Recording from Everfocus DVR

[diamondlfarm]

After years of MS torture I am switching to linux based systems where possible. I am relatively new to both linux and Zoneminder.

I have had a Zoneminder platform running for about a year. I record a mix of digital IP cameras and my older analog cameras connect via an Aviosis 9100A web server. Everything is running well as is and I am going to be switching from a machine with 1 Mb of memory to a machine with 10Mb of memory and a raid array shortly.

My question deals with recording the output from a traditional DVR. I have an Everfocus ECOR 264 4X1 DVR with 4 analog cameras at another site. I can view the DVR remotely thru a web browser or thru the iphone app. I would like to simultaneously record the output from that DVR in Zoneminder over the network. I envision the setup would be similar to what I am doing with the Aviosis 9100A but I cannot find any configuration info anywhere. I have tried a number of configurations without success. Is this possible? Does anybody know how to configure it?

Thanks for your assistance.

[river100]

If the Everfocus DVR has an option to view images with firefox / no active X
you might get the image string from that. I do network connections for CCTV
companies and have worked with quite a few DVR brands.
i'm not sure which ones will work with firefox but some do, mostly just to view cam streams.

[diamondlfarm]

Thanks for your reply. I often spend my days responding to "I can't view my cameras on my phone anymore" requests. The Everfocus DVR does require an Active X capable browser or one of the two Iphone/Ipod apps to view remotely. I thought somebody here might know a way around this.

[AllenTuttle]

Check this topic: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... =9&t=18137
This guy has some code he calls zmodopipe that pulls camera streams from a DVR appliance allowing him to use ZoneMinder to monitor those streams using source type ffmpeg.

[diamondlfarm]

^^ This is very interesting and might just work. Not a simple solutions but I think there is merit in this.

I knew the answer could be found here.

Thanks