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Posted: **Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:04 pm**

I'll bring back an old thread as I've just got this camera and was wondering if any of you members who have expereience with it are still around or know someone that can give me a hand with a few aspects of the camera?

Thanks

Posted: **Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:05 pm**

Have never used but if noone with one chimes in let me know ill try anything once lol

Posted: **Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:11 pm**

I'm still around. Ask away!

Mike

Posted: **Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:45 pm**

Okay then

I'd like to use the Java version that you see on /Simple (On everything but IE)
But this doesn't work on IE, is there a way to change the code so I can display the Java version on my website and so it works with All Browsers?

Posted: **Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:34 pm**

Sorry, I really don't know. I got the camera becasue I don't run windows. Ok so I run it occationally, but not lately.

Posted: **Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:50 pm**

This is a non zm question then i assume, you are trying to add an image from your publically accesible ip camera with a java applet?

Posted: **Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:06 pm**

Yeah, although on every browser apart from Internet Explorer the Java Applet works.
Maybe I'd be best off asking Gadspot themselves.

One last thing about the camera in general - Green tree's seem to go a purple colour when the camera is looking outside set to the Outdoor freq (the 50 & 60 dont work) Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Posted: **Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:16 pm**

Good luck with the Gadspot folks, they don't seem to know too much about the camera. (Or at least they didn't last year. The support site in the UK actually ripped off the manual we developed and posted it.)

The colors on the camera are a bit off. There is an adustment, but I could never get something that looked real good:
http://www.tanktarta.pwp.blueyonder.co. ... ml#d0e1056

I think part of it is their attempt to do inferred stuff (which I have never figured out if it worked or not).

Posted: **Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:18 pm**

the 50/60 setting has always been (as far as i know) to stop flickering under flourescant lighting.
Outdoor and indoor modes usually lock a white balace setting. Either that or gadspot have removed the ir cut filter on the chip for ir response.

Do you want the full applet or just images , and i think a script an do different things for different browsers but im not big on java

Posted: **Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:09 am**

I was looking for a full applet, I think some of the code needs to be edited to get it to work on IE with Java.
The code I'm using for the Java to work on all other browsers apart from IE is here; http://84.68.239.32/Simple/home.htm

Has anyone found a decent way of getting the best image quality from the camera? eg. Reduing the purple effect?

Posted: **Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:08 am**

Cant help with that then as it appears to be an issue with the gadspot applet. I have added jpegs to webpages using jave to refresh before but never full blown applets sorry

Posted: **Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:08 pm**

jameswilson wrote:Cant help with that then as it appears to be an issue with the gadspot applet. I have added jpegs to webpages using jave to refresh before but never full blown applets sorry

Something like that would be fine actually.
Do you know the code or somewhere with it?

Posted: **Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:26 pm**

Code: Select all

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
// Set the BaseURL to the URL of your camera
var BaseURL = "http://10.10.10.10/";

// DisplayWidth & DisplayHeight specifies the displayed width & height of the image.
// You may change these numbers, the effect will be a stretched or a shrunk image
var DisplayWidth = "640";
var DisplayHeight = "480";

// This is the path to the image generating file inside the camera itself

var File = "cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=single&monitor=13&scale=100&user=xxx&pass=xxx";

// No changes required below this point

var output = "";

  theDate = new Date();
  output  = '<IMG SRC="';
  output += BaseURL;
  output += File;
  output += '&dummy=' + theDate.getTime().toString(10);
  output += '" HEIGHT="';
  output += DisplayHeight;
  output += '" WIDTH="';
  output += DisplayWidth;
  output += '" ALT="Camera Image">';

document.write(output);
document.Player.ToolbarConfiguration = "play,+snapshot,+fullscreen"


</SCRIPT>

This is a modified axis script that i modified for use with zm hope this gets you started. This one does a single grab but it can be made to refresh every x seconds if required, i might have to dig for that script though as i dont use it myself anymore

Posted: **Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:18 pm**

I have arounf 12 of these cameras and they work great for me. Granted, there are a couple things you got to know...

1. DO NOT USE MJPEG if you're going to have more than 3 or 4 cameras. These cameras cannot be throttled like the Axis cameras, so they are always sending a 20fps stream to the server. This will kill your bandwidth, CPU, memory and your server will slow down to a crawl triying to analyze all that data.

2. USE JPEG MODE with these cameras and throttle ZoneMinder to retrieve as many frames per second as you want. I keep mine at 3fps. If you use motion detection zoneMinder can overrride the throttling and capture as fast as it can.

3. CONFIGURE THE CAMERA FIRST, before using with ZoneMinder. This camera does not accept configuration parameters through the URL, you have to configure them through the web-based GUI.

Search my other posts on these cameras on these forums. Youll find some good information.

Regards,
Jose.

Posted: **Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:23 pm**

Forgot to post this...

The path for the still image is: /Jpeg/CamImg.jpg

The purple hue you see in the camera is because of the way the sensor captures an image in low lighting conditions. It has to do with the infrared.

Regards,
Jose.

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