNC cameras. Any suggestions of ones ...