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I need to do a quick and cheep zm setup. I have a home with wireless setup that needs to be monitored quick. Can anyone recommend an ip cam that I can pickup for about $150 that is one of the preconfigured cams? I really need this to be as plug and play as possible. The plan is to use Ubuntu 10, 2.8mh Dell, 1/2g of memory, 80g hard drive.

Thanks,

Tom

Hi,

I'm using this ipcams and work pretty well:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.26358 -> motorized

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.29918 -> fixed

Hope it helps,

PacoLM

Big bang for the buck. A couple of questions:

1) What make are these? I can't tell from the packaging.

2) Did you use a preconfigured cam option for these? If so, which one. if not, have did you configure zm for these cams.

Tom

Hi,

- First is a Foscam FI8904W (at least mine, they are selling clones as originals)-> http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Foscam

- Second is and the second one is a Maygion IP-603 -> (http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Maygion)

Hope it helps,

PacoLM

Trendnet cams are pretty cheap and plug and play.

I've used a few of these with good results...

http://www.trendnet.com/products/products.asp?cat=147

IP501 and IP501W (wireless)
$129 from Newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product

butlerm1977,
I currently have a Trendnet TV-IP100W. I have been unable to get it to work with Zoneminder. For the price, I'm happy with the quality through a browser using the the cams web server. I'd love to get 2 cams working. Have you used the TV-IP110W or TV-IP100W with Zonemider? If so, any tips you can provide would be helpful.

Tom

Tom - I just ran into your original post back in May and think your issues with this camera boil down to basic settings. Search "TV-IP100" and/or post your source tab settings to the original post. This camera has been configured to work in the past. I should let you know that I haven't used this camera but the settings seem fairly straight forward so I'll take a try to help.

The whole ugly truth . . . .

On the ZoneMinder Monitor side:

General
Name:FrontDoor
Source Type:Remote
Function:Monitor
Enabled:Checked
Linked Monitors:FrontDoor
Maximum FPS:20.00
Alarm Maximum FPS:Blank
Triggers:Non available

Source
Remote protocol:HTTP
Remote Method:Simple
Remote Host Name:192.168.1.5
Remote Port 80
Remote Host Path: http://192.168.1.5/video.cgi
Remote Image Colours: 24 bit colour
Capture Width (pixels): 320
Capture Height (pixels) 240
Preserve Aspect Ratio: Unchecked
Orientation:Normal

Buffers
Image Buffer Size (frames):40
Warmup Frames:25
Pre Event Image Count:10
Post Event Image Count:10
Stream Replay Image Buffer:1000
Alarm Frame Count:1

Misc
Event Prefix:Event-FrontDoor
Section length:6000
Frame Skip:0
FPS Report Interval:1000
Default View:Events
Default Rate:Real
Default Scale:Actual
Web Colour:red

On the Cam Side:
Camera Name:Trendnet

Location: Front Door

Model:TV-IP100W

Firmware Version:3.12 (2005-08-18)

MAC Address:00 14 D1 78 32 83

IP Address:192.168.1.5



Ethernet Status

Link:No

Speed:0 bps

Duplex:Half Duplex



Video Status

Video Resolution:320 X 240

Compression Rate:Medium

Frame Rate:20 (Frame/Sec)

Frame Size:10631 Bytes

Light Frequency:60 Hz


Thanks - Tom

BTW - What I'm getting is a black rectangle. It looks like it's the right size.

Tom

Yeah, you can hijack your own thread. Good start but there are some problems: Wireless cams usually require some type of authentication unless you have it disabled (not a good idea). On the source tab at "remote host name" line you'll need to insert your userid and password in this form <userid>:<password>@192.168.1.5 so an example entry would look like this: admin:admin@192.168.1.5; Next, your remote path needs to be shortened to just "/video.cgi". If /video.cgi doesn't work for you then try /mjpeg.cgi, or /image.cgi (usually provides slower frame rates) then try all three without the slash in front.

have look at this, suggests PCRE off: http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Conceptronic

I don't understand the "link: no", or the "half duplex" entries on the camera side, I'm guessing that isn't right if you have a connection and can see an image.

Give this a try, be patient inbetween changes so the warup frames are used up and post back

Bingo

I changed the Remote Host Name to userid:password@192.168.1.5 and the remote path to /video.cgi. and it worked.

Thanks you very much for your help,
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Tom

Please edit the title of the post to include "solved". Makes searches so much easier. Sorry I missed your May post! (and maybe post your solution to that one also).

The real answer to the posting the solution is to include FULL settings in the hardware section of the documentation like what I have in my Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:44 pm post (IMHO). I did check there before posting. IMHO the best resource this site could provide is complete settings for cams.

Tom