2 equal cams

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Heimo
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2 equal cams

Post by Heimo »

Good afternoon everybody,

perhaps somebody can help me.

I changed to Raspberry pi 4 with raspbian and zoneminder 1.32.3 and got a Problem I never had.

I am working with 2 equal cams (Foscam FI 9826W), but only 1 cam is working. They are ok, because I get an image from both in another tool. Sometime the first is working, sometimes the other.

I tried VLans, Groups, different ports, it does not work.

Has anybody an idea?

Thanks a lot.

Kind regards.

Heimo
Baylink
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Re: 2 equal cams

Post by Baylink »

I thought I saw you get an answer to this in another board (cross-posting's frowned upon, BTW), but the answer is probably that you don't have enough shm (shared memory) for the number and size of frames configured for both cameras.

Switch both -- in both ZM and the camera -- to 640x480 by maybe 5fps, and see what happens.

Then bump up a bit at a time.

Unless it's a 2 or 4GB Pi4, you may have trouble.
Heimo
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Re: 2 equal cams

Post by Heimo »

Thank you very much. It's a 4GB PI. I will try it after my holidays and post an answer.

Kind regards.

Heimo
Heimo
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Re: 2 equal cams

Post by Heimo »

Dear Baylink,

I have tried as you said, and it was working for a few minutes. Perhaps the shared Memory is near a border?

I will try to increase the max_framebuffers on the pi.

Thanks a lot.

Kind regards.

Heimo
Heimo
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Re: 2 equal cams

Post by Heimo »

I have tried, bt it does not work, so I will reinstall.

Thanks

Kind regards.

Heimo
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