Certain cameras no longer working in 1.36.x

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zonemin
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Certain cameras no longer working in 1.36.x

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Hi all. I inherited responsibility for maintaining old ZoneMinder servers and deploying new ZoneMinder servers.
  • Our old RHEL 7 servers run ZoneMinder 1.30.4-1
  • Our new RHEL 8 servers run ZoneMinder 1.34.26-1
  • One of our new RHEL 8 servers was updated to ZoneMinder 1.36.5-1
Several cameras have a red circle icon and red IP address in the console view when connected to 1.36.5-1. These cameras, and cameras of the same make, model and configuration, work properly when connected to 1.30.4-1 and 1.34.26-1. I deployed a new server also running ZoneMinder 1.36.5-1, but it has the same problem with the same cameras. There are messages like this in /var/log/zoneminder/zmwatch.log:

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11/29/2021 03:46:48.610403 zmwatch[2221].INF [main:143] [Restarting capture daemon for BAD-CAMERA, shared data not valid]
11/29/2021 03:46:58.820930 zmwatch[2221].ERR [main:167] [Last analyse time for 4 BAD-CAMERA was zero.]
I am not very familiar with ZoneMinder or surveillance infrastructure in general, but our SME is stumped. How can I troubleshoot this to better understand the problem?
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Re: Certain cameras no longer working in 1.36.x

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1.36 is a pretty dramatic change v 1.34…
How about posting the settings for a same type camera working on 1.34 and broken on 1.36?
Some cams used to work with “remote” now need “Ffmpeg”, so you might try that if applicable.
You want to have VLC, as it is able to figure out the right stream address string for most cameras given the correct ip and user/password.
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Re: Certain cameras no longer working in 1.36.x

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most importantly, we are now up to 1.36.11 with a LOT of fixes.
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Re: Certain cameras no longer working in 1.36.x

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dougmccrary wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 8:40 pm How about posting the settings for a same type camera working on 1.34 and broken on 1.36?
Some cams used to work with “remote” now need “Ffmpeg”, so you might try that if applicable.
You want to have VLC, as it is able to figure out the right stream address string for most cameras given the correct ip and user/password.
I'm not sure which settings would be relevant to post. I did try changing the camera to Ffmpeg, but that didn't help. I'm also not sure how to use VLC to determine the stream address, but it doesn't need to be changed when the server is changed.
iconnor wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 8:41 pm most importantly, we are now up to 1.36.11 with a LOT of fixes.
I did upgrade one of the 1.36 servers to 1.37.5, but that didn't fix the problem. I wasn't sure how to upgrade to 1.36.11 as yum did not report any new versions in the repository, so I used the instructions here to just upgrade to 1.37.5 instead. I still have another 1.36.11 server anyway. How involved is it to downgrade back to 1.34?
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Re: Certain cameras no longer working in 1.36.x

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zonemin wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 11:09 pm I did upgrade one of the 1.36 servers to 1.37.5, but that didn't fix the problem. I wasn't sure how to upgrade to 1.36.11 as yum did not report any new versions in the repository, so I used the instructions here to just upgrade to 1.37.5 instead. I still have another 1.36.11 server anyway. How involved is it to downgrade back to 1.34?
As indicated on the zmrepo site you linked to, zm 1.37.x is unstable development. We aren't kidding when we say it can be unstable. That does not sound like what you want at all.

To get the latest stable release, go to rpmfusion.org and enable that repo. This is stated on the zmrepo site.

Once you are on the latest release, then troubleshoot any camera issues.
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