I've just set up two ZM boxes at a remote site. One of them was working perfectly when I left last night and now the first 4 cameras show nothing but blue screens. I haven't checked the inputs since the site is over an hour away, so I called and had somebody check to make certain the inputs are connected to the coax, which they are. (The employees there are not happy about the cameras going in.) Strange that the last 4 cameras work, when these inputs are on the expansion board and the first four inputs, which are soldered directly to the capture card, do not. xawtv shows the same - blue screen on channel 0, picture on channel 1. Ideas?
The second box works fine for the first 4 inputs, however the last 4 show nothing but a red screen. This is much like the blue screen when there's no signal to the input, but red instead. (I've never seen this before.) When I disconnect one of the first 4 inputs, that monitor turns red as well. It's using the same Spectra-8 capture card as the first machine with an expansion board for the second set of 4 inputs. Everything is wired the same as the first and /etc/modules.conf is the same as far as card ID, options, etc. It's also using the same version of the bttv driver (0.9.15). xawtv shows a blue screen for the last 4 inputs, although I know that the cameras, power, and cabling are all fine because they work if I connect them to the other inputs.
I have remote access set up to these machines and have been playing with it all day today trying to figure out what's going on, but have had no success. Does anybody have any ideas of what I could try to fix the problem?
(I'm going to be on vacation starting in about a half hour, but will try to check in as often as I can get an internet connection. I should return on November 10 to commence bashing my head into a brick wall with this.
)I've got blue screens and red screens - I wonder if this means that I have purple (combination of blue & red) screens...
