Rimax 7100 and Frame Rates

[aNt1X]

I'm trying to use ZM with Rimax 7100.

This is a nice and cheap camera, and you have two method to access the images:

http://admin:password@ip:port/video.cgi

http://ip:port/snapshot.jpg?account=admin?password=password

With the first method the camera is working correctly, except i have a frame rate of 11fps. I would like to fix it to 2fps.
The camera has no FPS settings, so ZM is received images at 11FPS.
If I use "MAX FPS" parameter on ZM, the images are not recorded correctly: frame lost, delay of many minutes, and so on.

The second method is not working (same problem as http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... light=7100), i'm working on it.

My question is :

Is there a way to force ZM to record images at a specific frame rate, instead of recording all images coming from the camera?

When i have many cameras, having a 11FPS rate will fill my HD too quickly (i'm using the cameras in RECORD mode).

I think that Frame Skipping parameter is not the goal, because when the camera changes the frame rate (i.e. by night), it will jump a wrong number of frames.

Thank you i.a.,

best regards

aNt1X

[skyhook]

Try to update firmware to this version IPCam_7100_V3.3_F6.bin.

IPCam_7100_V3.3_F6.bin

I have the same IP Cam and work fine with all methods.

[cordel]

http://admin:password@ip:port/video.cgi

http://ip:port/snapshot.jpg?account=admin?password=password

With the first method the camera is working correctly, except i have a frame rate of 11fps. I would like to fix it to 2fps.
The camera has no FPS settings, so ZM is received images at 11FPS.
If I use "MAX FPS" parameter on ZM, the images are not recorded correctly: frame lost, delay of many minutes, and so on.

ZM has no way to regulate the frame rate sent by the cam, it has to be requlated at the camera for streams. So for streaming video you should not set a limit in ZM.

The second method is not working (same problem as http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... light=7100), i'm working on it.

My question is :

Is there a way to force ZM to record images at a specific frame rate, instead of recording all images coming from the camera?

Yes you can use frame skip.

When i have many cameras, having a 11FPS rate will fill my HD too quickly (i'm using the cameras in RECORD mode).

I think that Frame Skipping parameter is not the goal, because when the camera changes the frame rate (i.e. by night), it will jump a wrong number of frames.

Thank you i.a.,

best regards

aNt1X

You best bet would be to use the snapshot from the camera, this way ZM can regulate the FPS you want. If you are still having problems, turn the debuging on to level 5 and you can limit the output to the log to zmc. It should help make any problem stand out better.

[peely]

Try to update firmware to this version IPCam_7100_V3.3_F6.bin.

IPCam_7100_V3.3_F6.bin

I have the same IP Cam and work fine with all methods.

Hi,

I'm looking for this firmware file but the link is dead. I'm trying to connect a Rimax IP_Cam_7100 and the monitor screen goes black after about a minute.

Could somebody please repost the firmware as I have a newer version.


Cheers,


Neil.

[johnnytolengo]

I don't think this camera is great as you wrote I have one and the pictures are not so pretty and the colors are far to be real, other thing I must tell you is that I can't run the IR leds at night because they run when the camera is connected with activeX, so no chance for me to have night vision with ZM.

Sorry but are a lot of best cams in the market with similar prices.

Regards.

J.

[peely]

Thanks, but I already have this camera and have been using it for a couple of years as a baby monitor. It seems to work perfectly well with software like i-catcher and webcamxp but I'm trying to move my server over to Linux.

With other SW I've used the /cgi-bin?video method, which keeps the IR light working but have noticed if you use the snapshot or video.cgi method then it doesn't. I intend to use a perl script or something to keep the IR functionality working.

My main problem is that if you try to monitor this zone the screen goes black after a couple of minutes, syslog shows that ZM is complaining about JPEG corruption and the ZMC process needs to be restarted. I'm wondering if the older firmware is better.

If someone could please make the V3.3 firmware available I'd be grateful.


Thanks,


Neil.

[skyhook]

try now

http://rapidshare.com/files/331433905/F ... 0.rar.html

Decompress before upload ino the cam.

Please, advise me if all work fine.

[johnnytolengo]

Hi, which is the cgi-bin path?

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 I've used the /cgi-bin?video method, which keeps the IR light working

[peely]

Hi, which is the cgi-bin path?

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 I've used the /cgi-bin?video method, which keeps the IR light working

Sorry, not been following this for a while.

The path I used was:

/cgi-bin/Stream?Video?Acc={account}?Pwd={password}?webcamPWD=ABCDE

Seems that the IP Cam 7100 needs basic login authentication though.


N.

[peely]

I had a look at the content that comes back in the stream, seems what gets sent back from the camera is a 20 byte or so header, followed by the image then a 20 byte or so footer. The header and footer don't seem to conform to anything that could be regarded as a valid HTTP response like a mime boundary or anything, but the content of the JPEG image seems to be perfectly valid.

I wrote a java app that sniffs the stream coming back and searched for a JFIF SOI marker then captures everything up to and including an EOI marker, then dumps whatever it received to a specified JPEG. I thought about writing a B2BUA but sotring a local image in shared memory did what I needed, and it was a nice summer's day.

It also allows basic authenticaiton to be used, which for some reason the firmware in my Rimax camera needs instead of the authentication in the URL. The app also allows any incoming framerate but writes a maximum of one file every 300ms, I guess I could make this configurable. It also keeps the IR light working as far as I can tell.

If anyone's interested, PM me and I'll send the jar file across.

[viki]

Hi!
I'm trying to configure ZoneMinder for my Rimax 7100 IPcam but I can't manage to do it :S.

I read this thread the other day and I understood that there are two methods to configure the camera:

http://admin:password@ip:port/video.cgi -> this works
http://ip:port/snapshot.jpg?account=admin?password=password -> this doesn't work.

So, focusing in the first one, I couldn't make my Rimax work.
Here I write what a filled in the form:
General

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Name: rimax_7100
Source Type: Remote
Function: Monitor
Enable: on
Linked Monitors: rimax_7100
Maximum FPS:
Alarm Maximum FPS:
Reference Image Blend %ge: 7
Triggers: None available

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Remote Protocol:HTTP
Remote Method:Simple
Remote Host Name: admin:password@192.168.1.
Remote Host Port: 80
Remote Host Path: /video.cgi
Remote Image Colors: 24 bit color
Capture Width (pixels): 320
Capture Height: 240
Preserve Aspect Radio: off
Orientation: Normal.

I'm working with Ubuntu 10.04 + ZoneMinder v1.24.2.

Is my configuration wrong? or maybe, doesn't any Rimax 7100 work properly with this ZoneMinder?

A looooooooottttttt of thanks in advance .