Astak Mole

[gsiebrecht]

Does anyone have an Astak Mole camera working with ZoneMinder?

[gsiebrecht]

I have it working using the following settings
The image is not full size though and the video is not as fluid as if it were getting an IP stream instead of a series of jpg images but its a start.

Remote Protocol = HTTP
Remote Method = Simple
Remote Host Name = my ip address
Remote Host Port = 80
Remote Host Path = /tmpfs/auto.jpg
Remote Host SubPath =
Remote Image Colours = 24 bit colour
Capture Width = 320
Capture Height = 240
Preserve Aspect Ratio = unchecked
Orientation = Normal

[kingofkya]

Kindly add a wiki entry for you camera.

PostCamera info here:
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Astak_Mole


Add link to your camer page here:
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... ility_List

[gsiebrecht]

Kindly add a wiki entry for you camera.

PostCamera info here:
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Astak_Mole


Add link to your camer page here:
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... ility_List

Done

[HectorG]

I got the camera to work but for some reason after a couple of seconds it goes black and doesn't seem to come back. I am not 100% sure what the issue is. Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot it?

[Sirkassad]

Does the external power supply take 110-220V or just 110?

[HectorG]

My version of it is only 110 but I am sure you can use a 210 adapter without a ny problems. I however still havent been able to get it to work properly. It works for a couple of seconds then goes black and the only way to get it to come back up is to restart zoneminder. Hope that helps...

[PacoLM]

Hi,

Check the /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog files in order to get some clues.

Regards,

PacoLM

[HectorG]

Those logs are blank nothing in them to see. Even when I restart the zoneminder and try working with it niothing gets inserted into them.

[warrencroberts]

Has anyone found a solution for this issue. I have the same problem. I have an Astak Mole with a wired connection. The camera sends images for a few frames and then hangs. If I go to the monitor settings and change anything and do a save the camera comes back online.

I have also noticed that the camera works longer when I am runnin zoneminder from inside my local network where there is high bandwidth. If I use "eneZm" on my ipad then it will hang withing a few seconds.

[warrencroberts]

It seems that zmc is giving up if it gets a bad jpeg image. I've attached a logfile fragment that shows the capture daemon exiting abnormally. Does anyone know if there is some way to tell zoneminder to skip bad frames and try later? It seems that this would be a common scenario for cams where we are polling for jpeg's.




Mar 21 10:40:30 boson zms[4933]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Mar 21 10:40:30 boson zms[4934]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Mar 21 10:40:30 boson zms[4934]: INF [Got signal 15 (Terminated), exiting]
Mar 21 10:40:30 boson zms[4933]: INF [Got signal 15 (Terminated), exiting]
Mar 21 10:40:30 boson zms[4935]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Mar 21 10:40:30 boson zms[4936]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Mar 21 10:40:39 boson zmc_m2[4929]: WAR [Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment]
Mar 21 10:40:39 boson zmc_m2[4929]: ERR [Invalid JPEG file structure: two SOI markers]
Mar 21 10:40:39 boson zmc_m2[4929]: ERR [Unable to decode jpeg]
Mar 21 10:40:39 boson zmc_m2[4929]: ERR [Failed to capture image from monitor 2 (0/1)]
Mar 21 10:40:39 boson zmdc[4883]: ERR ['zmc -m 2' exited abnormally, exit status 255]