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Thanks for the replies. Yes, as I said in the firts post, I have tried that option and it didnt work. I have searched in this forum and googled for a solution but no luck. The autorization doesnt fail. I have tried with a wrong pasword and then it just doesnt allow me. So the user and password is working.

The camera works perfect in firefox if I connect through the web interface. I can connect it to the internet. What I have to do is go to the router select the ip of the camera and open the port for the camera isnt it? My messenger is hugolp2@hotmail.com. If you contact me ill give you the ip adress. Thanks a lot for the help.

Hugo

Ok. So everything is working now. Thanks a lot W. for your time. Streaming started working by itself dont know why, but its been working since then. lol.

I am using 640x480 and medium compresion and I get between 8 and 10 fps using mjpeg.cgi as Knoopi suggested. If I go down to 320x240 I get 20 fps. I am using a Gigabit network so it should be all about the camera.

All that is allright for me, but the only thing that anoys me is that I get a 2 or 3 seconds lag stream video at 640x480. If I go down to 320x240 it doesnt happen any more. I can feel the lag but its about half second or similar. It happens in zm and through the camera web, so its not a zm isue, its about the camera. Can anybody confirm this? Any DCS-900 user that gets 2 or 3 second lag in 640x480?

Hugo

Do you know why camera works now?
I have same problem as you in the beginning .(
How you configure your zoneminder?
And where you specify password to access to camera?

Lot of questions .)
Thanks for some info.

I have those settings:

Hi.

If you could post the settings that made your dcs-900 work with the ZM,
would much appreciate.

This is you rather old thread in the ZM-forum:

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 3&start=15

I still have one of those in perfect condition: I would like to use it in my Zoneminder server.

Got it working with these instructions I found from the forum:

"bring up an instance of your browser and enter camera IP. Then enter credentials to access; with camera displayed, right click on picture and make note of the path. Enter in path of camera in ZM monitor configuration path entry"

So the remote host path looks something like this: /IMAGE.JPG?cidx=20042XXXXXXXXXXXXx

Well, I've got rev.B2 with firmware version 3.22 working, but only in 320x240 mode. That's actually not so brilliant...
Path is /IMAGE.JPG. There's no difference between /IMAGE.JPG?cidx=20042XXXXXXXXXXXXx and /IMAGE.JPG. All other paths not working. Framerate is about 2.5-5 fps.

Any suggestions?

If it's working at 320x240 but not at 640x480 then the problem may be that Zone Minder can't allocate enough shared memory.

http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... leshooting

If you look in the zmwatch.log (in /tmp by default) you will see something like:
(y seems to be the device Id).

The easy fix is to lower the number in the 'Image Buffer Size (frames)' on the Buffers tab of the camera setup. Or, you could increase the available shared memory - how depends on your distro.

You may also want to try using /video.cgi as your path; it may give you a better frame rate.

I know this is an old thread but I thought I would offer up an interesting point. I once flashed a DCS900W (not sure of the rev right now) with the Trendnet IP100 firmware and it worked fine and was more stable. It was out in the wild somewhere, and someone described that it would work on a forum somewhere.

Sorry not to be very specific, it was like 2 years ago. I'll try to fire it up and look on the bottom of it to get more specifics one day..