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I have a 16 port card from Bluecherry, PV-155 - 16 port video capture card (120FPS)

I was wondering if anyone can help me, I have two cameras one b/w one colour, I have had both working on vid1 connection seperately so I know both cameras work with ZM.

If I connect vid1 the camera works fine records, modect etc, no problems. But if I connect a second camera to vid2, I do not get a picture from the vid2 connection and the vid1 connection splits the picture into three small pictures within the usual veiwing screen.

I have tried to use the second bank of connections but still do not get a picture.But it does not split the picture in the original camera/picture.

I have tried changing the pemissions to '98' and '77' but this makes not difference.

Is there any tests I can do to see if it is me or if the card is faulty.

Thanks
Andrew

What does your modprobe.d/options file look like? I have a few of these cards, and all have worked well.

after adding a monitor you will need to restart zm
Also 2 may not be 2, so enable and restart and put the cam on all inputs checking for image

Add also the fact that you can not use different palettes on the same chip.

Thank you for your replies,

after adding a monitor you will need to restart zm
Also 2 may not be 2, so enable and restart and put the cam on all inputs checking for image

This was the issue, 2 wasn't 2, this has drove me mad for days...

I'm in pretty much the same boat, except the solution doesn't work for me.

I have a PV-155 from Bluecherry. I have a system which has the same issue with both Boot CD and my debian install.

When I try to have more than 2 cameras on the 16 Port it doesn't like it. The first two work fine, /dev/video0(0) /dev/video0(1) . When I try to add a third and forth I simply get a blue screen on the secondary two.

But wait theres more.. When I enable monitoring on Video0(4) and Video0(5) (or any above the first 4 ports the Source column for all other cameras goes RED indicating that no daemon is running for all ports on that card.

I tried restart between setups, moving 4 cameras to the first 4 and second 4 of the system. If I turn on monitoring for the first 4 connections then the source for all is Orange.

Suggestions? I wish it was as simple as a zoneminder restart.

thanks in advance.

chimaster wrote:When I try to have more than 2 cameras on the 16 Port it doesn't like it. The first two work fine, /dev/video0(0) /dev/video0(1) . When I try to add a third and forth I simply get a blue screen on the secondary two.

Every time I have seen this it has been an improper card setting. And it is /dev/video0 (0-3) there is not 4 or 5.

Lee Sharp wrote:

chimaster wrote:When I try to have more than 2 cameras on the 16 Port it doesn't like it. The first two work fine, /dev/video0(0) /dev/video0(1) . When I try to add a third and forth I simply get a blue screen on the secondary two.

Every time I have seen this it has been an improper card setting. And it is /dev/video0 (0-3) there is not 4 or 5.

That is for the most part true though some of the kodicom cards do use inputs 0-15 with the use of a mux chip. The cheap cards however do not and you only have input 0-3 for each device/chip.