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Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:23 pm**

Hi,

I recently set up zoneminder 1.23.3 with a PV-183 card on a HP ML150.
The OS is Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid, / is on two 250GB drives in raid 1 and /var is on a 3TB raid 5 array.

Two of the cameras are Fastrax 142 Dome cameras. They are connected to COM1 via one of these RS-232/RS-485 converters. The cameras support both Pelco-P and Pelco-D and are set to ID 1 and 2.

So Iâ€™ve set up the controls like this:

but had no luck controlling the cameras via commandline or webinterface.
hereâ€™s the /tmp/zmcontrol.log: (controlling via the web interface)

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11/19/08 17:09:53.882173 zmcontrol[8372].INF [Starting control server 25/PelcoD]
11/19/08 17:09:53.885200 zmcontrol[8373].INF [Control server 25/PelcoD starting at 08/11/19 17:09:53]

and thatâ€™s pretty much where it gets stuck.

I have to admit that I donâ€™t even know where to start debugging this. Serial ports under Linux arenâ€™t somethign that Iâ€™m really familiar with.
Is there a way to listen to /dev/ttyS0 to check if thereâ€™s even data transmitted across the serial port at all?

//edit:

A quick update, Iâ€™ve now tried the PelcoD scripts and they give me slightly more verbose error message:

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11/19/2008 18:21:16.548690 zmcontrol[6513].INF [Starting control server 25/PelcoP]
11/19/2008 18:21:16.551691 zmcontrol[6514].INF [Control server 25/PelcoP starting at 08/11/19 18:21:16]
11/19/2008 18:23:01.932785 zmcontrol[6724].INF [Starting control server 25/PelcoP]
11/19/2008 18:23:01.936048 zmcontrol[6725].INF [Control server 25/PelcoP starting at 08/11/19 18:23:01]
11/19/2008 18:23:11.936990 zmcontrol[6724].FAT [Can't connect: Connection refused]
11/19/2008 18:25:52.409363 zmcontrol[6807].INF [Starting control server 25/PelcoP]
11/19/2008 18:25:52.412701 zmcontrol[6808].INF [Control server 25/PelcoP starting at 08/11/19 18:25:52]
11/19/2008 18:25:58.258833 zmcontrol[6809].INF [Starting control server 25/PelcoP]
11/19/2008 18:25:58.262487 zmcontrol[6810].INF [Control server 25/PelcoP starting at 08/11/19 18:25:58]
11/19/2008 18:26:08.263329 zmcontrol[6809].FAT [Can't connect: Connection refused]
11/19/2008 18:29:04.313436 zmcontrol[6818].INF [Starting control server 25/PelcoP]
11/19/2008 18:29:04.367310 zmcontrol[6819].INF [Control server 25/PelcoP starting at 08/11/19 18:29:04]
11/19/2008 18:29:14.368140 zmcontrol[6818].FAT [Can't connect: Connection refused]
11/19/2008 18:30:30.268588 zmcontrol[6916].INF [Starting control server 25/PelcoP]
11/19/2008 18:30:30.305510 zmcontrol[6917].INF [Control server 25/PelcoP starting at 08/11/19 18:30:30]
11/19/2008 18:30:40.306327 zmcontrol[6916].FAT [Can't connect: Connection refused]

Although I still have no idea what connection was refused.

Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:04 pm**

I guess Iâ€™m another step closer to having the PTZ work. Still not quite there though...
Could a smart person tell me what these error messages mean?

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11/19/2008 20:58:24.006296 zmcontrol[11300].INF [Starting control server 1/PelcoD]
11/19/2008 20:58:24.009711 zmcontrol[11301].INF [Control server 1/PelcoD starting at 08/11/19 20:58:24]
11/19/2008 20:58:25.016753 zmcontrol[11301].FAT [Can't access focus_auto member of object of class ZoneMinder::Control::PelcoD]
11/19/2008 20:58:33.958261 zmcontrol[11302].INF [Starting control server 2/PelcoD]
11/19/2008 20:58:33.961697 zmcontrol[11303].INF [Control server 2/PelcoD starting at 08/11/19 20:58:33]
11/19/2008 20:58:34.969233 zmcontrol[11303].FAT [Can't access focus_auto member of object of class ZoneMinder::Control::PelcoD]

I used this in an attempt to control the camera:

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sudo zmcontrol.pl --id=2 --speed=9600 --command=focus_auto

the same errors appear when using all other commands such as zoom_*, move_con_*, reset, sleep or wake.

Thanks.

Posted: **Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:20 pm**

If you look at PelcoD.pm module, you will see:

sub focusAuto

and not

sub focus_auto

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