SV3C PTZ Camera properly working!

[sersasso]

Hi Gents,

just finished to make the camera fully working in ZM... Was a bit of work but DONE.

As soon as I have time I will post here the details. Is anyone of you using SV3C PTZ cameras?

Cheers,
Sergio

[grandrus]

I just got me a sv3c ptz camera and haven't been able to make it work in zoneminder. Can you give me some direction?
Thanks,
Glen

[aarons6]

i just picked up one of these PTZ cameras from amazon.
how did you get the control working?

[biscoguy]

Any chance you couple tell us how you got your sv3c ptz camera working properly in zoneminder. I've got two hx series that I'm trying to incorporate into my zoneminder setup

[filbattaglia]

Good morning.

I'm looking for a wi-fi camera supported by ZoneMinder
for a research project
(i need both video and PTZ API support).

I have seen this item provided by SV3C:

https://amzn.to/3tlN360

I'm going to buy this device, but before I need to know whether
ZoneMinder supports this kind of camera.

@sersasso:

Is the work you done in order to make ZM compatible with your SV3C
camera available somewhere (i.e. as open-source script or
tutorial ?)

In your hw configuration, was ZoneMinder able to support also the PTZ
(Pan/Tilt/Zoom) functionalities of the camera ? Or just the video
grabbing via RSTP ?

If PTZ is supported, how it works ? Have you used the Onvif.pl
PERL script for device control, or have you written a custom
PERL script that exploits the RESTful API used by the
configuration web interface of the camera producer ?

Is zoom supported ? Or only pan-tilt functionalities ?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

[kp4djt]

I have been using the SV3C cameras for several ZM installations. They do well and capture good video for the price. I even have one of their 8mpx cameras on a ZM system. Sees tags quite well at at least 50 ft without having the expand thiings.

I just purchased a SD8OE-5MP-HX. I get beautiful video out of it into ZM. I am trying to figure out how to send PTZ commands to it to control it. This camera will be used as a weather observation camera looking SW (the direction we get tornados from). I would like to be able to use the PTZ function in order to observe the sky better.

If anyone can give me some guidance I will much appreciate it.

Best Regards

[dotelpenguin]

I spent several days searching for this info online. This thread kept coming up for my SV3C's 1080p and 5pm PTZ cameras.

I eventually found the settings that worked, and maybe my settings will help someone.

Controlable: Checked
Control Type: Netcat ONVIF
Control Device: MainStreamProfileToken (default?)
Control IP: 10.0.13.67:8080 (replace with your own device IP)
Auto Stop Timeout: 1.00 (anything less caused PTZ to continue moving to it's stop points)

Anyways, hope it saves someone some time.

[kp4djt]

This worked for my SD8OE-5MP-HX. Does great, there are a few buttons I am going to see how to block, this is used by weather folks and sometimes people punch the wrong buttons.
I am very glad to see it working.

[tinymouse]

I too just purchased a similar cam; the SD8W-5mp-HX. It took a bit to discover the rtsp setting which is rtsp://user:pass@ip:554/1 and seems to stream ok. I can control it with the settings of:

Control Tryp: Netcat ONVIF
Control Device: MainStream (Is this needed??)
Control Address: user:pass@ip:8080

This camera also supports the rtmp setup; but I don't know what the path is. So my question is does someone know the rtmp settings for this? The iSpy documentation only has rtsp which I got from their site.

TIA

[eracc]

Yeah, no PTZ for me. I got a SV3C HX04 and it is working with ZoneMinder v1.36.34 all except for the PTZ part. I have attempted to use Netcat ONVIF which is reported to be working here. However, I get errors in the log and LONG pauses in the ZM web interface when I enable Control for this camera. Here is a copy from the logs this morning:

