Unable to connect a second Camera [Resolved]

[andrew]

I have a 16 port card from Bluecherry, PV-155 - 16 port video capture card (120FPS)

I was wondering if anyone can help me, I have two cameras one b/w one colour, I have had both working on vid1 connection seperately so I know both cameras work with ZM.

If I connect vid1 the camera works fine records, modect etc, no problems. But if I connect a second camera to vid2, I do not get a picture from the vid2 connection and the vid1 connection splits the picture into three small pictures within the usual veiwing screen.

I have tried to use the second bank of connections but still do not get a picture.But it does not split the picture in the original camera/picture.

I have tried changing the pemissions to '98' and '77' but this makes not difference.

Is there any tests I can do to see if it is me or if the card is faulty.

Thanks
Andrew

[Lee Sharp]

What does your modprobe.d/options file look like? I have a few of these cards, and all have worked well.

[jameswilson]

after adding a monitor you will need to restart zm
Also 2 may not be 2, so enable and restart and put the cam on all inputs checking for image

[cordel]

Add also the fact that you can not use different palettes on the same chip.

[andrew]

Thank you for your replies,

after adding a monitor you will need to restart zm
Also 2 may not be 2, so enable and restart and put the cam on all inputs checking for image

This was the issue, 2 wasn't 2, this has drove me mad for days...

[chimaster]

I'm in pretty much the same boat, except the solution doesn't work for me.

I have a PV-155 from Bluecherry. I have a system which has the same issue with both Boot CD and my debian install.

When I try to have more than 2 cameras on the 16 Port it doesn't like it. The first two work fine, /dev/video0(0) /dev/video0(1) . When I try to add a third and forth I simply get a blue screen on the secondary two.

But wait theres more.. When I enable monitoring on Video0(4) and Video0(5) (or any above the first 4 ports the Source column for all other cameras goes RED indicating that no daemon is running for all ports on that card.

I tried restart between setups, moving 4 cameras to the first 4 and second 4 of the system. If I turn on monitoring for the first 4 connections then the source for all is Orange.

Suggestions? I wish it was as simple as a zoneminder restart.

thanks in advance.

[Lee Sharp]

When I try to have more than 2 cameras on the 16 Port it doesn't like it. The first two work fine, /dev/video0(0) /dev/video0(1) . When I try to add a third and forth I simply get a blue screen on the secondary two.

Every time I have seen this it has been an improper card setting. And it is /dev/video0 (0-3) there is not 4 or 5.

[cordel]

When I try to have more than 2 cameras on the 16 Port it doesn't like it. The first two work fine, /dev/video0(0) /dev/video0(1) . When I try to add a third and forth I simply get a blue screen on the secondary two.

Every time I have seen this it has been an improper card setting. And it is /dev/video0 (0-3) there is not 4 or 5.

That is for the most part true though some of the kodicom cards do use inputs 0-15 with the use of a mux chip. The cheap cards however do not and you only have input 0-3 for each device/chip.