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Hopefully this will help some other people. Now I can watch me at work because my cam is on my desk, and not mounted yet

Oh FFS, cgi is not enabled in Ubuntu 13.10 by default. Enable it this way:

$ sudo a2enmod cgi

And now I have live streaming.

I'm ruling out /dev/video0 as having anything to do with this. Because ZM is capturing the feed over HTTP, and not a locally-attached camera. So yes, it looks like an Apache issue. I copied the 'var streamSrc' URL from the page source of the ZM live view and pasted it into a browser, and got this ...

OK, I'm getting a bit of traction here. Part of the problem is a missing /dev/video0. When I plug in a webcam, it automatically creates /dev/video0. On Mint 13 /dev/video0 is created at boot, so it is always available. So I configure Zoneminder to use the webcam, and again there is no live view. The ...

Hello Zoneminder people! I hope someone can help with this, as I have spent days banging my head trying to get it to work. I'm using a Foscam wireless IP camera, FI8905W. I can access and configure it via its own Web admin interface. But I cannot get live monitoring in Zoneminder on Kubuntu 13.10. I ...