Camera problems [SOLVED]

stoneybroke · Post by **stoneybroke** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:02 pm

Hi All,

I have just installed zoneminder v1.23.3 on a Ubuntu server, used Xawtv with a USB Pixart_PAC207-BCA web camera I managed to get everything working great, the camera was recording/monitoring etc. and was also working fine on Skype. All was well for two days however yesterday after a mains power failure the camera went off completely.

I couldn't find the problem in the logs or as to why the camera has stopped working and even after a complete re-install of zoneminder, skype and xawtv I can only get the camera working on xawtv and nothing else.

So has anyone got any idea's suggestions.

Thanks.

Solved the problem myself, I don't know what happened but the source path had changed from /dev/video0 (0) to /dev/video (0) once I replaced video to video0 the camera worked again.

Normando · Post by **Normando** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:37 am

The source path is only /dev/video or /dev/video0, and not /dev/video (0) nor /dev/video0 (0).

/dev/video0 is a softlink for /dev/video

Post by **cordel** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 2:04 am

Actually that's backwards and should be that /dev/video is a symbolic link to /dev/video0

Normando · Post by **Normando** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:38 pm

cordel wrote:Actually that's backwards and should be that /dev/video is a symbolic link to /dev/video0

Yes yes, you are right