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thanks for your advice.

yes, I've set "options bttv card=77 " - this was neccessary to get the card working and to be able to see anything on the screen.

Hello, my current setup holds two cameras on one generic 1 chip 4 port bt848 card. It seemed to work like a charm, but during the last weeks I came across several problems. If I activate more than one input at the same time the picture seems to get worse - could this be an interlacing issue because ...

The gentoo system is console only and because of this if have tried zoneminder directly (watching from a second machine). Using the LiveCD I tried Xawtv and TVtime as well but was not really sure how to use them properly. So I tried zoneminder through firefox on localhost and got the best pic so far ...

Hello! I just made a fresh Gentoo install for a new zoneminder setup an stumbled across some problems. I bought a cheap capture card providing 4 channels and one chip. The chipset used is bt878. The card is recognized and I got a /dev/video0 which I can access using Zoneminder. But something seems ...

Thank your for your advices. At the moment I think I am going to use analogue cameras because the whole package seems to be cheaper or deliver better quality at the same price. What range can I expect to be covered without a problem and without using BNC->TP converters. Is it possible to reach 20m ...

Hi, I am just building a new system which is going to use 4-5 cameras. I want them to run in modect and use coloured images at full pal size. At the moment I am not quite sure if I will use IP cams or get a a capture board and wire analog cams directly. What hardware am I expected to need? I know ...

Hello, I am currently working with Zoneminder on an old P3-600 Server System holding a bt8x8 Tv-Card where I have connected a small cam. Because of the fact that my users have problems handling the web-interface (they often deleted the monitor...) I was looking for a way to arm/disarm the motion ...

good god - I think that this was the hardest piece of work that I have done so far - my init script still isn't working (or perhaps wiping out the other errors killed this errors as well) - but I don't really need it anymway ;) I wonder if there is anyone who managed to get zoneminder running using ...

thanks for the fast reply unfortunately it doesn't work for me I am using apache2 and mysql as well - both of them are running. The path seems to be correct as well - I have /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl if I try to start the script I get the following output * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ ...

Hi there! I just emerged the zm ebuild that comes with portage and fixed several things to get it running (permission stuff, missing event folder, etc.). zmpkg.pl start works fine but as far as I have read the documentation there should be an init script as well to bring it up every time the system ...

sorry that i didn't respond earlier...

I guess changing the states via cron did it for me. I'll see if I did the setup right whenn I get to look at the machine again, but I'm quite sure that I did it the right way.

Thanks a lot!

Hi there! I am actually using a system I built with the latest zm livecd. It works very well and gives me exactly what I was looking for... The only thing what I was not able to find is how to use the programm time-activated. I dont want the system to record during 08:00 - 15:00 because there is a ...