I am new to ZM and just finding my feet. Played with this software (very impressive BTW) with some USB cameras I had laying around and had no problems.
Today I took delivery of a Panasonic BL-C10.
The story follows :-
1. The brute was unhappy with configuration through a browser. The default IP address listed in the docs was incorrect.
2. Had to go and find a Windoze machine and use the supplied setup prog. to set a sensible ip address.
3. While in the setup prog. decided to set up 3 levels of user -
i. Just view
ii. View and use the home button.
iii. View and use all available PTZ functions.
This was a mistake - more later.
4. Set up ZM to use the nice new camera. This was easy simply followed all the instructions on here and in the docs. Got a picture although a very slow refresh rate.
5. Try out the PTZ functions. No, nada. Check the logs. Apache error log has a bunch of "Unknown option: autostop" errors. Don't, whatever you do, think about entering anything into the "Auto Stop Timeout" field on the "Control Tab". I know I prolly shouldn't have but I found a post here suggesting that some things with PTZ wouldn't work unless autostop was specified.
Moral - don't play with what you don't understand.
6. Remove Autostop stuff. Still doesn't work. Check logs. In the zmctrl-pana log find a bunch of '401 Unauthorized' errors. Que? Try changing the "Control Address" field on the control tab to <username>:<password>@ip address/ rather than ip address/ and it all works! Sit back, light a cigar and smile on the world!
moral - don't define extra users on this camera 'cos it'll make your brain hurt.!
7. If no extra users are defined on the camera no <username>:<password> are required before the ip addy - I know, I went back and re-initialised the camera. How sad is that?
Still got to make it all go a bit faster though.
BTW did I mention ZM is really good software?
Cheers,
Colin
Panasonic BL-C10
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