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Zoneminder seems to have two basic operational modes; real-time monitoring and recording/playback. In the monitoring mode, it would be helpful if a configurable sound could be associated with each alarm zone.

As a possible workaround, have you tried setting 'Function' to none?

I've added these instruction to the wiki, since the instructions for ubuntu server compiling ffmpeg from source didn't work: http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_Server_11.04_64-bit_with_ZoneMinder_1.25.0_from_compiled_SVN._FFmpeg_from_distribution_repos,_libjpeg-turbo,_Webmin,_Cambozola ...

I just built a machine and had very good luck following the instructions in this post: It works fine with my 4 port brooktree card. It compiles 1.25.0 from svn/zm/trunk as of time of this writing. http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=18479 Skip this section unless you are sure your ...

Thanks mrd-- So far, so good! I've had the control installed since the night you posted, but have not had _too_ much time to mess with it. Originally I had a problem with tilt not going down too far, but that seems to have sorted itself out. On another box I installed palantir and your generic net ...

Thanks Normando-- use constant DBG_LEVEL => 1; is what I needed to at least see the visca script being called. Once I got that working, I started calling just my module /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Control$ sudo perl Ptz2n.pm command=reset The latest version of my module is in this pastebin link http ...

No problem. Thanks for offering to help anyway. Tony Sutton's site is what I use for making the serial cable. I tested that it works with a windows program. I have the picturetel.pl script that used to work with the .22 version. It was adapted originally from the visca.pl script to work with the ...

Thanks Normando

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Mike

Anyone?? Please help me. I've been struggling with this for in earnest for 2 weeks now, and can't say whether I've made ANY headway. At this point I'm very depressed and discouraged and simply tired of banging my head with no results. I'm almost ready to toss in the towel. I am convinced that if ...

I played with this some more and made quite a few changes. I'm still having the 'can't connect' message though.

http://pastebin.ca/1270957

Mike

If somebody could give me a nudge by helping figuring out why I'm getting the 'can't connect; no file or directory' message, I would be very grateful. Again, the pastebin link from above can be used too re-create my module. I don't think the hardware is necessary to get to the point of the error. As ...

Thanks for the info on the physical jack. If it helps whoever implements this, there's source code available from an abandoned (I think) project named devserv. The license is covered by the Berkeley Lab Camera Control System License, which is similar to the BSD license. http://acs.lbl.gov/OldMisc ...

Gavin I've got a few vc-c1s, but have no idea what they take for power other than they're dc. Could you let me know what your vc-c3 power supplies are; voltage, amperage and center pin (positive or negative)? TIA Please ignore this request, I just had to open my eyes and examine the camera little ...

update-- I did a fresh install of ubuntu 8.04 and zm .22 from the repositories. I installed the original ptz2n script, and entered all parameters for PTZ and chown www-data.www-data /dev/ttyS0 The camera controls fine. moved back to the 8.10 with my new module under zm .23, set permissions on serial ...

All of my log files write to the /tmp just fine. I've been tail -f on them and /var/log/messages, but I don't see any problems with permissions. I've chown'ed 777 the /dev/ttyS0 This is on Ubuntu 8.10 from repos. I think zm runs as user www-data. I've read that the user needs to be added to the ...