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by mrgreaper
Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:32 am
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Swann max-ip-cam
Replies: 7
Views: 5216

well i payed £137 for it that near on $200 so i expected it to be the bees knees, i cant share the ip for it as we are in the middle of a heat wave here and when im not at work im not exactly dressed for company (and no one wants to see that ! lol) i have managed to get its internal motion d ...
by mrgreaper
Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:35 am
Forum: Non-ZoneMinder Chat
Topic: need advice on ir lighting
Replies: 1
Views: 1765

need advice on ir lighting

ok my camera has night vision of about 3 meters, it cannot see the door to my flat from the end of the front room it is in, moveing it is not an option. what i want to do is create a ir light source above the door (on the inside ofcourse) perferably batterie operated, i dont mind a diy kit but would ...
by mrgreaper
Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:31 am
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Swann max-ip-cam
Replies: 7
Views: 5216

BUMP,

i know this is possible as i have an application on my g1 (called ip cam viewer lite) that can view the feed live i believe the phone is android os a version of linux so it seems there doesnt need to be internet explorer :)

quite shocked at the lack of replys
by mrgreaper
Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:14 am
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Swann max-ip-cam
Replies: 7
Views: 5216

Swann max-ip-cam

ok i just spent a small fortune on a real ip cam (the one in the topic title) but cant figure out how to make zone minder use it it does need to log in but there doesnt apear to be a section for that in remote camera options of zone minder product manuals can be found here http://www.swann.com.au/s ...
by mrgreaper
Tue May 26, 2009 1:39 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: now set up but some questions remain
Replies: 8
Views: 7298

it errored saying no such service as zm so i played with the service command and got a list of the services the one called "zoneminder" might of been zm very cunningly hidden :) as a default user i couldnt start and stop it so i added sudo in front of the commands ie: mrgreaper@alpha-omega:~$ sleep ...
by mrgreaper
Tue May 26, 2009 2:34 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: now set up but some questions remain
Replies: 8
Views: 7298

i have a working ubuntu 9.04 sending me emails with images of events and some more tricks; you may find a step-by-step below; please tell if you think it is usefull: http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_9.04_server_32bit it helped a hell of a lot i cant thank you enough! the actual ...
by mrgreaper
Tue May 19, 2009 2:56 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: now set up but some questions remain
Replies: 8
Views: 7298

Today disaster struck, i tired to access my web cam and got no response i called up my isp believing my ip may of changed and they informed me my router was off. that ment one of two things 1) i had been burgled 2) a power cut. since i havent had a power cut in over 2 years i lent towards the first ...
by mrgreaper
Mon May 18, 2009 11:30 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: now set up but some questions remain
Replies: 8
Views: 7298

Re: now set up but some questions remain

Load average is different then CPU usage. Load average is a number based on how many processes are in the run stat at a given time (first number = 1 minute, second number = 5 minute, third number = 15 minute). I've seen load averages of 10 and the computer functions just fine. The best way to ...
by mrgreaper
Fri May 15, 2009 4:35 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: now set up but some questions remain
Replies: 8
Views: 7298

now set up but some questions remain

ok i figured a new topic as new questions http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13685 is my old thread and most of the details are the same but to recap my os :ubuntu 9.04 zoneminder 1.24.1 installed from ftp://www.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/1.24/ubuntu/9.04/ (the 386 one) ok i want ...
by mrgreaper
Fri May 15, 2009 2:51 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: cant get the video camera to work
Replies: 11
Views: 9464

ips -l = ----- Shared Memory Limits -------- max number of segments = 4096 max seg size (kbytes) = 262133 max total shared memory (kbytes) = 1073697784 min seg size (bytes) = 1 ------ Semaphore Limits -------- max number of arrays = 128 max semaphores per array = 250 max semaphores system wide ...
by mrgreaper
Fri May 15, 2009 2:47 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: cant get the video camera to work
Replies: 11
Views: 9464

i went back to the 1.24.1 release (so i could use v4l2 again) in the zoneminder conf file www-data is the user sudo cat /etc/group | grep video generated this resault; video:x:44:motion,www-data,httpd,apache sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf just loaded up the file into like a editor so i adjusted it to ...
by mrgreaper
Thu May 14, 2009 11:04 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: cant get the video camera to work
Replies: 11
Views: 9464

from zmdc log 05/14/09 23:54:44.730928 zmdc[3294].INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video] 05/14/09 23:54:44.737005 zmdc[3294].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video' starting at 09/05/14 23:54:44, pid = 24791] 05/14/09 23:54:44.781256 zmdc[3294].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video' exited abnormally, exit status 255 ...
by mrgreaper
Thu May 14, 2009 1:27 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: cant get the video camera to work
Replies: 11
Views: 9464

Really need to get this sorted out today and im now at the end of what i can think off i did set the motion program to make a snap shot every second and save it as one file (is that bad for the hard drive ? saving a file every second?) the files absolute path was /var/www/m/snapshot-1.jpg i then ...
by mrgreaper
Wed May 13, 2009 2:16 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: cant get the video camera to work
Replies: 11
Views: 9464

cant get the video camera to work

ok first some details zone minder 1.24.1 ubuntu 9.04 (the latest as of yesterday) i used this guide to set it up http://www.howtoforge.com/video_surveillance_zoneminder_ubuntu with the exception that i installed the i386.deb from ftp://www.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/1.24/ubuntu/jaunty/ now the ...