RE: Raspberry Pi Webcam in Zoneminder?

[motion2082]

Hey guys,

I have a RPi at home running "Motion". I can get a webstream of my webcam in my browser on 192.168.1.xx:8585

But when I add it to zoneminder all I get is a blank jpeg placeholder with no image.

Has anyone been able to get this working on their setup?

[linuxsense]

I am not familiar with Motion. What protocol is that URL providing? A good way to test is to use VLC and find a method to view it, much quicker than changing ZM settings over and over looking for success.

[motion2082]

I am not familiar with Motion. What protocol is that URL providing? A good way to test is to use VLC and find a method to view it, much quicker than changing ZM settings over and over looking for success.

"Motion" is great if you want a RPi+Webcam out of the box that Motion Detects. However if you want to use a 3rd party program like ZM then the RPi doubles up on Motion Detection which is not what I want to happen.

I have googled RPi + Webcam and everyones tutorials says install "Motion". I don't actually need the "Motion" function on the RPi. Not sure if I can edit the /etc/motion/motion.conf to turn this functionallity off.

Alternately I would be happy with a Webcam streamer that broadcasts a videostream on my IP address.

On a side note, ZM can pick up the "Motion" webcam on IP address using 192.68.x.x:8081/video.cgi however the RPi is working overtime to maintain 1280x720 @ 3MP and send information to ZM so you get too many dropped frames.

[rockedge]

have you tried to stream the RPi webcam with FFserver and FFmpeg and then capture on a machine running ZoneMinder. I have read that zoneminder has been sucessfully installed on Raspberry Pi. Then zoneminder was the streamer remote for the second ZoneMinder as master controller.

[motion2082]

have you tried to stream the RPi webcam with FFserver and FFmpeg .

Trying to work this out atm. Does motion run ffserver at the same time?

Here is part of my ffserver.conf , not sure if im doing it right

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# Multipart JPEG
<Stream test.mjpg>
Feed feed1.ffm
Format mpjpeg
VideoFrameRate 2
VideoIntraOnly
NoAudio
Strict -1
</Stream>

#Single JPEG
<Stream test.jpg>
Feed feed2.ffm
Format jpeg
VideoFrameRate 2
VideoIntraOnly
VideoSize 352x240
NoAudio
Strict -1
</Stream>

EDIT - 102.168.x.x:8081/test.jpg is now working in Zoneminder when "motion" running on the RPi