Can't view recorded events

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:28 am

if you can get still sthen its not a permission problem. I presume you can cycle thriugh the stills with no problem. I have had issues with mjpeg streaming on ie on larger networks ie with proxy servers for some reason, but i have installed ff and it was ok. When you click on an evenyt and you get the square with an x what does it say about the path?

Post by **cordel** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:42 am

The easiest way to go after this is to install cambozola.jar in your zm web root directory (Ex. /var/www/html/zm/cambozola.jar), set the checkbox to use it in options and for the path put "cambozola.jar"

Get this working first as it's easy to trouble shoot. Once you get this going you can be sure that zm is setup correctly then focus on getting ffmpeg to work. Going after both is a pain.

Regards,
Corey

Koenzie · Post by **Koenzie** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:02 pm

cordel wrote:The easiest way to go after this is to install cambozola.jar in your zm web root directory (Ex. /var/www/html/zm/cambozola.jar), set the checkbox to use it in options and for the path put "cambozola.jar"

Get this working first as it's easy to trouble shoot. Once you get this going you can be sure that zm is setup correctly then focus on getting ffmpeg to work. Going after both is a pain.

Regards,
Corey

How can i troubleshoot Cambozola? Cambozola works with the live view and doesnt with recorded view

Post by **cordel** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:06 pm

There is an error that will be logged on the server or will show in the java app on the client machine. You find this and it will be key to resolving the problem. Also be aware that php 5 has not really been thoughly tested. I loaded it back when FC4 released and you have to make ajustments in php for everything to work. It sounds like you have already got them but it's odd that live works and stored don't.

Any paticular reason for Debian?
Ross Makes a great Live CD base on Mandrake, and I put out a single CD installer base on FC3 and am wrapping up a 64 bit version.

Regards,
Cordel

Koenzie · Post by **Koenzie** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:08 pm

cordel wrote:There is an error that will be logged on the server or will show in the java app on the client machine. You find this and it will be key to resolving the problem.

Sorry for the n00b java question, but i only get the java applet startup text, where can i see/find the error's or logs ?

Post by **cordel** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:15 pm

depends on the version of cambozola.
.22 right click the app.
> .5 move the mouse to the left side and a icon menu should show.

Corey

Post by **cordel** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:21 pm

Really the only thing that comes to mind to create what you are experiancing would be if the images are owned be something other than the web user/group. If live streaming works the zms works and cambozola, so there has to be a reason that zms can not get those files.

Koenzie · Post by **Koenzie** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:48 pm

I tryed everything sugessted here, but cant get a solution.
Cambozola is not giving any errors, and i still cant view recorded events

Koenzie · Post by **Koenzie** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:51 pm

I dont know what the in-code problem is but i found a solution :

I made a symbolic link in my /zm directory to my /video/images and /video/events.
Then i changed the paths in ZM back to /events and /images and everything works.

Can someone explain me why that is ?

Maybee there is something in the code of the video generation that doesnt detect a directory change in the options menu

Post by **zoneminder** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:45 pm

Were your /video directories under the zm dir before? Currently they must be accessible as a relative path under zmI think so if you set them to /video/events then ZM will look in zm/video/events. This is set to change in the future but otherwise you at least have to have a symbolic link under zm.

Phil

Post by **cordel** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 8:53 pm

Yep that would be a problem. You can locate the events anywhere you want but when outside of the root web directory you must set up an alias in apache (It's what I do on mine and how the rpms are set to install).

Regards,
Cordel

Koenzie · Post by **Koenzie** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:17 am

Hmm, maybee a nice change for i the future.
My zm install is on disk1 and the video storage on disk2 so i had to make a dir change. /events and /images where in /video/ (disk2)

Post by **zoneminder** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:34 am

It will change in the future but in the meantime as Corey says you can just add in a link whilst still keeping the actual files on different disks.

Phil

Koenzie · Post by **Koenzie** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:50 am

zoneminder wrote:It will change in the future but in the meantime as Corey says you can just add in a link whilst still keeping the actual files on different disks.

Phil

Okee, but its hard to find out if you dont know whats the problem

Post by **cordel** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:09 am

The rpm version we have moved the events directory to /var/lib/zm You can change it it just needs to be changed in the console options under the path tab or done when you run perl zmconfig.pl and it has to be in the web root.

Otherwise (as done in the rpm) you have to setup apache to alias the directory to be in the web root.

Regards,
Corey