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Hi Guys, thanks for the replies, "No pro cameras do not put the ir emmitter on the cam, its a bad bad idea for many reasons but its cheap. Proper cams use a seperate emitter but these can cost from £100 to £500 depending on lens and power etc. Most people just use the led ones but personally i hate t ...

Hi All, I'm looking to finish developing my home CCTV system, (thus far I have a cheap generic BT878 capture card from ebay, and have installed zoneminder on Ubuntu Gutsy and it is working with a cheapo CCTV cam also off ebay...) So I bought a cheap IR day/night cam from ebay to play with and get ZM ...

Ok, just to say that I have just re-installed amd64 7.10 Gutsy server, and installed zoneminder from scratch following: http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Documentation#Installation_from_a_.deb and it worked perfectly first time ;-) One question, I installed cambozola and enabled it as ...

Ok, so I'm a complete idiot

Looks like all I had to do was set up my device in the camera (monitor) properties of zoneminder to /dev/video0 not /dev/video

all works now! - but at least I've learned a lot in the process

Hi Lee - yes I've run zmfix -a... I re-installed ubuntu 7.10 i386 version just in case it was an amd64 issue, and followed the instructions for installing Peter's .deb file: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9747 I also followed your further instructions re. installing cambozola and ...

Some further info from my zmdc.log: 10/28/07 09:51:53.471945 zmdc[5585].INF [Server starting at 07/10/28 09:51:53] 10/28/07 09:51:56.790517 zmdc[5585].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video' starting at 07/10/28 09:51:56, pid = 5607] 10/28/07 09:51:56.871784 zmdc[5585].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video' exited abnormally ...

Hi There, I'm trying to set up zoneminder on amd64 Ubuntu Gutsy server. My camera works fine in xawtv (and I can capture jpeg images from it ok) It is a standard b878 pci capture card (4 channels). I have done apt-get install zoneminder and followed this little guide from the zm wiki: http://www ...