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Hi
In the monitor definition , For the source if I select remote as source type , I have to mention about Remote Host Path . From the reading the previous postings I get a idea that this remote path is the path where the remote camera stores the file . How could we find it out if the camera docs does not give much info about this “Pathâ€

What kind of camera is it? Might already be listed somewhere here, or in the presets. Otherwise, try right-clicking on the image in the normal web view of the camera, and see if it'll tell you the source of the image.

Hi
Thanks for the reply. I am not from CCTV field , As a hobby I am trying it out since I got the hardware
I happened to get a panasonic network camera WV-NP244 .
I searched this camera user manual , specs , and all the options through the web interface. Unfortunaltely I was not able to find info about the "path" definition

I wanted to do a CCTV setup using zoneminder and this camera .
With the camera web interface I can see the images . But I want to work it with ZM and have experience in ZM
From the we interface I cannot right click the image
But I installed WireShark ,checked the traffic between XP machine and the camera . it this way I got we url which I is given below

/cgi-bin/getuid?FILE=1&vcodec=mpeg-4

/cgi-bin/mpeg4?connect=start&protocol=rtp&vmdinfo=none&UID=29293&my_port=9906

/cgi-bin/keep_alive?mode=mpeg4&protocol=rtp&UID=29293

I had given the above path value one by one in path def for the source tab for the monitor definition and checked . I was not able to get the image

Then I replaced "mpeg" with "jpeg" and checked I was not able to get the image , Only I could get a black screen

Guidance requested for this
Thanks
Joseph John

you will need to find a jpeg source, maybe a snapshot commande etc?

Hi James
Thanks for the reply
I did search for jpeg source url , I was able to get to this info using wireshark

/cgi-bin/jpeg?connect=start&framerate=5&resolution=320&vmdinfo=none&UID=31676
/cgi-bin/getuid?FILE=1&vcodec=jpeg

I had put this value in the source path and I was not able to see the images

Can u please advice me on how to get the source path for this particular model . I did not understand about "snapshot commande" which u had mentioned
Thanks
Joseph John

if i were you id test with firefox or a browser.

Hi
Thanks for the reply
I had tried with FireFox , installed with developer plugin . Even though the WV-NP244 web access is not viewed properly using FireFox , I managed to get the link"http://192.168.21.40/cgi-bin/getuid?file=1"
using this link I tried to see the source code and found the code


}
objVideo.JPEGPushUrl = "http://" + location.host + "/cgi-bin/jpeg?connect=start&framerate=" + iJpegInter + "&resolution=" + iResolution + "&vmdinfo=none&UID=" + giUid;
.
.
}


Based on above code I started to give url "http://192.168.21.40/cgi-bin/jpeg?connect=start " in the browser I was able to view the images

through the web page , only thing I have to do is to refresh the web page after some time to see the it live

Now in the "ZM" monitor
In the source tab I had given the path "

/cgi-bin/jpeg?connect=start

" . Using this path also I was not able to see anything

Did I miss anything to be done
Thanks
Joseph John

if that returns a still image (i assume) what is the res of the image and have you matched that res in your config?

If so what is it and what do your logs now say.

Hi James
After a long try . we were able to get the images through ZM
The remote host path for this camera should be

/cgi-bin/camera?resolution=320

We are able to see the images
Thanks
Joseph John