SecuInfo Sentry support

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freeman.bg
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SecuInfo Sentry support

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Hi.
I am using zoneminder 1.22.3 on Mandiva Linux. I also use SecuInfo Sentry 2016 capture. I looked for supported cards in bttv list but i could not find my card. The capture has 16 inputs, but I initialize only 2. Can anyone tell me if there is something like analogue card in the listed models to this model?
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Post by Lee Sharp »

Post a picture, an lspci, and your /var/log/dmesg for us here.
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Post by freeman.bg »

Lee Sharp wrote:Post a picture, an lspci, and your /var/log/dmesg for us here.
This is from lspci:
[root@secwst0048 yordanov]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV515 [Radeon X1300]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV515 [Radeon X1300] (Secondary)
02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02)
02:0a.0 PCI bridge: Hint Corp HB6 Universal PCI-PCI bridge (non-transparent mode) (rev 11)
02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
03:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
03:08.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
03:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
03:09.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)

And this is from dmesg log:

bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:03:08.0, irq: 21, latency: 64, mmio: 0xf7efe000
bttv0: using: GrandTec Multi Capture Card (Bt878) [card=77,insmod option]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffffff [init]
bttv0: using tuner=-1
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
bttv: Bt8xx card found (1).
bttv1: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:03:09.0, irq: 19, latency: 64, mmio: 0xf7efc000
bttv1: subsystem: 8475:6f22 (UNKNOWN)
bttv1: using: GrandTec Multi Capture Card (Bt878) [card=77,insmod option]
bttv1: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffff80 [init]
bttv1: using tuner=-1
bttv1: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv1: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv1: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
bttv1: registered device video1
bttv1: registered device vbi1
bttv1: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
bttv1: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).

I also gived this capture default no 77 " GrandTec Multi Capture" because sentry is not in the list.
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Post by Lee Sharp »

Well, it ain't a 77. From the lspci, it looks like a 2 chip card. That means 8 channels per card, which also doesn't sound right. Now the web site http://www.sentry.co.kr/eng/index.htm says it is a 120 fps card, which means 4 chips, but Linux is only seeing 2. You will need to do some work to figure out this card.
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Post by freeman.bg »

It is my mistake. I am sorry. The model is Sentry 1516 with two chips.
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Post by jameswilson »

I have seen issues before with single chip cards reporting they are 50 fps devices. This would explain the 120 fps 2 chip question. Unfortunatly i dont think bttv driver supports these chips yet
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Post by freeman.bg »

I changed the cards with Sentry 2016 because card no 131 in bttv list (Tibet Systems DVR CS16) is with same prameters as Sentry 2016,but now i have 4 working inputs and whatever channel i am using the picture is te same as others.
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Post by freeman.bg »

I am continuing to "fight" with Sentry under Linux. Can anyone tell me what is the matter of these variables:

subsystem: 8475:6f22 (UNKNOWN)
gpio: en=00000000
out=00000000 in=00ffff80 [init], from dmesg log?

I found out that whatever driver i use these variables are the same.
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