only 4 channels available in Zm drop down although 8 there!

somepdguy · Post by **somepdguy** » Fri May 19, 2006 3:36 pm

Hi All,

I have been arguing with ZM all afternoon because I just reinstalled a new box with a grandtec x-guard 8 port and the ZM would only give me 4 channels in the Monitor channels drop down box... to get round this I had to edit the database manually and set the Channel to 4,5,6 or 7 to get the other cameras...

Why does the drop down box only go to 4?! Does ZM think my card is only 4 channels or does ZM just now only do 4?

Phil - Please perhaps put this back from a drop down box to a text field?

All working now but this may save someone hours of modprobing with different switched as that is what I thought was the problem.

Thanks

Pete

Post by **zoneminder** » Fri May 19, 2006 9:53 pm

Does you card have 8 chips on it? Otherwise you normally get 4 devices but two channels each.

Either way, I have increased the drop down range to go from 0 - 7 just in case.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri May 19, 2006 9:56 pm

ON another card i used a 4 chip card a while ago that insisted in being /dev/video0-15 and all channel 0 as there was some mux chip on it, so just a thought

Post by **zoneminder** » Fri May 19, 2006 9:57 pm

Ok, 0-15 it is then!!

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri May 19, 2006 10:07 pm

well i had onther card that had /dev/video0 - 103 but..... only kidding mate! sorry couldnt resist

somepdguy · Post by **somepdguy** » Sun May 21, 2006 7:10 pm

My card is an x-guard grandtec 9 camera and it only has one bt878 chip, hence with all cams I don't get a great frame rate.

Anyway 0-15 should cover most eventualities (SP?)

Thanks alot Phil

Pete

Hogface · Post by **Hogface** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:19 pm

I have the same problem.
How do you update the database to take to 0-15?
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somepdguy · Post by **somepdguy** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:24 am

hi mate

along the lines of...

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -p zm
(so connect up to MySQL as root and use the zm database)
then type

use zm (if you aren't already using that DB)
update Monitors set Channel=5 where Name="Cam1";
update Monitors set Channel=6 where Name="Cam2";
update Monitors set Channel=7 where Name="Cam3";
etc etc etc...

quit out of mysql then restart ZM and away you go.

Regards

Pete

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:26 am

or use webmin the you can have a gui for mysql

Hogface · Post by **Hogface** » Thu May 25, 2006 5:02 pm

thanks! That worked
For others:
1) if you go back into source setup menu, it will default back to 0-3
2) refresh your screen console screen to see the change
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Hogface · Post by **Hogface** » Tue May 30, 2006 12:35 am

Thanks! I reinstalled today and noticed the additional ranges!
Thanks for the quick fix.
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