help getting ip camera work...

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damirahr
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help getting ip camera work...

Post by damirahr »

i don't know if this is a right topic but i have edimax ip 7000 and i know that i can access snapshot like this http://ip:port/snapshot.jpg?account=admin?password=1234?res=0?qual=50

could anyone help me how to setup zm in order to get it on a monitr (always getting no image when i select my camera (monitor) no metter what settings i tried...)

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Damir
passt
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Location: Germany

Post by passt »

Hi damir,

have you tried these settings for your webcam

Source Type: Remote

Remote Host Name: admin:1234@ip
Remote Host Port: port
Remote Host Path /snapshot.jpg
damirahr
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Post by damirahr »

passt wrote:Hi damir,

have you tried these settings for your webcam

Source Type: Remote

Remote Host Name: admin:1234@ip
Remote Host Port: port
Remote Host Path /snapshot.jpg
yup, tried couldnt get it work either. I really can access camera as described, i setup width and height as at camera, but still no success...

logs

zmwatch:

05/02/08 23:47:51.972648 zmwatch[5626].INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 08/05/02 23:47:51, pid = 7307]
05/02/08 23:48:01.977083 zmwatch[5626].INF [Restarting capture daemon for New, shared memory not valid]
05/02/08 23:48:02.087842 zmwatch[5626].INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 08/05/02 23:48:02, pid = 7344]
05/02/08 23:48:12.096984 zmwatch[5626].INF [Restarting capture daemon for New, shared memory not valid]
05/02/08 23:48:12.213469 zmwatch[5626].INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 08/05/02 23:48:12, pid = 7373]
05/02/08 23:48:22.220783 zmwatch[5626].ERR [Can't get shared memory id '7a6d2001', 1: No such file or directory]
05/02/08 23:48:22.221152 zmwatch[5626].INF [Restarting capture daemon for New, shared memory not valid]
05/02/08 23:48:22.335716 zmwatch[5626].INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 08/05/02 23:48:22, pid = 7383]

zmdc.log

05/02/08 23:51:02.072681 zmdc[5573].ERR ['zmc -m 1' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
05/02/08 23:53:42.076839 zmdc[5573].INF [Starting pending process, zmc -m 1]
05/02/08 23:53:42.080641 zmdc[5573].INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 08/05/02 23:53:42, pid = 7649]
05/02/08 23:53:42.091052 zmdc[5573].ERR ['zmc -m 1' exited abnormally, exit status 255]


really dont know what to try anymore...any comments, suggestions etc would be fine.

Thanks in advance
passt
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Location: Germany

Post by passt »

Do you have enough shared memory? Did you lower buffer size?
Did you read zoneminder's http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/FAQ?
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