Logitech QuickCam E3500 Plus problem

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dika
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Logitech QuickCam E3500 Plus problem

Post by dika »

Hello All.

this is the first time i try to configure zoneminder. after i go through all the forum i can get my webcam working n successfull installed zoneminder but my problem is zoneminder cannot capture the video. then zoneminder can recognized. im using ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala.
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and also able to stream using http://localhost:8080
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but when i click on zoneminder its just come out like this...waiting half an hours still the same.
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please assist and help me regarding this.. pleaseeeee!!

p/s: im newbie in linux...
dika
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Post by dika »

anybody can help me?
mastertheknife
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Post by mastertheknife »

Hi.

It seems your problem is not that you can't capture video, but can't view streams!

Does http://ZM-COMPUTER-IP/cgi-bin/nph-zms link work for you or does it give forbidden or error 404 (not found) ?

Try copying nph-zms and zms from your ZM's cgi-bin folder (/var/www/zm/cgi-bin probably) to your webserver's cgi-bin folder (/var/www/htdocs/cgi-bin probably) and then execute these commands:

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chmod a+x /var/www/htdocs/cgi-bin/nph-zms
chmod a+x /var/www/htdocs/cgi-bin/zms
dika
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Post by dika »

ok i will try your steps..then i will let u know...anyway thanks.. :)
dika
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Post by dika »

mastertheknife wrote:Hi.

It seems your problem is not that you can't capture video, but can't view streams!

Does http://ZM-COMPUTER-IP/cgi-bin/nph-zms link work for you or does it give forbidden or error 404 (not found) ?

Try copying nph-zms and zms from your ZM's cgi-bin folder (/var/www/zm/cgi-bin probably) to your webserver's cgi-bin folder (/var/www/htdocs/cgi-bin probably) and then execute these commands:

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chmod a+x /var/www/htdocs/cgi-bin/nph-zms
chmod a+x /var/www/htdocs/cgi-bin/zms
hello master.. its seems like the file that u mention does not exist in zm folder. its only has

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ajax           css     graphics  includes   js    skins   temp   views
cambozola.jar  events  images    index.php  lang  sounds  tools
is there something wrong with my configuration?
mastertheknife
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Post by mastertheknife »

It shouldnt be in the zm folder, but in the cgi-bin folder.

Does the link i posted above work for you? it probably does not, and its the reason you can't see streams.
And the paths of the commands are for my system, it may be different for your system. Need to copy nph-zms and zms so when you click on that link it wont say file not found or forbidden.
dika
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Post by dika »

mastertheknife wrote:It shouldnt be in the zm folder, but in the cgi-bin folder.

Does the link i posted above work for you? it probably does not, and its the reason you can't see streams.
And the paths of the commands are for my system, it may be different for your system. Need to copy nph-zms and zms so when you click on that link it wont say file not found or forbidden.
oic... first i try http://ip-zoneminder/cgi-bin/nph-zms and it did not come out anything, just a blank page then i try http://ip-zoneminder/zm/cgi-bin/nph-zms and its prompt me to donlod nph-zms file.

my zm folder inside here

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administrator@Editing:/var/www$ ls
index.html  munin  zm
and the file for nph-zms and zms inside here

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administrator@Editing:/usr/lib/cgi-bin$ ls
munin-cgi-graph  nph-zms  zms
so where should i copy that file? is it copy to /var/www/zm ? :roll:
whatboy
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Post by whatboy »

>>and its prompt me to donlod nph-zms file

Then your CGI is not configurated correctly... I think you have to configure apache with the cgi-bin directory... like maybe in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file... I don't know, I use Fedora...
floppyraid
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greetings

Post by floppyraid »

your cgi-bin directory being at:

/var/lib/cgi-bin

should be just fine. to make sure, go to

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled

look in there, more than likely there is only one file called 000-default

open it up and you should see this:


ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory>

that means that anytime you go to your ((site))/cgi-bin/, it wraps that path to that place on your drive.


but i suspect, and am willing to bet we are experiencing the same problem that i have yet to find an answer for, ive been trying and trying but no luck so far.

first, go to your site a few times and try to watch the stream a few times (where it displays the broken image)

next, on go to

/var/log/apache2

and type

cat error.log

im willing to bet its going to look like something like this


[Mon Feb 22 22:43:18 2010] [error] [client 192.168.1.xxx] array (\n 0 => \n array (\n 'file' => '/var/www/ajax/stream.php',\n 'line' => 55,\n 'function' => 'ajaxError',\n 'args' => \n array (\n 0 => 'socket_sendto( /tmp/zms-241458s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory',\n ),\n ),\n 1 => \n array (\n 'file' => '/var/www/index.php',\n 'line' => 119,\n 'args' => \n array (\n 0 => '/var/www/ajax/stream.php',\n ),\n 'function' => 'require_once',\n ),\n), referer: http://192.168.1.xxx:8080/index.php?view=watch&mid=1


is that what you are seeing?
dika
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Re: greetings

Post by dika »

floppyraid wrote:your cgi-bin directory being at:

/var/lib/cgi-bin

should be just fine. to make sure, go to

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled

look in there, more than likely there is only one file called 000-default

open it up and you should see this:


ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory>

that means that anytime you go to your ((site))/cgi-bin/, it wraps that path to that place on your drive.


but i suspect, and am willing to bet we are experiencing the same problem that i have yet to find an answer for, ive been trying and trying but no luck so far.

first, go to your site a few times and try to watch the stream a few times (where it displays the broken image)

next, on go to

/var/log/apache2

and type

cat error.log

im willing to bet its going to look like something like this


[Mon Feb 22 22:43:18 2010] [error] [client 192.168.1.xxx] array (\n 0 => \n array (\n 'file' => '/var/www/ajax/stream.php',\n 'line' => 55,\n 'function' => 'ajaxError',\n 'args' => \n array (\n 0 => 'socket_sendto( /tmp/zms-241458s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory',\n ),\n ),\n 1 => \n array (\n 'file' => '/var/www/index.php',\n 'line' => 119,\n 'args' => \n array (\n 0 => '/var/www/ajax/stream.php',\n ),\n 'function' => 'require_once',\n ),\n), referer: http://192.168.1.xxx:8080/index.php?view=watch&mid=1


is that what you are seeing?
yups...you are right.... this is the error log..

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[Tue Feb 23 09:04:30 2010] [error] [client 129.X.X.X] array (\n  0 => \n  array (\n    'file' => '/usr/share/zoneminder/ajax/stream.php',\n    'line' => 51,\n    'function' => 'ajaxError',\n    'args' => \n    array (\n      0 => 'socket_sendto( /tmp/zms-695077s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory',\n    ),\n  ),\n  1 => \n  array (\n    'file' => '/usr/share/zoneminder/index.php',\n    'line' => 116,\n    'args' => \n    array (\n      0 => '/usr/share/zoneminder/ajax/stream.php',\n    ),\n    'function' => 'require_once',\n  ),\n), referer: http://129.x.x.x/zm/index.php?view=watch&mid=1
so whats ur advise? :)
mastertheknife
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Post by mastertheknife »

That error is because the page tries to query fps and progress from the streamer (zms or nph-zms) but if the streamer doesn't run, it can't connect to it and this will generate this error, so its normal.
After you fix your cgi-bin folder, zms and nph-zms should work and this error won't show up.
dika
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Post by dika »

oic..then how should i fix my nph-zms and zms?

:( :(
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