modetect working, but monitor not ?

declang · Post by **declang** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:18 am

Hi,
I am new to ZoneMinder, so am unsure what to expect.

I have installed from source on latest stable debian.

I have managed to configure an 8-port bt878 card, and get modetect running well on /dev/video0.
It detects motion, captures the stills, highlights the changed areas from frame to frame, etc.
I can generate a video through the web interface and view it on another lan client. All great.

However, I thought I could configure it to monitor instead of modetect, but I dont get any video stream. I dont see any error messages in any of the zm log files.

If I stop zoneminder & use xawtv, I see good quality video from the camera.

Am I correct in thinking I should be able to see a live stream from the camera, if I setup the device as "Monitor", or do I misunderstand the terminology ?

If it is possible to view the live video, then I guess I have something wrong with my config, and I will post the outputs from lspci, xawtv -hwscan , etc etc for further debugging.

Thanks for a great piece of software. I am very impressed.

Declan

viperdak · Post by **viperdak** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:06 pm

Good question declang. I'm in the same spot. I can view the stills ,etc but i was under the impression i could view a live stream, which i can't do for some reason. When i set function to Monitor both the function and source change colors to yellow.

Are yours doing the same?

Landon

declang · Post by **declang** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:19 am

Yes, they did change colour when I tried to select Monitor mode.

However, since I posted, I got a click-of-death in the only hdd in that box, so right now am installing a clean debian on a new disk.

In the words of someone famous, "I'll be back"

declang · Post by **declang** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:39 pm

Well, after a clean debian install, and following the instructions from the spanish debian+zoneminder howto (using google to translate some bits !) it all works

Next problem I have is that I can't see video from a remote client.
i.e. from within my lan, all is fine, but from outside, I get everything except the video. i.e. I can see events, stills, etc etc but no live video, and no video clips from the events.

Any suggestions ?