Logitech Communicator STX problems

[givehimagun]

I've been searching for answers on the forum for two days and have not been able to decipher and fix my issue. I currently have Fedora 11 64bit and want to use a Logitech Communicator STX connected via USB.

I am able to see and use the camera in Cheese and Camstreams without a problem, but cannot see the camera inside of Zoneminder.

When I type lsusb I get:

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Bus 007 Device 002: ID 046d:08d7 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX

I can use ZMU only when I add the -V 1 parameter (I saw this on the forum somewhere):

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[root@hatter ~]# zmu -d /dev/video1 -q -v -V 1
Video Device: /dev/video1
Video Capabilities
  Name: USB Camera (046d:08d7)
  Type: 1
    Can capture
  Video Channels: 1
  Audio Channels: 0
  Maximum Width: 640
  Maximum Height: 480
  Minimum Width: 48
  Minimum Height: 32
Window Attributes
  X Offset: 0
  Y Offset: 0
  Width: 640
  Height: 480
Picture Attributes
  Palette: 0 - Unknown
  Colour Depth: 8
  Brightness: 32896
  Hue: 0
  Colour :0
  Contrast: 32768
  Whiteness: 39321
Channel 0 Attributes
  Name: zc3xx
  Channel: 0
  Flags: 0
  Type: 2 - Camera
  Format: 0 - PAL

I've entered all of these values into ZoneMinder :

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Device Path    /dev/video1
Capture Method V4L version 1
Device Channel 0
Device Format PAL
Capture Palette RGB24
Capture Width 320
Capture Height 240

Solutions Tried
I've added the preload V4L libraries to my /usr/bin/zmdc.pl.
I've chmod zmfix.
I've increased my shared memory size and restarted Fedora.

Log Files

zmdc.log

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12/19/09 18:29:43.911906 zmdc[4880].DBG ['zmaudit.pl -c' running since 09/12/19 18:12:58, pid = 4913, valid]
12/19/09 18:29:43.911907 zmdc[4880].DBG ['zmupdate.pl -c' running since 09/12/19 18:12:58, pid = 4923, valid]
12/19/09 18:29:43.911984 zmdc[4880].DBG ['zmfilter.pl' running since 09/12/19 18:12:57, pid = 4907, valid]
12/19/09 18:29:43.912069 zmdc[4880].DBG ['zmc -d /dev/video1' pending at 09/12/19 18:29:48]
12/19/09 18:29:48.028938 zmdc[4880].INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video1]
12/19/09 18:29:48.031958 zmdc[4880].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video1' starting at 09/12/19 18:29:48, pid = 5497]
12/19/09 18:29:48.280837 zmdc[4880].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video1' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
12/19/09 18:29:58.022442 zmdc[4880].INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video1]
12/19/09 18:29:58.023826 zmdc[4880].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video1' starting at 09/12/19 18:29:58, pid = 5501]
12/19/09 18:29:58.197576 zmdc[4880].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video1' exited abnormally, exit status 255]

zmwatch:

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12/18/09 18:26:35.721924 zmwatch[10415].INF [Watchdog pausing for 30 seconds]
12/18/09 18:58:05.029310 zmwatch[12121].INF [Watchdog starting]
12/18/09 18:58:05.030339 zmwatch[12121].INF [Watchdog pausing for 30 seconds]
12/18/09 18:58:33.445702 zmwatch[12235].INF [Watchdog starting]
12/18/09 18:58:33.446125 zmwatch[12235].INF [Watchdog pausing for 30 seconds]
12/19/09 18:06:01.670333 zmwatch[12235].FAT [Can't execute: MySQL server has gone away]
12/19/09 18:10:24.486699 zmwatch[4652].INF [Watchdog starting]
12/19/09 18:10:24.610299 zmwatch[4652].INF [Watchdog pausing for 30 seconds]
12/19/09 18:12:58.418888 zmwatch[4918].INF [Watchdog starting]
12/19/09 18:12:58.419275 zmwatch[4918].INF [Watchdog pausing for 30 seconds]

/var/log/messages

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Dec 19 18:37:38 hatter zms[5844]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Dec 19 18:37:38 hatter zms[5844]: INF [New Debug Level = 9, New Debug Log = /tmp/zm_debug.log.05844]
Dec 19 18:37:39 hatter zms[5844]: ERR [Terminating, last frame sent time 1261269459.032492 secs more than maximum of 10.000000]

caminfo:

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Device node      : /dev/video1
Name of device   : "USB Camera (046d:08d7)"
Minimum size     : 320x240
Current size     : 0x0
Maximum size     : 640x480
Video inputs     : 1
 Input 0
  Name             : "zc3xx"
  Type             : Camera
  Audio            : no
  Tuners           : 0
Audio inputs     : 0

Any suggestions would be greatly helpful! I hope this is enough information.

[givehimagun]

Bump.

Any ideas on where I can look? I've gone as far as installing Fedora 12 to see if there were any problems with my configuration. No go still.

[wisekki]

I have exactly the same cam and other logitechs.. (046d:08d*) They all use zc3xx driver and they do not work with zoneminder for some odd reason.

They work with xawtv and motion.. but for some reason not with zoneminder.

[givehimagun]

So I traded webcams with my dad and found out that 046d:08c5 works perfectly well with Zoneminder. I think the problem lies with Zoneminder's non-UVC camera support.

With my 08d7, I can get some snow and fuzzy bars to appear but thats about it.

[wisekki]

Any ideas which cams are non-UVC and which are not?

I have 6 logitechs and they're all 046d:08d* .. I like Zoneminder and I'm going to buy new ones but it would be nice to know which usb-cams actually work with ZM and which does not.

I had these cams with ubuntu 8.04 and zm1.22-1.23 and everything worked nicely. Tho back then my cams used gspca driver.. With ubuntu 8.10 and later I've been forced to use Motion..

- Antti

[codabiz]

Just for the record, I can use a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 (version2) at up to 1600x1200 at 5fps, using zm 1.24.2 on Ubuntu Server 9.04, with no problems. There were 4 versions of the Quickcam Pro 9000 webcam, now upgraded to Logitech Webcam Pro 9000.

Source:
Device Path: /dev/video0
Capture Method: Video for Linux 2
Device Channel: 0
Device Format: PAL
Capture Palette: YUYV
Capture Width: 1600
Capture Height: 1200
Preserve Aspect Ratio: No
Orientation: Normal

Remember that some Logitech cameras are buggy under Linux. Check for compatiblity here:

http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/#

And here is the Logitech UVC Frame format list:

http://www.quickcamteam.net/devices/log ... t_list.pdf

[wisekki]

Thnx for those links.. Now I know for sure that for some reason my logitechs do not work with ZoneMinder anymore

Quickcam Pro 9000 is a much newer cam than my cams.. it's 046d:099* and there's no reason why it should not work with ZM.

My cams are not buggy with linux, because they work with every other prog that I've tried except ZoneMinder. They're just not "UVC compatible" or some other cr*p like that...

- Antti

[dcbour]

One problem I found with my USB cameras is they were particular in the sequence they are listed. By deleting all cameras, then adding them back to the monitor as they appear using the /dev/video0, /dev/video1...etc...now, I can see them all. Don't know why yet but spent way too much time trying to get to that and stumbled across it by accident...but found if I delete them, put them back in the wrong order, they will fail.
Don't know the impact on card based video though..awaiting delivery of my card to see if it shows the same issues.