ABS MegaCam 4220 capture and TCP trigger working

kp4djt · Post by **kp4djt** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:20 am

Oh yes, does yours look like it is doing IR during the day, on this one the day time images
are all white like it was only seeing IR.

greckpk · Post by **greckpk** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:54 am

Great! Glad to see you got it going.

As far as the IR, The only thing I can think of is to check on the cameras settings.

Goto the home page for the camera click Settings>Camera>Picture and see how IR LEDs (Night Vision) is set.
If it is set to ON it will be on ALL the time. I have mine set on a schedule to turn on and off.

kp4djt · Post by **kp4djt** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:01 pm

The only thing I see is when I punch the left rotate arrow, the camera rotates all the way
around to the stop, I will have to see what is going on there.

greckpk · Post by **greckpk** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:06 pm

kp4djt wrote:The only thing I see is when I punch the left rotate arrow, the camera rotates all the way
around to the stop, I will have to see what is going on there.

There was a edit on the first post i had made about that, I did not catch it at first.

Need to change the left to this:

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sub moveConLeft 
{ 
    my $self = shift; 
    Debug( "Move Left" ); 
    my $cmd = "/ptz.cgi?move=left&speed=2"; 
    $self->sendCmd( $cmd ); 
}

I will also try to add more functions like home, presets, etc. I will post a complete module when done.

kp4djt · Post by **kp4djt** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:21 pm

Almost, when I pan right, it goes in small steps, when I pan left it appears to rotate about
45 degrees. I am trying to figure out whey it is doing so. All the different steps appear to
be taking small steps but the pan left. Right is just fine, up and down are just fine, and the
pan left and right down, left and right up all take just a few degrees of motion, ONLY the
pan left does the 45 degree CC rotation.

kp4djt · Post by **kp4djt** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 12:40 am

I found it, in the left command there was a bit of code looks like left over from the old
axis commands. Once I cleaned it up, things worked just fine.

kp4djt · Post by **kp4djt** » Sat Jun 26, 2010 12:41 am

I see in a previous message you had pointed out the error, not sure how I missed it. but
it is fixed now.

greckpk · Post by **greckpk** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:41 am

LOL, atleast you were able to figure it out.

Here is a complete remake for that camera giving it a few more options.

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 2901#62901

kp4djt · Post by **kp4djt** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 3:42 am

I just installed it and it works very well. I just have got to figure out why the camera always
looks like it is doing IR. I have even turned it totally off and the image still looks like a IR
cam, all of the trees appear white. Not sure what is going on, but it appears that it is stuck
on IR all of the time.

You can go look at it if you go to the following addres:
www.wchast.com/zm
login = guest
pass = guest

The camera is labelled 'test' you can go in and take a look at it. Of course at night it is
what is expected, but during the day, it still looks like it is seeing strong IR.

greckpk · Post by **greckpk** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:42 pm

It looks to me like there is some color(very washed out).
You might need to play with the Picture Settings.

Also, look on the "System" tab to see if you have the newest firmware(3.0.3.3454)
I guess if all else fails hit the Reset button on the camera and start from scratch.

kp4djt · Post by **kp4djt** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:00 am

The only thing I have not done is the reset button, I checked the firmware,
and it is newer than what is on the ABS site. I am in Wash DC tonight so,
I guess I can do a ssh tunnel and tunnel into my machine and then use
my browser to look at the camera info, the cameras are on a separate
network so as to keep the video path as clean as possible. All cameras talk
to gigabit switches which talk to the server on a gigabit path too. I used
to have a 100mb switch, I saw some funny artefacts and ZM complaining,
figured it was dropping frames so I put a gigabit switch on and that cleaned
it right up.

kp4djt · Post by **kp4djt** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:40 am

I just checked my system. The people who check and feed the animals
when I am away left the front porch light on, for the first time I see the
colour green on the camera. I rotated it around and as the porch area of
the house came into view it switched from IR mode to regular mode due
to the light level, I can see the blue rain barrel, and very nice green grass
so I know that it does see proper colours the question is what do I need
to do to get it to display them in the day time.

jnmacd · Post by **jnmacd** » Sun Sep 12, 2010 1:02 am

Unfortunately, the color on that camera just sucks.
You can go to the settings of the camera and enable 'Outdoor' mode. It will only slightly help though.

kp4djt · Post by **kp4djt** » Sun Sep 12, 2010 1:34 am

Yes, I have come to realize that is the nature of the beast. It is a great night cam though, I have one aimed at my neighbours house (at his request as he is travelling and wants to see the place while away) for general viewing as long as you are not picky about the colour, it can not be beat. The cam really shines as a night camera, it sees everything...

Once I realised that the colour was "genetic" I just lived with it, meantime I
have obtained a ACTi ACM-5611, it has true day/night, indeed when you
have it in a room and turn off the lights after a slight delay you her the
click sound in the camera as the IR filter is moved aside for night viewing.