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I'm trying to create zones so that bandwidth and resources are not being wasted due to false alarms. There is a camera in a hallway facing 2 doors. One door has a small window on it (leads to stairwell) and the other to our office. When ever someone is walking in the stairwell area past the door, it sets off the alerts and alarms stating that there was an event. However its a false possitive. Yes there was motion but no it doesn't affect us. I've tried to adjust the zones to no affect and here is why:

I click on the option to bring up the zones routine. Then click on the name of the zone (currently set to ALL) to bring up the adjustment options. It opens up and I notice right away that the "ZONE AREA" field is GREYED out. I can't add or remove points. There is one set of 4 points on the screen set to the full size of the window. I've tried to add additional zones but they are always set to 100% area. If I manually move the pointers around, they go back to 100% when I click save.

Any tips on how I can fix this? Did I miss something in a configuration?


Thanks a bunch

Carlo

[edit] checked the logs and was getting buffer errors. Increased shared mem and increased frame buffer. This solved the errors with the buffer, however it has not solved the problem with being able to creating zones. Zone Area is still greyed out.

did you click on the zone or just open up the zones viewer

look at what i highlighted did you push both
http://www.box.net/shared/mor48i287s

kingofkya wrote:did you click on the zone or just open up the zones viewer

look at what i highlighted did you push both
http://www.box.net/shared/mor48i287s

Yep I pushed both to get to the point where I can edit the zones. But the zones do not change, and the Zone Area selection is always set to 100% - and greyed out so I can not adjust.

[edit]

did a zmu -m 2 -v -q if that helps:
Monitor 2(Back-Door)
Id : 2
Name : Back-Door
Type : Remote
Protocol : http
Host : xxx:xxxxxxxxxx@192.168.xxx.xxx
Port : 80
Path : /cgi-bin/camera?resolution=640
Width : 640
Height : 480
Colours : 3
Event Prefix : Back-Door-Hall-Event-
Label Format : %N - %y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S
Label Coord : 0,0
Image Buffer Count : 35
Warmup Count : 20
Pre Event Count : 5
Post Event Count : 5
Stream Replay Buffer : 1000
Alarm Frame Count : 1
Section Length : 600
Maximum FPS : 4.00
Alarm Maximum FPS : 8.00
Reference Blend %ge : 7
Track Motion : 1
Function: 2 - Monitor Only
Zones : 1
Id : 12
Label : New
Type: 1 - Active
Shape : 4 points
0: 0,0
1: 639,0
2: 639,479
3: 0,479
Alarm RGB : ff0000
Check Method: 1 - Alarmed Pixels
Min Pixel Threshold : 60
Max Pixel Threshold : 0
Min Alarm Pixels : 61440
Max Alarm Pixels : 0
Filter Box : 5,5
Min Filter Pixels : 36864
Max Filter Pixels : 0
Min Blob Pixels : 30720
Max Blob Pixels : 0
Min Blobs : 1
Max Blobs : 0

What browser are you using?
ZM works best with Firefox and not all of it's ability's are compatible in all browsers.

cordel wrote:What browser are you using?
ZM works best with Firefox and not all of it's ability's are compatible in all browsers.

Thanks a bunch I was using IE. Just installed Firefox at my office. Works great now (albeit our install of firefox is a tad old and seems to be a bit unstable - but old and unstable is better than what I was getting out of the newer IE)