I'd like to hear about other ZM setups
Cameras:
1) How many camera's
2) Type of Cameras ie. USB/cctv
3) How many capture ports
4) Type of Capture board
System:
1) Computer Configuration - CPU/Disk/Video card/Memory
2) OS/Kernel version
3) ZoneMinder Version
4) Uptime/stability issues
Other:
1) Other relevant equipment
2) Other Comments
General Survey
Re: General Survey
1) one.
2) USB. Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000
3) N/A
4) N/A
1) Celeron 550 FCPGA on a slot 1 converter card plugged into an Asus P2L97 MB (440LX Chipset). 384 Megs of ram, 9 megs free. 40 gig hd, 4.7 gigs currently used (only 15 events currently saved to disk). Video card is generic.
While idle my cpu stats are:
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 82.5% 0.0% 17.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
4198 apache 25 0 96424 92M 91192 R 50.2 24.6 364:19 0 zmc
4231 apache 25 0 99452 97M 91264 R 48.7 25.8 358:03 0 zma
2) Fedora Core 1
3) 1.17.2
4) uptime is currently at 31 days. Stability is solid.
1) None
2) My camera is set to 640x480 at 24 bit color. runlevel is set to 3 (no x windows). I would prefer to run the camera at a lower color bit level, but the drivers currently do not permit this.
I've tried a couple other cameras w/o success. One was an old US Robotics Big Picture camera that came with its' own bttv capture card (bt848kpf chip). I could get it to work with xawtv, but not with zone minder, and the other was a usb Intel web cam model CS340 that introduced WAY too much noise when things got too dark. I should note that I was able to get the Big Picture camera to work with a different (and crappier) program, but eventually the sensor in the camera got fried from looking at too much daylight (It wasn't looking directly at the sun either).
2) USB. Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000
3) N/A
4) N/A
1) Celeron 550 FCPGA on a slot 1 converter card plugged into an Asus P2L97 MB (440LX Chipset). 384 Megs of ram, 9 megs free. 40 gig hd, 4.7 gigs currently used (only 15 events currently saved to disk). Video card is generic.
While idle my cpu stats are:
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 82.5% 0.0% 17.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
4198 apache 25 0 96424 92M 91192 R 50.2 24.6 364:19 0 zmc
4231 apache 25 0 99452 97M 91264 R 48.7 25.8 358:03 0 zma
2) Fedora Core 1
3) 1.17.2
4) uptime is currently at 31 days. Stability is solid.
1) None
2) My camera is set to 640x480 at 24 bit color. runlevel is set to 3 (no x windows). I would prefer to run the camera at a lower color bit level, but the drivers currently do not permit this.
I've tried a couple other cameras w/o success. One was an old US Robotics Big Picture camera that came with its' own bttv capture card (bt848kpf chip). I could get it to work with xawtv, but not with zone minder, and the other was a usb Intel web cam model CS340 that introduced WAY too much noise when things got too dark. I should note that I was able to get the Big Picture camera to work with a different (and crappier) program, but eventually the sensor in the camera got fried from looking at too much daylight (It wasn't looking directly at the sun either).