Black Screen No Date

[kluchtman]

Hello All;

I am having a problem with a fresh install of ZoneMinder 1.25.0 on Cent OS 6.5. I have my monitor setup as the following:

General Tab
Name: Monitor-1
Source Type: Remote
Function: Modect
Enabled: checked
Linked Monitors: empty
Maximum FPS: empty
Alarm Maximum FPS: empty
Reference Image Blend: 7
Triggers: None Available

Source Tab
Remote Protocol: HTTP
Remote Method: Simple
Remote Host Name: Baby_cam
Remote Host Port: 80
Remote Host Path: http: //x.x.x.x/videostream.cgi?user=XXX&pwd=xxx
Remote Image Colours: 24 Bit Colour
Capture width: 640
Capture height: 480
Preserve aspect ratio: not checked
Orientation: normal

It is running on 2 Xeon dual core 2.8ghz processors with 4 gigs of ram and 417 gig of drive space. I have done a lot of research and exhausted every option I have found. I have tried editing my etc/sysctl.conf file. Short_open_tag is set to on in my PHP.ini. When I upgraded to 1.26 I couldn't get the console to run as it was always stopped. So I went back down to 1.25 and still get the black screen when attempting to view a camera. I am using a Foscam FI8918W camera, control of the camera is not important to me at this time, I just want to get video working.

Does anyone have any ideas? I know it can work because I had it working on a older system that recently died on me.

[PacoLM]

Try:

Source Tab
Remote Protocol: HTTP
Remote Method: Simple
Remote Host Name: user:pwd@x.x.x.x (NOT Baby_cam!!!)
Remote Host Port: 80
Remote Host Path: /videostream.cgi?user=XXX&pwd=xxx
Remote Image Colours: 24 Bit Colour
Capture width: 640
Capture height: 480
Preserve aspect ratio: not checked
Orientation: normal

The remote host name is the ip, not the name you assign to the monitor!

Hope it helps,

Paco

[kluchtman]

Hope it helps I am sorry for wasting your time and space on the forums for such a stupid problem on my side. Thank you for the help, it's resolved now and I can move on to other tasks.

[PacoLM]

Hi,

You don't have to be sorry. Everyone here was a noob someday. If you search for my first posts...I'm pretty sure that I asked more obvious things.

Take care and do not hesitate to ask for help, I do it everyday...

PacoLM