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Is there any ETA for rtsp native support in zoneminder? I bought these gadspot n1250 without fully doing my research and now of course I'm regretting it. I used the instructions here http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11475 in an attempt to capture the stream but am running into ffmpeg ...

I bought a First Alert 550 2.4ghz wireless usb camera. It has a 2.4ghz receiver that connects via usb. lsusb reveals: Bus 006 Device 006: ID eb1a:2861 eMPIA Technology, Inc. But, I can't seem to figure out how to communicate with it. When I do a diff between ls /dev before and after I plug it in, I ...

Awesome! Got it to work. Guess I didn't go low enough.

I increased the kernel shared memory max:
I wonder why that didn't work. Is that number in bytes?

hmm ... that's frustrating. Maybe I can still help though. Did you try turning on debug mode (from the web panel)? Set it to debug level 1, restart ZM and check your logs directory for a bunch of files. Paste the output of some of them here Also, if you modify the kernel shared memory max, you need ...

I tried what you said but I'm still getting no results. Grrr.

Lee -- I'll keep trying to figure it out and let you know if I get anywhere ... seems like we have a very similar problem. heythisisnate, it is actually me who is having the issue. Lee was trying to help me out. Please do keep me posted if you figure anything out. Like I've said before, I've ...

Uh. Okay. Well I'm not for sure what is going on. I mean I've chmod'ed 777 /dev/video0 and still get the errors. I've sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/zmfix as said here http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_7.04 with no results.

I'm at a total lost!

Well, you have not said what cam you have, but it looks like it is a Pixart PAC-207? Right, I really don't know other than what xawtv says. It was on sale for extremely cheap and was packed with "Webcams for Dummies" or something like that. I obviously don't need anything fancy. Try 'xawtv -device ...

This is what I get. What do I do with it? alan@desktop:~$ xawtv -hwscan This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.20-16-generic) looking for available devices port 73-73 type : Xvideo, image scaler name : ATI Rage128 Video Overlay /dev/video0: OK [ -device /dev/video0 ] type : v4l name ...

I have the camera permissions wide open. I get nothing in dmesg about bttv.

Hello, I have a cheapy usb digital camera that works with all my other linux camera programs. I am trying to get it to run under ZM. I am running ZM under Ubuntu Feisty and have followed all the instructions specific to this OS. I am getting the following in my logs: zmdc.log 07/04/07 10:45:57 ...