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by tnolen
Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:56 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: xUbuntu 1.24 Live CD
Replies: 50
Views: 39633

installation issues

I'm having trouble installing the LiveCD to a harddrive. I burned three disks with the ISO and all three stop during the install. When I verify the disks from the boot menu, I find that 2 files have errors(which files is not specified). I downloaded a second ISO and mounted it to a virtual machine ...
by tnolen
Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:44 pm
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Writing zmcontrol file for ABS Megacam
Replies: 1
Views: 2344

Additional info:

I've gotten the control file to work from the command line when called like this:
./zmcontrol-abs.pl --address=admin:admin@192.168.5.62 --command=move_con_down

Unfortunately, the camera still does not respond in ZM.
by tnolen
Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:33 pm
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Writing zmcontrol file for ABS Megacam
Replies: 1
Views: 2344

Writing zmcontrol file for ABS Megacam

OK, I've done some testing and found out that I can control the ABS Megacams from a command line using wget as follows: wget --http-user=admin --http-password=admin "http://<cam>/ptz.cgi?move=down&speed=10" The "move" can be up, down, right, left, etc. Speed can be adjusted to change the stepping or ...
by tnolen
Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:47 am
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: abs megacam
Replies: 1
Views: 1422

abs megacam

I found some ABS Megacams that seemed like they had the features I need for a reasonable price. I grabbed a couple to try out. Getting video on them was no problem using a remote host path of /video.cgi?resolution=VGA Now, I'm trying to get some of the pan and tilt functions to work, and I don't ...