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So, I finally got round to writing a script to turn ZoneMinder on and off when I am at home or not, based on my phone's bluetooth connection. I am a very new to Linux and bash, so you might all laugh at this script and the hacky way I do it, if you have any suggestions, please do add ammednments ...

Ohh, srry, there must be some confusion.

I am running Zoneminder on my Fujitsu server, dual core Pentium D 2.0 Ghz. I just mentioned the Asus, since that is what I originally bought the only web cam that currently works on ZM for

Great offer about webcams, I'll send you a PM, cheers.

Sorry I put this in the wrong forum btw. So, after reading some stuff on Ubuntu wiki, I installed EasyCam2 to install the apparently correct drivers. I then ran v4l-info on the two webcams that I can't get to work. Here is the result: ### v4l2 device info [/dev/video1] ### general info VIDIOC ...

Cool, cheers, good to know.

The machine is headless, but with a VNC server running, so checking video on it does't always work as VNC doens't like to send video it seems. xawtv only sees my naff Trust USB camera, not the other to. I'll have to google v4l-info to work out how to use it and then report back. Thx for the offer ...

Hi I was thinking of using bluemon: http://www.matthew.ath.cx/projects/bluemon/ as a way to automatically turn on ZM when I am away, so it aint running when I am here, and is when I am not. Bluemon uses bluetooth to detect your presence (so it looks for a particular bluetooth device like your phone ...

Hi there From reading here: http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_hardware It seems that lots of the USB cameras that are natively supported by Linux and thus by ZM are old and can no longer be purchased. This is not always the case, by chance, I bought a WebCam for use with a Asus WL ...

That didn't fix it, but I managed to find something that did. First I followed this post: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10991&highlight=zmmpeg++function+videostream+encodeframe+unsigned+char*+int+bool+unsigned+int Specifically, this part: "Hehe hurray.. it seems that ffmpeg's ...

I was unaware any patch was necessary.

From what you said, I am not clear which worked. Patching it or not?

Do you mind sharing a link to this patch, maybe that is what I need?

Thanks in advance.

Hello, first time poster, on and off user. I've used the deb version of ZoneMinder on my Ubuntu serer for a while, and it works fine, but only recognises one of my 3 WebCams. Since one of them uses the uvc driver, I was hoping to compile 1.24.1 from source to make use of the uvc driver ...