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This second problem has been fixed. See the following topic:

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8621

Thanks to all who helped.

Adam

PUBLIC APOLOGY: To all who have wasted time reading this thread - I am a complete klutz! There was nothing wrong at all with the logging date - I was just reading it wrong! Explanation: On Friday April 6, the date read: 07/04/06 (I read this as April 7, and completely missed the 06 reference) On ...

Sweet! That seemed to do it. Thanks. I just rebooted having changed the permissions and the cameras came up without a problem.

Could you please explain why that worked? What did it do that made everything ok?

Thanks,

Adam

Hmmm, mine is as you thought:
So how do I go about changing it, and will it make a difference?

I've changed the cameras to source from /dev/video0 instead of the symlink and the same problem happens. Everything is set to 777, then I reboot, then the cameras stop working and generate errors in the log, then I chmod 777 /dev/video0 and the cameras start working again!

Ok, now it's April 7, and both the zm admin page and the camera logging data are showing the same date! No more "one day ahead".

I'll wait until tomorrow and look to see if it falls behind a day, or stays in sync now. Hmmm ...

I get this from zmdc.log: 04/07/07 00:03:47.493485 zmdc[3334].INF [Server starting at 07/04/07 00:03:47] 04/07/07 00:03:51.082839 zmdc[3334].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' starting at 07/04$ 04/07/07 00:03:51.203179 zmdc[3334].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally$ 04/07/07 00:03:51.204432 zmdc ...

Nope. No go. I changed the settings in zm to have the sources listed as /dev/video0 instead of /dev/video. I checked that both /dev/video and /dev/video0 had permissions of 777. I rebooted the server. The zm webadmin showed the source as being /dev/video0, but it was coloured red. I looked at the ...

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And this from: zmu -d /dev/video -q -v Video Capabilities Name: BT878 video ( *** UNKNOWN/GENER Type: 171 Can capture Can tune Overlay onto frame buffer Can clip Scalable Video Channels: 4 Audio Channels: 1 Maximum Width: 924 Maximum Height: 576 Minimum Width: 48 Minimum Height: 32 Window Attributes ...

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