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by Flasheart
Mon Oct 21, 2013 6:42 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: damaged install
Replies: 3
Views: 4060

Re: damaged install

ps aux |grep zm

will list all zm processes, which you can then kill by the pid

Without knowing the distro, can't say other than helping with the debian 1.25 package, which is all I use.
by Flasheart
Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:32 am
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: IP Camera substreams
Replies: 2
Views: 3465

Re: IP Camera substreams

If your camera has facility to produce more than one stream of differing qualities simultaneously, yes.

Axis, Y-Cam do.

Foscam doesn't. (Yes, you can specify resolution on the URL, but it resets the global setting and exposure)
by Flasheart
Sun Sep 29, 2013 6:43 am
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Need advice for IPCam
Replies: 3
Views: 3353

Re: Need advice for IPCam

In my experience, NONE of the ip cameras with built-in infrared LED's give anything that can be described as "good" further than 5 meters away. I use a variety to monitor horse stables that are 3.2mx3.2m square and they're fine for that, but elsewhere when I use them for security the subje...
by Flasheart
Sun Sep 15, 2013 4:27 pm
Forum: Non-ZoneMinder Chat
Topic: Foscam longevity
Replies: 2
Views: 3304

Re: Foscam longevity

The components used are essentially the same as every other ip camera, so I would expect the camera and web server aspects to last as long as anything else - provided it's well protected. If you mean the pan/tilt mechanism of some foscams - of which the FI8903W doesn't appear to be one, well, it's o...
by Flasheart
Sun Sep 15, 2013 5:48 am
Forum: Non-ZoneMinder Chat
Topic: IP Camera over the internet excessive usage
Replies: 4
Views: 4386

Re: IP Camera over the internet excessive usage

Just do the maths. Get the size of a jpg. Multiply that by 6, then again by 86400 - that's the amount of bandwidth (plus some more for control/overhead) you're using per day. Not surprising you're capping out 20gb. 6fps is A LOT for going over a metered connection. I use 0.25 to 1fps when I have to ...
by Flasheart
Sun Sep 01, 2013 7:50 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.26.x
Topic: Build instructions for debian7 "wheezy" (amd64)
Replies: 7
Views: 6597

Re: Build instructions are elusive/borderline irresponsibly

Yes please!

I did some notes on getting it built on debian for the first beta, but they were a long way from complete and I for one would appreciate a simple howto.

And if anyone can package well once the final is released....
by Flasheart
Wed Aug 28, 2013 5:37 am
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: What makes an IP camera ZM compatible?
Replies: 5
Views: 4496

Re: What makes an IP camera ZM compatible?

The ability to provide jpg or mjpeg make it a certainty to work with zm. Many others will work too - rtsp or http, mpeg4 or h264 - best thing is to find something that you think might work and ask in here. Note that jumping from 320x240 to 1080p will increase load on your server a lot, at least 8 ti...
by Flasheart
Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:31 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: Now hear this: Please test 1.26-beta.1!
Replies: 13
Views: 13989

Re: Now hear this: Please test 1.26-beta.1!

To save others who don't normally build stuff some time, Debian 7 apt-get install build-essential libtool automake libmysqlclient-dev ffmpeg libjpeg8-dev libneon27-gnutls-dev libdate-manip-perl liblwp-useragent-determined-perl libsys-mmap-perl ./configure --with-ffmpeg=/usr/bin/ --with-webdir=/var/w...
by Flasheart
Thu Aug 15, 2013 6:59 am
Forum: Hardware Compatibility List
Topic: DVB
Replies: 1
Views: 2645

Re: DVB

Interesting. Maybe. If you can manage to use ffmpeg to split out the stream, zm should be able to record it. (Set ffmpeg as the monitor type, and set the parameters in the source tab) Failing that there may be some way to convert the image to a mjpeg or jpg stream using mjpeg-streamer or similar, or...
by Flasheart
Sun Aug 11, 2013 7:06 am
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Help Design Low-Power ZoneMinder and HA system
Replies: 1
Views: 2579

Re: Help Design Low-Power ZoneMinder and HA system

Sounds like a fun project, although one that'll probably need tweaking a lot before it's right! ZM uses relatively little cpu when just recording. It only had to decode the stream, write the files. The rpi has zoneminder in its repos and may be a nice low-power starting place, although I have no exp...
by Flasheart
Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:12 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: Foscam FI8904W frequently has all blue images captured
Replies: 9
Views: 6208

Re: Foscam FI8904W frequently has all blue images captured

Try using the camera wired rather than wireless.
by Flasheart
Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:27 am
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Recommendations sought for external PoE IP-cameras
Replies: 2
Views: 2822

Re: Recommendations sought for external PoE IP-cameras

Vivotek do some reasonable external poe ip cams at HD.
by Flasheart
Mon Jul 08, 2013 5:10 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: Foscam fi9821
Replies: 13
Views: 9881

Re: Foscam fi9821

The shared memory settings may well need tweaking - see the Wiki FAQ and search for "shmall". The number there may need to be bigger than given for megapixel.

And read the logs - /var/log/syslog is where zm mutters constantly (in debian and ubuntu at least)
by Flasheart
Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:24 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder Hints & Tips
Topic: Automatically adding monitors
Replies: 0
Views: 5197

Automatically adding monitors

I've added the following to the wiki. Don't hate me for this - it works! http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Automatically_Adding_Monitors Automatically Adding Monitors I recently had cause to want to add monitors to Zoneminder automatically. This is how I did it. It's probably not the correct ...
by Flasheart
Sat Jun 22, 2013 2:24 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.25.x
Topic: Corrupted frames every couple minutes. using RTSP Stream
Replies: 9
Views: 6281

Re: Corrupted frames every couple minutes. using RTSP Stream

right click the image to get the jpg, rather than the html page. Just to check, if that's a good path, fill the fields in Source as: Protocol: http Method: Simple Host name: 192.168.0.1 (or whatever your camera's ip is - JUST the IP) Port: 80 (unless you know different) Path: /cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?...