Brand New to Zoneminder 1.36.5

[vmsman]

I just installed a brand new Zoneminder 1.36.5. The web interface seems to be working fine. I have Reolink RLC-520A cameras which with QNAP QVR Pro, Shinobi, Onvifer, and TinyCam Pro I have used RTSP with rtsp://192.168.x.y:554/h264Preview_01_main as the general form of URL.

I want Zoneminder only to view and not record cameras. I am able to add a camera.
The Dashboard says Monitor -- Not running.

From what I read, ZoneMinder does not work well with RTSP, so I changed to RTMP as suggested:

rtmp://192.168.30.45/bcs/channel0_main.bcs?channel=0&stream=0&user=admin&password=mypassword

I also set the capture resolution to 2560x1440.

Now that I added the camera, how do I view it? This product is not straight forward to me.

[vmsman]

My bad. It looks like this program is used to manage camera assets and not actually view cameras. Somehow I thought this was an NVR.

[Andyrh]

Zoneminder can view and record the camera feeds. I am not sure what you are needing?

[vmsman]

After reading a lot more I can see that Zoneminder should be able to view and record cameras. I just want to set up viewing right now for my nine Reolink RLC-520A's. I finally detected the cameras through ONVIF and they all showed up. I added them all and it seems it chose source type ffmpeg and function monitor. The method it chose was UDP Multicast. The source path it chose is:

rtsp://admin:password@192.168.30.45:554/h264Preview_01_main

So, everything is fine because those setting work for QVR Pro, Shinobi, Onvifer, and TinyCam Pro.

The dashboard lists all the cameras as "Monitor" and "Not Running". Do I need to start them somehow?

[vmsman]

So, apparently this program just won't do either RTSP or RTMP for my Reolink RLC-520's. I like the tabular listing of cameras, so I decided to keep it and use it as a camera inventory listing to keep track of my cameras and their settings. Since I have NVRs that actually work, I will check back on down the road sometime to see if a newer version works.

[Andyrh]

I do not have that brand of camera, but my Amcrest cameras use RTSP.
rtsp://admin:password@192.168.42.150:80/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0

Did you check the log to see why the cameras are not working?

[vmsman]

I have an amcrest camera set up and it is green and capturing now with the monitor setting. When I click on the camera to view it, I get a blank page with a little broken graphic despite seeing positive frame capture rate. It is like the viewing part of the product is broken. If I drop the same RTSP url into VLC, the camera displays.

[alabamatoy]

errors in logs?

[Last_Mile]

My Reolink RLC-810A and RLC-820A cameras work just fine with the source as:

rtsp://admin:Password@reolink_camera.com:554//h265Preview_01_main
rtsp://admin:Password@reolink_camera.com:554//h265Preview_01_sub

It is detailed on the Reolink support website:
https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/ar ... dia-Player

[iconnor]

I suspect you don't want multicast. You likely want unicast.

multicast is cool but you need to know what you are doing to play with it.

[Baylink]

In case you haven't gotten that far yet, once your monitors are running, you'll probably want to use Montage Review, rather than Montage, to look at them; I find it much more tractable.

Now, that said, yes, you absolutely should be able to get it to just pull images from the cameras, even if it doesn't record them; like the other folks above, I suspect you have parameter problems, unless maybe you just don't have enough computer under it. I have 11 720p cams, and I needed a 16GB i7 to keep up with that much data (plus recording); it's easier if you're only monitoring.