namiiii wrote:Finally got zoneminder installed, but getting the cameras to work is another story...
Sorry for the delay, I haven't checked the forums for a few days.
Can you provide some more information on how the cameras aren't working? Sorry if that sounds silly or trite, but I'd like to walk through the problem in detail. i.e.
* How you configured the cameras
* What colour they are on the console
* The log output
So that's done. And still no picture. But I'm glad to have eliminated that from the list of possible causes. Will look around for camera advice before whining on.
On mine, I have the cheepo 4 port ebay special. I access all 4 cameras thru /dev/video0 (note the 0) and then 0 thru 3 in the device channel field. Set to NTSC and RGB24 with 320x240 size. Also, I had to add a module.conf entry because the card would not properly identify itself (id=77). Take a look at dmesg to make sure the card is being properly inited. Once I did that, the correct card parameters were present and ZM did not have to override them. Using XAWTV was invaluable to debug this.
the nph_zms to ZMS change was because I was getting intermittent access. It would work once then fail, leaving zombie processes that leaked memory eventually crashing Ubuntu.
I have followed the wiki, but when running the reload apache command I get this:
neil@Kubuntu:~$ sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf
Password:
neil@Kubuntu:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
* Reloading web server config... 6557
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 192.168.1.12 for ServerName
[ OK ]
neil@Kubuntu:~$
192.168.1.12 is the local machine...where do I go next?
That was going to be the next question, how to access the ZM page!!
I had the camera working fine using the Live CD, but it has not been detected on the instal. Xawtv shows the camera output, and I have ssen the FAQ /wiki somewhere to tell ZM where the camera is, so that is the next job.