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"10/25/24, 9:53:56 AM AKDT",zmc_m1,,101017,INF,"FrontPTZ: 500 - Capturing at 20.06 fps, capturing bandwidth 151073bytes/sec Analysing at 20.06 fps",zm_monitor.cpp,1681
"10/25/24, 9:53:51 AM AKDT",zmc_m1,,101017,INF,"FrontPTZ: 400 - Capturing at 19.95 fps, capturing bandwidth 98775bytes/sec Analysing at 20.15 fps",zm_monitor.cpp,1681
"10/25/24, 9:53:49 AM AKDT",zmdc,,9693,ERR,"'zmcontrol.pl --id 1' exited abnormally, exit status 255",zmdc.pl,'-
"10/25/24, 9:53:49 AM AKDT",zmcontrol_1,,15260,FAT,"No protocol is set in monitor. Please edit the monitor, edit control type, select the control capability and fill in the Protocol field",zmcontrol.pl,'-
"10/25/24, 9:53:49 AM AKDT",zmcontrol_1,,15260,ERR,"Can't load ZoneMinder::Control::NetcatCan't locate DateTime.pm in @INC (you may need to install the DateTime module) (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.36 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.36/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.36) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/ZoneMinder/Control/Netcat.pm line 33.BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/ZoneMinder/Control/Netcat.pm line 33.Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.36/Module/Load.pm line 78.Can't locate ZoneMinder/Control/Netcat in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.36 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.36/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.36) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.36/Module/Load.pm line 78.",zmcontrol.pl,'-
"10/25/24, 9:53:46 AM AKDT",zmc_m1,,101017,INF,"FrontPTZ: 300 - Capturing at 20.00 fps, capturing bandwidth 98642bytes/sec Analysing at 19.80 fps",zm_monitor.cpp,1681
"10/25/24, 9:53:45 AM AKDT",zmdc,,9693,INF,"'zmcontrol.pl --id 1' starting at 24/10/25 09:53:45, pid = 15260",zmdc.pl,'-
"10/25/24, 9:53:45 AM AKDT",zmdc,,15260,INF,"'zmcontrol.pl --id 1' started at 24/10/25 09:53:45",zmdc.pl,'-
"10/25/24, 9:53:45 AM AKDT",zmdc,,9693,INF,"Starting pending process, zmcontrol.pl --id 1",zmdc.pl,'-
"10/25/24, 9:53:41 AM AKDT",zmc_m1,,101017,INF,"FrontPTZ: 200 - Capturing at 20.17 fps, capturing bandwidth 97258bytes/sec Analysing at 20.17 fps",zm_monitor.cpp,1681

Anyone with a clue who can point me in the direction to fix this, I will owe you a beverage of your choice.

[eracc]

I am blind. The problem was right there in the log message:

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zmcontrol_1,,15260,ERR,"Can't load ZoneMinder::Control::NetcatCan't locate DateTime.pm in @INC (you may need to install the DateTime module)

I installed p5-DateTime and the up/down/left/right Netcat ONVIF PTZ controls work now. No clue why that was not already installed as a ZM dependency.

[eracc]

A bit of follow-up. I have two of the SV3C HX04 PTZ cameras. It had been a few years since I last touched a ZM system, so I made a few mistakes setting up these cameras. They are purely wireless connected and are mounted on the front and back of my house.

Problem 1: I had the frame rate much too high at first, yeah noob mistake I forgot about. My old Intel based "server" I am running FreeBSD on was brought to its knees due to the frame rates and ZM trying to process all that data from them. Once I dropped the frame rate on the cameras down to 3fps that solved the resource problem on my home server. (I really need to upgrade to a new home server as this one is from 2010, is a bit anemic, and is well past EOL.)

Problem 2: My back camera is needing a better wireless connection as it keeps showing a gray screen to ZM every minute or five due to poor connectivity. This causes an "event" and gets me several hundred motion recordings every day. For now that camera is set to Monitor only. I have ordered a Proxicast Indoor/Outdoor Omnidirectional WiFi Antenna along with an additional antenna extension cable from Amazon to have the antenna mounted outside in a location closer to my WiFi router downstairs. Hopefully that solves the "gray screen" problem. (The front camera has had a few gray screen events as well, so I ordered a Proxicast antenna for it as well.)

After winter is over (yes, it is already winter in Alaska, we have snow on the ground. ) I will probably look into running Cat5 or Cat6 cable to these cameras from my utility room where the router / switch is located. That depends on how well I can get these working over WiFi of course. If I come up with anything else to share I will do so. Feel free to ask me questions and I will attempt to answer the best I can.