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Having the same issue here... trying to figure what cgi commands are supposed to make the camera work. The most difficult part is that I really am lost when it comes to perl. One thing that is worth mentioning is that the camera I got did not need the firmware upgrade. The other is that the perl ...

Uninstalled zoneminder, and re-installed now it's working... still don't know what was happening..

I wanted to add a monitor.. actually to use an existing monitor as a modetect. I added it, using a camera that I already had configured as a monitor so that now I had the same camera as a monitor and a modetect. As soon as I hit save, the new modetect I added was not there, and the camera I was ...

Figured it out. The problem was that the ubuntu package does not install perl mmap. (though it claims to) that must be done by hand. Also since I had configured the cameras prior to having mmap installed, I had to delete the existing monitors and start over before they started working.

ok.. wow.. I've tried 3 different cameras, all of them work with xawtv and nothing. I'm starting to realize that zoneminder for all practical purposes simply does not work. Perl is a deep well as it is, and trying to figure out why it isn't working is turning out to be almost impossible. Memory is ...

so I set the buffer size and alert image size to low values to see if that would help .. restarted zoneminder and get this Dec 6 17:53:07 deathguppie-desktop zmdc[29530]: INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video] Dec 6 17:53:07 deathguppie-desktop zmdc[29530]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video ...

Yes it's set to pal.. the issue is this memory thing there should be a fi
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I have a logitech usb webcam I am trying to test zoneminder with, the camera works, but does not show up in zoneminder. here is the last few lines of zmdc.log 12/06/11 06:42:49.089638 zmdc[1438].INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video0] 12/06/11 06:42:49.091405 zmdc[1438].INF ['zmc -d /dev ...